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  1. You guys can say that SBS and Beautiful Day are overplayed, but in my mind it's not a U2 gig without those two. Streets also.
  2. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:It was me that said that, but funny enough - had you asked me before my first U2 show (2009 leg of 360), which two songs I would have dropped from the setlist, I would have said Beautiful Day and Sunday Bloody Sunday, because the Vertigo tour turned me off of both so much...and yet for my first U2 show, they blew me away. Wouldn't have traded them out.

    In fact I guess I would have ditched Walk On and that Crazy Remix from my first show.

    And Beautiful Day remained one of my favorite moments of my second show as well. Funny how that all works out.

    I agree with every word.
  3. Originally posted by ahn1991:You guys can say that SBS and Beautiful Day are overplayed, but in my mind it's not a U2 gig without those two. Streets also.

    Yeah, but it is also opinionated whether someone thinks that those two songs are overplayed.

    Beautiful Day should have been dropped midway through 360 in my opinion - it just got too boring. Sunday Bloody Sunday, on the other hand, should be in the set a lot. It deserves to be. It never bores me.
  4. Didnt get boring for the ones who visited the show past midway in the tour And since they are paying the tickets I guess they deserve BD.
  5. When U2 plays a show, they aren't thinking about people like us (hardcore fans that stream every show), they are thinking about the guy who is coming to see U2 for his first time, so they play their hits (BD, SBS, Pride). No one person goes to every U2 concert and thinks "They're playing Sunday again? Boring, these guys really need to step it up."


    When a song is "boring," it is played the same way over and over. U2 must have found a way to play the song that the crowd enjoys (2009 intro/astronaut segment).

    I've only been to one U2 show ever, and I must say, the way they played those songs were perfect for the occasion. I didn't think about the fact that every song they played was the same way as the night before, or even the fact that they dropped The Fly.
  6. Originally posted by ASortOfDesire:When U2 plays a show, they aren't thinking about people like us (hardcore fans that stream every show), they are thinking about the guy who is coming to see U2 for his first time, so they play their hits (BD, SBS, Pride). No one person goes to every U2 concert and thinks "They're playing Sunday again? Boring, these guys really need to step it up."

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    When a song is "boring," it is played the same way over and over. U2 must have found a way to play the song that the crowd enjoys (2009 intro/astronaut segment).

    I've only been to one U2 show ever, and I must say, the way they played those songs were perfect for the occasion. I didn't think about the fact that every song they played was the same way as the night before, or even the fact that they dropped The Fly.

    Perhaps I should clarify then. When they started with the song, it was an anti-climax. Imagine all that tension building up and then, ah, it's Beautiful Day. Even when it was 8th or 9th in the set, it had no intensity. Yeah, they found ways that the crowd enjoyed that, but I mentioned half way through the tour, not 2009. It was alright in 2009, but it was just one of those songs that died on its arse quickly. Obviously, the casual U2 fan that attends a show will want to hear that - hence why it's played. A lot of fans still dig it, as I can see from this thread.
  7. Disagree. The part with Mark Kelly in 2011 and the Space Oddity thing ruled.


  9. This is so ADORABLE! :)
  10. I won't comment on the musical aspect, but they're adorable indeed

  11. I m sorry but i hated this parts...i prefer the Vertigo tour ending of this song....

    I love BD , i think this song have to stay in the setlist, but SBS not.

    Anyway i understand that U2 play their greatest hits on the shows even when i prefer other songs... i think is like i go to see some other band that i am not a big fan( like Aerosmith, Duran Duran , Bon Jovi, etc for example) and i want to listen the greatest hits and when there are playing some songs that i dont know sometimes this can be very boring...

    So we have to think of the 50.000 peolple in a U2 show , how many are harcore fans like us and how many are going to see one of the best bands of the history and they want to see the classics
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