Yeah outside of HMTM this new setlist is a step in the wrong direction for me. But i'm happy most everyone else seems excited about it. I'll just keep my fingers crossed they make some better changes by the time they come to NA again.
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Come on, U2, you are much better than this.
Anyone notice the ATYCLB overload is still there?
We are now opening with an ATYCLB song!
Yes, BD should make every show, its a spectacular song.
But opening with an oldie, they should do Streets or Zoo Station or Until The End of The World or Desire.
This is scary, but lets do a little numbers comparison:
Beautiful Day, In A Little While, Elevation and Walk On.
Thats 4 from ATYCLB.
Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Crazy Tonight and Moment of Surrender.
Thats 4 from NLOTH.
This should not be.
ATYCLB is not a stadium album.
Beautiful Day and In A Little While are good enough. They don't need Elevation or Walk On.
I am still holding out hope that the Gone reports were true, that they are still considering TTTYAATW and that maybe they have rehearsed other songs inside or in the last couple of weeks that we haven't heard about.
This set still lacks rock and roll songs and still lacks 80s live classics, and to a glaring extent!
Gone
Exit
In God's Country
Bad
Two Hearts Beat As One
I Will Follow
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Last Night On Earth
MOFO
A Sort of Homecoming
11 O'Clock Tick Tock
LETS GO U2!! Wake up!
HMTMKM is welcome as hell, but don't swap it with the best song on the list, keep ATYCLB all in tact and drop the high energy NLOTH and call it an improvement.
I love TUF as much as anyone, but UV went down much better and Bono was much more consistent with the vocals on it. That should have gone before UV.
On a positive note, I am always, always, always happy when U2 is touring and especially given Bono's injury and the difficulties that came as a result. I still always have faith that they could surprise us(ES last yr) and I also think that maybe the conservative, stick to 2009 set list may only be temporary until they get their footing back/see where Bono is at.
I know they have it in them, one need only look at the diversity of the Vertigo set lists, the TUF and UV performances in 2009 and the adding of HMTMKMKM and new songs this year. They just need to step it up a notch, and GET RID OF THE DAMN ATYCLB ALREADY!
AND WHAT THE HELL WAS WRONG WITH NO LINE ON THE HORIZON LIVE? IT WAS AWESOME EVERY TIME THEY PLAYED IT!
I can't imagine Larry would ever give up his seat to a pulled-from-the-crowd drummer.
. . . it better still be there in OZ or you'll see me all Miss Piggy like on their asses
Remember, setlists for 2nd nights are usually more mixed up
for putting together a dynamite set list thread . . . 
We need to be ditching the ATYCLB songs in favor of Zooropa and Pop ones.
I'm sure that would work
