Re: Greatest Hits Tour?? Why, Popmart already was!

Matthew Berg ([email protected])
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 23:55:16 -0400 (EDT)

I actually kinda agree here. PopMart did turn into a GH tour, although I
still loved it. I wished that they'd added RTSS ,Bad and "40" in Toronto,
but can't get them all :) . A friend of mine and I were talking about this
"unsung heros" thing. I thought it'd have been cool if they'd alternated
songs in the place where 'I Will Follow' was. Wouldn't it have been cool to
hear 'A Day Without Me', 'Out of Control', 'Fire', 'A Sort Of Homecoming',
or 'In God's Country' after 'Mofo'? I thought it would have been sweet if
they had like 10 songs that alternate in that spot. Or in the acoustic
slot, instead of just doing 'Staring At The Sun' and the occasional 'Desire'
it would have been cool to hear 'Seconds', 'Party Girl', 'Angel Of Harlem',
'Slow Dancing', or 'Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses' there. Wouldn't that
have been cool? I think they would have had a lot of people anxiously
coming to the concerts to hear the songs. Mind you, they did switch stuff
around. I went to both Toronto shows and the first night they had 'All I
Want Is You' tagged to 'I Still Haven't Found..'. The second night, the
very next night, they played 'Stand By Me' tagged to 'I Still Haven't
Found..', 'Desire' acoustic before 'Staring At The Sun', and 'Miami' after
'Sunday Bloody Sunday'. It was cool. So anyway, that's it.

                                 Matt

>>There's been alot of talk about the Greatest Hits CD, maybe too much talk.
>>But I've also seen quite a few people all over mention hopes of a Greatest
>>Hits tour to follow. In my opinion, we just had a greatest hits tour.
>>
>> Now, don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVED Popmart. And you can flame me
>>all you want for this. But why do a greatest hits tour. Isn't that pretty
>>much what Popmart was, or turned into? If the 14 songs they picked for the
>>new Cd are considered Greatest Hits, then look at the Popmart Setlists. 8 out
>>of 14 tracks were played regularly. By regularly, I mean atleast half the
>>tour. 2 out of the 14 were played on occassion. That's roughly 70% of their
>>"Greatest Hits Volume 1." If they did a Greatest Hits tour, what would they
>>add? Possibly songs that would be on volume 2? Like Bullet, Mysterious
>>Ways, One, Even Better Than The Real Thing....gee, they all sound familiar.
>> Honestly, what would a Greatest Hits tour setlist include any different
>>from a typical Popmart setlist? Granted, I would go to as many of the shows
>>as I could just because they are U2 and I love the music, but I think it would
>>be like Popmart all over again, just with a different stage. I'd rather see
>>the "unsung heroes" tour. A tour where they played all the songs that are
>>great, but you don't hear much live, or haven't heard since they toured with
>>the particular album the song was off.
>> I don't know about anyone else, but my favorite songs off most the albums
>>are the ones that were never released as singles, or you don't hear too much
>>about. The less "popular" songs. I could do without hearing Streets again,
>>or I Still Haven't Found... I could go on, but I won't.
>> Go ahead and flame me, but that's just my opinion, and I'm entitled to it.
>>I'm mostly a lurker, and I read other people's opinions everyday. For once, I
>>decided to voice mine.
>>
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