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Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:You can tell on the last "Sunday" that it is indeed The Edge

Originally posted by ahn1991:[..]

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Mylo Xyloto is an exceptional album. And Xylobands are the most innovative thing I've ever seen implemented on a tour. I'll go so far as to say that U2 would never think of implementing something similar because it's not their style.

Originally posted by Mr_Trek:[..]

Go watch your ZooTV DVD. I've heard that was quite revolutionary. You know, using big screens integrated with the show, having a B-stage...

Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Nah that's Edge for sure.

Originally posted by Mr_Trek:[..]

Go watch your ZooTV DVD. I've heard that was quite revolutionary. You know, using big screens integrated with the show, having a B-stage...

Originally posted by ahn1991:[..]


True. But granted when I was old enough to remember watching and hearing about concerts, video screens were standard. The next revolutionary step after that would have to be incorporating the audience as part of the visuals and that's exactly what Xylobands did. In my eye, I see that as a bigger step than the addition of video screens because you've got so many acts trying to innovate by changing what video screens do, but Coldplay said "let's leave the video screens do what they're supposed to do and instead launch something totally new."

Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

Just because one band does something new doesn't mean another can't. U2 were extremely innovative when they were the same age Coldplay is now, back in the Zoo TV days. The Xylobands are awesome (saw Coldplay last summer in Montreal) but they're nothing more than another visual effect. I'll take conceptual ideas and things that actually make you think in a concert over that any day. To see a man that you've known to be someone for a decade come out dressed as the devil challenging political and social ideas and current issues is something Coldplay will probably never do to the same degree.

Now let's talk in terms of the current times and technology. You seem to be forgetting about the Claw as well. Again, the wristbands were cool, but did you not go see 360? That stage was the most ridiculously amazing thing I've ever seen, and not only because the sheer massiveness of it, but because of what it did to every venue it was in, it dwarfed every arena and stadium making it feel like everyone in the room could reach out and touch U2. It made a stadium during With Or Without You into a ballroom with a discoball.

I think you're putting too much emphasis on the wristbands and taking U2 down a peg for no logical reason, because they've done a hell of a lot more in their career innovation-wise than Coldplay has so far, regardless of the length of their careers, and coming back to U2 in the early 90's having been around for about 10 years and Coldplay now having been around for about 10 years, I'd say U2 set the bar much higher in terms of what they were doing with the technology that was given to them and the times they were around.

Let us not forget about the music either. Coldplay's 5th studio album was Mylo Xyloto, remind me which was U2's fifth album again? Couldn't have been nearly as good or innovative in terms of what was going on musically in the mainstream... Not to mention the quality of the music. Mylo is awesome, but compared to the Joshua Tree?

P.S I'm not at all trying to start an argument, I like Coldplay as much as the next guy, but if there's ever a time when I need to defend U2 in a battle between the two bands, I'll step up.