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With no apologies to redhill for the title....
carry on....
carry on....
The Laz of Home
A whole fucking summer of that guy? No wonder the board is clearing out.If it was closer to June I'd have gone with Summer of Laz. That'll be up next.
A whole fucking summer of that guy? No wonder the board is clearing out.
A whole fucking summer of that guy? No wonder the board is clearing out.
It was supposed to be the summer of George....the summer of George.
Two in a row! Suck it, Cobbler.
Looking at that second set, aside from the song that isn't being consistently put in spoiler tags, I could honestly skip that whole thing. Overplayed standards, the three worst songs on the new album by far, and the insult of hearingPop's least experimental track, and on top of it the indignity of doing it acoustic so who cares? I mean look at it:
Elevation
Vertigo
Desire
Acrobat
You're The Best Thing About Me (acoustic)
Staring At The Sun (B&E, acoustic)
Pride
Get Out Of Your Own Way
American Soul
City Of Blinding Lights
The encore has a nice treat and Love is Bigger finishes the show strong, but honestly, you have to be a real Other Place apologist to think this second half is acceptable.
Now again, if they change it up once they hit cities that already got i&e in 2015, we can reevaluate. I'd imagine at least 2 of RBW/Cedarwood/Iris would get dropped (Song For Someone stays cuz thematics), and hopefully we see another SOE track like Red Flag Day, even a legit Pop or Zooropa selection.
Or maybe they just add Mysterious Ways and In A Little While.
How the absolute fuck is Fuck Off Own Way in ambivalent and not fuck right off?!
While the set list isn't really one that I would compile for my own pleasure, it has its fair share of curveballs that I certainly wasn't anticipating a month ago.
I love that.
For me it's:
They played 2 of my top 7 SOE songs. Next is Love is All We Have Left which is mostly pre-recorded, and Lights of Home. Then apart from The Showman, which they rehearsed but didn't play, the bottom four songs were all played.
Playing not a single JT song is a bold move, but maybe not playing Beautiful Day, Vertigo and Elevation would be even bolder.
Pop and Zooropa are self-explanatory. I want to acknowledge that they finally finally played a Pop song, but they chose the absolute bare minimum approach possible.
If the last six songs of set one remain the same as I/E three years ago in cities where they've already played them, that'll be a bit lazy.
Two in a row! Suck it, Cobbler.
Looking at that second set, aside from the song that isn't being consistently put in spoiler tags, I could honestly skip that whole thing. Overplayed standards, the three worst songs on the new album by far, and the insult of hearingPop's least experimental track, and on top of it the indignity of doing it acoustic so who cares? I mean look at it:
Elevation
Vertigo
Desire
Acrobat
You're The Best Thing About Me (acoustic)
Staring At The Sun (B&E, acoustic)
Pride
Get Out Of Your Own Way
American Soul
City Of Blinding Lights
The encore has a nice treat and Love is Bigger finishes the show strong, but honestly, you have to be a real Other Place apologist to think this second half is acceptable.
Now again, if they change it up once they hit cities that already got i&e in 2015, we can reevaluate. I'd imagine at least 2 of RBW/Cedarwood/Iris would get dropped (Song For Someone stays cuz thematics), and hopefully we see another SOE track like Red Flag Day, even a legit Pop or Zooropa selection.
Or maybe they just add Mysterious Ways and In A Little While.
I'm honestly amazed by how vehemently you hate it. It's a nothing of a song. It stirs up only apathy in me. I couldn't care less if they play GOOYOW or don't. I'd rather something else be there in the setlist, but it doesn't personally offend me like some absolute utter fuming shit like Blurst Thing or American Mole does. Bono, shut up ya mole.
They might be curveballs, but apart from Acrobat, they're not exactly ones anybody was clamouring for. Who the fuck ever wanted to hear ABOY ever again? It's not exactly been a common feature of fan requests, and it has maybe the worst intro in U2 history. I can but hope it doesn't last.
That they think Staring at the Sun is the Pop song people really want to hear further confirms how they are such poor judges of their own talent.
I'm with everyone that things that setlist is pretty meh. If Acrobat and WGRYWH survive, I'll be happy to see my one show. If they are dropped, I'm not sure there would be much to go for, considering how many times I've seen them in the last few years.
Am I the only one who finds it egregiously lazy that they just plopped an entire section from I+E into the set verbatim? Especially when the set is already missing so much, including new songs that really have potential to be great live, like Red Flag Day or The Showman.
And I don't see the purpose in playing both SFS and 13 if it means not playing a single track from the Joshua Tree. Come on.
Not sure why you're surprised by it. It's essentially a new leg of that tour.
Also, as much as it kind of sucks that they've not taken risks with changing it up, at the very least, The Miracle is gone, and that is cause for great celebration, cos that song is fucking shithouse.
One noticeable thing about that particular song - Bono stayed quiet during the solo. I cannot overstate how important this is.
One noticeable thing about that particular song - Bono stayed quiet during the solo. I cannot overstate how important this is.
And I don't see the purpose in playing both SFS and 13 if it means not playing a single track from the Joshua Tree. Come on.
Am I the only one who finds it egregiously lazy that they just plopped an entire section from I+E into the set verbatim? Especially when the set is already missing so much, including new songs that really have potential to be great live, like Red Flag Day or The Showman.
And I don't see the purpose in playing both SFS and 13 if it means not playing a single track from the Joshua Tree. Come on.
I wouldn't say egregiously lazy, but it certainly is at least a bit.
I agree with you here. No need to play both songs, just 13 is enough (as that is the new one).
However, despite this criticism I don't see the setlist as that bad. There are some good things to it and some bad. That's always been the case. I never get annoyed by the bad and just enjoy the good.
We really do need to be tentative here, because neither Tulsa nor St. Louis got i&e stops (a few more further into this leg didn’t either). Fair enough if the band views this as all of one piece and wants to give these smaller markets a taste of the bigger thematic journey.
We’ll know by Monday in San Jose whether they’re going to have an alternate set list (or primary one, really) for the bigger cities that already got a good dose of the “innocence” aspect.
The band could certainly pull another in a serious of head-scratching, idiotic moves, but considering the time frame and the other songs they rehearsed, I have to be optimistic here.I think RBW, Cedarwood, and Iris all get yanked, and in place San Jose, LA, etc get The Showman, Little Things, and another older track. Which would mean that SOE gets 9 songs played, extremely impressive. That they’re doing 7 to begin with for a band their age is already more than any comparable artist I can think of.