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2018-06-17 - Washington
 Tour: Experience and Innocence tour
Songs played: 26
Audio recordings: 1
  1. He spoke about the suffering of little children during pride
  2. Great!
  5. oh, c'mon... I get that some hardcore fans are tired of listening to Pride, but I don't think there's any little children suffering because of it!
  7. yep, same here. But I thought it was funny how in here we always complain about the lack of rotation, and in there everybody complains about too much rotation.

    We'd never get the same setlist twice!
  9. and another show in the books....
  10. In Tulsa I cried because of the piss poor sound. Tonight, watching a Scope, I cried because of Bono's words about the children. We gotta stop this madness.
  11. Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
    yep, same here. But I thought it was funny how in here we always complain about the lack of rotation, and in there everybody complains about too much rotation.

    We'd never get the same setlist twice!
    Or maybe we'd get the perfect setlist at the critical moment, for the DVD.
  12. Alright, this is what I thought of the 6/17 show. I somehow managed to stay mostly spoiler-free for this tour! (Now that I've been to a show I'll be more active on the site!)

    Pros:
    - LIAWHL -> Blackout -> Lights of Home was a great, energetic start to the show with great visuals!
    - I Will Follow/Gloria were a good follow-up.
    - The Ocean into Iris. Didn't expect either of these. What a cool transition.
    - Iris through UTEOTW the abbreviated snippet of the I+E show (a tour which I missed out on, so it was nice to hear).
    - The narrative aspect of the show (incl. HMTMKMKM with animations)
    - Elevation through ACROBAT (!!!!) was probably my favorite section of the show. Three crowd pleasers, the return of Mr. MacPhisto, and FUCKING ACROBAT I was just hyped up. My poor girlfriend had to endure me screaming the lyrics to Acrobat in her ear
    - Pop representation.
    - COBL as a closer. What a great usage for it! (Felt like it should have been a certain JT song though in its place)
    - 13 as a closer. What a beautiful song. And the lightbulb going down into the little house... beautiful!

    Cons:
    - Placement of Beautiful Day. It seemed a little awkward sandwiched between a bunch of early U2 songs. Would have been better place near Pride/COBL or the encore.
    - You're the Best Thing About Me. I actually didn't mind the arrangement, but I just don't care for the song that much.
    - Get Out of Your Own Way & American Soul. I understand these are the singles but they just felt so damn out of place. I get that they go with the message established in SATS/Pride but they would go much better earlier on in the show.
    - Lame encore. One is a good song, Love is Bigger is meh. The encore was just so boring. It just needed one awesome song to kick it off and it would have been better. (like Streets...)
    - Lack of songs from the Joshua Tree. The end of the concert suffered without Streets or With or Without You or even Bullet. There wasn't as much heart or emotion for the songs they chose to round out the main set or the encore.


    Overall, great night and I'm thrilled to (possibly) be getting a DVD of it!

    Cheers everyone and glad to be back after self imposed exile!

    -Ben
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