Matt & Melissa: 60 Shows

Always a Party

Edge: Running to Stand Still

Innocence and Experience: Aggregated Tour Setlist

1.            The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
2.            The Electric Co.
3.            Vertigo
4.            I Will Follow
5.            Iris (Hold Me Close)
6.            Cedarwood Road
7.            Song for Someone
8.            Sunday Bloody Sunday
9.            Raised by Wolves
10.          Until the End of the World

Intermission - The Wanderer

11.          Invisible
12.          Even Better Than the Real Thing
13.          Mysterious Ways
14.          Angel of Harlem
15.          When Love Comes to Town
16.          Every Breaking Wave
17.          Bullet the Blue Sky
18.          Pride
19.          Beautiful Day
20.          All I Want Is You
21.          With or Without You

Encore:

22.          City of Blinding Lights
23.          Where the Streets Have No Name
24.          40

Alts

1.            One
2.            In God's Country
3.            Desire
4.            Elevation
5.            Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
6.            I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
7.            Bad
8.            The Ocean
9.            11 O'Clock Tick Tock
11.          Sweetest Thing
12.          Miracle Drug
13.          Out of Control
14.          Ordinary Love
15.          The Troubles
16.          Lucifer's Hands
17.         Gloria
18.         Crystal Ballroom
19.         October
20.         Satellite of Love
21.         Party Girl
22.         Two Hearts Beat as One

Songs Of Innocence Gives U2 its Second Straight Five Star Album

No other rock band does rebirth like U2. No other band – certainly of U2's duration, commercial success and creative achievement – believes it needs rebirth more and so often. But even by the standards of transformation on 1987's The Joshua Tree and 1991's Achtung! Baby, Songs of Innocence – U2's first studio album in five years – is a triumph of dynamic, focused renaissance: 11 tracks of straightforward rapture about the life-saving joys of music, drawing on U2's long palette of influences and investigations of post-punk rock, industrial electronics and contemporary dance music. "You and I are rock & roll," Bono shouts in "Volcano," a song about imminent eruption, through a propulsive delirium of throaty, striding bass, alien-choral effects and the Edge's rusted-treble jolts of Gang of Four-vintage guitar. Bono also sings this, earlier in a darker, more challenging tone: "Do you live here or is this a vacation?" For U2, rock & roll was always a life's work – and the work is never done.

NLOTH: The Much-Maligned Album Got Five Stars

"I was born to sing for you/I didn't have a choice but to lift you up," Bono declares early on this album, in a song called "Magnificent." He does it in an oddly low register, a heated hush just above the shimmer of the Edge's guitar and the iron-horse roll of bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. Bono is soon up in thin air with those familiar rodeo yells, on his way to the chorus, which ends with him just singing the word "magnificent," repeating it with relish, stretching the syllables.

But he does it not in self-congratulation, more like wonder and respect, as if in middle age, on his band's 11th studio album, he still can't believe his gift — and luck. Bono knows he was born with a good weapon for making the right kind of trouble: the clean gleam and rocket's arc of that voice. "It was one dull morning/I woke the world with bawling," he boasted in "Out of Control," written by Bono on his 18th birthday and issued on U2's Irish debut EP.