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Experience and Innocence tour
 Legs (3): Promo tour, Leg 1: North America, Leg 2: Europe
Shows: 75
  1. Thank god nothing from Joshua Tree. Wish they would leave out all 80’s albums. Play 92-2017!!!
  4. I love the new stuff, and I also love SOI, but bringing back that run of songs from 2015 irks me.

    On the other hand, I haven't heard a song from POP since 2001. And I haven't heard HMTMKMKM since 1997! So I am still excited.

    Also, we're still a ways away from opening night. And as I have said before I don't think that the full set is being played over the PA. Last year they killed the PA for Little Things and also for Elevation/BD a few times (I think).

    Everyone just chill out.
  5. Serious..... where the fuck is Acrobat? You can’t pull it out of the list boys... damn
  6. I wasn’t an active fan back in 2009... were people this mad when Drowning Man was suddenly dropped?
  7. Kinda? But Drowning Man hasn't built up the mystique of being the ONLY song from an album that has never been played.
  8. What he said. I want a U2 that puts the 80's away for a while.
  9. Originally posted by Coso:I love the new stuff, and I also love SOI, but bringing back that run of songs from 2015 irks me.

    On the other hand, I haven't heard a song from POP since 2001. And I haven't heard HMTMKMKM since 1997! So I am still excited.

    Also, we're still a ways away from opening night. And as I have said before I don't think that the full set is being played over the PA. Last year they killed the PA for Little Things and also for Elevation/BD a few times (I think).

    Everyone just chill out.
    I get your point but I don't see what reason they'd have for turning the PA off for the Little Things. People are expecting to hear that song live.
  10. I always assumed as they got older they would start playing shows with more deep cuts, rarities, things for diehard fans...especially in an arena setting.

    But I think what we're seeing is a mix of the band aging while feeling the need to have a technological circus with each show. That adds up to a band that can't throw surprises in easily.

    They are getting safer and lazier...and instead of having 60 songs in their back pocket to pull out depending on the show, they play the same warhorses tour after tour with tech bells and whistles (and not songs) being the difference between tours.

    ANOTHER tour with Elevation, BD, COBL, Vertigo, Pride, and One as staples? Out of HOW many songs in their catalog? And on top of that the possibility of repeating the EXACT SAME 6 SONG SEQUENCE as a tour only 2 years ago?

    I know a lot of people on this forum don't understand how fans can be critical, but I am just not the kind of person that follows anything blindly. You can't sell a concert ticket for $300 and deliver a setlist like this to fans.
  11. I know I'm not the first person to point this out, but I think in U2's mind, this is the same tour as two years ago. I mean, the way I remember it (and correct me if I'm wrong) the I&E was supposed to have more than two legs, with SoE being released and the tour was then going to resume, featuring the SoE songs as well. It took them a couple years longer than they meant it to, but I think that's what this is. For that reason the six-song sequence doesn't bother me too much. In fact, I'm pleasantly surprised by how different the set is from 2015's.

    Other than that, I just echo a lot of the other comments. I'm happy SoI hasn't been completely forgotten, I'm pissed that it looks like Acrobat was replaced with the worst possible rendition of SBS, and I cannot understand how U2 can drop Streets (because it presumably needs a rest) and keep Elevation in the set.

    Glad I didn't buy one of those overpriced tickets.
  12. the only thing that made me upset in this set is sunday bloody sunday been played in that boring version, the rest is ok, imagining something much outside of it is a deluded fan thing.
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