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  1. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    They have historically closed with slow, even sad songs. "40", Love Is Blindness, WOWY, One, Wake Up Dead Man, Can't Help Falling In Love, Walk On, Moment Of Surrender... Vertigo and I Will Follow/Out Of Control in the old days are the only exceptions I can think of.
    I could live with 40 (of course!), also WOWY, but otherwise I really prefer a big bang.
  2. Vertigo was a mega-hit (hence the success closing with it - and still there was the negative fact that they usually had played it as 1st or 2nd song early in the show), and there's not many of those in the new album... Can't see them doing it again. Maybe The Miracle could close, not sure how it would turn out.
  3. Originally posted by LikeASong:Vertigo was a mega-hit (hence the success closing with it - and still there was the negative fact that they usually had played it as 1st or 2nd song early in the show), and there's not many of those in the new album... Can't see them doing it again. Maybe The Miracle could close, not sure how it would turn out.
    Open with Miracle and close with Invisible. "There is no them" repeated and go black.
  4. I think the band is leaning towards opening with Invisible, but I somehow like that idea.
  7. I think you might be alone on this Most of the fans agreed that it was great to have UV back after so many years.
  8. Since everybody sees things different, it's impossible to know how everybody sees something, but as a long time U2 fan who just recently discovered this whole world of bootlegs (and I really don't think I'm in the minority among U2 fans in this regard), I don't believe people is that aware of what represents a "rarity"...

    How many fans would have a collection consisting of no more than something like Red Rocks + ZooTV Sydney + Elevation Slane + 360 Rose Bowl (just 3-5 live shows) besides whatever number of studio albums (maybe only the most well known ones)?... I'd guess that that's the majority of fans.

    That would mean that they'd have a rather distorted view of what can be considered a "rarity".

    Take Ultraviolet for instance... I'd say it'd be common for many fans to listen Achtung Baby regularly and check the Sydney show every once in a while... for all those fans Ultraviolet is/was far from a "rarity".

    Just the same way that they don't care how many times some songs have been played in the last 20 years... they're not listening to them (unlike us) every single day in a couple of bootlegs.

    My definition of "live rarities" would be either songs never played regularly before, or songs not played recently from the early 80's. Anything from The Joshua Tree onwards that has been played with some regularity in any tour wouldn't really surprise me.

    (obviously this is the way I feel about it, I know that most likely everybody in here feels way different about it, but I just wanted to say it )

    (this also has to do with getting old... I think of the 90's as if it had happened rather recently, and I see anything from the new millenium as brand new, so I struggle to feel the time gap between tours )
  9. Ultraviolet wasn't on the Sydney DVD, was it?
  11. No, it disappeared after the Dublin 93 show and only reappeared in Barcelona 09 (besides some snippet during Popmart if I recall right). Then the Desire / Ultraviolet combo was replaced for Daddy's Gonna Pay / Lemon for the remainder of the tour (including Sydney).
  12. Yep, you're right.
    I just assumed it was.

    Anyway, my point still stands, songs that I listen to regularly (studio) and that I've already heard live I have no idea if they were played regularly live or not or how long ago they haven't been played at all...
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