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  4. Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]
    Streets just fits as an opener... The red backdrop with silhouettes of the band coming out to the intro and then kicking in... Goose bumps from the get-go.

    I would do terrible things to see them opennig with Streets... There were rumours they wanted Glastonbury show to open with Streets... could have been amazing...
  6. Such a teaser... which never happened.

  8. Here's a thought that often crosses my mind when listening to albums or bootlegs.

    What's everyone's stance on Bono changing lyrics to old songs? I tend to hate them lol. Here are my most hated examples:

    -The Fly - changing "One man's lie" to "One man's porky pie"??? What the hell?

    -Streets - changing "I want to take shelter from the poison rain" to "see through the eye, of a hurricane" - I mean, it's not BAD, but why?

    -Iris - changing "Took a thousand years to get here", to "took a thousand years to get TO here" - which just sounds bad IMO

    And there are even some vocal/rhythmic things he does that have always boggled me:

    -Real Thing - On the ZooTV tour, and I think subsequent tours (would have to check), instead of singing "Even better than the real thing" like rhythmically in time with the song, he would start the phrasing a half step early, or after, and just put the phrase into what sounds more like talking than being musical. It's hard to explain. He does a similar thing with the chorus of COBL.

    There are a ton of other examples, but these have always bugged me What about you guys?
  9. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Here's a thought that often crosses my mind when listening to albums or bootlegs.

    What's everyone's stance on Bono changing lyrics to old songs? I tend to hate them lol. Here are my most hated examples:

    -The Fly - changing "One man's lie" to "One man's porky pie"??? What the hell?

    -Streets - changing "I want to take shelter from the poison rain" to "see through the eye, of a hurricane" - I mean, it's not BAD, but why?

    -Iris - changing "Took a thousand years to get here", to "took a thousand years to get TO here" - which just sounds bad IMO

    And there are even some vocal/rhythmic things he does that have always boggled me:

    -Real Thing - On the ZooTV tour, and I think subsequent tours (would have to check), instead of singing "Even better than the real thing" like rhythmically in time with the song, he would start the phrasing a half step early, or after, and just put the phrase into what sounds more like talking than being musical. It's hard to explain. He does a similar thing with the chorus of COBL.

    There are a ton of other examples, but these have always bugged me What about you guys?
    Pride with "Early evening, April 4" - but that's actually accurate so it's fine.
  10. Out Of Control. From the innocent "I was of a feeling it was out of control
    I had the opinion it was out of control" to the very Bonoesque post 2000 "we got big ideas".
  11. Running To Stand Still on leg 2 of the the Vertigo Tour:
    Step on a fast train
    Cheap ticket for an aeroplane
  12. Hurricane annoys me. I think he added it on Vertigo after Katrina and it has just kinda stayed. Vertigo tour ruined Streets.
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