1. Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:[..]


    Personally, I thought The Blackout made for an excellent introduction to the show. It's a thumping rocker and the gradual revealing of the band built the anticipation.
    I saw two shows on that tour and The Blackout is indeed a great opening number with the band emerging as they did.
  2. Originally posted by SJKamal:[..]


    Aren't they already kind of a legacy act though? They've had 3 different tours for their most famous album.

    The Joshua Tree Tour (fair enough because the album was new)
    The Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary tour
    The Joshua Tree Tour 2019


    Maybe it's denial on my part but I like to think they're not. SOE and EI were received pretty well I would say and they can hold their own. Like I said, the Anniversary tours towed the line closer than they ever had before.
  3. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]

    How can they be a legacy act though if they continue to release new music and tour it? Assuming that’s what they did following an AB30 tour or zootv30 tour then they wouldn’t be a legacy act at all they would just be revisiting the past briefly before moving forward again. I still can never understand the legacy act argument, unless they replace tours of new albums with tours of old albums or greatest hits but there is no replacement it’s as well as.


    I just think it's a hard line to tow and the more they focus on current material and not anniversaries it will keep them relevant if not continuing to stay in the fight. One of the things I always loved about them was their defiant looking ahead to the future attitude. I honestly don't think it will happen.
  4. Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:[..]
    Personally, I thought The Blackout made for an excellent introduction to the show. It's a thumping rocker and the gradual revealing of the band built the anticipation.

    Blackout certainly is the better one of those 2 opening songs, and in theory maybe a good opener, but it didn't really work out as most people barely seemed to know that song, some didn't even seem to realize that the show already started until halfway the song. Then came Lights Of Home which is just a boring, slow song, the few people that got up during the first song were going back to their seats again. With I Will Follow the show finally kicked of. I know it's often a bit like that, but I've never seen it this extreme (with U2). Even 360 in 2009 which started with 4 new songs did a much better job in far bigger venues.
  5. Probably won't happen, but would not be advserse to idea.

    Mainly because it would probably mean seeing them sooner, then if we had to wait for new material.
  6. 'Legacy Act shouldn't necessarily be seen as a term of abuse. Sure the term was coined by snobby music journalists to describe artists who are relying on past glories, but these days it should not be seen as simply
    synonymous with nostalgia acts. Instead, a legacy act is an artist who has arrived at a stage in their career where a successful album or hit song is no longer required to stay relevant.

    A legacy act can release whatever they wish or indeed release nothing and remain popular in terms of sales and to some degree respect. Think Bruce Springsteen. Legacy Act is just a way of describing artists like U2, Bruce or even Pearl Jam. Yes, they do release new stuff, but the point is that they really they don't have to.

    Reaching Legacy Act point is something that usually happens late in a career, but increasingly it happens earlier, Rihanna and Beyonce come to mind. They are at a point in their career, like U2 where they can release
    whatever and whenever they want.

    The Legacy Act transcends the typical transient lifetime of your common or garden pop star and continues to sell. The Legacy Act's place in the popular consciousness doesn't disappear just because the production line of hits ceases to operate. The Legacy Act only needs to go to work when it suits them and can basically survive on their, eh, legacy. And that is U2.
  7. For me a No. A new album and tour. Looks obvious. They have many times left these days during the crisis. So there are lots of new songs next year or in 2022 normally. We've heard so many AB songs in the last couple of tours. It's done with it. They will always playing some songs from AB. Like One. But I hope to hear Love Is Blindness or Acrobat again. But I doubt it. Some JT songs back in the new setlist would be nice, Streets and WOWY coming back I think. That's what most people want to hear. And I hope some more old stuff like Tick Tock or Out of Control that would be amazing. But the most important issue is when is a concert possible again.
  8. there are songs like lemon or daddys gonna pay for your crashed car that would be cool to see but we have had a lot of zoo tv era during vertigo,360.and experience tours.i can see the artistry of the joshua tree tour 2017 now! but i was not happy with it when i went.it felt stale and the sound at fedex field was the worst i have ever experienced.i would go to see zoo again but it would belike voting for biden.
    i would like another choice please.
  9. Yes.

    Wasn't even born when the first tour was, love AB, would love to see an anniversary tour. Go to different cities, catch up with friends and also the fact that my next U2 show will be my 10th show.
  10. Originally posted by revjisok:there are songs like lemon or daddys gonna pay for your crashed car that would be cool to see but we have had a lot of zoo tv era during vertigo,360.and experience tours.i can see the artistry of the joshua tree tour 2017 now! but i was not happy with it when i went.it felt stale and the sound at fedex field was the worst i have ever experienced.i would go to see zoo again but it would belike voting for biden.
    i would like another choice please.
    Another argument I don’t understand saying we have had lots of zoo tv era during vertigo, 360 and experience. We really haven’t. Lots of songs from AB yes but not lots of performances of songs when you consider the number of shows in that time. Most people from North America probably haven’t heard zoo station in 15 years now maybe close to 30 years if there vertigo tour show didn’t feature it, the fly is another one that hasn’t really been played much since after the vertigo tour, wild horses as well barely played since after zoo tv really. There’s been 4 songs from AB that have been played a lot since after zoo tv real thing, one, mysterious ways and UTEOTW. Acrobat has only been played on one tour, ultraviolet has been played a good amount of times since 360 but has missed a lot of tours. Just because they’ve played a lot of songs from the album doesn’t mean they’ve featured heavily in there setlists.
  11. Wow is this the closest You Too ever?

    I don't want to see this at all. U2 were able to play off the JT tour as being politically relevant/necessary and NOT a nostalgia show etc. - but doing it a second time would be such an obvious money-grab, it'd just be a bad look - and I don't want that for them.

    Whether or not you care about that aspect - I also just think it'd be such a shadow of the ZooTV tour that it'd be sad to watch. People don't want to admit it, but Bono just can't really sing that well anymore. He was able to adapt his current voice (as best he could) to singing JT songs - but so much of Achtung Baby requires a good falsetto - and Bono just doesn't really have that in him anymore.

    I will add that the current climate would basically be perfect for ZooTV (fake news etc.) - but I don't think they could stick the landing - not a second time, and not at their age. It'd just come across to too many people as "has-beens trying to comment on current climate".

    I'd rather see them put out a Blu Ray of an old ZooTV show or something.

    U2's future to me is recording and putting out albums - not retreading old ground or going on big bombastic tours anymore. I realize that's defeatist and sad to a lot of people here - but yeah...
  12. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
    Another argument I don’t understand saying we have had lots of zoo tv era during vertigo, 360 and experience. We really haven’t. Lots of songs from AB yes but not lots of performances of songs when you consider the number of shows in that time. Most people from North America probably haven’t heard zoo station in 15 years now maybe close to 30 years if there vertigo tour show didn’t feature it, the fly is another one that hasn’t really been played much since after the vertigo tour, wild horses as well barely played since after zoo tv really. There’s been 4 songs from AB that have been played a lot since after zoo tv real thing, one, mysterious ways and UTEOTW. Acrobat has only been played on one tour, ultraviolet has been played a good amount of times since 360 but has missed a lot of tours. Just because they’ve played a lot of songs from the album doesn’t mean they’ve featured heavily in there setlists.
    it's not necessarily an argument, but it could be a hint.. if they were thinking about an AB anniversary tour they maybe wouldn't have digged up some 'rare' AB/Zooropa songs (and MacPhisto) yet and 'saved' them for the next tour. On the other hand, if they weren't thinking about AB/Zoo anniversary, playing those songs might have initiated a spark? less likely I think, but also possible. It's all guessing.