Originally posted by podiumboy:By playing the entire AB album, they aren’t allowing any room for other deep cuts in the setlist. If they did a Zooropa acoustic set, for example, then Streets and WOWY would be the only 80’s songs in the setlist, which would be a huge disappointment to the casual fans that make up the majority of the audience.
Now if it were a more career spanning setlist, then they could really mix up the acoustic set and do an album turntable like they were talking about. Like this:
Songs 1-8= greatest hits
Songs 9-12- various album turntable
Songs 13-16= greatest hits
Encore songs 17-22= greatest hits.
And I would call Love Rescue Me a pretty deep cut, I'm surprised it's still getting played regularly. But I get the point. I still think the main reason they've given up on the turntable idea is they'd rather go for songs which are well rehearsed and that they feel comfortable with rather than get nervous about debuting new stuff and risk f****** it up. I don't think they were very happy with how some of these few attempted rotations went.