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  1. With Breathe,Unknown Caller and No Line looking to have been dropped from the tour and no Stand Up Comedy,Fez,Cedars or White As Snow even getting a play is the tour no longer in support of the album or what?
    Dont get me wrong i still love the classics,and love the 360 tour,but wasn't it better with the newer tunes in there? Yeah i know Stingray and North Star have been played recently but one of the latest Arg shows featured more Achtung Baby and ATYCLB songs than NLOTH.
    Just a thought,but i miss 360 2009,thought they were rocking.
  2. This has been discussed to death, but... in a mainly, the anwer is Yes.
  3. Is anybody surprised? This is not the U2 of the nineties.
  4. 360 is still supporting the album and the best-recieved songs from the album; at least live anyway. But it seems they think the older songs get a better reaction - which they do - so that's what they mainly play now. So in a way, it's a greatest hits tour with a few new cuts thrown in.

    It's also their experimental tour - trying new things. Which is good and all but then to support those (several of) new songs along with songs that just don't work e.g. Walk On and With Or Without You, really brings it down for me. If they went back and watched the tour they seem to be interested most in, but ten years later and using those arrangements, those songs would have a new lease of life.

    That stage is built for The Fly. If they bought that back and did the arrangement as seen on Elevation, and Bono's much stronger voice compared to that tour, imagine the reaction it would get. Give it a harder solo and the three guys running around the catwalk and the bridge, it would own the show. Yet there's so many crap songs in the set that getting rid of those or finding new arrangements would do something...like have us interested again.
  5. Originally posted by drewhiggins:360 is still supporting the album and the best-recieved songs from the album; at least live anyway. But it seems they think the older songs get a better reaction - which they do - so that's what they mainly play now. So in a way, it's a greatest hits tour with a few new cuts thrown in.

    It's also their experimental tour - trying new things. Which is good and all but then to support those (several of) new songs along with songs that just don't work e.g. Walk On and With Or Without You, really brings it down for me. If they went back and watched the tour they seem to be interested most in, but ten years later and using those arrangements, those songs would have a new lease of life.

    That stage is built for The Fly. If they bought that back and did the arrangement as seen on Elevation, and Bono's much stronger voice compared to that tour, imagine the reaction it would get. Give it a harder solo and the three guys running around the catwalk and the bridge, it would own the show. Yet there's so many crap songs in the set that getting rid of those or finding new arrangements would do something...like have us interested again.


    Not to mention Mofo, Last Night On Earth, or Discotheque! I feel like they're afraid of playing anything from Pop, yet when you listen to elevation or vertigo boots when they pulled out Discotheque, people went nuts...
  6. Agree with everything (that idea of arrangement-stage setup for The Fly really got me excited!) except with the "songs that don't work". If you've been to any 360 show you'll have to acknowledge that, precisely those 2 songs you pointed out (WOWY and Walk On) are among the ones which get a bigger audience response and participation. The 80% (at least) of the audience who gathers at the 360 shows are casual fans or even long-term fans but not hard die ones, who appreciate those songs and strongly sing along to them.
  7. Sounds like you 2 are yearning for a 2011 Zoo TV or Popmart! Lol
    Personally i feel with a rock show they need rock songs and next album has got to be heavier.
  8. Originally posted by LikeASong:Agree with everything (that idea of arrangement-stage setup for The Fly really got me excited!) except with the "songs that don't work". If you've been to any 360 show you'll have to acknowledge that, precisely those 2 songs you pointed out (WOWY and Walk On) are among the ones which get a bigger audience response and participation. The 80% (at least) of the audience who gathers at the 360 shows are casual fans or even long-term fans but not hard die ones, who appreciate those songs and strongly sing along to them.


    That's true, but for the band and the show is good to change some music's and try new experiences.. 360º Tour is their best tour to make musical experiences from different kinds of pop and rock style, which are the base's of U2 sound . But is only my point of view..
  9. Originally posted by kezman:Sounds like you 2 are yearning for a 2011 Zoo TV or Popmart! Lol
    Personally i feel with a rock show they need rock songs and next album has got to be heavier.

    They can have a 2011 Popmart - just change the arrangements of the songs a bit. Walk On could be a far better song if they go back to Elevation-style. So could Until The End Of The World, done like Elevation-style etc....go back and see what made the songs popular first time around.

    SBS could even go for an Elevation-style arrangement. Yeah, I know. They're half-way there with the songs from the album, why not go the full round and do everything Elevation-ATYCLB style.

    Why are they so afraid to play anything from Pop or Zooropa? I figure it's 13 - 17 years after the fact, why not give it another crack. Audiences and tastes have changed and they sure as hell have no problem playing dance music, so something like Mofo with its trance-style would go down a treat. Could you imagine at Glasto, the crowd there expecting them to pull out Beautiful Day, One, Walk On (yawn indeed) but instead playing Mofo or Last Night On Earth.

    They'd win them over, easy.
  10. Originally posted by LikeASong:Agree with everything (that idea of arrangement-stage setup for The Fly really got me excited!) except with the "songs that don't work". If you've been to any 360 show you'll have to acknowledge that, precisely those 2 songs you pointed out (WOWY and Walk On) are among the ones which get a bigger audience response and participation. The 80% (at least) of the audience who gathers at the 360 shows are casual fans or even long-term fans but not hard die ones, who appreciate those songs and strongly sing along to them.


    WOWY always gets a great reaction but i have to disagree about Walk On. Ive only been to 3 shows but at each of those shows everyone around me was sitting during the song including me, I just felt like the show came to a hualt with Walk On. Especially closing the main set. Obviously every city is different but thats been my experience. Not even close to the energy it had closing the elevation shows IMO
  11. Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:WOWY always gets a great reaction but i have to disagree about Walk On. Ive only been to 3 shows but at each of those shows everyone around me was sitting during the song including me, I just felt like the show came to a hualt with Walk On. Especially closing the main set. Obviously every city is different but thats been my experience. Not even close to the energy it had closing the elevation shows IMO

    It's hard to sit down if you are on the GA
  12. every time a tour has ended since the elevation tour i've been thinking "right surely the next tour will be the one where they re-discover some of those gems from the 90's" but it never changes! and every tour i think right fair enough maybe next time.... after 10 years i'm starting to lose patience now.

    for me personally this tour needs to end asap and be filed under 'missed opportunity to blow peoples minds' and i will once again wait in hope for some serious setlist changes next time around..


    oh and if the new songs played on this tour are any kind of hint as to what the next album might sound like then i wouldn't hold out much hope for anything groundbreaking...
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