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2001-06-09 - Boston, Massachusetts - Fleet Center

setlist

  1. Elevation / Pump It Up (snippet)
  2. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
  3. Until The End Of The World
  4. The Fly / Lust For Life (snippet)
  5. Even Better Than The Real Thing
  6. Mysterious Ways / Jump Around (snippet)
  7. In My Life (snippet) / Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
  8. Kite
  9. Gone
  10. New York
  11. Out Of Control
  12. Sunday Bloody Sunday / Johnny Was (snippet) / Get Up Stand Up (snippet)
  13. Desire / Van Morrison's Gloria (snippet) / Dude (Looks Like A Lady) (snippet) / Jump Around (snippet) / Psalm 51 (snippet)
  14. Party Girl
  15. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
  16. Bad / Alison (snippet)
  17. Psalm 116 (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name
  18. Beautiful Day

    19. encore(s):
  19. Bullet The Blue Sky
  20. With Or Without You
  21. One / She's A Mystery To Me (snippet)
  22. Walk On
Performance notes: First performance of Party Girl in eight years and three days. Last performance of Even Better Than The Real Thing until 30 March 2011. When Bono is snippeting Van Morrison's Gloria at the end of Desire, he inserts some other lyrics that one may initially assume to be U2's Gloria, due to some similarities: "Oh Lord, open my lips/Anything I can, I will do for you/And my mouth shall shout up your praise". However, although the last line does not resemble any in Gloria, the lines do bear a strong similarity to Psalm 51 from the Bible. As the connection to Psalm 51 appears stronger, the snippet is credited to it rather than Gloria.
Setlist and comment provided by U2gigs.com.

songs per album

  1. All That You Can't Leave Behind (6)
  2. Achtung Baby (5)
  3. The Joshua Tree (3)
  4. The Unforgettable Fire (2)
  5. Pop (1)
  6. Boy (1)
  7. War (1)
  8. Rattle and Hum (1)
  9. Zooropa (1)

best song performances

  1. Desire (6 votes)
  2. The Fly (4 votes)

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review by iTim

12 years ago

Performance

Kicking off with the usual, Elevation. It's an energetic start to the show, difficult to judge Bono's vocals at this point because of the nature of the song but so far so good. The band sound tight and in the mood. The Pump It Up snippet at the end is good. Is that Pride? Second? Wow. Decent performance overall, not particularly outstanding but I'm thinking it actually works better early in the set. I suppose this is a good time to assess Bono and I think it's thumbs up vocally. Introduction to Until The End Of The World sounds a little loose musically, but it comes together for the start of the first verse. In fact, it comes together for a truly enjoyable performance. Sticking with a little Zoo TV ensemble, enters The Fly, in it's typical Elevation reincarnation. Sublime, nothing much else to say. Even Better Than The Real Thing sounds fantastic. Edge makes a minor mistake but other than that, bang. Could it get any better? Well when Mysterious Ways kicks in, you can only assume that it can. Excellent. Stuck In A Moment was executed to near perfection. That is in turn followed by a great performance of Kite, which in turn hands over the floor to an old Pop favourite, Gone. Nailed. What else can I say? This is why I love U2. Now onto the Miami of the Elevation Tour. New York. I've always been a fan of it and tonight, I'm still a big fan. *Fast forward the tape* Sunday Bloody Sunday! I love this song on the Elevation Tour and it just continues a long line of extremely enjoyable performances on this one night in Boston. Desire is a song that is difficult not to enjoy. The beat, the lyrics, everything is just perfect. The snippets just turn it into something else though. Party Girl is so relaxed, everything just seems to be going in the right direction for this show.

Stay is performed with such a beautiful feeling. Simply perfect. Bad is faultless. Perfect segue into Streets and a perfect performance. Great bouncing feel to the show now. Well, here it is. The song we should've heard long before now, Beautiful Day. Closing the main set in a very unusual fashion. I'm tired of praising the set and the performance now, but I am finding it difficult to pick faults. A good way to end what has been a brilliant main set.

Bullet The Blue Sky opens the encore with the power we have come to expect from this song. Edge is bang on throughout. Time to slow it down now, With Or Without You. I'm not to keen on Bono's vocals at the start, but he picks it up and starts singing. Strong performance on the whole. One is exceptional. Closing the show is Walk On, such an inspirational song yet it's so easy to forget how great it is as a closer.

Sound

There are a few distorted moments throughout the show but unless you are listening for them, they're barely noticeable. Some members of the crowd come through individually in the recording which is never good. The low frequencies rumble quite a bit more than you'd expect them to throughout. The actual clarity of the recording though is pretty good. Nasty fast forward sound after New York
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Audience

Already up for it by starting the "oooh" during the Elevation introduction and continuing to be vocal throughout. Also contribute to Pride. They continue throughout to be fair to them, laughing at jokes, booing those who deserve it, cheering when applicable, singing when the chance allows. Credit to them.

Overall

An absolute jewel in the crown. Nothing more.

Highlights:
- Pump It Up Snippet
- Zoo Tv Section
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Desire
- Stay (Faraway, So Close)
- One

Lowlights:
- Where is Out of Control?
- Noticeable skip midway through

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