Why has nothing from Pop been played since Elevation Tour?

[Droo]

I would rather listen to the very worst U2 song/album ever than have to listen to Coldplay for any extended period of time.

[Sugarcube]

I would rather listen to the very worst U2 song/album ever than have to listen to Coldplay for any extended period of time.

Then you have cloth ears and a shockingly limited musical vocabulary.

[Droo]

Coldplay are the ones with a shockingly limited musical vocabulary.

[Tumbling Dice]

Coldplay have made some pretty good albums and some good to great songs.  They are also a very good live band, who could play a North American stadium tour if they choose to.  And I'm not even a fan.

[Sugarcube]

Coldplay are the ones with a shockingly limited musical vocabulary.

Either way you are the one with cloth ears

[singnomore]

This is a Pop thread yeah?

[mattressjedi]

This is a Pop thread yeah?

It is?
I thought it was about Coldplay, selling stadiums and people's ears? :p

I think The Edge tossing his guitar down in disgust after playing Gone on the live Elevation DVD says it all about how the band still feel about those POP songs.

[tigerfan41]

This is a Pop thread yeah?

It is?
I thought it was about Coldplay, selling stadiums and people's ears? :p

I think The Edge tossing his guitar down in disgust after playing Gone on the live Elevation DVD says it all about how the band still feel about those POP songs.

Yeah, like the other 3 or 4 recent threads that evolved into a Coldplay/U2 battle.  As if Coldplay can even be fairly compared to a legendary band like U2 at this point.....maybe in 10-20 years if Coldplay manages to stick around that long.

I've never seen that DVD. Now I need to.  However, wasn't that shot like 10 years ago? Perhaps they're not so disgusted with Pop anymore. Maybe it's grown on them.

[Tumbling Dice]

This is a Pop thread yeah?

It is?
I thought it was about Coldplay, selling stadiums and people's ears? :p

I think The Edge tossing his guitar down in disgust after playing Gone on the live Elevation DVD says it all about how the band still feel about those POP songs.

I think The Edge was expressing disgust at what they'd turned Gone into on the Elevation tour.

[The Unknown Caller]

Probably worth noting that U2 'distanced themselves' from it only when returning to the tour seventeen months after it came out. That is a very long time (Longer than the entire PopMart Tour!), and came after a significant gap. I think most fans believe that they would have played more NLOTH material if the tour had resumed on schedule in the USA in early 2010.

[Droo]

Coldplay are the ones with a shockingly limited musical vocabulary.

Either way you are the one with cloth ears

Oh dear. I'm devastated. Your opinion means ever so much to me.

[tigerfan41]

Probably worth noting that U2 'distanced themselves' from it only when returning to the tour seventeen months after it came out. That is a very long time (Longer than the entire PopMart Tour!), and came after a significant gap. I think most fans believe that they would have played more NLOTH material if the tour had resumed on schedule in the USA in early 2010.

Yep. There's no doubt in my mind that had the NLOTH tour finished out in 2010 as originally planned, U2 would have continued to promote it by playing several songs off the CD each night. Almost two years after the release of NLOTH, it didn't make much sense to continue promoting it.

[Tumbling Dice]

Probably worth noting that U2 'distanced themselves' from it only when returning to the tour seventeen months after it came out. That is a very long time (Longer than the entire PopMart Tour!), and came after a significant gap. I think most fans believe that they would have played more NLOTH material if the tour had resumed on schedule in the USA in early 2010.

Yep. There's no doubt in my mind that had the NLOTH tour finished out in 2010 as originally planned, U2 would have continued to promote it by playing several songs off the CD each night. Almost two years after the release of NLOTH, it didn't make much sense to continue promoting it.

I wonder why U2 bothered promoting Achtung Baby all the way down the yellow brick road to Sydney, Australia, y'all.

[tigerfan41]

Difference is that Achtung was a smash success at the time of release and considered to be perhaps their greatest CD. NLOTH, as much as I like it, was not the same smash success as Achtung.

[Sugarcube]

Coldplay are the ones with a shockingly limited musical vocabulary.

Either way you are the one with cloth ears

Oh dear. I'm devastated. Your opinion means ever so much to me.

My opinion obviously means something or you wouldn't have responded to my posts