2005-09-21 - Chicago, Illinois

City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
The Electric Co. / Bullet With Butterfly Wings (snippet)
The Ocean
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Beautiful Day / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (snippet) / Many Rivers To Cross (snippet)
Miracle Drug
In A Little While (snippet) / Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / The Black Hills of Dakota (snippet) / Torna A Surriento (snippet)
Yahweh
Love And Peace Or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky / The Hands That Built America (snippet) / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Where The Streets Have No Name
One / Ol' Man River (snippet)

encore(s):
Bad / The First Time (snippet)
Original Of The Species
With Or Without You / Love Will Tear Us Apart (snippet)
Fast Cars
All Because Of You
40

best song performances

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members at this show: 15

Blue_Room (Michigan)
ChcgMat (Illinois)
Indy499 (Indiana)
Lemon269 (Illinois)
NLOTH_Victor (Brazil)
RedSoxU2 (Michigan)
TDarby719 (Florida)
bonobaybee (Michigan)
cje1988 (Michigan)
dlefremmos (Minnesota)
ferbono (Argentina)
molang7 (Illinois)
podaababy (Illinois)
stateless (Illinois)
u2shamrock (Illinois)

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Illinois (6)
Michigan (4)
Indiana (1)
Minnesota (1)
Argentina (1)
Brazil (1)
Florida (1)

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last review

Reviewed by: RedSoxU2
Reviewed 2 years ago

Performance:

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Sound:

Not a SBD source, but close...

Overall:

As has been said, one of the best Vertigo shows. Period. Also, luckily, one of the best recordings. The crowd makes this show. What an audience! The band had to feel and feed off this.

all reviews

author	performance	audience	sound	overall
MWSAH
Performance: In the mood, although some performances are just plain Vertigo-stuff. The highlight for me is Bad, with an amazing full snippet of The First Time. The performance of Beautiful Day is also very good, with a great end. Audience: American audience, I prefer European or South American audiences though. Sound: 4-stars, clear but slightly distorted sometimes. Overall: One of the better Vertigo-gigs.
drewhiggins
Performance: Starting from late 2005 onwards, this show from Chicago, or as Bono put it earlier in the year "This is the Vertigo Tour, forever", the performances in North America through to South America, Australia / New Zealand and Tokyo were nothing short of fantastic. If this show was filmed, I'd claim Hamish Hamilton as a legend. This particular show, for some unknown reason, really sticks out in my mind and one of the many reasons I've kept it. Songs like "The Ocean", "Elevation", "Beautiful Day", "Yahweh", "One"...which I could have cared less for, really were truly amazing here. The band was on fire in the Centre and really showed that when four brilliant musicians come together, you can make something work. You get some great U2 tunes here such as The Electric Co (no Cry snippet?), Miss Sarajevo, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, Bad, The First Time, Fast Cars, All Because of You...what more could you want besides Acrobat and more Pop. I must point out two key tunes...Electric Co. and Bad. Electric Co. here was the best performance of it since the last Joshua Tree gig (almost 20 years before) and Bad was the best Vertigo version, bar none. Audience: The audience were loving this from the "Wake Up" to the last beat from Larry's drums on "40". Of extra note was Bono introducing "a song, we haven't played for a while, and I don't know why"...and the crowd goes off when they hear "Dangerous..." - from Wild Horses. I don't think I heard that reaction since they played One Tree Hill to Tokyo on the last shows, and Pavarotti's vocals from Miss Sarajevo. They go nuts to hear the guitar on One and generally made this show a real pleasure. Even when the opening notes by Adam start up for City of Blinding Lights, they go off yet again. You'd love to take this crowd out for dinner - imagine when they see the schnitzel. Sound: For an audience recording, it's bloody brilliant. No skips, no stutters and the taper is in a great position because you hear the bass clearly, the guitar like it was meant to be and the drums are all there. Overall: The highlight is the best version of Vertigo - any show - to date, beating the socks off any other American, Pacific or European shows. I'd say the lowlights (and not just for this show, but all of the two years in Vertigo) is the lack of Pop and terrible attitude towards playing more Zooropa songs. Sure, we get a Please snippet here, two performances of Discotheque and If You Wear That Velvet Dress back in Europe, but bring it out and show us what you can do. Other than that, download and enjoy. I did.
joshuazoo
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bigshow
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Mankuse
Performance: This concert is as good as many concerts of the 2nd Leg, but songs like The Electric Co, The Ocean, WGRYWH, BD, LAPOE, SBS, WTSHNN, One, Fast Cars and 40, are the best for this 3rd Leg Audience: I like more the crowd from Europa than the Americans Sound: Good sound quality Overall: Great Concert but the best of this one, for me, are this songs: COBL, The Electric Co., The Ocean, WGRYWH, BD( nice ending), LAPOE(Amazing!!), SBS, WTSHNN, One, Fast Cars and 40(perfect drum)
NLOTH_Victor
Performance: Great performance! Audience: It was really nice, but at the end of 40 think people werenÂ´t in the mood for singing...I guess everyone spent there energy in WGRYWH! Sound: Very good sound! Clear! Overall: Great concert with lots of surprises! I remember when I first heard the first line of WGRYWH...amazing....same with the encore first song, Bad, it was amazing... and they even played Fast Cars!
patou2
Performance: This part is only rated, not commented on. Audience: This part is only rated, not commented on. Sound: This part is only rated, not commented on. Overall: Great, Great show !!! a very special night , with a very special setlist. Highlights: City vof blinding lights, Vertigo, Wild horses, Elevation , Love and peace or else, Original of the species, Fast cars, Bad medley First time

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The Electric Co. / Bullet With Butterfly Wings (snippet)

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Love And Peace Or Else

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

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Miss Sarajevo

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Pride (In The Name Of Love)

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Where The Streets Have No Name

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One / Ol' Man River (snippet)

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Bad / The First Time (snippet)

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Original Of The Species

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Fast Cars

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40

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2005-09-21 - Chicago, Illinois

best song performances

members at this show: 15

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Audience recording

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The Electric Co. / Bullet With Butterfly Wings (snippet)

Love And Peace Or Else

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Miss Sarajevo

Pride (In The Name Of Love)

Where The Streets Have No Name

One / Ol' Man River (snippet)

Bad / The First Time (snippet)

Original Of The Species

Fast Cars

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