Originally posted by kezman:Crikey Rummy show will be an hour old before they even start the JT stuff!
Originally posted by Release3:I liked how it all started, but the encore was such a mess the first few shows of 2017. I would’ve liked something like:
I Will Follow
Gloria
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Years Day
Pride
A Sort of Homecoming/Bad
The Joshua Tree
Angel of Harlem/Desire
Encore:
Zoo Station
Mysterious Ways
One
Stay/Staring At The Sun
Beautiful Day
Vertigo
40
You get a “greatest hits” with rarer hits/singles and all albums are pretty there except NLOTH, SOI, SOE.
It’s just so hard to come up with a set list when 11 of the 23-25 songs are automatically taken up. U2 isn’t a 30 song set band, so the 2019 sets were a lot better by incorporating SOI/SOE and having some more upbeat songs in the encore. I get it, I’m tired of Beautiful Day and Elevation too but when you’re there it’s amazing and 2017/2019 was a greatest hits tour.
Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
Not really a greatest hits tour was it, that big hit single Exit and the chart topping Mothers Of The Disappeared, and that top 10 single ultraviolet. Not even a best of with the last 6 from JT, let’s be honest if you went and asked every u2 fan to pick a Setlist of their favourite songs probably none of the last 6 on JT would make the cut. Ultraviolet wouldn’t either. A few of they songs are in my top 20/30 u2 songs but they’re not as well known or popular as most in the u2 catalogue.
Originally posted by Release3:Technically, no not a “greatest hits” but they played their most popular album in full in order without promoting a new album (with the exception of the handful of Little Things and Best Thing performances). I know it’s been debated here a ton of the technicality of what greatest hits tour means, but it was definitely against the grain of what U2 has preached in the past.
Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
It was against the grain no doubt about that, first and so far only time they’ve promoted an old album. But it was The Joshua Tree 2017/2019 tour(s), not u2 the greatest hits live. And playing the lesser known and lesser played tracks from JT is what was key to not making it a greatest hits tour. Otherwise we could say every tour is a greatest hits tour with the ratio of big well known singles compared to lesser known album tracks. JT might be a big seller and there most popular but the last 6 aren’t amongst U2’s most popular or well known songs. That is the very opposite to a best of or greatest hits song selection.
Originally posted by Release3:[..]
I don’t disagree with the last 6 songs making it a non-greatest hits. I feel like we’re on the same page with what this tour was. I think I would feel better about the tour if it was 15 shows just to celebrate the album but it exploded to the point where they were playing in places like Kansas City. I know demand was high because it was “The Joshua Tree” but I’m not sure if the band wanted to do a full blown tour