corianderstem
Blue Crack Distributor
I've been one of the few defenders of the Paul Simon/Streets transition, but holy shit, this is fantastic. Yeah, this is better.
For the entire Elevation tour they played Wake Up Dead Man incomplete and no one bats an eyelid.
For the entire Elevation tour they played Wake Up Dead Man incomplete and no one bats an eyelid. Heck...Bono doesn't even sing New Year's Day in its entirety.
MY WHOLE LIFE IS A SHAM!
It's not a "full performance", no, but we'll never get a full performance of Zooropa; the studio version is six minutes long split into three parts, the first of which works on the album of course but probably wouldn't live. So to call it a snippet just because it's not a full performance is stupid.
And the "it doesn't sound like Zooropa musically" argument is stupid as well. It's just a re-working. Does Running to Stand Still on ZooTV not count as a performance of Running to Stand Still?
Heck...Bono doesn't even sing New Year's Day in its entirety.
MY WHOLE LIFE IS A SHAM!
much like the abridged version of The Hands That Built America was a bridge between Bullet and Pride. nobody argued that, either.
Difference between Hands and Zooropa is the fact that Hands was about :45 seconds and Zooropa is nearly 3 minutes.
Sorry I do semi agree with you about it being closer to a full song, especially as they're listing it on the setlists, but this wouldn't even be a discussion if they'd gone through with calling it Zooropa I+II on the album haha - it would make it so much easier, and nobody would be silly enough to argue it. Like if they played Into The Heart without An Cat Dubh for some weird reason.
One thing you can guarantee is that if U2 made Zooropa today (lol not a fucking chance) it would be called Zooropa (Dream Out Loud) (Parts I, II and II)