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U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing
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Achtung Baby (1991)
  2. well they did them for the other two decades they have been active, so i don't really understand why not
    i know that it wouldn't be the strongest compilation album but i can't see why they would have two and not do a third, seems odd to leave it die off like that

  3. U218 basically brought it up to date except for the NLOTH songs, wasn't that the reason for not doing a best of 2000-2010?
  4. I thought so. It wouldn't surprise me if it came in 2012. They've had enough hits last decade to fill up a 15 song set.
  5. I'd also just like to share this, since I'm a bit of a part of the "What's the big deal in dropping the NLOTH songs by now?" school...

    From U2gigs page on the third show:

    Songs from 13 U2 albums have been played during this show.*

    The ONLY albums that this show is missing something from are Pop and Rattle and Hum. (And HMTMKMKM was basically a part of the Pop era, though not actually on that album) That is an achievement.

    If you want to be stubborn and not count Batman as Pop, at least acknowledge that they've played a snippet of Discotheque on the 360 Tour that was so extensive, it contained the riff of the song. It's also no secret that they've played Angel of Harlem and Desire on this tour, and have also played Party Girl which was previously only available on Under a Blood Red Sky.

    That means U2 have played their entire catalog on this tour. Not every song from it, per se, but they've given attention to every single album. Sure, they've given an unfortunately small amount to Pop, but parts of that album did make it to parts of the 360 Tour. I'm back to in-love with U2360. This is obviously and factually the most career-encompassing tour they've ever done.

    *Granted, three of those albums are "Unreleased Songs", "Non-album songs", and "Cover songs"...that's still huge if you consider what I posted above about the tour as a whole. Each album has been represented, and even this show contained everything minus Pop and R&H. Achievement.


  6. they might wack mercy, EBW, NS etc on the best of, then give us brand new songs on the next album
  7. Of all the songs to drop, they choose to drop Magnificent from the set? Why?

    The inclusion of Bad is always amazing, but why drop Magnificent? And to be honest, I think MoS is an extremely under appreciated song. It seems that the general consensus is that MoS doesn't work as a closer, but I think it works very well.

    But if you compare it to other tour closers, I can see that the band hasn't consistently closed with a song like MoS (generally slower, less upbeat) since PopMart when the typically closed with One/Unchained Melody. During Elevation, they always closed with Walk On, an upbeat song. The Vertigo tour had a pretty good variety of closers, but they typically signed off with 40 or an encore Vertigo, both songs nothing like MoS.

    Long story short, I don't think most U2 fans are used to the band closing with a long, slow song.
  8. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:I'd also just like to share this, since I'm a bit of a part of the "What's the big deal in dropping the NLOTH songs by now?" school...

    From U2gigs page on the third show:

    Songs from 13 U2 albums have been played during this show.*

    The ONLY albums that this show is missing something from are Pop and Rattle and Hum. (And HMTMKMKM was basically a part of the Pop era, though not actually on that album) That is an achievement.

    If you want to be stubborn and not count Batman as Pop, at least acknowledge that they've played a snippet of Discotheque on the 360 Tour that was so extensive, it contained the riff of the song. It's also no secret that they've played Angel of Harlem and Desire on this tour, and have also played Party Girl which was previously only available on Under a Blood Red Sky.

    That means U2 have played their entire catalog on this tour. Not every song from it, per se, but they've given attention to every single album. Sure, they've given an unfortunately small amount to Pop, but parts of that album did make it to parts of the 360 Tour. I'm back to in-love with U2360. This is obviously and factually the most career-encompassing tour they've ever done.

    *Granted, three of those albums are "Unreleased Songs", "Non-album songs", and "Cover songs"...that's still huge if you consider what I posted above about the tour as a whole. Each album has been represented, and even this show contained everything minus Pop and R&H. Achievement.


    even though you're right it doesn't feel like it... o.O. for some reason Vertigo feels like it had more variety imo. but yeah the stats do not lie
  9. My opinion.. think it's one hell of a banger setlist with all the songs + the real thing..
    But the only thing I don't get is..
    WHY THE HELL real thing for Magnificent and why not for Get on your boots? I don't get it people..
  10. Did Vertigo not have songs played from every album though? Pop and Zooropa included.
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