Changes In The Setlist For 2010

Originally posted by Andrew_C:[..]

Yes PLEASE , especially the Elevation Fly.

Originally posted by NLOTH_Victor:Someone back there mentioned doing it a la radiohead. and someone responded that people would complain to get different shows. I sort of disagree with the latter. they should vary a lot like metallica and radiohead. if you look closely, radiohead, mainly metallica, they keep about half the set steady and the rest varies. I don't think people will complain too much. It's quite simple: keep the hits and new songs (15 slots?) and the rest vary. I am sure a casual fan wouldn't complain about listening to Zooropa instead of Mofo or Ultraviolet instead of Love is Blindness, kind of a treat to us you know? just imagine something somewhat like this:

1 -4: Open with 4 NLOTH SONGS varying order (Breathe, Magnificent, GOYB, No Line)
5. BEAUTIFUL DAY
6. Any exciting song from early days (Tick Tock, Out of control, I Will Follow, NYD, Gloria...)
7. I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
8 -9: Acoustic songs (In God's Country, PLease, Stay, Staring at The Sun, SIMYCGO, etc...)
10: Acousticish song (In A Little While, All I Want Is You, Desire, Angel of Harlem)
11. TUF or JT or calmer song (a sort of homecoming, bad, wire, mlk, one tree hill, SYCMIOYO...)
12. UNKNOWN CALLER
13: CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS
14. VERTIGO
15 - 16. 90's or rockier songs (EBBTR, Mways, UTEOTW, Gone, LNOE, Discotheque, LAPOE...)
17. SBS
18. PRIDE
19. STREETS
20. ONE

21. FEZ - BB
22. CRAZY TONITE (regular version - the mix gave place to early song)
23. MOS - changeable snippet at the end (40, Love is Blindness, Cedars)

So everyone gets the hits and the true fans get different pleasers, get it?

Originally posted by KieranU2:personally, i think they will return with Mofo and Discotheque and maybe some other Pop songs... Last Night on Earth? I also think they won't play Zoo Station, The Fly or Even Better. Although it would be nice to see Even Better come back. I Will Follow should comeback as they've played it in every tour since Boy and played it 770 something times. Also, Drowning Man should come back. Pride also should be a regular.

We've also got to take into account that the new album may be released before they start touring so there will be some songs from that. If that happens, it will be a bit like Zoo TV. They didn't change the first 5 songs at all and played more than half of Zooropa. They won't play all of No Line on the Horizon. They didn't play all of HTDAAB on Vertigo Tour. The only song that wasn't played was One Step Closer, wasn't it?

Originally posted by RUMMY:Everyone (maybe even the band) has had enough of With Or Without you, eh?

Damn shame.

Originally posted by kris_smith87:[..]

I'm not tired of it. It's still very high up on my list, but the way it is being performed now I can do without seeing it again. I want All I Want Is You to take its place.

Originally posted by RUMMY:[..]Although the majority of us (U2starters) are HUGE U2 fans, a good portion of the tens of thousands of people who attend their shows are relatively "casual" fans. I think if the band omits too many of the hits, the show will be a downer for these people and (unfortunately) have a negative effect on the whole vibe of the show. A band like Radiohead gets away with playing anything they want because they play smaller shows and mainly to a devoted fan-base. In other words, there aren't as many "casual" fans of Radiohead as there are of U2 and Radiohead fans (like me) are a little more obsessive about their band. For this reason, I hope U2 plays as many hits as possible. Come on, admit it. We'll all enjoy it more if they belt out the greats tracks from each album as oppose to Your Blue Room again.

Originally posted by RUMMY:[..]

Although the majority of us (U2starters) are HUGE U2 fans, a good portion of the tens of thousands of people who attend their shows are relatively "casual" fans. I think if the band omits too many of the hits, the show will be a downer for these people and (unfortunately) have a negative effect on the whole vibe of the show. A band like Radiohead gets away with playing anything they want because they play smaller shows and mainly to a devoted fan-base. In other words, there aren't as many "casual" fans of Radiohead as there are of U2 and Radiohead fans (like me) are a little more obsessive about their band. For this reason, I hope U2 plays as many hits as possible. Come on, admit it. We'll all enjoy it more if they belt out the greats tracks from each album as oppose to Your Blue Room again.