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1997-07-02 - Foxboro, Massachusetts - Foxboro Stadium

setlist

  1. Mofo
  2. I Will Follow
  3. Gone
  4. Even Better Than The Real Thing
  5. Last Night On Earth
  6. Until The End Of The World / Break On Through (snippet)
  7. New Year's Day
  8. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
  9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand By Me (snippet)
  10. All I Want Is You
  11. Staring At The Sun
  12. Suspicious Minds
  13. Miami / My Mammy (snippet) / Cuba (snippet)
  14. Bullet The Blue Sky / The Message (snippet) / America (snippet) / The Minstrel Boy (snippet)
  15. Please / Sunday Bloody Sunday (snippet)
  16. Where The Streets Have No Name / Playboy Mansion (snippet)

    17. encore(s):
  17. Lemon (Perfecto Mix)
  18. Discothèque / That's The Way (I Like It) (snippet) / Discothèque Howie B Hairy B Mix (snippet)
  19. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
  20. With Or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet)
  21. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
  22. Mysterious Ways
  23. One / Hear Us Coming (snippet)
  24. MLK
  25. Rain
Performance notes: Suspicious Minds is performed by Edge with the Fun Lovin' Criminals.
Setlist and comment provided by U2gigs.com.

songs per album

  1. Pop (8)
  2. Achtung Baby (4)
  3. The Joshua Tree (4)
  4. The Unforgettable Fire (2)
  5. Boy (1)
  6. War (1)
  7. Rattle and Hum (1)

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1 from Vermont: thor008u2
1 from Minnesota: msmcload
1 from North Carolina: ccstory

review by ayr861

15 years ago

Performance

Nick chose a great show here, and this happens to be in the top five Popmart performances over the two years of the entire tour - including Edmonton, Miami, Santiago and Johannesburg. I absolutely loved Mofo here. It's always a great performance but here the entire band gave it their all - the opening after the ending of Pop Muzik was particuarly awesome with Bono's chanting style. Was he saying Foxboro or something?

Like Zooropa, seven (yep, seven!) songs from Pop are played here. Confident? Nope, just fucking brilliant, in no less than two words.

I don't think there were any particularly bad performances, because by this time they'd fixed a lot of the songs up and rehearsed them properly. I always liked the Discotheque > If You Wear transition. Like Aussie, I found it better than a lot of previous and future shows. And MLK and Rain at the end of the show - hell yeah.

Stand By Me happens just happens to be a great song for U2 to play, All I Want Is You seriously needs a revisit because it is one of their very best songs live, and Miami - almost as good as the studio version. I could have cared less for karaoke and even Edge doesn't do it any good (and has officially ruined Suspicious Minds). The Fun Loving Dicks made the karaoke bearable - I actually found the whole thing quite funny.

The old classics (New Year's Day, With or Without You, Mysterious Ways, MLK...) for some reason sounded stale on other shows, but for some reason, tonight they gave it their all. The latter song is of particular note and haunting.

It's a real pity that The Playboy Mansion was never played as a full song.

Sound

The sound is a definite four stars (and even 4.5 if it came from a lossless source). The bass and instruments are all clear and very audible. An impressive recording, even if we don't know about who it was - the metadata gives nothing away. It sounds like a DAT tape, and a great recording - a lot of those sound too open-spaced and wobbly, but this was balanced perfectly on both sides.
Recording: Soundboard - 4.5 stars

Audience

The Foxboro locals gave it their all, and stayed on fire for the whole of this show. Of particular highlights is upon hearing the beginning chords of One and the falsetto on Please - they loved it. A lot of the songs they are singing along, in time to. That's indication of a great band and an even greater show.

Overall

The whole show is a definite contender for Top Five Popmart. Easily five stars, great choice Nick.

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