There's also the Songs of Surrender factor.
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The band also sometimes played a cover of Elvis' “Can't Help Falling in Love,” but Bono would sing the second verse in full falsetto, and given the state of Bono's voice over 30 years later, I doubt we'll see that again (or at least that iteration of it). The encore usually featured “Ultraviolet,” “With or Without You” - another sequence I hope the band acknowledges - and then finishing some shows with “Love is Blindness,” the final track on Achtung Baby. It would then be a while before an Achtung Baby song would resurface as U2 would play a variety of their hits. The band would then play “Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World” before going into a sequence of older hits like “Angel of Harlem” and “When Loves Comes to Town” and mixing in some covers (“Satellite of Love”) and newer hits like “Stay, (Faraway, So Close!)” once Zooropa came out. The transition from “Until the End of the World” to “Wild Horses” is great, and something I hope the band revisits. In 1992/93, they usually would play a slew of more Achtung Baby songs: “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” “Mysterious Ways,” “One” - with an “Unchained Melody” snippet - “Until the End of the World,” and then “Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses” (only on the US leg of that tour). That would make the most sense, as the opening of “Zoo Station” going right into “The Fly” is killer - the band even brushed off that sequence on the European leg of their “eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE” tour in 2018 - and indoctrinates any non-Achtung Baby fans right into the album. Maybe U2 follows a similar setlist akin to their “ZooTV” tour. “One” is combated by “Until the End of the World” and “So Cruel” is combated by “The Fly.” So, realistically, the band could do pre-Achtung Baby before playing the album as they did on “The Joshua Tree” tour, but why limit yourself to a handful of songs from The Joshua Tree and earlier? Plus, the band rarely begins concerts with “Where the Streets Have No Name” these days. I love both albums - I think they're both the band's best work - but Achtung Baby has significantly less downers on the album and always keeps the tempo up. “The Joshua Tree” tour from 2017 followed a very basic pattern: The first four or five songs pre-dated The Joshua Tree album before they played through that album in its entirety beginning with “Where the Streets Have No Name” and ending with “Mothers of the Disappeared.” After that, the band would play a bunch of post-Joshua Tree hits - mostly the concert-friendly hits friendly for casual fans like “Elevation,” “Vertigo,” “One,” etc.Īchtung Baby is a bit different than The Joshua Tree, though, and that complicates things. But that said, looking at U2's previous tours, you can gather some hints as to what's to come. When it comes to constructing the setlist, only Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and replacement drummer Bram van den Berg really know what's coming. Yes, the flashy lights and sensory overload will be amazing to look at, but how can U2 put on a show that respects Achtung Baby - the album that this whole residency is honoring - without simply retreading the album as “The Joshua Tree” tour did just a few years ago? Reading the Joshua Tree leaves It all begins with the setlist, not the visuals. Unlike 2017's “The Joshua Tree” 30th anniversary tour, U2 has a chance to do something innovative with the Sphere shows and avoid looking like another musical act past their prime going out to pasture. Like those shows or not, it'll never get old seeing Bono hold The Edge in the palm of his hand.īut now, U2 is once again looking back on their work. Two of their recent tours, the “iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE” and its sister “eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE” tours each brought a huge LED screen on the road that connected the main stage down to the B-stage (representing a journey of innocence to experience or vice versa).
(Did you know that they created the B-stage during the “ZooTV” tour?) The “ZooTV” tour, for example, took a gigantic set on the road full with television screens to drive home the recurring theme of sensory overload. The Death Star-looking venue is primed for a band like U2 - a band privy to making technological advancements. on U2's “ZooTV” tour, Bono exclaimed, “Let's get married, let's go to Vegas!” during the interlude from “Ultraviolet (Light My Way!)” and “ With or Without You.” Who knew that he was serious about that? Over three decades later, U2 will be playing a residency in Las Vegas at a brand new venue: The MSG Sphere. During the August 16, 1992, concert in Washington, D.C.
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