National Car Rental Center - Sunrise, Florida, USAĮlevation / Creep (snippet) / Steppin' Stone (snippet), Beautiful Day, Until the End of the World, Discothèque / Love To Love You Baby (snippet) / Devil Inside (snippet) / Staring at the Sun (snippet), Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of, New York, New Year's Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday / Could You Be Loved (snippet) / Get Up Stand Up (snippet), Sweetest Thing, In a Little While / Crazy Love (snippet), Angel of Harlem, Bad / Ruby Tuesday (snippet), Psalm 116 (snippet) / Where the Streets Have No Name, Mysterious Ways / Dance To The Music (snippet) / Sexual Healing (snippet), The Fly encores: Bullet the Blue Sky / Whole Lotta Love (snippet) / Young Americans (snippet), With or Without You, One / Hear Us Coming (snippet) / Unchained Melody (snippet), Walk OnĬomment: First performance of Angel Of Harlem since 10 December 1993. If this song had rolled out in conjunction with the announcement that the iPhone 7 would no longer have a standard headphone jack, the digital vitriol would likely have eclipsed even what Kendall Jenner's Pepsi commercial elicited.National Car Rental Center - Sunrise, Florida, USAĮlevation / Creep (snippet), Beautiful Day, Until the End of the World, New Year's Day, Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of, Gone, Discothèque / Devil Inside (snippet) / Love To Love You Baby (snippet) / Staring at the Sun (snippet), New York, I Will Follow, Sunday Bloody Sunday / Could You Be Loved (snippet) / Get Up Stand Up (snippet), Sweetest Thing, In a Little While, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Bad / Walk On The Wild Side (snippet), Psalm 116 (snippet) / Where the Streets Have No Name, Mysterious Ways / Sexual Healing (snippet), The Fly encores: Bullet the Blue Sky / Whole Lotta Love (snippet) / Young Americans (snippet), With or Without You, One / Hear Us Coming (snippet), Walk On / 40 (snippet)Ĭomment: Live debuts of In A Little While and Walk On. And yet, this song sells the idea that resistance is fun - "When the lights go out / throw yourself about / in the darkness, where we learn to see," he urges on the chorus. ![]() It's a message that Bono, given his political and lyrical history, should be able to deliver convincingly. It's ostensibly a song about a moment of worldwide political entropy - a moment in which we look to the abyss and find that we are the light. This line goes beyond even "Love And Peace Or Else" in its neutering of political meaning. "Statues fall / Democracy is flat on its back, Jack" he sings in one verse. And Bono still has an incredible voice, but his melodies on these introductory songs have had a dulled sheen, like over-workshopped polemics.īono, whose brand of pop stardom crystallizes most of the things detractors of the band love to hate, here hits a relative low-point, lyrically. It's as if 2004's "Vertigo" broke something since then - with "Get On Your Boots" off No Line On The Horizon and "The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)" off Songs Of Innocence and now "The Blackout" off Songs Of Experience - the band has formally introduced its new records with slogs of distorted guitar and stomps of drum and bass. ![]() Out of deference to "Bullet The Blue Sky," it should be said that that's about where the similarities end. Director Richie Smyth filmed the band performing the song for an audience in Amsterdam, and the piece uses a similar high-contrast visual technique as in the Joshua Tree tour visualization for "Bullet The Blue Sky." As with that song, "The Blackout" is explicitly political. Don't bother checking your iPhone for a surreptitious download this one you can find on their Facebook page under the auspices of Facebook Live. Today, the band released a performance video for their new song "The Blackout," off their upcoming Songs of Experience. ![]() For a brief moment in the hot, raw summer of 2017, it seemed like there could be a place for U2's activist uplift - for its project of unity - again. ![]() As other, more grippingly consequential upheavals occurred over the ensuing years, the band found themselves touring their newly relevant 1987 classic, The Joshua Tree. U2 seems to have asked themselves the same question. After the unfortunate Songs of Innocence roll-out, many people questioned whether there was still a place for U2 in 2014 and beyond.
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