Originally posted by mattfromcanada:[..]
So Cruel to me has so much potential to be a live war horse. If done right, just a "wham, wow" song leaving the casuals going "what song was THAT?!"
Would have been a great post in 1992 to maybe 2000 or so. At this point, we're facing the sad reality of the end of U2. Nothing could make So Cruel a favorite for more than 5% of the crowd, if that much. I love the song, and am bewildered that they never play it. As much as I enjoyed Your Blue Room, So Cruel is SO MUCH BETTER! I just wish they would've done Joshua Tree and Achtung in full back to back with maybe 4 other songs thrown in, all at the same show, say in 2011, when 360 was getting stale, and they had already dropped many No Line songs. How they kept that awful version of I'll Go Crazy, but dropped Breathe still makes me mad enough to throw a sheet of paper out the window!