Similar to the Boston vs go home thread a combined setlist of these shows. This time because of the length of Paris I’m going to pick 26 songs. I think this would have been a good set if the SOI and SOE albums were released at the same time. I’ve put in brackets which performance songs are from when they were played at both shows.
The blackout
Lights of home
Gloria
I will follow (Paris)
Iris
Cedarwood road
Song for someone
Raised by wolves
Until the end of the world
Who’s gonna ride your wild horses
Intermission
Invisible
Zoo station
The fly (Berlin, wouldn’t count Paris as a performance anyway)
Even better than the real thing (Paris)
Acrobat
Stay
Every Breaking Wave
October
Bullet the blue sky
Zooropa
Where the streets have no name
With or without you
New Year’s Day
City of Blinding Lights (Paris)
Bad
Love is bigger Than Anything In Its Way
I wonder if the Paris/Berlin duo come anywhere close to the original vision that the band had the tour – i.e. pair of shows of 'innocence' and 'experience' with different setlists...
I put together a combined show a while ago and still quite like it. Overall I think Paris is a much more cohesive show, but Berlin has its moments (however I also think SOI is a stronger record)
The first 11 songs is taken straight from the first half of the I+E show with the addition of The Ocean from E+I, while the second half is a bit of a mishmash of both shows but seems to work well in that the bulk of the songs/performances revolve around the idea speaking to your younger self from an “experienced” point of view (Little Things instead of EBW, 2015 version of Bullet, 2018 version of Dirty Day, GOOYOW, Love is Bigger, 13). The main set is rounded out with the speech to Ali Bono would give while taking off his makeup after Acrobat, but instead of going into Best Thing acoustic, it would go into WOWY, which I think would have been far more powerful.
1. The Miracle/Invisible
2. OOC/Electric Co/Gloria/Two Hearts (rotation)
3. Vertigo
4. I Will Follow
5. The Ocean
6. Iris
7. Cedarwood
8. SFS
9. SBS
10. RBW
11. UTEOTW
12. MRI sequence > Love is All We Have Left (sung offstage similar to The Fly in late 2015)
13. Zoo Station (in cage)
14. The Fly/EBTTRT (in cage)
15. Dirty Day (in cage with Bono singing to his dad)
16. Wild Horses (ends with full band on E-stage)
17. Beautiful Day (on E-stage)
18. Little Things (Bono + Edge on E-stage, Larry + Adam back on main stage)
19. Bullet
20. Zooropa
21. Streets
22. GOOYOW
23. mirror speech to Ali from before Best Thing acoustic > WOWY/AIWIY
