2001-10-19 - Baltimore, Maryland - Arena

setlist

Performance notes: Please is performed for the first time since March 1998. This is the only full band, electric performance of Please on the Elevation Tour; all subsequent performances are acoustic. In addition, this is the first time U2 have covered Knockin' On Heaven's Door since November 1992 (though Bono did perform it with Bob Dylan in March 1999). Garbage were the originally scheduled opener but pulled out due to illness; locals Graham Parker and The Figgs were a last-minute replacement and played the support slot before their own club gig that night.
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songs per album

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

best song performances

  1. Please (4 votes)
  2. New York (3 votes)

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2 from New Jersey: efisher99, rspass
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1 from New York: tsnafus
1 from Pennsylvania: zoopiglet
1 from California: u2fouru
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review by aussiemofo

15 years ago

Performance

This performance was burdened by one of the most appalling Elevation setlists I've ever come across. I tend not to like most post 9/11 shows because of the sub-standard setlists (there's a few exceptions to this rule), but this one took the cake. Three cover songs? Give me a break!

The show started off well enough. By this time, the band had become very adept at getting the crowd going right from the very first notes of Elevation, through to Beautiful Day and then one of the best no. 3's in their live history - Until The End OF The World! It's a formidable crowd starting trio!!

I can't help but disagree with one of the earlier comments about the speech in the middle of Out Of Control. I really liked it. It served as a memorable tribute to the band's loyal army of fans, spanning a number of generations. I'm in Generation X. "...I want you to know, myself and my friends are very much Out Of Control"

From Kite to Please things got a bit crappy. Lacklustre performances of Kite and Angel and I think Heaven's Door has been the band most over-played cover. Please was good as a bit of an experiment before Streets but I've never been a fan of this song.

Luckily, the lads were able to turn to their old faithful Streets to pick things up again and it was a decent version I might add.

And then we come to what I thought was a pretty unimpressive encore. I felt only New York stood out here. One was a poop sandwich here (although I do like good renditions of it), and Walk On I'm not a fan of either. And I won't go into What's Going On.

Still a respectable 3 out of 5 stars.


Sound

A solid 3 stars. Nothing outstanding here. Quite a bit of crowd noise but the band can be heard for the most part.
Recording: "Sony MZ-R37 + ECM-717" - 3.5 stars

Audience

They were pretty rocking. 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Overall

As I said before the setlist kills it for me and Bono's voice is strained all through it, but the passion was there.

Highlights
First three or four songs. It got the show off to a good start.
Streets

Lowlights
No Fly is a big black mark in my book
And for what? Three cover songs? Not happy.
I Still Haven't Found and Pride should not be there. End the main setlist with Streets. You can't top that.
Please replacing All I Want Is You or Bad as the Streets lead-in.

A generous 3 out of five stars overall.


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