Originally posted by lloydius57What would've been nice on the Vertigo tour is rather than just the 'Achtung Baby' style encore they did (Zoo station/The Fly/Mysterious Ways) would've been to alternate it as and when they felt with a Pop Mart style encore say something like Mofo/Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me/Discotheque (I'd've put Please in there but I'm not sure if it'd fit at that point in the show. Particularly being so close to One)
Vertigo tour gets my vote as well generally, as they always seem to be quite varied and interesting.
I agree that a PopMart style encore is good, I mean I didn't know until recently that Discothéque featured on the Elevation tour lol, so they clearly weren't previously averse to playing traditional Pop era music outside of the PopMart tour.Gone being another example aswell, although that, to me, could fit into any tour because it's definitive U2 stuff, unlike stuff such as Mofo and Discotheque which have influences from other styles of music, e.g. the bassline loop on Mofo and the techno stuff that went with it. Please wouldn't be played because of the middle 8 lyrics being too close to the events of 9/11, even though it was written well beforehand (Bono mentions it in U2 by U2).
However, I think that we may well see a throwback to Pop on the next tour, although I hope they still retain the mainstays on the AB era too. I was going to say that Vertigo is my favourite tour setlists-wise but then I realised there's a pretty good reason for that - they had their entire discography at hand to choose from! So it was always going to have more variation than any other tour...
... and the other songs