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U2 Joshua Tree Tour 2017 / 2019 **No Ticket Sales**

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  • #3902
    EverythingGood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭EverythingGood


    daithi7 wrote: »
    Curious, which would you consider the 'bangers on there'?

    I love U2, but I think Zooropa was my least favourite U2 album of all, mostly middling gash imho.

    For me - the first 5 - Zooropa, Baby Face, Numb, Lemon and Stay are great tunes. I like some days are better than others a lot also.


  • #3903
    The Nal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,254 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    EverythingGood wrote: »
    For me - the first 5 - Zooropa, Baby Face, Numb, Lemon and Stay are great tunes. I like some days are better than others a lot also.

    Same here. And Daddy Gonna Pay. One of their biggest bangers



  • #3904
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,199 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    The Nal wrote: »
    Same here. And Daddy Gonna Pay. One of their biggest bangers


    unreal

    Did they release any pro shot footage of that tour ?


  • #3905
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,063 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    EverythingGood wrote: »
    For me - the first 5 - Zooropa, Baby Face, Numb, Lemon and Stay are great tunes. I like some days are better than others a lot also.

    Dont forget The Wanderer ,which is a gem,lyrically one of their best songs.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-dZvQxYX1g


  • #3906
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,199 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Awsome, few cans and this would make a great night :D:D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As1R08FzfkE


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  • #3907
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 43,740 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    I had the pleasure of seeing the zoo tv tour in the feyenoord stadium in rotterdam in May of 1993.

    Friggin epic


  • #3908
    daithi7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭daithi7


    EverythingGood wrote: »
    For me - the first 5 - Zooropa, Baby Face, Numb, Lemon and Stay are great tunes. I like some days are better than others a lot also.

    OK, in fairness, I have to acknowledge that there's some quality there alright, I do like Baby Face, Lemon , Stay & the Wanderer.

    For my taste, i just found too much dross on the album alongside these admittedly great tracks... and as a result overall didn't like the album.


  • #3909
    daithi7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭daithi7


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    I had the pleasure of seeing the zoo tv tour in the feyenoord stadium in rotterdam in May of 1993.

    Friggin epic

    Yeah, I saw them on that tour in Philadelphia, and I can safely say that it was the best concert I have ever seen by some margin - simply awesome.

    Then later on the same tour I watched them play at the RDS in Dublin , and they had gone quite stale & tired on the tour imho.


  • #3910
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,063 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    I had the pleasure of seeing the zoo tv tour in the feyenoord stadium in rotterdam in May of 1993.

    Friggin epic

    I saw them in Cork and I still think it was the best concert I have ever been at .
    It was like nothing I had ever seen before ,I was blown away .

    Alot of the impact of the newer shows are spoilt by Youtube and the internet .
    You can watch the whole show in advance and as the band stick to a rigid format ,not much is left to surprise.


  • #3911
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,199 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    MisterAnarchy wrote: »
    I saw them in Cork and I still think it was the best concert I have ever been at .
    It was like nothing I had ever seen before ,I was blown away .

    Alot of the impact of the newer shows are spoilt by Youtube and the internet .
    You can watch the whole show in advance and as the band stick to a rigid format ,not much is left to surprise.

    The banning of mobile phones is just not possible in these times no matter how hard they try and force it at venues

    Then we have those u2 megafan nutjobs who record everything too try and boost there own self importance in their community


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  • #3912
    tritriagain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭tritriagain


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    The banning of mobile phones is just not possible in these times no matter how hard they try and force it at venues

    Then we have those u2 megafan nutjobs who record everything too try and boost there own self importance in their community
    Yeah. The mega fans who leave early so the can get in line for the next night


  • #3913
    Wooderson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Wooderson


    Zooropa is a great little record.

    Title track one of the most underappreciated things theyve done. It is right up there with the coolest ever U2 tracks. Lemon and Stay of course are timeless high watermarks for the band. Putting this record down about as dull to me as knocking all their records since.

    Bar "Atomic Bomb" - that one just doesnt click with me.


  • #3914
    SoundOfSilence
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 421 ✭✭SoundOfSilence


    The future needs a big KISS....

    No line on the horizon, absolute turd.


  • #3915
    tritriagain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭tritriagain


    SoundOfSilence wrote: »
    The future needs a big KISS....

    No line on the horizon, absolute turd.

    Just goes to show that opinions differ. This is one I keep going back to.


  • #3916
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,063 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    SoundOfSilence wrote: »
    The future needs a big KISS....

