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Experience and Innocence tour
 Legs (3): Promo tour, Leg 1: North America, Leg 2: Europe
Shows: 75
  1. Dirty Day is literally full of Bob Hewson's quotes.
    It fits perfectly
  2. I agree. I’ve never had any especial preference for Dirty Day but the father theme makes perfect ‘experience’ sense and segueing into Zoo Station would make perfect sense. I think this might make the song something special for me.
  3. Originally posted by Blue_Room:Honestly, as much as I love Dirty Day and think it would be awesome if they played it, I do not think it fits in the setlist before Zoo Station. This section previously was about Bono's mother with I Will Follow and Iris and probably All Because Of You. I think the song that would fit with the Achtung material and meet part of that narrative still would be Lemon. They obviously even have the footage that inspired that song as it was used during Iris. Bono probably can't do the falsetto but he could sing it differently or they could tweak it. But I think that would fit both narrative better and would be a good transition (if they don't drop I Will Follow) into the Zoo Station segment. Just a thought.
    Tastefully and respectfully disagree; my opinion is more in line with DeBFreund

    Iris (both the human and the song) are about preserving innocence, both in time and in character. This tour - the experience tour, or rather "the loss of innocence" - requires a different figure. For our narrator to be able to convey that massive change by simply changing the perspective from his mother to his father....I think that's an absolutely genius move.

    The maddening thing about all of this is that they couldn't have just taken a year off to think this all through and deliver THIS show throughout 2018. Baffles me.
  4. I know this going against the grain here but I do not understand all this Dirty Day love. For me it is a below average song that will alienate 98% of the crowd when they play it.
    Aside from the excitement of the hardcore here who seem to love it, I predict it is going to go down like a wet balloon.

    U2 have probably 150 other songs I'd personally prefer them to play and the general fan in attendance won't even know what it is. Strange choice.
  5. We could argue that about Acrobat, their most obscure song from Achtung Baby, and Zoo Station
    Both pretty unknown outside of the fan circle.

    They have said that this tour they are listening to the hardcore fans. And they finally seem to be doing that
  6. I love dirty Day another 10/10 song but I don’t know if I’m keen on the way it was described by Remy, bono talking through it, Edge singing lead vocals , nah, I won’t miss that version.
  7. Originally posted by deanallison:I love dirty Day another 10/10 song but I don’t know if I’m keen on the way it was described by Remy, bono talking through it, Edge singing lead vocals , nah, I won’t miss that version.
    The way they described it, it's pretty much in initial state of rehearsals.
    It could be like Landlady, in the first rehearsals Bono just talked over the song kind of just learning the lyrics and taking care of his voice and then when it debuted it was closer to the album version

    And Edge has been known to rehearse verses by himself.

    In any case, in my book, any version is better than no version
  8. This HARDCORE fan, right here, loves DIRTY DAY. But also loves PLEASE !!!!! maybe they can play that one too!!!!!
  9. Playing DD just seems to be pandering to song watchers as opposed to fitting in thematically. Am I right?
  10. Aw c'mon guys, Dirty Day is literally about a runaway father who returns home to meet his son. Bono does a speech about his own father during these rehearsals, where DD is in the same place as The Ocean / Iris etc, which were all about his mother

    How is this not seen as thematic?
  11. They play sycmioyo?
  12. Thematic or not thematic who cares. This setlist has reached its peak and its amazing.
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