Your nightmare setlist

[cobl04]

North Star might be their nadir. I saw them play that in Brisbane, it was incredibly boring.

 

[Oregoropa]

North Star is pretty lame


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[Axver]

North Star wasn't flash, but Unknown Caller was way more awkward live. Definitely one of U2's few songs that got worse rather than better live.

 

[kabigon]

1. Elevation
2. Sleep Like a Baby Tonight
3. Where The Streets Have No Name
4. Yahweh
5. Raised by Wolves
6. Beautiful Day
7. The Troubles
8. City of Blinding Lights
9. Wild Honey
10. Original of the Species
11. California
12. Get on your Boots
13. In a Little While
14. Out of Control / Space Oddity Medley
15. Sleep Like a Baby Tonight x2

16. The Miracle
17. White as Snow
18. Stuck in a Moment

19. Pride
20. Vertigo
21. One
22. Zooropa Alarm with Edge guitar pedal megamix

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

I don't mind an acoustic song or two, or even a full acoustic show IF I know that's what I'm getting; so some of the above setlists don't seem so bad to me in that context.

I think the biggest peeve would be an over-abundance of warhourses, so something like:

1. The Miracle
2. I Will Follow
3. Iris
4. Volcano
5. Elevation
6. Beautiful Day
7. I Still Haven't Found
8. City Of Blinding Lights
9. Vertigo
10. Every Breaking Wave (acoustic)
11. Stuck/Stay (acoustic)
12. Pride
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday
14. California
15. Mysterious Ways
16. Miss Sarajevo
17. In A Little While
18. Song For Someone
19. Where The Streets Have No Name

20. One
21. Sleep Like A Baby Tonight
22. With Or Without You
23. Walk On

This might be very close to what we will get..... I'm afraid this setlist is very much possible!

 

[EdgeFest]

the stage is in the round with a massive, paper-mache volcano in the middle. it's filled with red food dye colored vinegar colored. the audience can smell it.

lights go out. we hear the Jock Jams "are you ready to rumble." flash strobe lights, drama club thunder claps. deep inside the volcano, baking soda falls into the vinegar, it "errupts," like a 5th grade science project. the band emerges on cue.

it's the U2 "about to blow" Volcano Tour 2015

1. Volcano ("hola El Paso! i've got something in you that's about to blow!")
2. Sleep Like A Baby Tonight -- ("every time i clap my hands, another teenager is touched by a priest")
3. Elevation // Call Me Maybe (snippets) (call-and-response, Bono: "I just met you!" Audience: "And this is crazy!")
4. The Playboy Mansion -- ("let's take a trip ... BACK TO THE 90s!")
5. The Miracle (slam poet reading by Clayton, "Cedars of Lebanon" snippets)
6. California (Orchestral version, Modena-style)
7. Song For Someone ("we gave up irony around the turn of the century, but here's someone who nailed it as well back in the 90s," cue Alanis Morissette link-up to harmonize during the chorus)
8. PITNOL (every time he sings "love" the volcano erupts)

(giant piano wheeled out to the b-stage, Bono cracks his knuckles and takes a seat)

9. Grace ("here's a little ditty about a girl I once knew, her name was Grace O'Sullivan, nice girl, didn't change the world much though.")
10. Sweetest Thing
11. Angels Too Tied to the Ground

return to main stage

12. Big Girls Are Best (Rebel Wilson visuals)
13. One Step Closer (Happiness is a Warm Gun snippets)
14. Holy Joe
15. North Star

encore, band in full mime make-up

16. 4th of July (Bono interpretive dance)
17. Promenade
18. Elvis Presley and America
19. Stand Up Comedy

2nd encore

20. The Refugee (The Corrs on backup)
21. Volcano

GOOD NIGHT EL PASO.

Post of the year. But especially this:

4th of July (Bono interpretive dance)

 

[allbecauseofu2]

1.bullet the blue sky (streets snippet)
2.kite (acoustic)
3.vertigo
4.song for someone (acoustic)
5.get on ur boots
6.beautiful day (Elvis ate america snippet)
7.the miracle
8.iris (acoustic)
9.grace
10.discotheque(Acoustic/god part 2 snippet)
11. Invisible
Intermission (acoustic)
12.still havnt found
13.bad (acoustic)
14.hands that built
15.new years day (acoustic)
16.the troubles
17.speech (acoustic)
18.one
Break
19.cedarwood
20.stay
21.north and south
Encore
22.holy joe
23.this is where you can reach
24.hold me kiss me (acoustic)

 

[chocky]

1. Get on Your Boots
2. Elevation
3. Vertigo
4. All Because of You
5. Sleep Like A Baby Tonight
6. In A Little While
7. Playboy Mansion
8. Crumbs From Your Table
9. 4th of July
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday (acoustic)
11. Unknown Caller
12. Is That All?
13. White As Snow
14. Grace
15. Cedars of Lebanon
16. Tryin to Throw Your Arms Around The World
17. Get On Your Boots (reprise)


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[allbecauseofu2]

Goyb reprise made my day.

 

[Axver]

GOYB reprise vs Vertigo x2: THE NIGHTMARE SHOWDOWN.

 

[xtrmx]

Nightmare setlist for me has already been played. Night #1 in Vancouver. Nightmare as in; nothing special at all.

 

[Axver]

I was waiting for somebody to post that.

