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I don't know much U2 and don't like what I've heard, but (unlike most around here) I'm open to having my mind changed. Someone tell me why I should like them and where to start, and I'll dig in. I want to be convinced!
I get that bonnaroo booking U2 is a big deal, but I couldn't care less about seeing them or any of the other headliners for that matter. I'm sure they'll have a great stage and light show setup and I don't see myself disliking their set, but I'm not particularly hype for it.
I get that bonnaroo booking U2 is a big deal, but I couldn't care less about seeing them or any of the other headliners for that matter. I'm sure they'll have a great stage and light show setup and I don't see myself disliking their set, but I'm not particularly hype for it.
Same. I'd never have tried to see u2 even if I could get tickets. They don't seem to fit the old OR the new style of the festival. Seems like the were booked more to make a splash. Beyonce would have fit this lineup better, not that I'd have come for that either
I don't know much U2 and don't like what I've heard, but (unlike most around here) I'm open to having my mind changed. Someone tell me why I should like them and where to start, and I'll dig in. I want to be convinced!
Start with Achtung Baby, arguably their most adventurous and consistent work.
U2 have been a band who has been wildly inconsistent on their studio albums, even on their newer albums they have 2-3 fantastic songs that remind you what the band is capable of, and then the rest of the album is a snooze. Good thing is they stick to their stronger songs in their live sets. I'd say listen to Achtung Baby and Joshua Tree in full and then look at the songs I picked off of their other albums and check those out. The trilogy of Achtung/Zoorpa/Pop is their most experimental work and has most of their best songs, but we probably won't see many of these played at Roo. But long story short, there's at least 1-2 great songs on EVERY U2 album.
Achtung Baby (in full) Joshua Tree (in full) Pop - MOFO - Gone - Please - Staring At The Sun - Discotheque War - Sunday Bloody Sunday - 40 - Two Hearts Beat As One - New Years Day The Unforgettable Fire - The Unforgettable Fire - Pride (In the Name of Love) - Bad (!!!!!) Zooropa - Babyface - Lemon (!!!!!) - Stay - Daddy's Gonna Pay for your Crashed Car Boy - I Will Follow - An Cat Dubh - Out of Control - The Electric Co. October - Gloria - I Threw A Brick Through A Window And All That You Can't Leave Behind - New York - Walk On No Line on the Horizon - No Line on the Horizon - Breathe How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - Crumbs from your Table - Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own (!!!!!) Songs of Innocence - Volcano - Every Breaking Wave Rattle & Hum - Desire
Post by downonthefarm on Jan 13, 2017 1:35:29 GMT -5
I saw U2 at the Astrodome on the Popmart Tour in 97. Great show, played most of Pop. I remember Bono saying in the middle of the set something very close to:
"Thanks forcoming out tonight, a lot of people want to hear the Joshua Tree over and over again, but we are playing music thats real for us, That way its not bullshit for you." Or something like that.
I loved this quote at the time, i would rather hear an artist give his all on a song i do not know than go through the motions on some hits.
I saw U2 at the Astrodome on the Popmart Tour in 97. Great show, played most of Pop. I remember Bono saying in the middle of the set something very close to:
"Thanks forcoming out tonight, a lot of people want to hear the Joshua Tree over and over again, but we are playing music thats real for us, That way its not bullshit for you." Or something like that.
I loved this quote at the time, i would rather hear an artist give his all on a song i do not know than go through the motions on some hits.
with or without you came on the radio yesterday when I was driving home and i seriously tried to imagine what it would be like to play certain songs every night on tour for months at a time... that leads to years of your life if you're a great band... geez. I guess I wouldn't want to play hits motionless over and over again either.
I saw U2 at the Astrodome on the Popmart Tour in 97. Great show, played most of Pop. I remember Bono saying in the middle of the set something very close to:
"Thanks forcoming out tonight, a lot of people want to hear the Joshua Tree over and over again, but we are playing music thats real for us, That way its not bullshit for you." Or something like that.
I loved this quote at the time, i would rather hear an artist give his all on a song i do not know than go through the motions on some hits.
with or without you came on the radio yesterday when I was driving home and i seriously tried to imagine what it would be like to play certain songs every night on tour for months at a time... that leads to years of your life if you're a great band... geez. I guess I wouldn't want to play hits motionless over and over again either.
I have a feeling they'll play hits fore sure, I'm just hoping we get at least one or two Zooropa/POP songs since they'll hopefully be playing more of their upbeat, dance-y stuff at a festival.
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with or without you came on the radio yesterday when I was driving home and i seriously tried to imagine what it would be like to play certain songs every night on tour for months at a time... that leads to years of your life if you're a great band... geez. I guess I wouldn't want to play hits motionless over and over again either.
I have a feeling they'll play hits fore sure, I'm just hoping we get at least one or two Zooropa/POP songs since they'll hopefully be playing more of their upbeat, dance-y stuff at a festival.
I don't know much U2 and don't like what I've heard, but (unlike most around here) I'm open to having my mind changed. Someone tell me why I should like them and where to start, and I'll dig in. I want to be convinced!
