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Wha do you think is the highligts of the whole Vertigo tour?

Here's my list

Return of Zoo Station

LIB
Discothèque
OTH
Desire
AOH
Kite
WGRYWH(Twickenham)
Gloria
Bad(2005-09-14 and 2005-12-04)
Electric Co
Miss Sarajevo(Milan 1 & 2)
WTSHNN
SYCMIOYO
Vertigo2
BD
LPOE(React now)

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Bad, The Electric Co, VertigoX2, The First Time, Discotheque , ZOO STATION (Once Bono got with the lyrics), Crumbs From Your Table, Gloria, An Cat Dubh, Into The Heart....Kite...and One Fucking Tree Hill.

intedomine

- Yahweh/40
- The First Time making it's live debut
- Vertigo/Stories For Boys
- The return of An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart and Gloria after a lengthy absence
- Bono's text messages
- Achtung Baby encores (PoP encore for the next tour?)
- The curtain of lights used at the arena shows

blueyedpoet

damn, being at that dress rehearsal in LA was my highlight....I saw the show three other times, but seeing the band still trying to get certain songs right and edge figuring which pedal to hit.....funtastic
COBL with the confetti is the most inspirational opener Ive ever seen

Axver

Tied for first:
- One Tree Hill
- The Electric Co.

Then, in no particular order:
- Best version ever of The Fly
- Gloria
- An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
- Stories For Boys snippet in Vertigo
- Zoo Station
- Bad/40 as a closer
- The First Time
- Miss Sarajevo, especially Bono's opera vocals
- Full electric Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
- COBL and LAPOE as openers
- Gorgeous new Kite

So many good memories. It's so weird that it's now all over.

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THE ELECTRIC CO.

and...Kite, Miss Sarajevo

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U2girl

The electric co., the new Fly and the new Kite.

Very honourable mention First time and One tree hill and Miss Sarajevo.

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adrball

another one...Chrisedge and his early recordings

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Benh5555

The new songs from the "bomb":Vertigo, COBL, Sometimes, Miracle Drug, Crumbs and Yahweh.

Streets as the best live song ever in every U2 concert that songs creates a madness and the loudest response.

Bad-one of the best and the most powerful U2 songs.

One Tree Hill-one of the most emotional songs (and not just by U2). It brought tears in my eyes, just like a few songs can do.

Miss Sarajevo-Bono¨s voice was simply amazing here.

Electric Co. definitely one of the highlights on Vertigo Tour.
Great rocking song and after this tour my favorite songs from Boy.

Gloria-when I heard this song live my childhood dreams came true and now I have heard at least one song from every U2 album.

The Fly-on every tour this song is better and better (I do not know why Edge said that maybe it would not stood the test of time or something like that).

The First Time

Classics such as SBS, One, WOWY, Beautiful Day.....

I wish we could hear more songs from Pop, specially Please (full band, Pop Mart style) or from AB like Acrobat (dream on dreamers), but I am more than happy with Vertigo Tour.

*Ally*

agreed- that was fantastic!!!

other highlights:

Bono banging on the drum during LAPOE
the return of Discotheque in Toronto, with the Pop Muzik intro
Fast Cars
UTEOTW with Edge running around the ellipse and Bono chasing him
Bad with "People Got the Power" snippet
Miss Sarajevo
and finally, a happy, smiling Adam Clayton

it was a great tour....

TheBrazilianFly

There are many highlights from this tour for me. Three special ones are the powerful comebacks of:
The Electric Co.
One Tree Hill
Kite

The comeback of The Electric Co. was unexpected and the energy that they guys had when playing this one was pretty fucking awesome! Watching it live in front of me was pretty much one of the best moments of my life. One Tree Hill was a beautiful gift for long time fans and like what was happening on The Elevation Tour it seems that U2 are no longer afraid of reaching back to their catalogue and playing those older (and in this case slightly obscure) songs. This new and powerfully emotional version of Kite (still a new song in my mind) at the end of the tour after a time without touring was once again the proof that every time U2 is “coming back” they can blow us away in a very natural and original way. Beautiful. Gives me great hope for the next tours and albums.


Other fantastic highlights:
- Larry playing the drums at the ellipse then moving back to his “place” with Samurai Bono sharing the vocals with him during the chorus and later taking over it at the ellipse during Love And Peace Or Else. One of my favorites, most powerful, coolest and original moments in U2 touring history in my humble opinion.
- The energy and feeling of freshness that there was at the beginning of this tour when they were changing openers, coming up with different setlists, trying new arrangements and bringing back really old songs. It’s very hard to beat that feeling.
- Bono’s vocals. It wasn’t just Sometimes and Miss Sarajevo that got a special treat. All songs did, he was really belting it out in all songs. Screaming, wailing and naturally singing like he hasn’t ever before. He’s got into a different place as a singer and I admit that I did not expect this to happen! Congrats to the B-Man!
- The “fucking up with our usual attitude and image on stage” kind of feeling that I surely felt during this tour with Adam smiling and walking all over the ellipse, Larry speaking at the microphone, Edge shaking his fist in the air during Zoo Station and many, many more.
- The Fly. My favorite version of this song. Larry and Edge rule big fucking time!
- Vertigo. One of the most energetic and ass kicking live songs they got.
- An Cat Dubh / Into The Heart. Fucking great move. Added a different color to the show. They don’t have many songs like that.
- Gloria
- Elevation
- Discothèque
- Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses. Wow, didn’t expect this one to comeback electric and with a nice new little solo at the end. I was a bit disappointed that they started playing the acoustic version of it later but they were still playing this beautiful song anyway.
- Yahweh. As much as I love the all band version on the record this acoustic version was really beautiful and unique.
- The Ocean
- The Africa Speech between Pride and Streets. That’s right I love them! They were inspiring, honest and after all this is U2! They came from the heart and suited those songs really well creating once again “that special U2 moment” with those two songs.
- Playing The Saints Are Coming and Window In The Skies was a nice move cause it added freshness to the show after so many moments without touring and then coming back to the same tour.
- Miss Sarajevo. So cool and unexpected to have this song back and with Bono not only singing Pavarotti’s vocals but nailing it big time!
- The many snippets of U2 songs (like Twilight, Love Rescue Me, In A Little While, Please, Love Is Blindness….) and other great non-U2 songs (Here Comes The Sun, Many Rivers To Cross, Johnny Comes Marching Home, Enter Sandman, Ol’ Man River, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band….)


There are more but those are the ones that stand out in my mind right now!

one4u2

Running To Stand Still

Gloria which was not played at any of the 5 shows I went to

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LemonMacPhisto

The return of annoying acronyms

My highlights:

The ZooTV encore
The Electric Co.'s resurgence
All I Want is You becoming a closer
City of Blinding Lights opening
Running to Stand Still's return
Miss Sarajevo popping out of nowhere
Bad actually being played a substantial amount of times
With or Without You not sucking as bad this tour
Gloria
Kite's return on the 5th leg (4.5th?)

there are others but I forgot.

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Blue Room

1. Electric Co

Everything else isnt even close to me.

Tied for 2nd:

Running To Stand Still
Zoo Station
An Cat Dubh
Gloria
Fast Cars

Honorable Mention:
One Tree Hill
Kite


Next tour they just need to bring back God Part II and Hawkmoon 269 and my list of songs I want to return someday will be complete as I got my number 1 choice this tour. Not holding my breath though.