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  1. Yeah, that intro to the The Fly during The Elevation tour was indeed magic - especiially love the Boston DVD version.
  2. 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?
  3. So u could have in one night:

    1 - BREATHE
    2 - GET ON YOUR BOOTS
    3 - NO LINE
    4.- MAGNIFICENT
    5 - BEAUTIFUL DAY
    6 - Out of control
    7 - I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
    8 - Please (acoustic)
    9 - Stay
    10- One Tree Hill
    11- Bad
    12- UNKNOWN CALLER
    13- CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS
    14- VERTIGO
    15- Ebbtr
    16- Gone
    17. SBS
    18. PRIDE
    19. STREETS
    20. ONE

    21. FEZ - BB
    22. CRAZY TONITE
    23. MOS - 40

    the next night:
    1 - BREATHE
    2 - GET ON YOUR BOOTS
    3 - NO LINE
    4.- MAGNIFICENT
    5 - BEAUTIFUL DAY
    6 - Nyd
    7 - I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
    8 - Staring at the Sun
    9 - In God's Country
    10- All I Want is You
    11- Sometimes
    12- UNKNOWN CALLER
    13- CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS
    14- VERTIGO
    15- Last night on earth
    16- Uteotw
    17. SBS
    18. PRIDE
    19. STREETS
    20. ONE

    21. FEZ - BB
    22. CRAZY TONITE
    23. MOS - love is blindness

    I'd be happy with both
  4. 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?


    They should totally do this
  5. Everyone (maybe even the band) has had enough of With Or Without you, eh?

    Damn shame.
  6. Screw Vertigo. That one can go for good. Bring back Sometimes You Cant Make It - the emotional core of HTDAAB!!!!

    (happy with Walk On and Ultraviolet, and hoping they stay long enough for an unlikely NZ show, think Unforgettable Fire can go, maybe sub No Line and Boots with Fez or Stand Up Comedy)

    In general keen for some different stuff though, the setlists on 2009 tours seemed a little stale, which made the bootlegs lesser than the greats from the Vertigo Tour for me (remember that Love and Peace, SBS, Bullet Blue Sky, Miss Sarajevo/RTSS combo - incredible)
  7. 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?
  8. 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?


    i dunt think Man and a Women was played either.... i really wana hear more POP stuff too


  9. 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.
  10. 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.


    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 opposed to Your Blue Room again.

    All that being said, they defintely need to rethink the variety of hits they played on the first two legs of the tour. I recall reading a few complaints last October, but I think there was nothing wrong with the set list near the end of the tour (i.e. for the youtube show and the concerts leading up to it) but there needs to be a lot more "substitution" going on. Sunday Bloody Sunday could be replaced with New Year's Day or I Will Follow from time to time while Mysterious Ways could alternate with EBTTRT or The Fly on a nightly basis. U2 has SO MANY great songs and they should all be played at one time or another during this tour.
  11. 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.
    Amen. Exactly what I've been tryin' to explain for months!
  12. 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.


    I absolutely agree on that well said

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