Unpopular U2 opinions

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

We must be living on different planets then. Mostly every U2-live discussion I read or participate in end up involving 360 Tour and I think three is a general agreement that it sits between 2nd and 5th best tour ever for mostly all U2 fans I know. There is also a certain consensus in acknowledging that its biggest fault was the progressive disappearance of NLOTH songs and the general lack of confidence in that album that the tour was supposedly promoting. But regardless money (although being the biggest grossing tour in the history of music is a pretty fucking big deal IMO) there is a general feeling that no other tour as of late has come close to where 360 did in terms of staging, band performances, audience response, setlist variation throughout the tour (the tour with more variation in the history of U2? Probably), etc.

Originally posted by dylbagz:[..]
It hasn't aged well

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

We must be living on different planets then. Mostly every U2-live discussion I read or participate in end up involving 360 Tour and I think there is a general agreement that it sits between 2nd and 5th best tour ever for mostly all U2 fans I know. There is also a certain consensus in acknowledging that its biggest fault was the progressive disappearance of NLOTH songs and the general lack of confidence in that album that the tour was supposedly promoting. But regardless money (although being the biggest grossing tour in the history of music is a pretty fucking big deal IMO) there is a general feeling that no other tour as of late has come close to where 360 did in terms of staging, band performances, audience response, setlist variation throughout the tour (the tour with more variation in the history of U2? Probably), etc.

Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:Late 2010 onwards for sure. I don’t really care for 360 before then. Bono’s voice was not good in 2009. Breathe was great though.

Originally posted by ferrari:That setlist is Zoo TV part 2, nothing new. I prefer the first leg of the 360 Tour, when they had the guts to open a show with new songs. Unfortunately after a while 360 changed into a greatest hits tour.

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

We must be living on different planets then. Mostly every U2-live discussion I read or participate in end up involving 360 Tour and I think there is a general agreement that it sits between 2nd and 5th best tour ever for mostly all U2 fans I know. There is also a certain consensus in acknowledging that its biggest fault was the progressive disappearance of NLOTH songs and the general lack of confidence in that album that the tour was supposedly promoting. But regardless money (although being the biggest grossing tour in the history of music is a pretty fucking big deal IMO) there is a general feeling that no other tour as of late has come close to where 360 did in terms of staging, band performances, audience response, setlist variation throughout the tour (the tour with more variation in the history of U2? Probably), etc.

Originally posted by ferrari:That setlist is Zoo TV part 2, nothing new. I prefer the first leg of the 360 Tour, when they had the guts to open a show with new songs. Unfortunately after a while 360 changed into a greatest hits tour.

Originally posted by Ricku2:[..]
not entirely true in my opinion.. they dropped some NLOTH songs, but they were changed with a couple of unreleased songs. And after that they inserted Zooropa, Blue Room, Scarlet and even Love Rescue Me at some point before preparing a Achtung Baby heavy setlist for Glastonbury. 360 had a lot of song variety, and maybe it's a shame they dropped some great NLOTH songs (Unknown Caller was my absolute favourite on the 1st leg), but it was only on their second run through Europe and the US and they were not just exchanged for greatest hits. Maybe just in the end, but I'm not sure if Even Better, The Fly, Miss Sarajevo or Hold Me are in the greatest hits category. They were all quite fresh back then. And like I said, there were some rarities played as well.

Originally posted by kris_smith87:[..]
Also why would they continue promoting the album? They weren’t releasing any new singles from it.