You're kidding right?
Breathe is their worst choice of opener ever.
Fez Being Born would have been total kick-ass as an opener.
You're kidding right?
I agree with ybab gnuthca. Not a good opening song. Great song but not an opener.
I don't disagree about Breathe, but I strongly disagree that Fez-Being Born would be better. Maybe as an intro but not opening the concert. That would be more of a downer than Breathe.
I don't disagree about Breathe, but I strongly disagree that Fez-Being Born would be better. Maybe as an intro but not opening the concert. That would be more of a downer than Breathe.
Sorry, but I have to chime in on the side of dissapointed about the setlists (but not suprised as their pattern has been the same the last 2 decades). It's not about are they picking the "right" 22-24 songs for my personal taste or desires, because they never will make each of the 80,000 in the arena happy. My problem is that there is virtually no variance of songs which for a band around for 30 years with such a rich catalog of music at their dispossal is discouraging. In all 4 shows so far, they have started with the same 6 songs and ended with the same 13 songs in the exact same order (with one time slipping in a second playing of a different version of Crazy). 19 songs in the same place in the same order.
I loved the Joshua Tree tour when it was just 4 guys walking on stage and playing. Also it seems and you can check with any internet setlist page is that U2's set list hardly ever varies and that for every tour every show the setlist is the same night in and night out. For Vertigo I saw them in May and in October same 22 songs both nights.
FEZ as the pre-recorded intro. Then a silence pause. Then a 5/10% more accelerated version (which happens to tones of U2 songs when played live) of Being Born would be the perfect opener of the tour and to immediately recall to the album.I don't disagree about Breathe, but I strongly disagree that Fez-Being Born would be better. Maybe as an intro but not opening the concert. That would be more of a downer than Breathe.
any of the whingers, answer me honestly:
Were you at the shows?
And even if you were, did you enjoy them?
Contrary to what most of you feel you should be entitled to as U2 fans sitting at home skulking for bootlegs, U2 are a band that (admirably) cater to every fan in the stadium (key point in the stadium, the ones who paid the money, bought the ticket and the tshirt, and took the effort to see the band). I guarentee 90% of those in the stadium want to hear Pride and One.
I was sick of seeing One and Pride in the set on the vertigo tour, and then when I saw my first U2 show ever in Sydney, fuck I was happy they were in there.
TBH, U2 don't give a shit what people following setlist parties want to hear. They play what they feel is the best show they can give the crowd who are in the stadium at the time.
And 4 shows into a tour is incredibly premature to be complaining.
AS IT IS, we have seen Electrical Storm, Unforgettable Fire, Ultraviolet - these are sons none of us thought they would ever play again. THESE are the songs that most of us demanded them play, AND THEY ARE PLAYING THEM. This is the part of the set that pleases the diehards. But there are more people who paid their money that want to hear Beautiful Day than TUF.
I've got a solution for you all... Don't go to the shows. They are already boring for you, so spare the people that have to be next to you at the shows by not going
FEZ as the pre-recorded intro. Then a silence pause. Then a 5/10% more accelerated version (which happens to tones of U2 songs when played live) of Being Born would be the perfect opener of the tour and to immediately recall to the album.
No they wouldn't. The crowd is always excited no matter in te beggining, no matter what song is the opener - that happens with "Breathe" (which doesn't freeds it from being a poor opener in a show like this).
My intro, to keep the theme of the new album etc
FEZ BEING BORN (instrumental) intro - with 'madly flashing in b&w claw' merging into
BOOTS intro but longer - 'madly flashing colour claw'
BOOTS - screen comes to life
NLOTH
Breathe should occupy ABOY's Vertigo tour slot, or possibly open the first encore. It's a rather weak opener, and this is coming from someone who considers it the band's greatest song this decade. It simply doesn't sound right where it is. There's no buildup. I felt the same way about Vertigo as an opener; COBL started off more slowly, but it was so much more powerful. This is why I agree with Aygo that Being Born would work much better as an opener. As would NLOTH or, hell, Streets. My personal opening run would be A Sort Of Homecoming--->Being Born--->Magnificent--->NLOTH--->Until The End Of The World.