Start with Achtung Baby, arguably their most adventurous and consistent work.
U2 have been a band who has been wildly inconsistent on their studio albums, even on their newer albums they have 2-3 fantastic songs that remind you what the band is capable of, and then the rest of the album is a snooze. Good thing is they stick to their stronger songs in their live sets. I'd say listen to Achtung Baby and Joshua Tree in full and then look at the songs I picked off of their other albums and check those out. The trilogy of Achtung/Zoorpa/Pop is their most experimental work and has most of their best songs, but we probably won't see many of these played at Roo. But long story short, there's at least 1-2 great songs on EVERY U2 album.
Achtung Baby (in full) Joshua Tree (in full) Pop - MOFO - Gone - Please - Staring At The Sun - Discotheque War - Sunday Bloody Sunday - 40 - Two Hearts Beat As One - New Years Day The Unforgettable Fire - The Unforgettable Fire - Pride (In the Name of Love) - Bad (!!!!!) Zooropa - Babyface - Lemon (!!!!!) - Stay - Daddy's Gonna Pay for your Crashed Car Boy - I Will Follow - An Cat Dubh - Out of Control - The Electric Co. October - Gloria - I Threw A Brick Through A Window And All That You Can't Leave Behind - New York - Walk On No Line on the Horizon - No Line on the Horizon - Breathe How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - Crumbs from your Table - Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own (!!!!!) Songs of Innocence - Volcano - Every Breaking Wave Rattle & Hum - Desire
This is exactly the type of post I was looking for! Thank you so much! I'll give them more than a fair shot -- clearly they have very devoted fans. I hope (minimally) that I can get into them enough to be excited for their show. I'll be there no matter what, but I'd like to think this will be a life-changing moment for me. Thank you so much for your time and effort!!
First of all, I am STUNNED this thread is so short! I was expecting flaming fire flames everywhere on the front page. I have mostly stayed away from Inforoo since last June since I gave birth to my perfect baby angel daughter in August and have been assuming that life-altering experience would preclude me from making the trek from Ohio to Tennessee for my 7th straight Bonnaroo. That was before U2 was confirmed. Now I'm texting my mom friends to see whether I can make it a couple nights away when Baby Girl is 10 months old without weaning her, and wondering whether the Centeroo security will try to confiscate my manual breast pump. Can I fly in on Friday, convince my siblings to set up a tent for Jesioneka and I, then pack up and drop one of their cars at the Nashville airport on Sunday since there aren't exit shuttles that day? Can I pack what I need for two days at Roo into a carry-on after slowly upgrading over the years from four people in a 2004 Saturn Ion to two-three in a Subaru Forester and accommodate all our gear?
I digress.
The Joshua Tree and I were born just two months apart in 1987. This was the first album, and the first band, that I ever became obsessively fixated with - saving money from my coffee shop gig and haunting the local used record shops to compile their entire catalog in my childhood bedroom (CDs at the time - like most aging millenials of a certain alt caliber, I now pretend to understand and collect vinyl). We're talking the B Sides, the Batman soundtrack for that one song... anything I could get my hands on. My AIM screenname was "brittheartsU2" and I named my first car Larry Lumina after Larry Mullen Jr. I took part in an annual Christmas gift exchanges with other rabid admirers around the world on U2 fan site atU2 of U2-themed ornaments and other such treasures. My mom spent an inordinate amount of time and money that she certainly did not have planned for my Christmas gifts that year on a U2 edition iPod. Before the days of Amazon's ubiquity, this entailed calling a number of retailers and finally having it privately shipped from a tiny shop in New York. I still have the damn thing, but it's a Vertigo-themed brick buried in an IKEA Expedit bin somewhere in our guest room.
Then, lo and behold, that same year.... Bono et al decided to make their way to Cleveland. I remember tickets selling out and a rumor that a new section of seating at the Q was going to be released on a Saturday morning when I was working another high school gig at a local optometrist's office. Pulling through for me again, my mom dropped another wad of cash beyond what our family normally spent on Christmas for the second year in a row.. and didn't even GO TO THE CONCERT. (Damn did that woman teach me about a mother's love). She sent Dad and I, who took the Rapid into downtown and made one of the best father-daughter memories we have to date.
I am not an arena rock girl. My Bonnafamily will be the first to tell you that I generally sleep through the headliner sets to save energy for late night (particularly the old white dude rocker sets). That cold December 2005 night in Cleveland, despite being miles from the stage, I did not feel that I was at an arena rock show of some generic radio band. The breadth and depth of their song selections did not disappoint, spanning from a smattering of the then-current Vertigo, to each and every of their previous reinventions to that date. A space so large had never felt so small to me and I rode the high for weeks afterwards, and in fact still have chills thinking about it today. My dad also slipped me an underage beer or two, which just lends another little tinge of conspiratorial nostalgia to the whole event.
