marik
Refugee
Just wondering among other super-fans, how high does the Superbowl performance rate on your Top Glorious live U2 moments? It's always been in my Top 5, but Im curious as to if this is typical thought among us?
Standard 2001 Beautiful Day - MLK -Streets for me. Nothing really special.
i've never heard of this superbowl.
now super bowl, i've heard of that. but never superbowl.
it was a big missed opportunity. here was U2, playing for a huge American audience that was still reeling from 9-11, and the could have pulled out some amazing songs, like "Heartland" or maybe "Drowning Man" or "Exit" or perhaps Edge and Bono could have sat on chairs and done an acoustic cover of "Tomorrow" or "Mofo," but instead they chose to be big and obvious and play gigantic hits that everyone likes and entirely appropriate to the occasion and were smashingly done with heart and sincerity because they are selfish and don't use an opportunity like the Super Bowl to please me by playing obscure stuff that no one else cares about.
Wow, you guys are so cynical, it was a killer performance, of course its not among Bono's best vocal moments at the end of a world tour, but the theme, the underdog Patriots in Red White and Blue about to win the Super Bowl, the tribute, the coat, the altered lyrics... hands down the best Super Bowl performance ever, and the only one to ever mean anything.
Wait...cynicism? On Interference?Wow, you guys are so cynical, it was a killer performance, of course its not among Bono's best vocal moments at the end of a world tour, but the theme, the underdog Patriots in Red White and Blue about to win the Super Bowl, the tribute, the coat, the altered lyrics... hands down the best Super Bowl performance ever, and the only one to ever mean anything.
dire, prototypical 2000s way too obvious u2.
Standard 2001 Beautiful Day - MLK -Streets for me. Nothing really special.
with that said, mlk -> streets was a top idea, wish they'd do it again.what he said.
I've liked/loved all the transitions into Streets except maybe Pride into Streets from the Vertigo shows.
it was a big missed opportunity. here was U2, playing for a huge American audience that was still reeling from 9-11, and the could have pulled out some amazing songs, like "Heartland" or maybe "Drowning Man" or "Exit" or perhaps Edge and Bono could have sat on chairs and done an acoustic cover of "Tomorrow" or "Mofo," but instead they chose to be big and obvious and play gigantic hits that everyone likes and entirely appropriate to the occasion and were smashingly done with heart and sincerity because they are selfish and don't use an opportunity like the Super Bowl to please me by playing obscure stuff that no one else cares about.
agreed...
I have always wondered if they ever practiced wowy into street. Bono screaming the whoa-ohs at the end, adam playing the bass line and the synth for streets pulses from the background
prince was better. bruce was on par.
of course this is all personal opinion, but "hands down" is a little unfair.