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  1. When U2 plays a show, they aren't thinking about people like us (hardcore fans that stream every show), they are thinking about the guy who is coming to see U2 for his first time, so they play their hits (BD, SBS, Pride). No one person goes to every U2 concert and thinks "They're playing Sunday again? Boring, these guys really need to step it up."


    When a song is "boring," it is played the same way over and over. U2 must have found a way to play the song that the crowd enjoys (2009 intro/astronaut segment).

    I've only been to one U2 show ever, and I must say, the way they played those songs were perfect for the occasion. I didn't think about the fact that every song they played was the same way as the night before, or even the fact that they dropped The Fly.
  2. Originally posted by ASortOfDesire:When U2 plays a show, they aren't thinking about people like us (hardcore fans that stream every show), they are thinking about the guy who is coming to see U2 for his first time, so they play their hits (BD, SBS, Pride). No one person goes to every U2 concert and thinks "They're playing Sunday again? Boring, these guys really need to step it up."

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    When a song is "boring," it is played the same way over and over. U2 must have found a way to play the song that the crowd enjoys (2009 intro/astronaut segment).

    I've only been to one U2 show ever, and I must say, the way they played those songs were perfect for the occasion. I didn't think about the fact that every song they played was the same way as the night before, or even the fact that they dropped The Fly.

    Perhaps I should clarify then. When they started with the song, it was an anti-climax. Imagine all that tension building up and then, ah, it's Beautiful Day. Even when it was 8th or 9th in the set, it had no intensity. Yeah, they found ways that the crowd enjoyed that, but I mentioned half way through the tour, not 2009. It was alright in 2009, but it was just one of those songs that died on its arse quickly. Obviously, the casual U2 fan that attends a show will want to hear that - hence why it's played. A lot of fans still dig it, as I can see from this thread.
  3. Disagree. The part with Mark Kelly in 2011 and the Space Oddity thing ruled.


  5. This is so ADORABLE! :)
  6. I won't comment on the musical aspect, but they're adorable indeed

  7. I m sorry but i hated this parts...i prefer the Vertigo tour ending of this song....

    I love BD , i think this song have to stay in the setlist, but SBS not.

    Anyway i understand that U2 play their greatest hits on the shows even when i prefer other songs... i think is like i go to see some other band that i am not a big fan( like Aerosmith, Duran Duran , Bon Jovi, etc for example) and i want to listen the greatest hits and when there are playing some songs that i dont know sometimes this can be very boring...

    So we have to think of the 50.000 peolple in a U2 show , how many are harcore fans like us and how many are going to see one of the best bands of the history and they want to see the classics
  9. Well on the next tour, unless they start playing 30 song sets, some of the warhorses (SBS, NYD, MW, Pride, ISHFWILF, Walk On, WOWY, COBL, Elevation, Stuck, Vertigo, BD) are going to have to be shelved...
  10. Originally posted by patou2:[..]

    I m sorry but i hated this parts...i prefer the Vertigo tour ending of this song....

    I love BD , i think this song have to stay in the setlist, but SBS not.

    Anyway i understand that U2 play their greatest hits on the shows even when i prefer other songs... i think is like i go to see some other band that i am not a big fan( like Aerosmith, Duran Duran , Bon Jovi, etc for example) and i want to listen the greatest hits and when there are playing some songs that i dont know sometimes this can be very boring...

    So we have to think of the 50.000 peolple in a U2 show , how many are harcore fans like us and how many are going to see one of the best bands of the history and they want to see the classics


    i don't need to name a couple of cases whom it's possible to have both (classics and not) from .. you probably know whom i'm referring to

    anyway following your speech .. why not Sunday? it's definetely a classic .. one of the most for sure .. and very much more than Beautiful Day for what concerns me

    by the way .. is Adam going to take the place of Terry Lawless? .. hoping not from the underworld hehe
  11. I don't think Adam will haha.

    I reckon they just whacked him down on the keyboard to make it look like he was doing something in an acoustic song!
  12. Lmao if anyone actually thinks U2 will drop their biggest songs, they're sadly and incredibly mistaken and apparently don't know much about U2. Yes they dropped Pride for a bit on the last tour, they dropped WOWY for a bit on Vertigo, but to drop as many as some of you are hoping? Fat chance.
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