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2015-07-31 - New York
 Tour: Innocence and Experience tour
Songs played: 27
Audio recordings: 1
  1. I forgot to mention Bullet The Blue Sky. Bullet-Hands-Pride is hands down the best part of the show. Bullet the Blue Sky is soooooooooooooooo good this tour (maybe even the best version?) so I'm really happy that came back.
  2. Gaga's appearance fits perfectly with the band's current image imo. They have the Instagram, do the Meerkat thing, play sets catered to the masses, bring fans on stage. All this to stay 'relevant.' And surely Gaga is more interesting than some random guy from the crowd.

    Also definitely not convinced that bands make more money from albums than from touring. Sure, if you're a household name like Taylor Swift, things are different, in fact MANY things are different.....Taking U2 and Swift as examples is not a good idea. On many aspects they are the exception to the rule, and thus the findings are not really generalisable...

    For most bands (i.e. bands where a day of touring doesn't cost 750k), touring is where they make most of their money.
  3. Originally posted by Release3:I forgot to mention Bullet The Blue Sky. Bullet-Hands-Pride is hands down the best part of the show. Bullet the Blue Sky is soooooooooooooooo good this tour (maybe even the best version?) so I'm really happy that came back.
    Bullet is back with a vengeance after missing 360. Bonos rant is awesome and takes the song to a new level. Definitely the best version in a while.
  4. Originally posted by Release3:Every single song this tour (except the SOI tracks of course) has been played on 360, 2 from Vertigo (Gloria and Electric Co). The only exceptions were the rare and quickly dropped When Love Comes To Town and October. So minus TWO songs that were dropped super quick, every song being played have been regulars for 10 years. That's pretty frustrating. At least 360 gave us Ultraviolet, The Unforgettable Fire, and shit they even played MLK, and of course towards the end we got Zooropa, The Fly, Scarlet, and at the time Even Better was amazing. I'm not saying have a dream setlist where they play Acrobat, the whole second side of Joshua Tree, all of POP, and every song they have never played live, but fucking-a play at least one song that you haven't been hashing out over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again regularly for a decade straight... (I don't want to take anything away from October (which I doubt will ever be played again), Gloria, or Electric Co. They are great songs, but Gloria has only been played a few times, and Electric Co is usually every other night. You might get a show where you don't get to hear any songs that were played prior to 360 and I attended one of those shows. The new songs are incredible and I'm happy they're playing more than 2 or 3 of them like what happened at the end of 360, but give us something... anything...) Rant over, sorry! haha
    Exactly! There are almost no rarities and they should also play some new songs more often - Cali, Volcano, Crystal Ballroom, Lucifer's Hands and close with Troubles... I know that this tour has a "narrative" but let's face it - it's not The Wall or The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway... First part of the set is fixed and I can live with that but the second part could be even more "loose" + encore could be a lot more interesting
  5. just watched the lady gaga bit, that's a guest performance I can get behind.
  6. I don't get excited to see celebrities or other musicians at a concert. Maybe I'm not in the norm, but I think it's way cooler to see a tribute band get up there and use U2's instruments to play a song. Or even just one person from the audience. For those people, it's the best night of their lives. U2 single-handedly made those U2 fans' lives. I can get way more excited about that and live vicariously through them.

    For people like Jimmy Fallon or Lady Gaga, it's just another night. What do I care? I'm there to see U2 not a lame talk show host or some other musician.

    Not sure why anyone is considering these events to be highlights of the tour...
  7. "The word is, there'll be big surprises tonight and Friday." - Tim Neufeld

    Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure, Tim. I believe you.
  8. Apart from surprises, I would also like to see the band once keeping their focus and concentration, at least up until the encore. Last night seem to ga go that way all the way up to Elevation (I know, not everyone likes this song, but it was undeniable played with much verve and energy).
    I respect Lady Gaga as an artist, but her tribute felt out of place. Not per se the version of Ordinary Love as such, but rather that the band - or at least Bono - seemed to have lost their inspiration and energy. Like if Gaga used it all up... (does that make sense?)
  9. Damn the shows are catching up. At work now and I'm exhausted. Still when I enter the garden, my second wind always kicks in! Gonna have to dig deep tonight!!
  10. Originally posted by BigGiRL:Apart from surprises, I would also like to see the band once keeping their focus and concentration, at least up until the encore. Last night seem to ga go that way all the way up to Elevation (I know, not everyone likes this song, but it was undeniable played with much verve and energy).
    I respect Lady Gaga as an artist, but her tribute felt out of place. Not per se the version of Ordinary Love as such, but rather that the band - or at least Bono - seemed to have lost their inspiration and energy. Like if Gaga used it all up... (does that make sense?)
    Aha! It's an illuminati trick... sucking up all the energy. lol
  11. Originally posted by BigGiRL:Apart from surprises, I would also like to see the band once keeping their focus and concentration, at least up until the encore. Last night seem to ga go that way all the way up to Elevation (I know, not everyone likes this song, but it was undeniable played with much verve and energy).
    I respect Lady Gaga as an artist, but her tribute felt out of place. Not per se the version of Ordinary Love as such, but rather that the band - or at least Bono - seemed to have lost their inspiration and energy. Like if Gaga used it all up... (does that make sense?)
    That's exactly what happened. Never seen Bono concentrate so hard (up to elevation anyway)
  12. Anyone care to explain what happened to October? It was a highlight for me through the first two nights
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