12 years and one U2 Encyclopedia later, I am trying to move personal mountains to get to this show. (Side note on the encyclopedia: I have worked in state government for the last near-decade and the only thing I have ever said to our state's governor - because I am not remotely important but did get to sit in on a couple meetings with him early in my career - was "Oh wow! *Gestured to U2 Encyclopedia on his coffee table* I have that book, I LOVE U2!" Crickets commenced). I will admit I know little about the last two albums and have not even listened to many of my favorites in full for years, but I am having a pretty incredible night introducing my partner to Bad, Tomorrow, Shadows & Tall Trees, The First Time, Who's Gonna Ride.... and realizing how these lyrics and the emotions these songs stirred in my teenage heart have stayed with me. Staring at the Sun taught me what the word "intransigence" means, for god's sake. Staring at my baby sleeping on the monitor in the next room, after dancing to Joshua Tree with her giggling in the living room while her dad cooked dinner, is showing me new evolutions of what these songs mean to me.
This Irish quartet and this damn festival mean so much to me. U2 sparked my love of music and Bonnaroo has sustained it, and created a space for me to spend nearly a week straight with my dear husband and our siblings and friends every year away from the rest of the world and whatever day-to-day worries normally keep us apart. I will of course be aiming to find tickets for Dad and I to the final North American tour show in Cleveland and do everything I can to share that experience with him, but I can't imagine not sharing this event on The Farm with the love of my life, little brother, and sweet little sis-in-law if I have the chance. I have always hoped but never dreamed that I would read an announcement like this.
EDIT: TL;DR: I love U2, see ya on the Farm.
Great story. I'm a 7 year veteran of Roo and definitely way older than most of you. I saw U2 on the Joshua Tree tour in 1987 and an additional 4 times since then. Every single time they delivered with great musicianship and cutting edge production. I get why twenty-somethings might not be all that interested in them, when I was young I wasn't all that into the Elvis music my father played, but for me they are one of the great acts of my generation and a far better nostalgia act than Elton John or Billy Joel. Love them or hate them, I have no doubt they'll deliver a memorable show worthy of the headline spot at Bonnaroo. I'll be there, up front, unless of course, it conflicts with my getting the rail for Marshemello.
I know, there are more than this to consider but I just went with my gut and here is the list:
1. Where The Streets Have No Name 2. Sunday Bloody Sunday 3. New Year's Day 4. One 5. Pride (In The Name Of Love) 6. Desire 7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 8. Bullet The Blue Sky 9. With Or Without You 10. New York
U2 has a way of stirring the emotions.......some songs upbeat..others slow...but nonetheless...High Energy!
At 27 I am the youngest/only U2 fan that I know. My Dad was always a avid fan and I't brings back great memories of us riding around in the car. I get most people my age won't be as excited but most of my interactions with people my age about them headlining goes about the same.
Peer: U2 is headlining?! Fuck BONO!
Me: Do you know any of there music?
Peer: Ya all the ones that interrupt my playlist on Itunes!
*Casual slip on 1 of a dozen U2 songs and after they are half was through the sing along
Peer: Oh this is U2? Well that song will be cool live.
Then repeat that cycle until they forget about that South park episode.
Post by klimfactor on Jan 18, 2017 11:07:07 GMT -5
I can't believe how fast the U2 stadium shows sold out. My wife tried to get tickets to the Cleveland show and was shut out. The resale market is insane. I looked for her, and quit when I saw nosebleed seats for hundreds of dollars.
Yeah I'm starting to think that this booking will go a long way for Roo's sales this year. When they announced the other tour dates around Roo I figured here comes another PJ situation where people can just see them elsewhere but so many people seem to be getting shut out that they could look to Roo as an alternative. For me personally, if you took them off the top 3 I'd probably be staying home.
I can't believe how fast the U2 stadium shows sold out. My wife tried to get tickets to the Cleveland show and was shut out. The resale market is insane. I looked for her, and quit when I saw nosebleed seats for hundreds of dollars.
I was lucky enough to get 3 tickets GA on the field for Cleveland. I'm pretty freaking stoked, especially since I can't make Roo this year.
They sold 1.2m tickets in less than 12hrs...that's pretty unheard of. Ticket prices on the resale market are insane for the stadium shows. You can get a Roo ticket for the same as a field ticket in NYC or LA.
Sounds like there's a B-stage in the shape of a Joshua Tree...if they play Friday there's a chance they can get that setup Thursday when the What is closed.
Spent last night listening to Achtung Baby/Zooropa/POP. There's some seriously good songs on these albums, even though I'm pretty sure they don't play much from the latter 2 albums anymore. I would love to see them play any of the following:
Do You Feel Loved MOFO Zooropa Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car Lemon Acrobat
So just listened to all of 'U Talkin U2 To Me' (highly recommend if you like 'Comedy Bang! Bang!', and have to admit if i go U2 would now probably be my most excited act to see. Scott Aukerman and Adam Scott really know there shit with U2, if you can get through their hilarious tangents. And the final interview with their interview of the band was really awesome i thought.
Still up in the air on going to Roo, but wasn't the BIGGEST of fans before listening to the podcast, and now will admit i am kinda becoming a fan.
