VintagePunk
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Stop the drama, please, all this negativity is unhealthy, just enjoy the tour.
Scolding people for stating an opinion in a respectful way is much more annoying than "unhealthy negativity." Just sayin'.
Stop the drama, please, all this negativity is unhealthy, just enjoy the tour.
What setlist drama? I don't sleep anything worse because of a (imo) not very good setlist. I'm just giving my opinion
Why don't people do a protest and all wear POP t-shirts to one of the gigs? Or when Bono starts singing Walk On start singing Gone/Mofo I'm sure that would work
A singing bird in a suit of lights
Who will only fly for mother sucking rock n roll!!
Final Setlist:
1. Beautiful Day
2. Magnificent
3. Get On Your Boots
4. Mysterious Ways
5. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
6. The Flowering Rose of Glastonbury
7. Elevation
8. In A Little While
9. Miss Sarajevo
10. Until The End Of The World
11. The Unforgettable Fire
12. City Of Blinding Lights
13. Vertigo
14. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Discothèque (snippet)
15. Sunday Bloody Sunday
16. MLK
17. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
--encore break--
18. One
19. Amazing Grace (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name
--encore break--
20. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
21. With or Without You
22. Moment of Surrender
at work and on slack patrol. What's new?
at work and on slack patrol. What's new?
If this is the setlist they are going to run with then I am a bit disappointed. Every step forward is matched with a step backwards. HMTMKMKM and the Glastonbury song add two rockers to the set that were desperately needed for the Claw. However, they then drop two of the better rock songs in NLOTH and Breathe. They add a great new intro but make the new opener a ten year old song. They give us new songs at the expense of NLOTH material. I was hoping that the band would start adding several 90's songs to actually utilize the Claw to its full potential. I cannot understand what the band is thinking with many of these changes.
You sure you want to know?
I'm happy for you if you think it's a great setlist. I like most of U2 their songs, maybe > 90% of their catalogue. I just don't think it's a great setlist. What's the big deal?Again even posts like this, people claim to be U2 fans, but cant find a good chunk of songs out of 22 songs that they like?
Remember a few days ago when we were so happy?
1) U2 hates you, 'cause they won't play (insert your favorite obscure title here).at work and on slack patrol. What's new?
I don't get the hate for ATYCLB, it's a great album and 4 songs isn't much.
Sorry...I'm a bit wound up....
Is the intro a new song or what? Is BD really opening?
1) U2 hates you, 'cause they won't play (insert your favorite obscure title here).
2) There're too many songs from ATYCLB on the setlist. There are too many songs from HTDAAB on the setlist. There are too many songs from NLOTH on the setliste. There are too many songs from AB on the setlist.
3) We're out of brownies.
The intro is a new song, not Soon. There's a video with audio of it and it sounds pretty darn good. It does appear the Beautiful Day is opening.
At least here you're surrounded by people who understand.
Is U2 playing the new song/intro or is it just over the pa system.
Do you have a link for the video with the audio?
And as I stated earlier, the Claw begs for dramatics. Not Walk On and IALW. It screams for Numb
Makes me laugh when people come out with comments like "come on U2 your better than this" basically saying that because they are not playing some songs YOU like then it makes for a bad setlist for EVERYONE, and i find it strange that people cannot grasp that there will be alot of casual people at the shows,
Please.
I am well aware that there are casual fans at shows. I never said drop Beautiful Day or Still Haven't Found or Mysterious Ways, etc. They are always going to play hits, and I love the hits so no complaints there. I have said many times that I am not asking for a rarities fest every night, just one or two songs from Pop, JT and the 1980-84 period. The only classic that needs a long rest is WOWY because it is flat out atrocious this tour.
They do not need 4 ATYCLB songs just because casual fans are in the house. Am I missing something? Is that all of a sudden the only well known U2 album?
Is dropping Elevation and Walk On really going to make for an obscure set list? Come on. What they have sitting on the bench- Desire, Angel of Harlem, Even Better Than The Real Thing, The Fly, In God's Country, Bad, Two Hearts Beat As One, I Will Follow, Pride, All I Want Is You, is at least as well known as these two songs.
U2 are underestimating how much people know their songs, and you are to if you think that Elevation and Walk On are needed every night to hold the interest of casuals. Go see any tribute band with a bunch of drunks staggering in at the end of the night, not sure what is going on and certainly not planning to be seeing U2 music that night. You'll be shocked at how many of them start singing along perfectly to "Whos Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" and "All I Want Is You."
Songs from War and Joshua Tree are well known and liked too! If 90s songs are performed well, people will respond, casuals included, just like they will and have(on Vertigo) if 80s album tracks are performed well.
You are suggesting that somehow I am taking away all of the casual fan fun with my wishlist, well let me ask you a question.
Do you think that the casual U2 fan who was big into them in the 80s and 90s gets anything out of this show? The 80s songs were everywhere, and people actually bought real albums back then, so even the album tracks are well known.
U2 was the band of the 80s, developed their fan base in that decade, and someone who attended a concert in 1987 would only get 6 of 22-24 songs that they remember and associate with U2. And that is if you are nice and count a 1/3 complete version of MLK as an 80s song. They are not playing anything album cut off War or JT, not playing live classics like Bad and are rarely touching New Year's Day.
People come out of 360 shows, just general public, tagging along with friends/significant others type people and say "where was x, y,z, that to me is U2!"
I don't care what people here, myself included think sometimes about the 90s and 00s, most people associate vintage U2 with the 80s.
I am not saying "U2 are better than this, they could be better by doing my personal wish list" I am just expressing agreement with the many, many people here and elsewhere who know they have much better than 4 ATYCLB songs and 35-40% slow songs to offer a stadium. Many have come to the conclusion that it is time for Elevation to go.
Back to casuals and then I will shut my big mouth
Defending a set list and attacking a critique by pointing out the need to satisfy casuals is a little curious with these numbers present:
-4 NLOTH songs. I love the album, most of us here do, but to the casual public and even to a lot of casual fans, it is obscure.
-Glastonbury(I like it, but johnny casual will want to know where Desire is!)
-In A Little While
(2 well known smash hits there)
-Miss Sarajevo
-MLK