Las Vegas #2 Setlist Party

[TinKnight]

I think doing a JT30 style encore would benefit them wonders. Innocence and Experience the fuck out of the mainset, and then do a 6-7 song encore of familiar hits to keep the energy up. You get it both ways; the Broadway, contemplativeness, and, you know, not ending on a confusing bummer that 99% don't expect.

[Lou2]

Originally Posted by DaveC

i'm really stunned that they aren't playing little things. it's the best song they've made in a decade.

So true, it should be a setlist fixture.

[catlhere]

Only U2 show I've ever left feeling underwhelmed. Oh well, there's always next time.

[DeVaul]

RFD and Horses should be there every show. Herd B&E onto the connecting stage after Desire for The Showman before moving to the e stage for the rest.

Rotation options:
NYD/Gloria/Electric Co/2 Hearts
Beautiful Day/Best Thing/ABOY
SATS/Please

They should use the c stages again to close the show with something uptempo, engaging all sides of the arena. Larry can face the back of the arena for the last song. "Seconds" is my pick here because it's still on-theme while serving as an additional deep cut.

[rennowba]

The Noel Gallagher walk out track seems strange to me. Was Noel there and that's why they played it?

I love Noel Gallagher and I love that track but it doesn't seem like a track to walk out to

[The_acrobat]

Bono, before playing SATS, talking about the Pop album;

“There’s a few good tunes hidden there...”

Fuck you, Bono! There’s a fucking fantastic beast of an album there is more like it!! Just because Popmart had some poor sales numbers in the US 21 years ago doesn’t make it a bad album. God Damn... so annoying, as that’s one of my favorite U2 albums.

[DeVaul]

Been here looking for American Sales.

[Jarvio]

Originally Posted by The_acrobat

Bono, before playing SATS, talking about the Pop album;

“There’s a few good tunes hidden there...”

Fuck you, Bono! There’s a fucking fantastic beast of an album there is more like it!! Just because Popmart had some poor sales numbers in the US 21 years ago doesn’t make it a bad album. God Damn... so annoying, as that’s one of my favorite U2 albums.

I feel the same when the band talk about WGRYWH.

Played at the first show only, then dropped. After playing it, Bono says "Thanks for your patience".

Left off the best of 90-00, and didn't even get any of its b-sides included on the b-sides disc, even when every other single of that decade did. Even IGWSHA got a remix on there.

Larry saying the song makes him cringe, because he feels that he screwed it up.

Never been a regular on any tour. Always dropped sooner or later.

A fan requests it on the Vertigo tour (I think it was the Vertigo tour anyway), saying he will play on the keyboard with them. Bono brings him up on stage and asks if he will play ANGEL OF HARLEM instead. When the fan insists on Horses, Bono accepts, and then says "what key is it in"? After playing Horses, Bono says to the fan, "You played it better than us".

Also another time on the Vertigo tour, after playing Horses, Bono says "That's the second time ever we've played that tune". What?!?!?!?! After all the zoo-tv performances?? Why does he lie?

To this day, rarely played. Sure it's played once in a while, but it's always dropped in favour of other songs that they've played a million times before.

To say that Horses was the 5th single from its respective album, it was quite a successful single. It was one of their only top 40 US hits. It may have tanked in the UK, but so did MW and EBTTRT...

[Chief43]

Love Is All We Have Left

The Blackout

Lights Of Home

I Will Follow

Gloria/The Electric Co

Red Flag Day

The Ocean

Iris (Hold Me Close)

Cedarwood Road

Raised By Wolves

Until the End of the World

Please

(Intermission)

Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me

Vertigo

Desire

Acrobat

Fast Cars

Staring at the Sun*acoustic

Pride (In the Name of Love)

You're The Best Thing

American Soul

City of Blinding Lights

Beautiful Day


encore(s):

Discotheque

One

Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way

[TheGeekyU2Fan]

I just realized that no one is talking about Zooropa in any way, The band should at least play Daddy's gonna Pay, Some days are better than others, or stay after SATS.

[DeVaul]

Numb played against a Twitter feed or 24hr news cycle footage of the current socio-political situation in the US would be a great middle finger.

[zuma]

Originally Posted by Axver

I really can't believe how many comments I've heard from audience members near Mixlr streamers along the lines of "is that it?" "surely there's more?" "are they really done?"



Never once on a previous tour have I heard that. It's always praise, or "what's the best way to get out of this place?"

If you're in a seat it's very clear that the show is done but it's confusing af in GA because half the floor can't see Bono leaving the stage.

[brooklynmike]

Originally Posted by DeVaul

Been here looking for American Sales.

Ha!

[RoKKeR]

Originally Posted by TinKnight

I think doing a JT30 style encore would benefit them wonders. Innocence and Experience the fuck out of the mainset, and then do a 6-7 song encore of familiar hits to keep the energy up. You get it both ways; the Broadway, contemplativeness, and, you know, not ending on a confusing bummer that 99% don't expect.

This is a great idea.

[corianderstem]

Originally Posted by TheGeekyU2Fan

I just realized that no one is talking about Zooropa in any way, The band should at least play Daddy's gonna Pay, Some days are better than others, or stay after SATS.

Considering Zooropa was played at most or every 2011 show, I say we have nothing to complain about.

[Mac_Fly]

Originally Posted by lazarus

I don't know how anyone in their right mind can say that Love Is Blindness wasn't an effective closer.


MOS is one of my 3 favorite songs by the band this millennium but I thought it was a terrible choice for a closer. It should have been the centerpiece of the show, not put at the end. And I'm not sure what 360 shows you went to, but at all the ones I saw it went over like a lead balloon.

That tour could have been so much better, considering they botched the opener as well. Breathe never should have been in that slot.

Well, Can't Help Falling in Love With You was the closer, not Love Is Blindness. yes?

I don't remember how I felt about MOS as a closer when I was at the show, but for the Rose Bowl concert, which I've seen a dozen or more times, I thought it worked great.

Yes I agree on Breathe. It was my favorite song on NLOTH, but it didn't seem to work as an opener. On paper I'm sure it looked great, but didn't translate somehow. But no major complaints.

[allbecauseofu2]

The zoo tv ending of love is blindness/cant help falling in love is always gonna right up there for me.

[Mack_Again]

Originally Posted by TheGeekyU2Fan

I just realized that no one is talking about Zooropa in any way, The band should at least play Daddy's gonna Pay, Some days are better than others, or stay after SATS.

well they did play Stay and Zooropa in later legs of 360 tour so I don't think they're not that desperate to bring those back.

[superchuk5]

I think 13 is a terrific song (it's the SOE song where Bono nails the "write as if you are dead" perspective; the last verse is arguably the thesis of SOE), but am skeptical of how well it would work in an arena setting. It's just so intimate. Excited to see first hand in a couple days.

[hibricc]

Originally Posted by Mac_Fly

Well, Can't Help Falling in Love With You was the closer, not Love Is Blindness. yes?

Originally Posted by allbecauseofu2

The zoo tv ending of love is blindness/cant help falling in love is always gonna right up there for me.

Worth noting that Love Is Blindness was actually the closer on both indoor legs of ZooTV - though Can't Help Falling was the outro music played over the PA after the band had left the stage. It was only once the tour moved outdoors for the Outside Broadcast stadium legs that Bono and Edge began performing the Elvis classic live as the final song.

Hoping it doesn't take them quite that long to consider adding some type of coda to the current setlist, but what do I know?