How many JT songs on SOE tour?

[TheGeekyU2Fan]

I would love to see Hawkmoon and heartland

 

[U2387]

We're sure to get Streets and Bullet and either Still haven't found or With or without you to start out with. It's very likely Bullet remains a staple given its relevance to the times and how they've adapted it very well 3 times in 3 years now (Innocence, JT 30 and Fallon).

I wouldn't go so far as to predict it, but I'd like to see In God's Country and Trip through your wires in the E Stage rotation. Both would work perfectly. Neither take a lot to make work (unlike Exit, RHMT, One Tree Hill, Running to standstill, etc)

I'd say very little chance of anything else showing up.

If you're a big JT fan, I'd reiterate the obvious and say I hope you saw that tour a time or 5. Haha. They're going to be on a mission to show they aren't the Stones- and we could see SOI/SOE taking up as many as 9 or 10 spots. With so much other ground to cover, if something is getting the boot, it's going to be the album they did every night in full all spring/summer/fall.

I'd say night 1 in Tulsa gets Streets, WOWY and Bullet.

 

[Nick66]

I wonder if anything from U2's abandoned orphan, Pop, will ever get played as part of the regular setlist again. Feels like something from that record is due to make a reappearance. It is, after all, an important part of the "eXperience" part of their career.

 

[Mac_Fly]

I wonder if anything from U2's abandoned orphan, Pop, will ever get played as part of the regular setlist again. Feels like something from that record is due to make a reappearance. It is, after all, an important part of the "eXperience" part of their career.

I'm of the mind that Please would work as a lead-in to Streets for this tour.

Thus, POP finally gets a nod.

 

[DeVaul]

Already done on Popmart. They could've done Bad into Streets every night last tour and destroyed and... didn't. I have no faith in their ability to get a complete setlist calibrated for maximum effectiveness anymore.

 

[TheGeekyU2Fan]

I wonder if anything from U2's abandoned orphan, Pop, will ever get played as part of the regular setlist again. Feels like something from that record is due to make a reappearance. It is, after all, an important part of the "eXperience" part of their career.

What about NLOTH? I feel like moment of surrender could fit, but I doubt they would ever play anything again.

 

[Nick66]

I'd love to hear NLOTH or Fez/BB or MOS, but I really doubt we'll ever hear any of those as part of any regular setlist again. I think the most we can hope for is the occasional one off or snippet.

NLOTH is another one of U2's orphans that was disowned after disappointing its parents.

 

[pepokiss]

It's fun to read this thread now

 

[Popmartijn]

It sure is fun to read this thread after all this time!

0.05 JT songs? You reckon they'll only play something from JT once every twenty shows?

Oh, wait, one number the other way...

Almost no-one could even think of them not playing anything at all from Joshua Tree, not even Streets. And yes, I would also not have thought that they would skip Streets. And I have to say I did miss it at the shows.
But in the end, the only JT-era song played was Spanish Eyes. Once. So even 0.05 JT(-era) songs was too high a number. More like 0.03.

Is it too much to ask for Acrobat or So Cruel? Yes it is but I can dream.

Sometimes dreams do come true. Or at least half of them.

 

[BigMacPhisto]

And while it's not my favourite U2 song, there's not a single song they do that can take the place as Streets, and I would not substitute it for anything. Not Acrobat, not ASOH, not Mercy. It has a unique place in the setlist and can't be replaced.

There was a time of course U2 could get away with not playing that song, but now I firmly believe U2 will never play another regular tour, full set concert without Streets.

This post is particularly interesting because, in all honestly, I think COBL can definitely fill the void left by Streets and serves kind of the same sort of vibe. In the hypothetical "completely different setlists over two nights" they could be swapped out for one another and I doubt anybody would feel shortchanged either way.

These would be some obvious ones:

Bad or Moment of Surrender
Elevation or Vertigo

The One or Still Haven't Found swap on the SOI Tour honestly made a lot of sense. Uncomplicated major hits that feel rather phoned in over the years (particularly One). Still Haven't Found actually had a lot of new life because of its placement and felt like a fitting closer. One has been lame this entire century, PopMart being the last time it mattered.

 

[MrPryck2U]

Big Mac is back with his hyperbole fully intact. Lol! One has been lame the entire 21st Century? That's debatable, of course. But it wasn't lame during Elevation which did take place during the 21st Century. Especially the post 9/11 shows.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i think the only time i would call One lame was when Bono spoke for 10 minutes about the One Campaign during the intro on the Vertigo tour.

i also don't know why we're responding to banned members in a 5 year old thread, alas - to each their own.

 

[BigMacPhisto]

Big Mac is back with his hyperbole fully intact. Lol! One has been lame the entire 21st Century? That's debatable, of course. But it wasn't lame during Elevation which did take place during the 21st Century. Especially the post 9/11 shows.

I feel it's just been sluggish on every tour this century. It's just a personal opinion. It's not a melodically complex song so as Bono's vocal range deteriorates and they preface it with "get out your phones" and that kind of bullshit, it just really drags down the show.

Super powerful in the 90s and it would work better as a song tossed into the setlist, especially nearer the start, then trying to be some set or encore closer.

 

[mikal]

I thought "One" got very boring on the Vertigo and 360 Tours, but I genuinely enjoyed it during the I&E and JT tours. Seemed to have more energy and zero "Africa!" talk.

 

[djerdap]

One was wonderful at the Sphere. It's remarkable how a song can benefit from being unburdened by speechifying, awkward prerecorded introductions and politics. The same went for Streets, albeit that was slightly less successful due to Bono screwing around with SOS lyrics.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

One was wonderful at the Sphere. It's remarkable how a song can benefit from being unburdened by speechifying, awkward prerecorded introductions and politics. The same went for Streets, albeit that was slightly less successful due to Bono screwing around with SOS lyrics.

The worst part of Sphere shows was Bono using SOS lyrics for Streets. Ugh. Don't do that. I know they're your songs, but, like, no. They're our songs now, too. Don't mess with perfection.

But I do so agree - One was a highlight for me at Sphere. No speeches, the longer intro :chefskiss: