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The Recording: 5/5
What can I say? It’s the best! To me it sounds the same as any of my official DVD rips. Perfect balance between the audience’s and the band’s sound, every detail of every song is heard pretty well, Adam’s bass is heard perfectly which shows what a great recording it is!
The Show: 5/5
Yes, I’m giving them both 5/5. It’s a great show as well. Pretty good setlist, songs performed very well, although Bono’s voice does fail him sometimes, but nothing new about that! The band is in top form, energetic and happy they seem.
I was gonna do a song by song review, but it would get too long, so I describe only (IMHO) the highlights.
- Beautiful Day, I like the weird way they start it, Bono singing the “the heart is a bloom” a few times.
- NYD…
(Bono’s voice starting to fail tho)- What’s Going On, one of my favorite songs, covered by my favorite band, I know not many people like U2’s cover, but I just love it, and it’s performed completely and with great power here, the crowd following them, it’s amazing!
- Bad, a highlight of the show, great quality again, great performance, great audience.
- Streets, every little detail of it recorded, amazing audience power again, another highlight of the show (been relistening Bad – Streets all week
). Again, - - ISHFWILF, the bass’s sound recorded so well + the great audience make this a great performance!
- Walk On, with the heroes on stage and the people's USA shouts after the song, a very emotional performance.
Some interesting notes…
- Bono’s little talk before Kite (on the end of the SBS file) makes the song more beautiful.
- I had to say this one: Angel of Harlem, Bono goes :”Laaaawrence!!”
nice moment!- About Bad, …does that girl scream out “Thank youuu….thaaank you!!” in the beginning?! .. ow, and I don’t really like the Molly Malone snippet.
- Streets… Bono’s religious talk in the beginning and that distant yell he does, add a lot to the song (much better than the chant on the the vertigo tour!).
- Bono doesn’t start in the right moment on ISHFWILF (or maybe It’s the edge playing wrong), Edge fixes the issue right away tho.
- One...Bono does a 4-5 minute speech!! It's a good speech tho, but I felt sorry for the Edge, he plays the little guitar bit over and over again for 4 minutes (on the vertigo tour they only had the intro track and no guitar till the end of the speech!)
Overall:
I haven’t heard many Elevation shows, but this one was awesome. Reasons to get this boot:
- Amazing sound quality, crowd and band both recorded perfectly.
- First show after 9/11, thus, an amazing crowd, a great band, and also a historical show.
It was a great experience listening to this show, I enjoyed every second of it. It became a favorite of mine right after listening to the first 20 seconds of it. Go and get it right now, you’ll love it!
