Music: Re: [u2tour] *U2 Set List: Frankfurt, Germany, August 10, 2010

it's weird that you say that because i wrote a similar email on wire
just last week. i agree 100%! here's what i said, slightly edited:

i thought i'd start a discussion about the set list....does anyone
else think it leans too heavy on the "greatest hits"? they seem to
have shaved a lot of NLOTH out of the program. does it bother you to
see the band preform the same songs over and over? it does me. i know
several other big bands with a very devoted fan base mix up the set
list every single show...or at least throw in some unexpected songs
that you might not have heard live before. and i too know that there
are a lot of people who go to see U2 live who only know the hits and
that's all they want to hear. but are the boys trying too hard to
please the "sorta" fan at the cost of alienating the hard-core ones?

(and i do know that they have to choreograph stuff...and prepare video
footage and lighting in advance. but STILL)

i am really quite sad that so many NLOTH songs are gone...but i'd be
ok if they were replacing them with stuff that hasn't been played in a
long time (and i don't mean replacing Ultraviolet with HMTMKMKM, cause
Ultraviolet was a TREAT! both, why can't they play BOTH?) and why
can't they bring back some older stuff that's GREAT LIVE!? for
example, a few songs that i think are better live than recorded:

A Sort of Homecoming
Surrender
Bad
Mofo
Zoo Station

i'd like to add too that Gone would be FABULOUS to hear live. in
preparation for this leg of the tour i've been listening to other tour
recordings and honestly...the stuff from Pop Mart is the best because
I haven't heard it all live over and over. AND remember how when they
started Zoo TV they said they'd play very little old stuff? it's kinda
refreshing! um, and what about a cover?? sigh.

On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Brian Duffy wrote:

> Anybody else severely disappointed that they have dropped
> Ultraviolet from
> the show? In my view, that may have beent the peak of the show the
> first time
> around, and a welcomed surprise. After all this time, Mysterious
> Ways, Stuck in
> a Moment (not sure if they are doing this again, but felt this way
> the first
> time around on 360 and in view of the DVD) and Still Haven't Found
> don't
> seem/sound as fresh - or at least are so much less exciting to hear
> in concert -
> than some of the vast catalog they have. Songs from Pop, real old
> stuff that
> they've moved away from again. It is odd to me; and i felt this way
> about the
> DVD, too. Don't we have 3 tours worth of DVDs now of shows
> including Mysterious
> Ways, Stuck in a Moment for instance? Their catalog is so vast, and
> so varied
> -- sometimes i am confused by the lack of variation from tour to
> tour. Even
> from one leg of 360 to the next --- they claimed they were trying
> songs they
> hadn't done forever; and yet nothing new has really surfaced other
> than Hold Me,
> Thrill Me (which, to me, isn't an upgrade from Ultraviolet).
>
> As for the new songs --- i haven't been able to really listen to /
> hear them
> yet; but as for most bands, it never seems the best route to play
> brand new
> songs in advance of an album or release, b/c as much as the crowd
> may eventually
> like the song once it has a chance to hear it, you can't sing along,
> you don't
> know what to expect - you end up sitting on your hands a bit trying
> to make
> sense of it all. And then the song is over. I am sure the songs
> are great,
> and maybe will be on this upcoming album - at which point we will
> get our
> listens in and come to love them. It's just that THEN would be the
> time you
> want to hear them live. Not before. I would rather hear Gone,
> Please, In God's
> Country - songs that inexplicably don't make their way around
> anymore, in favor
> of s new/unfamiliar one, or one that, as much as it pains me to say
> b/c all of
> their tunes are great, are a bit overdone at this point. Even
> casual fans will
> have seen this songs multiple times now.
>
> Ok -- that was my little rant. Just some thoughts.
>
> Irie.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Matt McGee <matt@atu2.com>
> To: atu2 list <atu2@yahoogroups.com>; U2 tour list <u2tour@yahoogroups.com
> >
> Sent: Tue, August 10, 2010 5:31:34 PM
> Subject: [u2tour] *U2 Set List: Frankfurt, Germany, August 10, 2010
>
>
> U2 Set List: Frankfurt, Germany, August 10, 2010
> Posted: August 10, 2010
> By: m2 / @mattmcgee
> The second show of the 2010 U2 360 tour is in the books. U2 played
> tonight at Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt, Germany. You can see the
> full setlist and recap on U2tours.com.
>
> http://www.u2tours.com/detail.src?ID=20100810
>
> One of the new songs was dropped from tonight's show, while one
> oldie returned. REM singer Michael Stipe was in attendance and Bono
> sang him a little tribute during one part of the show. If you were
> there, you can post a review and/or photos on U2tours.com. If you
> weren't there but still want to to chat about the show, try this
> thread in @U2's forum. Next concert: Hanover, Germany, on Thursday.
>
> http://forum.atu2.com/index.php/topic,12906.0/topicseen.html
>
> m2
>
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