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ONE love, blood, life
I've been watching this DVD a lot and I'm REALLY loving it.
There's just a WHOLE lot of energy in this show(the band just seems really really into it, especially Bono), the performances are stellar, and the setlist spans their entire career....from I Will Follow and Sunday Bloody Sunday to Bad, Streets, With Or Without You, Bullet The Blue Sky, and Desire, to Until The End Of The World, The Fly, Stay(Faraway, So Close), Gone, and Wake Up Dead Man, to Elevation, Beautiful Day, Stuck In A Moment, Walk On, Kite, In A Little While, and New York, it's the works, 1980-2001.
Another thing that struck me while watching this DVD(and also the Slane DVD) was the difference in how the the Africa/ONE CAMPAGIN talk was done on that tour - where it was just one speech before 'One' or towards the end of the show - compared to the way it was done on the Vertigo Tour, where it dominated every show, with the flags thing, with Bono preaching about it for three, four, sometimes five songs in a row at every show. I get that it's an incredibly important cause, and I happen to admire him for what he's doing, but I'm not paying to see a sermon, I'm paying to see a U2 show. It's a great cause, and that the word needs to be spread about it is almost undebateable, but I just feel like there was a better balance to it on the Elevation Tour.
Anyway, the DVD. It's a really great document(as is the Slane DVD) of a great tour.
There's just a WHOLE lot of energy in this show(the band just seems really really into it, especially Bono), the performances are stellar, and the setlist spans their entire career....from I Will Follow and Sunday Bloody Sunday to Bad, Streets, With Or Without You, Bullet The Blue Sky, and Desire, to Until The End Of The World, The Fly, Stay(Faraway, So Close), Gone, and Wake Up Dead Man, to Elevation, Beautiful Day, Stuck In A Moment, Walk On, Kite, In A Little While, and New York, it's the works, 1980-2001.
Another thing that struck me while watching this DVD(and also the Slane DVD) was the difference in how the the Africa/ONE CAMPAGIN talk was done on that tour - where it was just one speech before 'One' or towards the end of the show - compared to the way it was done on the Vertigo Tour, where it dominated every show, with the flags thing, with Bono preaching about it for three, four, sometimes five songs in a row at every show. I get that it's an incredibly important cause, and I happen to admire him for what he's doing, but I'm not paying to see a sermon, I'm paying to see a U2 show. It's a great cause, and that the word needs to be spread about it is almost undebateable, but I just feel like there was a better balance to it on the Elevation Tour.
Anyway, the DVD. It's a really great document(as is the Slane DVD) of a great tour.