E&I Tour - General topic

Originally posted by DMMacdonald:The Staring At The Sun/ Pride/ GOOYW/ AS section could and probably will change in Europe.

Stay - Streets/ GOOYW/ Summer of Love?? How would that sound?

Originally posted by markreed:[..]
A U2 show isn't just a bunch of songs stuck together in an order to get the crowd rockin' and hasn't been like that since 1992.

Originally posted by markreed:[..]Elevation / Vertigo / Desire, all lyrically and musically about hits and noise and entertainment which fit in with the theme of MacPhisto distracting you : don't believe what you hear, or what you see.

Originally posted by DutchU2Fan:[..]
No, remove Streets.

Stay - Bad - Summer Of Love - Red Flag Day

Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]


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Just a reminder that Vertigo also starts toying with the idea of selling your soul to the devil ("...though your soul it can't be bought, your mind can wander...", "all of this can be yours, just give me what I want..."), which fits perfectly to welcome MacPhisto.

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Wait, I have an idea...

...what if, hear me out, what IF... they play Streets? huh!?

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ok, no, fine...

(but what about With or Without You? it'd work, right?

or Streets, maybe...?)

Originally posted by Henderson7:Just finished listening to the SJ Night 1 recording and have some thoughts on the set list.

- Lights of Home needs to move out of that spot, too slow to be the second official song of the show with the band. I would put IWF there.

- They need to make a change in the 3 song rotation of Acrobat and Staring at the sun, those 3 songs in that order I feel lag the show a bit.

- I would drop American Soul in favour of Streets or another hit.

- The encore needs some life.

Originally posted by Remy:It’s U2 we are talking about. They’ll just bring the exact same setlist to Europe. Wouldn’t even be surprised if they bring American Soul with the American flag. But that they probably change

I hope they bring the song though, it’s so good live.

Originally posted by superkev:When you listen to the gig though you have The blackout, followed by “I shouldn’t be here cause I should be dead”. Makes sense to have it in that spot

Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:I think Winter Beats is a good intro song. Just watched this. The excitement when they see the band going to the stage... I love it. Roll on Berlin

Originally posted by kite29:[..]
Listening to the SJ2 bootleg, I think the show flows pretty damn well. And I am beyond thrilled that they are playing NINE songs off their latest album.

We can argue if there are better or worse songs choices (Little Things is maybe the best of SOE, but it looks complex to find a spot for it on such a tight setlist), but this is the U2 I fell in love with in the first place: forward-looking, confident in their new stuff, willing to stick to their guns.