I can't listen to the clips. The audio quality is horrible and the people screaming into my ears are very irritating
Don't mean to start an argument with the Setlist Antichrist, but...
ZooTV - 54 songs, 158 shows
Popmart - 55 songs, 94 shows
Of course, there was an extra album's worth of songs (plus Passengers and HMTMKMKM) in the U2 catalogue by that point.
I'm going to go back and watch all the videos i missed aswell.
Thanks to those providing the setlist from Barcelona and those posting it here and everyone who posted feeds and pics.
i don't remember it being this frantic every time....
I changed my mind...
Wouldn't it be fun... it'd take a bold, ZooTV-esque step...
Thanks, but yes I'm married...She likes U2 as well...as long as they are in some exotic city we can travel to, to see them...locally, meh she will go.
I look like crap there, because I was hiding some mics in my hoodie...
Would anybody object if the setlist party were kept to, you know, setlists?
(perhaps even more of one once you cut Edge's karaoke from Popmart). But the core Popmart set was much more rigid and static.
Would anybody object if the setlist party were kept to, you know, setlists?
Are you guys counting PopMart Karaoke songs? Are you also counting "snippets"?
If so, you're proving our point even more...
The concern/critique is so easy to dismiss when your view is that U2 can do no wrong. The fact is that it's a safe, predictable, unchallenging set... and they're over-compensating with their "rarities".
The Norm + UF + Ultraviolet = AMAZING!!!11!!
Glad the tradition of setlist bashing is still JUST as popular in 2009 as it was in 2005/2006, and 2001...and 1997, and...
Would anybody object if the setlist party were kept to, you know, setlists?
I'm just SOOOOOOO happy "Vertigo" and "Elevation" didn't make an appearence...having said that wish they would scrap "Angel Of Harlem" and "In A Little While" in favour of songs like "Exit" "Acobat" "Love Is Blindness" "Gone" "Please" or something darkly similar....LOVE the fact that Unforgettable Fire is there!!!!!!
It's not that "U2 can do no wrong", that is more the subject for albums, tour themes, variations of the way they play certain songs, etc...The setlist issue is that it is impossible to create one that will make everyone happy. There are people wanting One gone from the setlist. Yet others are DYING to hear it, since this will be there first show.
I am lucky. I have seen them every tour since War, multiple times each tour, and gotten to see most songs played. But they must think like it's someone's ONLY show, and that fan is gonna wanna hear some songs the hard core fans are "tired" of.
Personally, I would love for them to drop a couple of songs myself from the 2009 setlist. BUT I WON'T BITCH ABOUT IT. If I was going to express ANY disapointment, it would be the dropping of a couple of songs from the longer setlist, yet it sounds like tonights show was 2 hours and 15 minutes. That rivals the longest of the Vertigo shows.
Bottom line, the last time U2 did a "daring" setlist was ZOO TV. First 7 songs almost all new, first legs, nothing from the first 3 albums at all, etc...They aren't that same band anymore.
I know I will be enjoying the shows that I see, NO MATTER WHAT IS PLAYED.
Actually, from my memory how it looked like in 2005, there was much less setlist complaining back then. Despite the lack of Zooropa and Pop songs, there was a bigger and better balance between the classics, rocking songs (which are almost non-existent this time) and rarities. In fact, looking at this setlist now, in expectation of my two concerts in August, I appreciate even more the setlist of the concert I went to in '05 - getting Zoo Station, The Fly, The Electric Co., Running To Stand Still, along with New Year's Day, Bullet the Blue Sky and All I Want Is You was truly a treat.
I'm delighted to see Ultra Violet and The Unforgettable Fire back in the set, but the rest leaves me wanting more and deleting some of it, replacing it with songs that would adjust perfectly to that stage - namely, more 90s material - would be a perfect combination. Just my two cents on the whole matter...
Actually, from my memory how it looked like in 2005, there was much less setlist complaining back then. Despite the lack of Zooropa and Pop songs, there was a bigger and better balance between the classics, rocking songs (which are almost non-existent this time) and rarities. In fact, looking at this setlist now, in expectation of my two concerts in August, I appreciate even more the setlist of the concert I went to in '05 - getting Zoo Station, The Fly, The Electric Co., Running To Stand Still, along with New Year's Day, Bullet the Blue Sky and All I Want Is You was truly a treat.
I'm delighted to see Ultra Violet and The Unforgettable Fire back in the set, but the rest leaves me wanting more and deleting some of it, replacing it with songs that would adjust perfectly to that stage - namely, more 90s material - would be a perfect combination. Just my two cents on the whole matter...
http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f274/setlist-disappointment-120583.html
Just one of many...People will usually look back on tours with fondness, but today? I'm critical...It's just the opposite with albums. Todays album is the greatest...the last one sucked. LOL (cracking myself up)
Thanks for writing a real, thought-out response.
Unfortunately, I disagree. You're right in that they can't please everyone. This being said, I don't think their current approach is the only solution. You might think they're trying to play for the newbs, I think they're constantly playing their greatest hits. Whether it be because they think they're guaranteeing themselves a good reponse, or because those songs have become easy to play, they're only hurting themselves. If we had to guess a setlist based on past tendencies, it would have come very close to this. I just think they're capable of more... I think they'd love it, and we'd love it. Could it be that they're afraid of making mistakes on-stage?
If we had to guess a setlist based on past tendencies, it would have come very close to this. I just think they're capable of more...
The concern/critique is so easy to dismiss when your view is that U2 can do no wrong. The fact is that it's a safe, predictable, unchallenging set... and they're over-compensating with their "rarities".
The Norm + UF + Ultraviolet = AMAZING!!!11!!