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  2. In acoustic, maybe, why not?
  3. In acoustic, maybe, why not? My fingers crossed for this. The Edge said that U2 will return classic songs, that were not played many years. I really want, that they will return something stuff from Love Town era, somethings really rare stuff like Acrobat or So cruel from Zoo TV and POP eras. But in fact in reality I think that they will play more songs from two new albums and something like Bullet and Running to stand still or Slow Dancing.. And maybe-maybe-maybe something really rare..
  4. Plausible and undeniably attractive...


    00 - The Clash - Rock The Casbah over the PA, during the outtro Larry and later The Edge come to stage and start with the intro of...
    01 - This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now
    02 - Volcano >
    03 - Vertigo
    04 - Even Better Than The Real Thing
    05 - Desire (full electric band a la Lovetown) >
    06 - All Because Of You
    07 - Until The End Of The World
    (OK, enough with the E major key rockers... )
    08 - Tomorrow
    09 - Iris (Hold Me Close)
    10 - Kite
    11 - A Sort Of Homecoming
    12 - The Ground Beneath Her Feet
    13 - Ordinary Love / The Crystal Ballroom (lottery)
    14 - October >
    15 - Every Breaking Wave (start on piano, then full band electric)
    16 - The Troubles

    17 - The Miracle
    18 - I Will Follow
    19 - Raised By Wolves
    20 - Love Is Blindness

    21 - California
    22 - Where The Streets Have No Name
    23 - Cedarwood Road
    24 - "40"
  7. Dont forget they also promised various set list each night. I really hope songs from pop make a comeback. Also like to hear tryin to throw your arms around the world.
  8. I was just thinking about this while reading the Vertigo 10th Anniversary thread...

    The band said that there would be a distinct feel from night 1 to night 2 for each set of shows, playing with the theme of innocence and experience. What if the band chose to do one night with songs from the new album mixed in with songs from their "innocent" albums, and the next night songs from the new album mixed with songs from their "experienced" albums? This might work well, giving each show a distinct feel and contributing to the overall arc of the shows/setlists.

    The question would then be this: which albums are there "innocent" albums? And which are their "experienced" albums?

    I think their innocent albums are Boy through POP. They repersent both the treu innocence of the band and a time when they were innocent enough to try experimental and new things, pushing their boundaries.

    If that's the case, then their experienced albums began with All That You Can't Leave Behind. This was a band settling into a stage when they called upon all of their experience, sounds, and growth over the course of their career to inform both their albums and live shows.

    i think if they follow this blueprint, the shows will certainly be exceptional. How do you think setlists -- both night 1 and night 2 -- around this idea would look?
  9. I like your idea, although I disagree with your classification of the albums I would say Boy, October, TUF, TJT, R&H and NLOTH would be their "innocent" albums (with some exceptions), and War, AB, Zooropa, Pop, ATYCLB and HTDAAB are mostly "experienced" albums. (Not sure about The Bomb though). I like the idea of mixing up songs from each catergory of albums for each night a lot, I wish they tried! I will try and to some setlists later with that concept
  10. Here's my take on U2's "innocent" albums and their "experienced" albums. I really had to think about what the distinction between "innocence" and "experience" means. Although Achtung Baby and POP are certainly the work of an experienced and accomplished band, they have an innocence to them in that the band is skating out onto new ice. Remember, Achtung Baby is the result of a band that went away to "dream it all up again." The essence of innocence is this "not knowing" that went to the directions they took with both of those albums. With All That You Can't Leave Behind, there was no new ground the band was exploring. The last few albums have been the work of seasoned veterans.
  11. Originally posted by ymalkiel:Here's my take on U2's "innocent" albums and their "experienced" albums. I really had to think about what the distinction between "innocence" and "experience" means. Although Achtung Baby and POP are certainly the work of an experienced and accomplished band, they have an innocence to them in that the band is skating out onto new ice. Remember, Achtung Baby is the result of a band that went away to "dream it all up again." The essence of innocence is this "not knowing" that went to the directions they took with both of those albums. With All That You Can't Leave Behind, there was no new ground the band was exploring. The last few albums have been the work of seasoned veterans.
    Good point.

    Personally I would immediately rank Achtung Baby as experience. Because it's one of the best and has the richest sounds.

    But indeed, it was something totally new to them, so they were not experienced with these sounds at all.

    It will be interesting to know how the band sees innocence and experience.

    It could be purely about the meanings of the songs as well. Then Lemon is quite innocent.
  12. Originally posted by ymalkiel:Here's my take on U2's "innocent" albums and their "experienced" albums. I really had to think about what the distinction between "innocence" and "experience" means. Although Achtung Baby and POP are certainly the work of an experienced and accomplished band, they have an innocence to them in that the band is skating out onto new ice. Remember, Achtung Baby is the result of a band that went away to "dream it all up again." The essence of innocence is this "not knowing" that went to the directions they took with both of those albums. With All That You Can't Leave Behind, there was no new ground the band was exploring. The last few albums have been the work of seasoned veterans.


    There you're taking the albums as a whole, with their context and all that - my take on it is analyzing each song lyrically. For example, I get what you mean about the context in which Achtung Baby came out, but many (most) of its songs are dark and/or sad, coming from hard life experiences like Edge's breakup, Bono's troubled relationship with his dad, or the critics to the band after R&H, so I would rank it as experience no doubt.
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