cobl04
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If they're willing to do Europe in arenas, hopefully that means they will bring the arena setup to us as well.
But didn't Vertigo go arenas/arenas/arenas/stadiums?
If they're willing to do Europe in arenas, hopefully that means they will bring the arena setup to us as well.
But didn't Vertigo go arenas/arenas/arenas/stadiums?
This isn't already the Greatest Hits Tour?I can't wait for the tour next year where they drop half the SOI songs and start their next greatest hits tour and then have people bitch that they did the same thing last tour.
New Year's Day is like Until the End of the World... it's the kind of song that's impossible to sound flat.
Yep. I don't count UTEOTW as a warhorse.... maybe I should be to me it's not.
I think her hysterical performance of One was enough.
Plus as edge said just before the tour started in an interview, they are not catering for the "train spotters"
Would you shut up? You're descending to thavidesco levels of inane repetition and missing-the-point.
LM isn't saying they should do an encore of Rejoice/One Minute Warning/Rowena's Theme/I'm Not Your Baby.
He is saying that it would be cool if the final 30+ minutes of the show contained something that wasn't super-obvious, something that hasn't been played at almost every U2 show for the past twenty years. They have heaps of widely recognised content to fit that bill.
As it stands, the end of the set is "here's a song for those of you who've only heard us on the radio, now here's another, and another, and another, and another", rather than songs selected because they make brilliant thematic/sequential sense or do something really exciting and thought provoking. It's not as if, say, In God's Country or Love Is Blindness or Kite would meet with blank stares, given they are from albums that have sold tens of millions of copies.
I hope they don't drop any SOI songs. I wish they would play 10 of them! At least that would steal a few spots from One, Pride, WOWY, etc.....
The new songs sound at least fresh and great! The warhorses sound more and more flat and without feelings from the band. I know the casual fans will like them all, but come on, compare those versions to 80's or 90's versions and then you'll understand the frustration of some people around here.
The only warhorse that still sound fresh hasn't been played this tour so far..... NYD!
I hope they don't drop any SOI songs. I wish they would play 10 of them! At least that would steal a few spots from One, Pride, WOWY, etc.....
The new songs sound at least fresh and great! The warhorses sound more and more flat and without feelings from the band. I know the casual fans will like them all, but come on, compare those versions to 80's or 90's versions and then you'll understand the frustration of some people around here.
The only warhorse that still sound fresh hasn't been played this tour so far..... NYD!
I don't agree with this at all. I largely loved the show, but there were misses EBW was not great because of piano only, Raised by Wolves fits great thematically but is a weak live song to me (edge's guitar is so thin sounding, as cool as the intro is after SBS, it seems it just really misses after the first verse), and I am not sure there are many people who care about Song for Someone or would consider it indispensable.
The highlight of the show was the run of Bullet-Pride-BD-Bad-Wowoy. All warhorses, all awesome, all done very passionately, and all sounded great. That, even after 30+shows, as much as love and wanted a few more rarities, that was still U2 at their best. I know all the 80's and 90's versions, but being there hearing them, I am not thinking this version sucks compared to the one in r&h. I am thinking this is my favorite band playing the best songs ever written, and I may never see this again.
Now the encore, and specifically One and I Still HAven't... were atrocious and just going though the motions, and could use a huge revamp. COBL was pretty tired as well. I think all of those could be rotated, too.
I would be ecstatic, if they came back for the encore played 2-3 rarities, ended with streets and that was it. The only real complaint I had was the encore seems like an after thought, especially One is putrid right now.
I do agree they could take some more risks, but the 'all the warhorses are tired' argument holds no water for me. It's what just about everyone in the arena is there for, they know it, and they are dropping them for volcano or reach.
Would you shut up? You're descending to thavidesco levels of inane repetition and missing-the-point.
LM isn't saying they should do an encore of Rejoice/One Minute Warning/Rowena's Theme/I'm Not Your Baby.
He is saying that it would be cool if the final 30+ minutes of the show contained something that wasn't super-obvious, something that hasn't been played at almost every U2 show for the past twenty years. They have heaps of widely recognised content to fit that bill.
As it stands, the end of the set is "here's a song for those of you who've only heard us on the radio, now here's another, and another, and another, and another", rather than songs selected because they make brilliant thematic/sequential sense or do something really exciting and thought provoking. It's not as if, say, In God's Country or Love Is Blindness or Kite would meet with blank stares, given they are from albums that have sold tens of millions of copies.
-Beautiful Day (COBL could take the place of this)
-Mysterious Ways
-With Or Without You (they were really going thru the motions)
Would you shut up? You're descending to thavidesco levels of inane repetition and missing-the-point.
LM isn't saying they should do an encore of Rejoice/One Minute Warning/Rowena's Theme/I'm Not Your Baby.
He is saying that it would be cool if the final 30+ minutes of the show contained something that wasn't super-obvious, something that hasn't been played at almost every U2 show for the past twenty years. They have heaps of widely recognised content to fit that bill.
As it stands, the end of the set is "here's a song for those of you who've only heard us on the radio, now here's another, and another, and another, and another", rather than songs selected because they make brilliant thematic/sequential sense or do something really exciting and thought provoking. It's not as if, say, In God's Country or Love Is Blindness or Kite would meet with blank stares, given they are from albums that have sold tens of millions of copies.