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  1. The album version of COBL is amazing, but the live version isnt that good imo. I dont mind if they drop it.
  2. Streets
    I will Follow
    Out Of Control/An cat Dubh
    Unforgettable Fire
    Exit
    Dirty day
    Bullet
    Running
    One Treee Hill
    Bad
    The Fly
    Discotech
    Magnificent
    Acrobat
    Spanish Eyes
    Mercy/Original version
    Hawkmoon
    God Pt 2
    Surrender
    Vertigo
    Every breaking Wave
    End Of The World
    Stateless
    11 o Clock
    Always
    40
  3. I made this one today thinking about the concert in Chile, but I'm gonna post it here because the Chile topic is not about setlists, so here it goes


    Return Of The Stingray Guitar
    Breathe
    No Line On The Horizon
    Even Better Than The Real Thing
    Last night On Earth
    Magnificent
    Beautiful Day
    Until The End Of The World
    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For/ Stand By Me(snippet)
    North Star
    Every Breaking Wave
    Desire/ Love Rescue Me(snippet)
    Mercy
    Unknown Caller
    Fez - Being Born
    City Of Blinding Lights
    Vertigo/ Stories For Boys(snippet)
    I'll Go Crazy Tonight Remix/ Love Shack(snippet)/ Discotheque(snippet)/ Mofo(snippet)/ Two Tribes(snippet)
    Mothers Of The Dissapeared
    Walk On/ You'll Never Walk Alone(snippet)
    Original Of The Species

    One
    Where The Streets Have No Name

    Sunday Bloody Sunday
    The Fly
    The Saints Are Coming
    Moment Of Surrender
  4. Originally posted by farrock_bulsara:

    Return Of The Stingray Guitar
    Breathe
    No Line On The Horizon
    Even Better Than The Real Thing
    Last night On Earth
    Magnificent
    Beautiful Day
    Until The End Of The World
    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For/ Stand By Me(snippet)
    North Star
    Every Breaking Wave
    Desire/ Love Rescue Me(snippet)
    Mercy
    Unknown Caller
    Fez - Being Born
    City Of Blinding Lights
    Vertigo/ Stories For Boys(snippet)
    I'll Go Crazy Tonight Remix/ Love Shack(snippet)/ Discotheque(snippet)/ Mofo(snippet)/ Two Tribes(snippet)
    Mothers Of The Dissapeared
    Walk On/ You'll Never Walk Alone(snippet)
    Original Of The Species

    One
    Where The Streets Have No Name

    Sunday Bloody Sunday
    The Fly
    The Saints Are Coming
    Moment Of Surrender


    my thoughts about this one ..
    Sunday will never be in the encore
    Original of the species will never end the main set
    I dont' think Breathe will return
    The fly is very good to open the encore
    Gone better then Last night on earth
  5. Breathe may never return, but Stingray going INTO Breathe is actually a cool idea. Have the band crowd around Larry's set as Edge gets the feedback going, and then when the song comes in they all just turn around at the same time, explode towards the front as the lights kick back on...I miss Breathe.
  6. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Breathe may never return, but Stingray going INTO Breathe is actually a cool idea. Have the band crowd around Larry's set as Edge gets the feedback going, and then when the song comes in they all just turn around at the same time, explode towards the front as the lights kick back on...I miss Breathe.


    I too am surprised they dropped it....I mean, they played it on SNL, which makes one think they have a bit of "love" for the song. And bring back NLOTH. Great tune and some casual fans might think it's from Achtung Baby. (I always thought it sounded like a bit of a cross between "Until the End of the World" and "Ultra Violet"...not too sure why..could a musician help me on this one?)
  7. Hmmmm so many many options

    1. Until The End of The World
    2. Gone
    3. Vertigo/Stories for Boys (Snippet)
    4. No Line On The Horizon
    5. Mysterious Ways
    6. One
    7. Beautiful Day/ In Gods Country (Snippet)
    8. Mercy
    9. The Fly (Vertigo Tour Style)
    10. Sunday Bloody Sunday
    11. Bullet The Blue Sky/ johnny Snippet
    12. All I Want Is You
    13. Kite
    14. Pride
    15. City of Blinding Lights
    16. Running To Stand Still
    17. Where The Streets Have No Name

