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digitize said:
wow, that's awesome.
digitize said:
Don't forget that tone says more than words ever could...and that actions speak louder than words.
It is irrefutable that the 90's era has not been represented very strongly (to put it mildly) during the 3 tours in the 00's excluding the 360 tour after and around the time the Achtung Baby deluxe / remaster was being released.
That speaks volumes in and of itself.
A simple search on Google for "Bono apologises" answers this thread. Besides the Coldplay insult already mentioned, this shows up on the first page of results: U2 - Bono Apologises For Smoking - Contactmusic News
Such as the proud 5 Pop songs showing on the "apology tour", and about 5 songs (or more) off AB almost regularly, 3 Zooropa songs and 2 Passengers songs being played on 00's tours (and a re-appearance of the Batman song).
If anyone, the 90's fanboys should be thrilled with the showing of 90's material. But the irony never fails.
No, not really. Achtung Baby is the most representative of all the old albums in the last three tours (only in the last two tours, 9 songs were played off it), Zooropa got two songs on the 360 tour, which is same as Atomic Bomb for instance, although the latter one admittedly was more frequent. Pop was fairly represented on the first 2 legs of the Elevation tour, with somewhat scarcer appearances in the 3rd leg. Not to mention Miss Sarajevo being a regular on both 360 and Vertigo and even Your Blue Room had an appearance. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me also had a comeback in 2010/2011.
Even without taking that into consideration, the whole argument as to if the band doesn't play much from this period makes him instantly apologetic about it does not make any sense whatsoever.
Yeah, apparently Redhill has forgotten that the encore on the Vertigo tour was pretty AB rich. And they even played some Pop songs on that tour, which can't be said about 360 sadly.
They played Discotheque two times (in my mind the best live version there was of that song) in Toronto and Chicago in 2005. They were planning a Pop-themed encore to replace the Achtung Baby one, since they were soundchecking Mofo and even parts of Velvet Dress around that period. Pop Muzik was played over the PA before Discotheque in Toronto.
Anyways, that didn't work out so they decided to do the excruciatingly boring acoustic encores instead with, among others, The First Time and Wild Horses - you guessed it, 90s songs.
There is an earpiece recording of them soundchecking Mofo in Toronto, of which a full version will probably never see the light of day (internet). That's easily one of my U2 holy grails.
well, of course they played 2.4 times as many 80s vs 90s, they put out 50% more albums in the 80s vs the 90s.
I don't know what's sadder, the fact that website exists, the fact you looked it up, or the fact I just thought of the above.
Why should the 90s fanboys be thrilled? Over the last three tours, the 80s got 2613 performances, the 90s 1573. The 80s got over 1000 more performances than 90s tracks. Looks pretty irrefutable to me.
In 2001 they played songs from the 80s 1028 times. 90s tracks were played 573 times. Also, Dead Man was more of a snippet than full performance.
Their set in 2005, when 113 of 125 of Vertigo shows took place, featured 1025 from the 80s. and 420 songs from the 90s, and 330 of them were from Achtung. Hardly a good showing for the 90s. That's 2.4 times as many performances of songs from the 80s as the 90s.
On 360 they played around 580 from the 90s, and 560 from the 80s so the trend has been broken, but not strongly enough to amount for the mockery directed at the guy who said it's irrefutable that they played more from the 80s than 90s. They played nearly 1200 songs from the 00s, but that makes sense since it's their most recent material.
U2 Album Statistics: 360° Tour | setlist.fm
Ha!
but something tells me redhill was more interested in telling us how he perceived Bono apologizing than he was looking for actual instances of said act.
Yea, they did play some AB songs during that tour and others.
I guess I tend to overlook them to an extent due to the overall degradation of quality in terms of their live performance since the ZOO days.
well, of course they played 2.4 times as many 80s vs 90s, they put out 50% more albums in the 80s vs the 90s.
I don't know what's sadder, the fact that website exists, the fact you looked it up, or the fact I just thought of the above.
A simple search on Google for "Bono apologises" answers this thread. Besides the Coldplay insult already mentioned, this shows up on the first page of results: U2 - Bono Apologises For Smoking - Contactmusic News
Such as the proud 5 Pop songs showing on the "apology tour", and about 5 songs (or more) off AB almost regularly, 3 Zooropa songs and 2 Passengers songs being played on 00's tours (and a re-appearance of the Batman song).
If anyone, the 90's fanboys should be thrilled with the showing of 90's material. But the irony never fails.
Your logic does not account for recency and Bono in particular's stance that there are "no reverse gears on this tank."
That often amounts to lip service when it comes time to please the masses at a live gig.
But it's irrefutable!!!
Do not waste our time with facts.
well, of course they played 2.4 times as many 80s vs 90s, they put out 50% more albums in the 80s vs the 90s.
I don't know what's sadder, the fact that website exists, the fact you looked it up, or the fact I just thought of the above.
really? They should play "Numb" instead of "Out Of Control" cause Bono said "no reverse gears on this tank"?
Thanks for the stats! A lot of people here don't care about a healthy debate and instead just like to sling mud.
It took five minutes, and since I know interference demands EVIDENCE I provided it for Redhill because I knew he was right, and I didn't like the snarky tone people were using against him, how they were being insulting and wrong at the same time.
Anyway, your snarky point has what to do with what? It's irrelevant.
really? "The Fly" last summer didn't impress you? You think they played "Zooropa" better in Glasgow '93 than they did in Montreal in '11? What about "Gone"? "One"? "Real Thing"? "Ultraviolet"?
They play better now than they did in 92, 93, or 97.
Not necessarily, but you would think that, if this were the case, the 90's would be more heavily represented OVERALL than the older material.
how were they wrong? U2 made more music in the 80s than they did in the 90s. As a result they play more 80s than 90s tunes. Seems pretty simple.
And wasn't redhill's original question already answered? Bono has said "i'm sorry" in public 2 times: Chris Martin and cigs.
Well, if "there are no reverse gears" were literally true, you'd get zip from any record other than the latest. Where's the fun in that?
how were they wrong? U2 made more music in the 80s than they did in the 90s. As a result they play more 80s than 90s tunes. Seems pretty simple.
And wasn't redhill's original question already answered? Bono has said "i'm sorry" in public 2 times: Chris Martin and cigs.
how were they wrong? U2 made more music in the 80s than they did in the 90s. As a result they play more 80s than 90s tunes. Seems pretty simple.
And wasn't redhill's original question already answered? Bono has said "i'm sorry" in public 2 times: Chris Martin and cigs.