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  1. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    One would think if you're disappointed with sales - U2 aren't really disappointed with the songs, it's more the sales as we know - then you play the best songs on there to try and get people interested. They'll play the shit from the other two 2000s records, but the best one with actual decent songs, they won't even go near.

    In ten years time, this is gonna be the 00s Pop. We forget about it and pretend it doesn't exist, when your fans actually want to hear it. Forget Magnificent, Boots, Crazy Tonight...Being Born, No Line, Moment Of Surrender and Stand Up are the four I wanna have on the 2010 shows. Because people are interested in a new direction in this stale time in music, but Boots and Walk On aren't it. Being Born and Stand Up are.


    Indeed....Yet I think that GOYB will be one of those underestimated gems then in ten years time...something like Gone. For me anyway ...I love GOYB.
  2. Me too, I love GOYB. When I first heard it - it had a very unique sound that I hadn't heard in a song in a while from any band - which basically reminded me why U2 are the best in what they do. Hearing those layers of sound for the first time on a pair of good headphones with the volume cranked up was perhaps a similar transition from 1980s U2 to 1990s with The Fly. It's very, very underrated and I think it still isn't 100% perfect live which might be why for some people it seems a little lacklustre.
  3. Originally posted by iTim:[..]

    I think the 90's stuff would be more suiting to a crowd of non-U2 fans myself. As a non-U2 fan you're unlikely to have heard songs such as Mofo, Gone, Ultraviolet etc. Why convert them with Pride?

    This is U2's chance, perhaps the one and only chance they'll ever get, to show the critics why they're still one of the best bands around. So there's no need to go into Glastonbury with a "let's please all our support at tonights 360 gig with the greatest hits" because this crowd will be majority U2 dislikers. They need to go into Glastonbury with a view to silencing their critics. Not that U2 should care about critics but I'm sure it sits in the mind of the band members that there is a large crowd who dislike U2 out there and what better way to walk away with a sense of smugness at the end of the day.


    You've got a good point there, but I'm still not sure if that would work.
  4. Originally posted by iTim:[..]

    I think the 90's stuff would be more suiting to a crowd of non-U2 fans myself. As a non-U2 fan you're unlikely to have heard songs such as Mofo, Gone, Ultraviolet etc. Why convert them with Pride?

    This is U2's chance, perhaps the one and only chance they'll ever get, to show the critics why they're still one of the best bands around. So there's no need to go into Glastonbury with a "let's please all our support at tonights 360 gig with the greatest hits" because this crowd will be majority U2 dislikers. They need to go into Glastonbury with a view to silencing their critics. Not that U2 should care about critics but I'm sure it sits in the mind of the band members that there is a large crowd who dislike U2 out there and what better way to walk away with a sense of smugness at the end of the day.


    could NOT agree more with this - i just said pretty much the exact same thing in the glastonbury thread. all the haters will be expecting to hear the songs they already know (and hate) through tv/radio/etc so why not surprise them with something they wouldn't associate with the U2 they know and hate!

    seems quite obvious if you ask me - i just hope they realise this!
  5. I'm very torn between how I feel they should rework the setlist for Glatso, but I suppose I'll throw out there that the English crowd is much more interested in things now that sound like U2's live Pop, Achtung, and Zooropa material...
  6. Could it be brought back for the tour as well? My fingers are crossed!

    From atu2.com:
    When U2 takes a break next month to play the Glastonbury Festival, it looks like they'll be playing "Even Better Than the Real Thing." On their web site, the Australian U2 Show tribute band says that video footage of their band will be shown on the video screens at Glastonbury as U2 performs "Even Better...." I emailed the band a couple days ago, and Gary Morris responded with this info:

    Just under two weeks ago I was contacted by Dublin production company, Blinker Ltd, asking for permission a) to use footage of us and b) asking for high quality copies of our footage ASAP. Not quite sure if it was legit (we get alot of mail from praise to 'how dare you try and be U2'), I uploaded a selection of our Zoo TV footage and a Bono sculpture I did and we crossed our fingers. I've since been informed that our footage has been selected to be screened with U2 during their performance of 'Even Better Than The Real Thing' at the Glastonbury Festival. I've done Tv and radio commercials, fooled alot of people, even performed for the promoter Michael Coppel who brings them down under. I never thought they'd do us this honour.

    If all this pans out, it'll be U2's first performance of "Even Better..." since June 9, 2001.
  7. Originally posted by kris_smith87:Could it be brought back for the tour as well? My fingers are crossed!

    From atu2.com:
    [...]

    If all this pans out, it'll be U2's first performance of "Even Better..." since June 9, 2001.


    Alright, I'm slowly becoming a bit more convinced, but he has "fooled a lot of people"...this could very well be another mass prank that they try to get publicity from.

    Though the idea of Bono's fly-kicking and strutting across the blue ZooTV screens would be a pretty freaking amazing thing to have going during the intro of EBTTRT....
  8. Why would U2 need footage from a cover band?
  9. ^ the song's title, Even Better Than The Real Thing, could have something to do with it?


  10. because parts of the video for the song featured a cover band didn't it? well i'm SURE i remember reading that somewhere but i can never tell when i watch the video... there are parts where they're playing in that glass shopfront where it looks like it might be cut together with a band dressed as U2 but it all moves too fast to tell (think that might be the idea!) - there's a bit where it zooms in on the drummer but i'm sure it looks nothing like larry...?

    (edit) having just watched the video for the first time in something like 12 years i'm probably totally wrong - cant remember where i read that bit of information but it was AGES ago (before the pop album came out) and was probably complete bolox!

  11. By now this idea with the footage of that cover/tribute band being used on the screen for U2's performance of the song makes sense and sounds/looks quite promising. I think it would be a nice feature / joke / reference used for The Claw as well.


  12. Great catch, didn't even think of that. I'm excited for this! Another 360° hope/prediction come true
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