nbcrusader
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I'd say this tour's setlists are better than Elevation. Only the strongest songs from the current album are getting played, and a wide variety of older tunes get played as well.
Also, look at the reviews for the first Chicago show last night on U2tours.com. Most of the fans were very disappointed with the quality of the show. Something is wrong with this tour. It's SO obvious.
corianderstem said:
So ... what? The band can't have an off night?
Ghostwriter said:All they really need to do is rotate out some of the old tired songs once in awhile. Stop playing Pride for a few shows, rotate old favorites like Unforgettable Fire and In God's Country back in, and basically have a revolving setlist. The only stuff they really need to play at EVERY show is the new Vertigo materal. They have a sufficient back catalogue of classic material that they should be able to please themselves as well as most fans if they start rotating it out more often. As a matter of fact, listening to most of the older songs on the bootlegs it would seem they're getting really tired of playing the same old songs night after night.
RademR said:I think the setlists are good, but they need to switch it up a little more. Basically my complaint about this tour is the same as before the tour started.
BTBS and Pride every night?
MrBrau1 said:The sets pretty much suck. Big time.
And tonite saw them drop Electric Co. AND Gloria, pretty much the highlight of the tour.
Elevation had a standard set, and it was 10X better than the Vertigo Tour standard.
STERKERNOG said:
IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, DON'T GO. THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM
bigloader said:Is there any way that we can get some sort of petition to the band to stop playing Bullet the Blue Sky and Elevation? Please!
STERKERNOG said:
IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, DON'T GO. THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM
knox said:How many of you guys are basing your opinions entirely off of boots?
Because the show was awesome.
An Cat Dubh positively rocked tonight, and I was surprised! I was looking forward to Electric Co. or Gloria, but I didn't really care that they were missing. Bad is fucking amazing. Zoo Station/The Fly/Mysterious Ways is 1000x better when you're seeing it and not sitting at home with your headphones listening to it. Hell, I even liked Elevation.
HyperU2 said:I'd say fuck em.
Then save your time,money and complaints and just not go to any more shows !starvinmarvin said:
What if you've already seen them? It's too late then, isn't it?
starvinmarvin said:I wouldn't mind seeing Pride dropped, or at least put into rotation, but I have to admit it still gets the crowd going as much as it ever did.
HyperU2 said:I don't think anyone realizes how important Pride is to Bono. It'll never drop.
"Bullet" is powerful this time around, with Bono's torture poses and the quiet ending with "Johnny Comes Marching Home" and "Hands That Built America" thrown in...
"Elevation" - not relevant or moving, but a HELL of a lot of fun!
All the people I saw dancing their asses off at the 3 concerts I went to seem to agree with me.
But at least half the show was consumed with a run through U2 warhorses that were already starting to sound exhausted on previous tours: "Pride (In the Name of Love)," "Where the Streets Have No Name," "One." Save for the belly dancer missing in action from "Mysterious Ways," this was tired nostalgia, apparently to sate customers who shelled out hundreds of dollars for tickets.
dizzy said:And this may be blasphemy to some, but I'd rather hear The Cry/Electric Co. than Bad. But Bad would be better as opposed to Pride and New Year's Day. Then again, the shows aren't just for hard core fans but casual fans who'd like to hear the hits or staple U2 songs.