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  1. well i think the live version of running to stand still during the ZOOTV tour was the best
    version with the haleluja part at the end AWSOME an than it slips into where the streets have no name and where bono plays the harmonica part !!!!
  2. Originally posted by emielwell i think the live version of running to stand still during the ZOOTV tour was the best
    version with the haleluja part at the end AWSOME an than it slips into where the streets have no name and where bono plays the harmonica part !!!!


    I agree. By far, the best live rendition of this song came on ZooTV.
  3. Originally posted by notcomingdown[..]

    I am with you. I never gave that song a second thought until I heard it live. I have always found RTSS and Stay disappointments live. The piano and slide guitar together make RTSS for me, and I just can't put my finger on it with stay. The studio is more dreamy and grabs me in a way that no live version can compete with.


    Have to disagree re. RTSS - live (preferably the ZooTV versions, but any of the later ones do aswell ), I think it's incredible, better than the album version. That said, I like the album version too! lol.

    And Stay, I can't make my mind up - the album version, like you say, has a distant melancholy atmospheric feel to it, with the way all the different elements blend, whilst the live versions, particularly when it's just Edge on acoustic and Bono singing, have a raw power to it.
  4. IMO, Stay is much better live acoustic. The ZooTV versions and the studio version are just too plain-jane for me. (:M to the video though!)
  5. Originally posted by haytrainIMO, Stay is much better live acoustic. The ZooTV versions and the studio version are just too plain-jane for me. (:M to the video though!)


    I'm no real fan of the acoustic. I love the album version. The only ZooTV version that was properly nailed was R.D.S. Not just because of the audio quality, they just nailed it
  6. Originally posted by germcevoy[..]

    I'm no real fan of the acoustic. I love the album version. The only ZooTV version that was properly nailed was R.D.S. Not just because of the audio quality, they just nailed it

    And Bono saying "it's one thing to write a song whilst you're on tour - it's another thing trying to play the fucking things" lol...

    Classic stuff.
  7. Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
    And Bono saying "it's one thing to write a song whilst you're on tour - it's another thing trying to play the fucking things" lol...

    Classic stuff.



    he said that on near every Zooropa version lol
  8. Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
    And Bono saying "it's one thing to write a song whilst you're on tour - it's another thing trying to play the fucking things" lol...

    Classic stuff.



  9. Originally posted by germcevoy[..]

    he said that on near every Zooropa version lol


    Wait, you mean the witty things Bono says during a concert aren't unique to that specific show!?!?!
  10. Originally posted by germcevoy[..]

    he said that on near every Zooropa version lol

    Ah well, I've only heard it on that one lol

    He don't say it on the ol' ZooTV DVD does he now?! Aha lol.

    "This is a song Wim Wenders stole from the Beatles, we're stealing it back..." even though that's not original in itself...lol.
  11. Originally posted by haytrain[..]

    Wait, you mean the witty things Bono says during a concert aren't unique to that specific show!?!?!


    not always. Sometimes though
  12. Originally posted by germcevoy[..]

    not always. Sometimes though


    "pull our your cellphones" comes to mind, although that's not necessarily a witty comment.
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