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Yep, I recorded that on VHS at the time as well.
And then Chris Rock called Bono the unibomber and ruined the whole thing
And then Chris Rock called Bono the unibomber and ruined the whole thing
Was this the one where Tim Commerford climbed into the giant statue or the Michael Jackson making out with Elvis' daughter one?
What do people think of the singles from Pop and how they were remixed. I think they sound so much better. Would be great if the whole album had sounded this way in the first place. Sonically they sound so much more interesting.
Apropos of nothing in particular, I'm really glad I saw that tour in both Madison and Chicago (Saturday night show), because the tour really came to life in Chicago. It was still a "Lemon" in the half-empty Madison stadium. (Sorry...couldn't help myself.)
I still have my inflatable lemon and (somewhere) a t-shirt from that tour--I think the one with the four band member portraits.
Sadly, I don't think there will be anything to mark the anniversary. I reckon it would just be too off brand at this point to highlight an experimental phase that will never be revisited. It did occur to me that when they finally do tour again, it would be an elegant solution to make it a comprehensive '90s reboot instead of just ZooTV specifically.
"Please" is just too good of a song to have been abandoned in the live sets. That really is strange.
Why pay for them? They’ve got to be floating around somewhere.
Of the recent-ish vinyl reissues I have Zooropa, Pop and Best Of 90s, but I only have Zooropa and Best Of downloaded to my hard drive. I'm usually pretty good about download codes, so maybe Pop didn't come with one... damn. I was going to upload it and share with y'all.
From what I could gather, the Orange version of the vinyl doesn't come with it but the other normal color one does (extra sad to me, because orange being my favorite color I would have opted for that)
classic rock mofo
classic rock mofo
Thx, never heard that before and that was a wild take, would be nice to hear it again live someday, but I think it’s probable improbable now.
2005/6 were such kick ass live years for the band. I know there were bits of the show people didn't like (Streets intro, Bono waffle before One, bluesy Bullet...), but it was a super creative and exciting period. And B's voice has never been better.
yea i mean if Streets had the damn red instead of the African flags and Bullet was normal, i think the Vertigo Tour would have been damn near perfect.
they also did a fairly decent job of mixing up the encores - decent for U2 at least.
a sampling from the fall shows
10/7 - MSG
The First Time
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Fast Cars
All Because Of You
Crumbs From Your Table
Yahweh
With or Without You
10/8 - MSG
The First Time
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
With or Without You
All Because Of You
Fast Cars
Original Of The Species
40
10/10 - MSG
Zoo Station
The Fly
With or Without You
All Because Of You
Yahweh
Bad / People Have The Power (snippet)
40
10/17 - Philly
Walk On Bono and Edge acoustic
Fast Cars
People Get Ready (with Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa)
With or Without You
All Because Of You
40
11/14 - Miami
Until the End of the World
The Fly
With or Without You
All Because Of You
Walk On
Bad / People Have The Power (snippet)
11/21 - MSG
Until the End of the World
Mysterious Ways
With or Without You / Love Will Tear Us Apart (snippet)
The First Time
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Instant Karma! (with Patti Smith)
Bad / People Have The Power (snippet)
thus ends the Vertigo Tour portion of your Pop 25th Anniversary Thread. Commence discussing pipe dreams that we all know the band will never do because they refuse to acknowledge the album's existence.
Glad they admit it’s existence, but this is a reminder that it’s really not that great a song, and kind of a mess. The “Boots” of its day.
They should have gone with the much darker, sexier DYFL.