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“Tell me, tell me the story
The one about eternity
And the way it’s all gonna be…”
#PopMart #TheVirtualRoad
I’m glad I finally got to experience a Virtual Road with everyone, and wish I’d been able to join in for Slane and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Anyways, as the concert comes to a close so does the trivia that somehow slowly turned into a rant. There’s lots mo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I’m not sure anything can save Miami though ;-) #PopMart #TheVirtualRoad
Staring at the Sun is great even acoustic, and the full Wake Up Dead Man is almost beyond words. Meanwhile Gone is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Discotheque is a banger live (especially that Vertigo version), Last Night on Earth is a forgotten rocker, and Plea… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Pop will always be unfairly maligned. But switch the songs around with their final versions at your pleasure and wh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
It is honestly shocking to watch ZooTV Sydney and PopMart Mexico back-to-back and hear the difference in his voice… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The Pop era has a few things working against it that cement all of this as so-called “fact”. Obviously the rush we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And so without the band saying a word, it has become a known “fact” that it is the worst U2 album, the album none o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This has in turn reflected back on the band; comments that they wish they had more time to finish the album, or tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In my own opinion, this is all just drivel. The rush to complete it is so well known that this fact alone is what h… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Pop unfairly gets a bad rap among fans because it is known as the “unfinished”, the “rushed”, or the “incomplete” U… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And if you go to the wider Pop era of time then I raise Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me to all the doubters. I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Meanwhile, THE PLAYBOY MANSION (of all songs!) was rehearsed leading up to the opening of i+e in 2015, and Staring… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
If God Will Send His Angels was rehearsed leading up to the opening of the 360 Tour. There were (unconfirmed) repor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Good question! Anybody know? twitter.com/AchtungBubbles…
@BoSoxFan73 The Zooropa leg was a part of the ZooTV Tour. The first two legs were just called leg 1 and 2, but the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Mofo was rehearsed extensively during the third leg of the Vertigo Tour, and when fans mid-leg asked Bono when they… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
toreurke @u2gigs Out of season, but it is the only tour stage I love so much that I made a gingerbread version of it. https://t.co/wocNzi8vvR
Bono is on record on multiple occasions saying Staring at the Sun is one of his favourite U2 songs. The band are ha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
But you know what? Despite the negative outlook fans have towards future Pop song performances, it isn’t all doom a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In other words, Pop has been outperformed by not just October and Zooropa, but also the forgotten album that many d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Mofo, Last Night on Earth, If God Will Send His Angels, If You Wear That Velvet Dress, and Do You Feel Loved have n… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
For those keeping score, that is 3 Pop song performances in 17 years. #PopMart #TheVirtualRoad
Apart from those two lonely performances of Discotheque, between the end of the Elevation Tour in 2001 and the star… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Beyond that, it appeared at a handful of 360 shows as a snippet during Crazy Tonight. #PopMart #TheVirtualRoad
It honestly baffles me that Discotheque was done only twice. If you haven’t seen it for a while, take a look at tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Since the end of the Elevation Tour some two decades ago, just two Pop songs have appeared in a U2 set. Discotheque… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Incidentally, Gone has never been snippeted. The margin is far greater when you take away the very recent 27 perfor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
At this point I’ll give a reminder that Gone was last played 27 August 2001. #PopMart #TheVirtualRoad
Though they do top the list at 156 and 158 appearances respectively with snippets included, when it comes to pure s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
You probably think that (not including snippets) Discotheque or Staring at the Sun is the most played Pop song. You… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Yes, though the exact date they stopped and switched to acoustic escapes me. twitter.com/JoaoEvanildo/s…
Rather pleasingly (see what I did there?), that full band Please led into Streets in a nice little callback to PopM… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Following the end of the PopMart Tour, Please has been performed full band electric just once, 19 October 2001 in B… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I could go on more about the tour itself, but shall we go on to some Pop song facts? #PopMart #TheVirtualRoad
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Wake Up Dead Man wasn’t the only Pop song in this closing role, however. After being skipped in the main set, Stari… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
One was arguably the closing song of the tour, as when it was followed by another song it was almost always just a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@AchtungBubbles With the quality of some of those recordings it damn near drove me mad.
(If you don’t know what I’m talking about with this, Larry subtly inserted the drumbeat into Please during the “Sep… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
MarkCDarwin Full version of animated short played at the beginning of Last Night on Earth Sadly not seen hardly at all on the M… https://t.co/FLtfG7uBc6
Sunday Bloody Sunday has the greatest number of live appearances in our database at 1048 times. This is largely tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
PopMart joins the Lovetown Tour as the only occasion where every song from it’s associated album appeared live in s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The only time I can think of where the crowd audibly booed or heckled them since the VERY early 80s. Unsurprisingly… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The concert in Oslo also featured the only time a Zooropa song was even snippeted during the tour. Perhaps predicta… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Despite that, there was a lot of love shown for one song from Zooropa, with a giant LEMON car the band rode in for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This also makes PopMart the only U2 tour where the band did not play a single song from the preceeding album. Only… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
U2 were short on rehearsal time pre-tour, and that shows in the bootleg recordings of days leading up to opening ni… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
PopMart is also the last time Edge took centre stage on vocals on a regular basis, thanks to his “karaoke” slot mid… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
PopMart is the only U2 tour to have visited every inhabitable continent, including first visits to Africa and South… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Until i+e in 2015, PopMart was the last U2 tour were one song opened every concert - MOFO! #PopMart #TheVirtualRoad
Over the 93 PopMart concerts, 17 songs were performed every night; concerts generally had between 22 and 24 songs…. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
How about a bit of PopMart trivia before the show hits the Virtual Road? #PopMart #TheVirtualRoad
@u2songs @harrykantas Definitely some of the most creative and fun promo items they’ve ever done. I’ll never unders… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
madfl3a Truly think the Virtual Wave can happen #U2Fam! Let’s all share this gif (or one of your own) at show time along wi… https://t.co/3MXrN4Q6As
u2songs Stress balls, advent calendars, giant inflatable lemons, fridge magnets, disco balls, and so much more. The #Pop an… https://t.co/QAsrY92HRc