    Encore 1 - MacPhisto
    18. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
    19. Fez: Being Born
    20. Zooropa
    21. Acrobat (Acoustic? Or not )

    Encore 2 - Bono
    22. When I Look At The World/ Crumbs From Your Table (Snippet)
    23. Wild Honey (acoustic)
    24. Walk On / (UK Edit Snippet)
    25. With or Without You (shine like stars, love will tear us apart snippet)
    26. Bad/ (40 snippet)
  8. Originally posted by RUMMY:[..]
    I always thought [NLOTH] sounded like a bit of a cross between "Until the End of the World" and "Ultra Violet"...not too sure why..could a musician help me on this one?


    Sure.

    It's a f*cking badass song.
  9. Once "Mercy" got played, it lost a lot of what it was to me originally. Maybe (probably) because they changed the lyrics that I had spent quite a while connecting with and creating an entire musical story to.

    For this reason, I hope "Acrobat" remains unplayed. It should be played at the final concert U2 ever give, on some "farewell" tour or what-have-you. But never consistently. Then what will we have to hold on to like that? Granted, they probably wouldn't change the song too much, but still...it's sacred the way we hear it now. Why chance it?
  10. Originally posted by RUMMY:[..]

    I too am surprised they dropped it....I mean, they played it on SNL, which makes one think they have a bit of "love" for the song. And bring back NLOTH, too. Great tune and some casual fans might think it's from Achtung Baby, anyway. (I always thought it sounded like a bit of a cross between "Until the End of the World" and "Ultra Violet"...not too sure why..could a musician help me on this one?)


    NLOTH the song sounds a lot like The Fly, especially when they kick into the 2nd verse.
  11. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Once "Mercy" got played, it lost a lot of what it was to me originally. Maybe (probably) because they changed the lyrics that I had spent quite a while connecting with and creating an entire musical story to.

    For this reason, I hope "Acrobat" remains unplayed. It should be played at the final concert U2 ever give, on some "farewell" tour or what-have-you. But never consistently. Then what will we have to hold on to like that? Granted, they probably wouldn't change the song too much, but still...it's sacred the way we hear it now. Why chance it?


    I know what you mean, the vocals on the 6 and a half minute version are so mysterious and elusive and dark almost. It's a great vocal take and some interesting lyrics that are gone. Its a great (but imperfect song) the 2010 versions are just catchier if anything but even then it's still not radio hit material so Idk what the point of making it like that was. I don't imagine it on the radio at al.

    I'm soo over Acrobat being played live LOL like people, move on. Its a beautiful song as is. I agree that they wont improve on it at all live. They have other songs to bring back before debuting Acrobat imo.
  12. I'm really over them "debuting" songs at all...they've played almost every one that deserves a live slot. I'm into them giving older ones a chance like they did on the Vertigo Tour. I think they kind of had that going on in '09 with TUF coming back, and UV being in the encore, but I'm talking songs like...

    A Sort of Homecoming
    Two Hearts Beat as One
    Seconds
    Gloria
    Twilight

    You know, they weren't afraid of alienating a young crowd for a few songs during the Vertigo Tour, and they were JUST as "on top of the world" then as they are now. There's no shortage of sellouts- people won't stop buying tickets because there are 2 or 3 songs in a show that they haven't heard of. Perhaps the stadium setting just doesn't lend itself to these types of songs. Who knows.

    Between Vertigo's new material/older song-resurrection (even including Zoo Station), it really only left about 5 or 6 slots for "greatest hits", with SBS, Bullet, Pride, Streets, and One. Beautiful Day and Elevation were still relatively new, and virtually everything else was very very specific to that tour. (I suppose Mysterious Ways and NYD were kept from past tours). This tour, we have...

    -Elevation
    -BD
    -One
    -Streets
    -Pride (on occasion)
    -WOWY
    -SBS
    -Still Haven't Found
    -Mysterious Ways

    It really is the U2 greatest-hits tour. If you were to knock that list down to 6 songs instead of the 9, you could drop "With or Without You", "Pride", and "Elevation" and make room for very tour-defining performances.
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