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Experience and Innocence tour
 Legs (3): Promo tour, Leg 1: North America, Leg 2: Europe
Shows: 75
  1. Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:Which member of U2 is a Depeche Mode fan? Edge?

    Last year, Where's The Revolution was on the pre-show playlist, this year it's Never Let Me Down Again.


    last i heard the band had nothing to do with the pre show music except for the intro song. 1979 by the smashing pumpkins usually gets a spin, it's definitely a favourite of someone in the camp
  4. Yeah the new intro is good

    Although I do like LIAWHL and the US intro
  5. As much as I wanted to hear LIAWHL (it has a unique, eerie, intense vibe for a show opener), I think I prefer the European intro more. Sets the tone better as the band & the fans get right into it.
  8. Originally posted by Alvin:[..]
    they seem to please just casuals who go only one show per tour... Hardcores have Acrobat they wanted, so shut up... that's how they (Larry?) probably think.
    Larry does have a point though...

    Acrobat still is awesome
  9. Acrobat is fucking great.

    The thing is though, U2 just hasn't tried certain things with their fans in well over a decade now. Two decades maybe. There are so many songs in their catalogue that rock just as hard as the big crowd pleasers that haven't been tested on their current audience. They should throw Last Night on Earth in there instead of Vertigo, or If You Wear That Velvet Dress as the second-last-song-ballad, or With A Shout in there at the beginning instead of I Will Follow/Electric Co.

    What happened to the U2 that wanted to surprise and intrigue their fans? What happened to the Bono that responded with something like "just didn't want to" when asked about playing the big hits from the 80s at the beginning of the ZooTV tour?

    There's an entirely different side to this coin of course, which is that U2 just wants to give their ticket buyers a good show, and they know they want to hear Elevation, Vertigo, etc. One would think they'd just want to try those other songs out, you know, for fun.
  10. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Acrobat is fucking great.

    The thing is though, U2 just hasn't tried certain things with their fans in well over a decade now. Two decades maybe. There are so many songs in their catalogue that rock just as hard as the big crowd pleasers that haven't been tested on their current audience. They should throw Last Night on Earth in there instead of Vertigo, or If You Wear That Velvet Dress as the second-last-song-ballad, or With A Shout in there at the beginning instead of I Will Follow/Electric Co.

    What happened to the U2 that wanted to surprise and intrigue their fans? What happened to the Bono that responded with something like "just didn't want to" when asked about playing the big hits from the 80s at the beginning of the ZooTV tour?

    There's an entirely different side to this coin of course, which is that U2 just wants to give their ticket buyers a good show, and they know they want to hear Elevation, Vertigo, etc. One would think they'd just want to try those other songs out, you know, for fun.
    POP destroyed their willingness to experiment the US turned their back on the album and tour they were playing to half empty stadiums particularly on the 2nd leg in the states it was a major confidence killer they wanted to hold on to their big audience while experimenting but Mofo,Discoteque etc was pushing the boat too far for an audience that mainly wanted Joshua tree and War they couldn't deal with the rejection so they retreated back to more familiar sounds on ALTYCLB and haven't ventured out of that comfort zone since .Apparently NOLOTH was going to be very Moroccan mixed with reggae sounding but they chickened out in the last few weeks fearing another backlash it comes down to this U2 are too obsessed with being relevant and being commercially successful ,the 90s U2 would have cringed at the thought of them doing a JT anniversary tour it would be the last thing on earth they would have done financially it made sense but artistically it didn't.
  11. Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
    POP destroyed their willingness to experiment the US turned their back on the album and tour they were playing to half empty stadiums particularly on the 2nd leg in the states it was a major confidence killer they wanted to hold on to their big audience while experimenting but Mofo,Discoteque etc was pushing the boat too far for an audience that mainly wanted Joshua tree and War they couldn't deal with the rejection so they retreated back to more familiar sounds on ALTYCLB and haven't ventured out of that comfort zone since .Apparently NOLOTH was going to be very Moroccan mixed with reggae sounding but they chickened out in the last few weeks fearing another backlash it comes down to this U2 are too obsessed with being relevant and being commercially successful ,the 90s U2 would have cringed at the thought of them doing a JT anniversary tour it would be the last thing on earth they would have done financially it made sense but artistically it didn't.
    Oh, I know. Sometimes it just feels good to bitch about it

    And yeah, the NLOTH that never was sounded far more interesting than the one we got.

    You also touched on something I've often thought of. "What would young U2 think of this move?" - I LOVED that bit during Bullet on the Innocence tour where Bono sort of addressed it.
  12. Maybe as the band get older there priorities when playing live will change and they’ll go in a new direction of playing some previously lesser played stuff. An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart, Gone, Stay, the Fly, kite all in the same show,
    What a dream that would be. I thought up until a certain point on the I&E tour they had been getting a good balance of rotation and playing rarities, near the end of the tour it went back to the usual suspects in the rotation slots. With TJT tour we still got the rarities with TJT tracks but didn’t get the rotation and now with this tour we aren’t getting too many rarities and we’re not getting much rotation either but really even going as far back as elevation right up until I&E the rotation and rarity level wasn’t bad and at some times was great, better than its been for the majority of there career. I think/hope a few years break will set the band in a new direction, give them fresh ideas both in the studio and when it comes to touring. I do actually like and appreciate what they’re doing now but I couldn’t call it perfect or say it was my ideal way of going about touring or the Setlist in general.
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