 

[birdman]

If you're gonna play Sweetest Thing, at least have it on electric.

 

[Salome]

Nightmare setlist for me has already been played. Night #1 in Vancouver. Nightmare as in; nothing special at all.

It reminded me of the ZOOTV setlists:
new songs + biggest hits + bullet

So I guess it actually also reminded me of the POPMart setlists.

Only less static.

 

[Tommy WM]

They should at least try opening a show with Volcano, then immediately follow it with a sudden but yet awfully depressing segue into Streets. Then as the closing notes fade out around the arena Bono starts singing the intro to Red Light urging the crowd to join him. SOLID!

 

[mama cass]

omg really, these setlists look fine to me!

 

[bobsaget77]

They should at least try opening a show with Volcano, then immediately follow it with a sudden but yet awfully depressing segue into Streets. Then as the closing notes fade out around the arena Bono starts singing the intro to Red Light urging the crowd to join him. SOLID!

"You are rock and roll" chant segues into streets.


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[Oregoropa]

Here's one from my song randomizer. First half rocks. Bit of a Sleepy Encore


Invisible
North And South Of The River
Tomorrow
Please
The Troubles
God Part II
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
The Crystal Ballroom
Beautiful Day
Peace On Earth

Love And Peace Or Else
Jean Genie
Return of the Stingray Guitar
California (There is no End to Love)
Trip Through Your Wires
Yahweh
Van Diemen's Land
I Threw A Brick Through A Window
Running To Stand Still
40

MLK
Sweetest Thing
Promenade
4th Of July

 

[theu2fly]

Oh this seems like fun. I'll play.

1. Sleep Like A Baby Tonight
2. Acrobat
3. Stand Up Comedy
4. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
5. Beautiful Day
6. Wild Honey
7. Until the End Of The World
8. Ordinary Love
9. Bullet the Blue Sky
10. Song For Someone
11. Even Better Than The Real Thing
12. Pride (In the Name Of Love)
13. Volcano
14. Where the Streets Have No Name
15. All Because Of You
16. Every Breaking Wave
17. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight

18. Original Of the Species
19. Vertigo
20. With Or Without You
21. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)
22. 40
23. Running To Stand Still
24. A Man And A Woman

I think I'd still enjoy the show 'technically' but man, imagine ending with that. Oofta.

 

[Raid]

Vertigo x 23
Ordinary Love (Bono solo)

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[LemonMelon]

Tonight's set came close. Vancouver 1 - The Troubles + When Love Comes to Town =

 

[dreamletter]

1. Vertigo
2. Volcano
3. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
4. Elevation
5. Get On Your Boots
6. Sleep Like A Baby Tonight
7. Stand Up Comedy
8. Mysterious Ways
9. Magnificent (dodgy 2011 version)
10. This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now
11. In A Little While
12. Knocking On Heavens Door
13. Wild Honey
14. Original Of The Species
15. Instant Karma
16. Pride
17. With Or Without You
-----------------------------------------------
18. The Miracle
19. One
20. Moment Of Surrender

 

[Oregoropa]

The Randomizer gave me a stinker of a show. LAdy with the Spinning Head is cool. Better into Crystal Ballroom the show highlight. If we keep complaining U2 will give us random setlists. Although some us would find them awesome for the randomness and rarities.


Babyface
All Because Of You
Lady With The Spinning Head
Stand Up Comedy
J. Swallo
4th Of July
North And South Of The River
Miami
Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad
Trip Through Your Wires

Sleep Like a Baby Tonight
Dancing Barefoot
Get On Your Boots
Where Did It All Go Wrong
A Man and A Woman
Miss Sarajevo
Into The Heart
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop?)
Zoo Station

Even Better Than The Real Thing
The Crystal Ballroom
Hallelujah (Here She Comes)
Breathe

 

[clerks]

23 songs by any other band at a U2 show.

U2 couldn't find 23 songs of theirs that I didn't like 10 of them. Maybe if they played October back to back, but then there's 4 to 6 songs I would love.

 

[Axver]

Maybe if they played October back to back

Get out of my thread. That would be better than any show they've played in the last 25 years.

12. Knocking On Heavens Door

You're telling me you don't think this is the BEST THANG EVAH??!!1??!1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8p-RSK8h-M

 

[bobsaget77]

Maybe if they played October back to back, but then there's 4 to 6 songs I would love.

That'd actually be awesome. Bring on Rejoice x2!
My nightmare would be an all post-2000's setlist.



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[Salome]

My nightmare would be an all post-2000's setlist.

Is it the amount of rarities they played during ZOOTV and POPMart or the awesome setlist variety why these tours do not feature in your worst dreams?

 

[cobl04]

God forbid someone like Achtung Baby and Pop more than any of the last four albums

 

[bobsaget77]

Is it the amount of rarities they played during ZOOTV and POPMart or the awesome setlist variety why these tours do not feature in your worst dreams?

Dirty Day, Lemon, Daddy's Gonna Pay, Numb, WGRYWH, Love Is Blindness, Last Night On Earth, Discotheque, Gone, Velvet Dress, Please, etc. are considered rarities these days and were all played during their tours.
To say that post-2000's material is even in the same category as those is nuts.


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[Salome]

God forbid someone like Achtung Baby and Pop more than any of the last four albums

Well someone has to be the guardian of good taste and it's obviously not going to be any of you lot