    Get on Your Boots is one of the worst songs they ever released .


  • #3917
    The Nal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,254 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Their last few albums have been genuinely embarrassing. Trying to sound like Coldplay and Ellie Goulding. Morto for them.


  • #3918
    Wooderson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Wooderson


    For massive band to subvert expectations/put out transformative material 40 years into a career is unheard of. The last 3 records are no Achtung or Unforgettable Fire, but what is? Posting stuff like "morto for them" about songs like "Love Is Bigger" "Moment of Surrender" or "The Troubles" - to name one from each of the last 3 - is a strange one. Classic U2 songs IMO. "The Troubles" could have been on any of their best records. "Embarrassing"? Mhmm okay don't think this band is for you, lads.


  • #3919
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,199 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    On the Metallica forum we were talking about what favourite songs we never heard live and i imagine a similar question could be asked here for U2 ???

    Out of the 3 times i've seen U2 i have yet to hear 'All I Want is You' and 'Sweetest Thing (that's rare enough live this days). Happy enough with my u2 live experiences setlist, delighted i've heard 'Desire (Dublin night 2 2015), hearing the full Joshua Tree album live was special


  • #3920
    tritriagain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭tritriagain


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    On the Metallica forum we were talking about what favourite songs we never heard live and i imagine a similar question could be asked here for U2 ???

    Out of the 3 times i've seen U2 i have yet to hear 'All I Want is You' and 'Sweetest Thing (that's rare enough live this days). Happy enough with my u2 live experiences setlist, delighted i've heard 'Desire (Dublin night 2 2015), hearing the full Joshua Tree album live was special

    Lucky enough to be at slane when they played all I want is you which led into where the streets. It truly was epic. Check it out on YouTube if you haven't seen it.


  • #3921
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,199 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    tritriagain wrote: »
    Lucky enough to be at slane when they played all I want is you which led into where the streets. It truly was epic. Check it out on YouTube if you haven't seen it.

    yeah one of my favorite youtube videos truly outstanding

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAQhrD6ek4k


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  • #3922
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,199 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    memory jumped up on my facebook

    3 years today since that awesome night in Croke Park


  • #3923
    RolandGoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭RolandGoose


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    memory jumped up on my facebook

    3 years today since that awesome night in Croke Park

    I got the same, incredible gig!
    The lads were on fire from the get go that night.

    One of the best I've ever been to


  • #3924
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,199 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    RolandGoose wrote: »
    I got the same, incredible gig!
    The lads were on fire from the get go that night.

    One of the best I've ever been to

    Yeah it was a great day, electric atmosphere in all the pubs on the way to Croker. Having NG as support was great and really shows the value of having quality support for outdoor gigs

    What id give to have a day like that now


  • #3925
    TomSweeney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭TomSweeney





    F*cking amazing!!!



    At the same time I'm really depressed watching this , when will the next U2 or any gig we can attend happen!!??


  • #3926
    TomSweeney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭TomSweeney


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    yeah one of my favorite youtube videos truly outstanding

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAQhrD6ek4k


    In tears here listening to that transition .... ****ing amazing .... wow wow wow wow !!!!!!


    I love it !


  • #3927
    tritriagain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭tritriagain


    Was there that night . I got a high with that transition that i never had before. Epic. Tears rolled down my face. Still gives me goosebumps. Also check out electric co. In Chicago. Towards the end of the song I think I'm just going to levitate . Amazing band live.


  • #3928
    TomSweeney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭TomSweeney


    tritriagain wrote: »
    Was there that night . I got a high with that transition that i never had before. Epic. Tears rolled down my face. Still gives me goosebumps. Also check out electric co. In Chicago. Towards the end of the song I think I'm just going to levitate . Amazing band live.
    When was that Slane concert ?


  • #3929
    JoeExotic81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭JoeExotic81


    TomSweeney wrote: »
    When was that Slane concert ?

    September 1st 2001, the same day Ireland beat Holland. A week after the first slane. Was at both! But yeah the second one was out of this world. And yep that transition is immaculate (although Please - Streets on Popmart was pretty close!)


  • #3930
    TomSweeney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭TomSweeney


    JoeExotic81 wrote: »
    September 1st 2001, the same day Ireland beat Holland. A week after the first slane. Was at both! But yeah the second one was out of this world. And yep that transition is immaculate (although Please - Streets on Popmart was pretty close!)
    Yeah that's a good one, where Please -> Streets yeah ?


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  • #3931
    TomSweeney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭TomSweeney



    another great transition into streets ... .


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