1. Originally posted by SJKamal:[..]
    I'm tempted to do this but my setlist would be:

    1. The Blackout
    2. Lights of Home
    3. I Will Follow
    4. Gloria
    5. Beautiful Day
    6. Dirty Day
    7. Iris (Hold Me Close)
    8. Cedarwood Road
    9. Song For Someone
    10. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
    11. Raised By Wolves
    12. Until The End Of The World
    13. The Fly
    14. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

    --Intermission-- (Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me)

    15. Elevation (EI)
    16. Vertigo (EI)
    17. Even Better Than The Real Thing (EI)
    18. You're The Best Thing About Me
    19. Every Breaking Wave
    20. Summer of Love
    21. Pride (In The Name Of Love) (EI)
    22. Get Out Of Your Own Way
    23. October
    24. Bullet The Blue Sky
    25. Zooropa
    26. Where The Streets Have No Name
    27. With Or Without You

    encore(s):

    28. City of Blinding Lights (IE)
    29. One (EI)
    30. Love is Bigger Than Anything In It's Way
    31. Bad
    32. 13 (There is a Light)
    No Invisible...can't take this setlist serious 😜
  2. It's there... you just can't see it #invisible
  3. I'll be watching this tonight for the first time in a while. I really thought they were going to add 1 or 2 songs for the show. I thought Red Flag Day was a certain and maybe Landlady to. Oh well.
  4. I never realised the message behind the HMTMKMKM intermission video.

    They finish with an AB song (Wild Horses) which to them was from an era where they were untouchable. They are on top of the world from the success of AB (and with the powers given in the animation) and they choose to ignore all the advice given to them because of this.

    They then quite literally fly off to Popmart in the animation and it all goes to shit. They lose their powers and what made them great. Possibly due to the fact they ignored the advice that was given to them earlier.

    The next song is Elevation which is from an era where U2 were back to their best, especially after the "failure" of Popmart.

    This could be a big reach of course but it does add an interesting depth to the intermission video and the songs that were played before and after it.
  5. Originally posted by SJKamal:I never realised the message behind the HMTMKMKM intermission video.

    They finish with an AB song (Wild Horses) which to them was from an era where they were untouchable. They are on top of the world from the success of AB (and with the powers given in the animation) and they choose to ignore all the advice given to them because of this.

    They then quite literally fly off to Popmart in the animation and it all goes to shit. They lose their powers and what made them great. Possibly due to the fact they ignored the advice that was given to them earlier.

    The next song is Elevation which is from an era where U2 were back to their best, especially after the "failure" of Popmart.

    This could be a big reach of course but it does add an interesting depth to the intermission video and the songs that were played before and after it.
    You're probably right. This narrative pisses me off. Pop is a great album, Popmart was a great tour, and the band can fuck off for saying otherwise. Even when they did the acoustic version of SATS in 2018, easily the most commercially appealing song from the album, Bono was almost apologetic to the crowd for even playing it. It cannot be understated how much of a blow Pop and Popmart's failure was to their collective ego. It traumatized them. Such bullshit... I dare them to write a song as good as Mofo, Gone or Please.
  6. Originally posted by podiumboy:[..]
    You're probably right. This narrative pisses me off. Pop is a great album, Popmart was a great tour, and the band can fuck off for saying otherwise. Even when they did the acoustic version of SATS in 2018, easily the most commercially appealing song from the album, Bono was almost apologetic to the crowd for even playing it. It cannot be understated how much of a blow Pop and Popmart's failure was to their collective ego. It traumatized them. Such bullshit... I dare them to write a song as good as Mofo, Gone or Please.
    I don’t think the band members have ever said Popmart was poor on the whole. Bono did say it was a better show than zoo tv though when they got it right, or he was more proud of it than zoo tv when they got it right. They were a bit of a shambles at the start of the tour though. I think they do probably dislike the album pop but I don’t think they dislike the songs and what they became both live and with the new edits. I’m happy with most of the songs as they are though. The band did play 5 songs from pop on the elevation tour so I don’t think it’s a case of them not playing songs from the album because they don’t like them, they maybe are more concerned about how they’d be received or where they think the songs fit into the set. I thought they had the perfect opportunity though to play Discotheque on E&I as the opener after the intermission but ultimately they went for the safer and more crowd pleasing Elevation, a weaker song imo.
  7. Agreed. Like when Bono said in an interview in 2018 “I love Last Night On Earth, I would love to play that one again.” Okay.... so then play it?
  8. Yeah I don't think his voice could handle the choruses, although he did pull off RHMT. LNOE would sound odd tuned down LOL
  9. I just played the Mexico City LNOE tuned down half a step using Garage Band. It's not distractingly different, and Bono (and Edge) could probably nail that chorus in that key.

    Now NYD tuned down a whole step, as they've done from 2017-2019, is distracting.