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1989-12-01 - Osaka, Japan - Osaka Castle Hall

setlist

Performance notes: This concert is often said to have somewhat of a "backwards setlist", due to the presence of songs normally played late in the set appearing in its early stages, such as Pride and New Year's Day, while the main set staple trio of Desire, All Along The Watchtower, and All I Want Is You is in the encore. Also noteworthy is the first performance of Slow Dancing in concert - nearly four years before its first official studio release! Bono had previously sung some of the song on Australian radio in October 1989.
Setlist and comment provided by U2gigs.com.

songs per album

  1. Rattle and Hum (7)
  2. The Joshua Tree (5)
  3. The Unforgettable Fire (3)
  4. War (2)
  5. October (1)

best song performances

  1. All I Want Is You (5 votes)
  2. Desire (3 votes)

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review by ayr861

14 years ago

Performance

What a brilliant fucking show. Pretty much standard fare from this tour, but this show stands out heads and shoulders above the rest.

Stand By Me kicks off proceedings and the band comes in about half-way through, and this adds great effect to the song. You can just tell when they come in - listen to that Osaka crowd. Intense shit right there. An odd but needed rearrangement of the set list makes this one even better with songs like Pride and New Year's Day front-loaded and songs like Desire right at the bottom - not that Desire is a bad song but it does become a little tiresome. Which of course all the songs bar Love Rescue Me are worth listening to; that song just never got me like it should have.

I kept mentioning about one certain performance and possibly the best of that song ever. It happens to be my favourite Joshua Tree song, One Tree Hill. Perfectly executed in every way! Bono is able to hit the notes like he never could, Adam's bass is phenomenal, Larry's cracking of the drums - BOOM! - and Edge's short yet killer solo makes the show worth getting just for this outstanding performance.

Sadly no Unforgettable Fire but the songs that are in place of it more than make up for it.

Sound

When you can pick up every instrument and the intensity of the players, that's when it's good and a testament to how good the recorder was - remember taping equipment wasn't as advanced as it was on the more recent tours or even the 1992 / 1993 tours.

Sometimes the instruments overtook vocals (a perfect example being during BB King's speech) but that happens at a proper show, whether it's U2 or some other great band so I guess what can you expect?

Audience

A great Japanese crowd, getting right into the show. And that's what we want. No real screamers or talkers getting in the way so that scores an extra point.

Overall

The band was on fire here and their equal awesomeness in participation made the show well worth listening to. Epic performances of Gloria, Bad, One Tree Hill and All I Want Is You only increased the enjoyment further. Bono's ranting and raving with that guy was a good laugh.

A note of interest is this show has the first full performance of Slow Dancing, even though a studio release wouldn't happen until 1993.

Props to the chooser of this show. Excellent choice to kick off the BRT!

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