Originally posted by germcevoy:Resurrected in 2005 and 2017 and they didn’t do a good job either time. Edge just over complicating he piano for no good reason. Can’t remember a good crowd singalong to it or even for the ‘still running’ part at the end. Sigh.
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I find it so funny that this song (of many) was requested for SO long, and after they played it on the JT tour in 2017 - everyone here is just saying how bad it was lol.
Ever think there's a correlation between the band not playing a song they haven't played in years and fans being disappointed once they do?
I was blissed out hearing it in 2017, don't care how "aged" it sounded or whatever. If people really want to start comparing performances of older U2 songs across decades of performances, why do you even want the band to perform old stuff at all anymore? It's never going to sound as good. To me the joy is just seeing the guys play songs they wrote when they were younger men - I think that's really cool, and I really don't think it sounded as bad as people are making it out to be...
I was just happy to be seeing my favourite band perform my favourite album - the quality of the performance (which ranged from good to great IMO) almost didn't matter. I could barely even hear the band during this song actually, it was just 80,000 people singing Running to Stand Still and it was a moment I won't forget.
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I find it so funny that this song (of many) was requested for SO long, and after they played it on the JT tour in 2017 - everyone here is just saying how bad it was lol.
Ever think there's a correlation between the band not playing a song they haven't played in years and fans being disappointed once they do?
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I was just happy to be seeing my favourite band perform my favourite album - the quality of the performance (which ranged from good to great IMO) almost didn't matter. I could barely even hear the band during this song actually, it was just 80,000 people singing Running to Stand Still and it was a moment I won't forget.
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
Strongly disagree. Exit hadn't been played in a much longer time and it fucking rocked everyone, even the casuals were freaking out to it. WOWY has been played to death in all tours and it had stopped shining since 2001 BUT it regained some of its spark on the JT30 tour. A Sort Of Homecoming, Dirty Day, Stay, Wild Horses, Two Hearts, October and New Year's Day have been resurrected in the past 2 tours after a long time of not appearing (or appearing very scarcely) and they've all been praised by most fans.
The case of RTSS is obviously different as it is a very delicate song and it's gone through several different shapes through the years, but in general I didn't feel like they did a great job with it. As you very well know Edge isn't the best piano player out there, and overcomplicating a song that's meant to be fragile and intimate isn't the way to go specially if you aren't Rachmaninov or Chopin. And Bono's recent lack of middle range (which is what RTSS is all about!) didn't help either.
Also, which concert did you go to? I'm eager to hear that 80K people singing to RTSS as I'm sure not even 8K sung it in the show I attended