The last two albums U2.com offered did not really get a warm welcome from fans because of an excess

After a seven-month wait - and more - the U22 album finally reached cheap orlando hotels the mailboxes of paying cheap orlando hotels subscribers to U2.com. This live album of the 360° Tour includes cheap orlando hotels 24 songs on 22 tracks which were chosen by fans. Is the album up to what was expected in order to live again the 360° tour?… Verdict
The U22 tracklisting is pretty sweet, including a version of Until The End Of The World dedicated to Frank Sinatra , Streets , or even Elevation cheap orlando hotels - which stands up to its legend of being a perfect song for any rock concert. The most attractive thing about this tracklisting cheap orlando hotels is that it preserves the highlights of the 360 ° tour: the come-back of songs that were gone missing cheap orlando hotels such as ( Zooropa, The Unforgettable Fire and Ultraviolet ), songs that were hardly played but greatly enjoyed ( One Tree Hill, Bad, Out Of Control and All I Want Is You/Love Rescue Me ) and encore tracks.
Yet the tracklisting is not a good image of the differences between cheap orlando hotels the several legs of the 360° tour. The 2011 legs are perfectly depicted - thanks to the 4 Achtung Baby tracks cheap orlando hotels at the beginning of the show, but both 2009 and 2010 legs are almost forgotten. Unreleased titles played live in 2010 - which gave their uniqueness to the setlists - have totally gone missing; cheap orlando hotels for a good reason though, as they were not among the tracks fans could elect except from Return of The Stingray Guitar . As far as 2009 shows are concerned, cheap orlando hotels the tracklisting desperately lacks the songs from No Line On The Horizon that were played during the first legs. Unknown Caller was only just saved by U2.com - which offered it as a bonus - but other songs like No Line On the Horizon, Breathe, Crazy Tonight and Get On Your Boots didn t get that chance.
The last unfortunate oversight - which leads the album not to be an exact rendition cheap orlando hotels of the tour - is the absence of the Vertigo / Crazy Tonight / Sunday Bloody Sunday trio. When it comes to a double live album which aim is to make fans relive the 360° tour, it is hard to understand why those memorable songs are missing. Especially regarding Vertigo , even more powerful than during the Vertigo Tour .
U2 can t be blamed for that: when you make a three-year tour with an evolutive setlist which changes from a year to another it gets pretty hard to give a perfectly reprsentative tracklisting cheap orlando hotels of what the tour was using only 22 songs when 55 were played (covers excepted). In general the tracklisting remains faithful to what most setlists were.
The last two albums U2.com offered did not really get a warm welcome from fans because of an excess of remixes (on Artificial Horizon ) and a lack of unreleased tracks (regarding Duals ), so there were great expectations about U22 .
Despite a tracklisting that was uneven on the whole tour, U22 is by far an excellent live album (even I, who is never satisfied and wrote this paper, got fulfilled since the first listen). The groundbreaking start with Real Thing and The Fly, the dream duo The Unforgettable Fire / Zooropa, the « Sinatra » version of Until The End of The World , the beautiful Bad, Ultraviolet and One Tree Hill, and the perfect cheap orlando hotels ending with Moment of Surrender / Out of Control, are just so many good reasons to get this live album.
The sound quality if clearly cheap orlando hotels better than what was proposed on the prior live recordings offered by U2.com: ( Go Home and U2.Communication ). It is thus easier to understand the long time it took to mix the album, which is the reason the album release got delayed. As far as the packaging is concerned, U2.com has also reached a higher level than usual. So far we were used to getting a poor paper sleeve in addition to the CD; this time U2.com actively cheap orlando hotels participated cheap orlando hotels by including a 22-page booklet filled with pictures - and quite good ones - of the tour. Even the cover - made from a Peter Rowen photo which was taken in Paris in 2010 - is much nicer than the austerity of the previous ones.
So, is it a success? cheap orlando hotels Looks like it is. Among the nine CDs U2.com has ever offered, U22 is probably one of the best thanks to the large amount of tracks it contains and to its sound quality. Despite the forgetting of some tracks and an unpleasant wrong note on the City Of Blinding Lights chorus, all the other tracks reach a high standard, so does the album. With such an album fans will surely be able to experience again the 360° tour and tremble with pleasure...