What about Electrical Storm

[Dalton]

Have Bono and the boys ever mentioned this song in the press? Rehearsed the song? Or spoken about it to a fan?

I am surprized the song hasn't made its way into the set-list yet. I wonder what's up.

 

[Chizip]

Edge said they were working on it, but apparently it looks as if Edge has caught a little Bono-itis.

 

[Aardvark747]

Edge said they were working on it, but apparently it looks as if Edge has caught a little Bono-itis.

Ha! They just can't play it. They're a rubbish live band - I knew it all along!

 

[Dalton]

How long ago did the Edge say that?

 

[Chizip]

during the first leg, so i think we can pretty much rule it out

 

[BEVERLY56]

Omigod I love this song so much, please add it on this leg! (I know they're reading this!)

 

[mabel]

Didn't they snippet it somewhere in Europe on the 2nd leg?...Or am I just making that up? Totally possible.

 

[U2FanPeter]

Ha! They just can't play it. They're a rubbish live band - I knew it all along!

Why not just lipsync - they've done that for 30 years already.

u2fp

 

[Chizip]

Didn't they snippet it somewhere in Europe on the 2nd leg?...Or am I just making that up? Totally possible.

omg

 

[ramblin rose]

 

[Theedge070]

They rehearsed it at the Brussells soundcheck, acoustically.

 

[mabel]

I swear to god, I thought they did like a line or something somewhere in Europe. Apparently my painfully arduous summer of sitting at a desk inserting hundreds of thousands of data factoids into spreadsheets caused some sort of hallucination on that. Not at all surprising....though rather sad indeed.

 

[Chizip]

Someone posted that they snipetted it during One as a joke. It made it on to other message boards and setlist websites all over the world. When people found out it was just a joke it got a little ugly. The guy who made the joke has been banned from here (though not directly because of that incident)

And U2.com has said specifically, that they didn't rehearse it at Brussells: "Contrary to reports 'Electrical Storm' was not rehearsed yesterday. It was aired - but only through the PA system!"

 

[Theedge070]

And U2.com has said specifically, that they didn't rehearse it at Brussells: "Contrary to reports 'Electrical Storm' was not rehearsed yesterday. It was aired - but only through the PA system!"

Wow really? That torrent sure sounded like it was live and all. Does an acoustic ES even exist? Because that's what it was.

 

[mabel]

Well, at least I know I'm not crazy. I'd follow the setlist parties at work, and I'd usually end up leaving mid encore, so I'd imagine I missed all the spatting that ensued when it came out to be fake. It's a relief to know I'm not totally dillusional!

 

[Chizip]

U2.com could be lying, I don't know. I haven't heard the torrent.

 

[Theedge070]

U2.com could be lying, I don't know. I haven't heard the torrent.

I think they are then. You should listen to it, you'll see what I mean. It's on U2t.

Bono wasn't present that day so Edge just played it acoustically.

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

They should play it in Detroit.

 

[Chizip]

They are going to do an Eminem cover in Detroit.

Then Kid Rock is going to come out and sing One with them.

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

They are going to do an Eminem cover in Detroit.

Then Kid Rock is going to come out and sing One with them.

 

[Carmelu2fan]

They are going to do an Eminem cover in Detroit.

Then Kid Rock is going to come out and sing One with them.

You have completely lost it ,havent you?




-imagining what that would sound like*

 

[sebo20]

Well, for me it certainly doesn't sound like any of the official releases of the song. I put it on the ysi - check it out for yourselves. You will need Monkey's audio, available from http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ (it comes with a winamp plugin). I would convert it to mp3, but the taper does not allow that. And one more thing: the comments from u2.com are probably as accurate as the setlists they post.
Link (change "ysi"): http://s38.ysi.com/d.aspx?id=05P7D3RU9SVXX0ZJP8B6UO2XOI

 

[sebo20]

It seems nobody is interested anymore. Now that you would be able to comment, you back off.
It seems everybody makes comments about the setlists without actually hearing the songs. So it isn't surprising that almost everyone is getting bored because of looking at almost the same list of songs every day.

 

[popbellydancer]

THEY HAVE TO PLAY THIS!!!! imo it's the BEST song since ATYCLB!!!!

MUST SEE IT IN DC/LA/VEGAS

 

[popbellydancer]

we need to talk more about how they need to play this song....

 

[Carek1230]

There are so many other songs I would rather they play than ES

 

[Arcadion]

They need to play this song.

 

[lazarus]

maybe they realized that a good bridge, one Bono yell and some decent guitar work do not a U2 classic make. The vocal melody on the verses is subpar, and the chorus is meh. "Elec-tri-cal Stooorm"? Please.

If they played this before all the stuff that REALLY needs to get unearthed, like EVERYTHING ELSE OFF ZOOROPA THAT WAS NEVER PLAYED IN THE U.S., I'll throw a fit.

 

[Arcadion]

maybe they realized that a good bridge, one Bono yell and some decent guitar work do not a U2 classic make. The vocal melody on the verses is subpar, and the chorus is meh. "Elec-tri-cal Stooorm"? Please.

Meh chorus??? Guess you don't like ABOY, Yahweh and Bullet then.

 

[Niceman]

This song needs to be played live.