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Originally Posted by jovifan93
Well, WLOL is a great song, just maybe not for a concert, though I always like to hear it. LH Jon thinks very highly of, WWBTF was a hit (?) and is great song for me, and BWC is the only one I could most certainly do without, although it's catchy and was a single...
And yes, he refers to RC as a hit single, because it charted in the top 100 on Billboard AC (?). A little twisted reality, but not too far from the truth  |
I really really like WLOL as well, it's a great tune in my book. It just doesn't work in a combo with Lost Highway as the 4th and 5th song, because it kills off any energy that had been built previously. If they were seperated and one would appear now and then in rotation with others, I'd be all for it.
But that combination already didn't work in 2010 when it was done a lot and since Jon has been talking so much about trying to avoid that "dull moment" in the set (I think it was in the WWWB documentary), I'm still baffled as to why he doesn't change the structure in the beginning.
Looking back, the Bounce and HAND tours had 6 or 7 rather fast-paced songs fired in at the beginning to get the crowd going. That works because after these you are more receptive for something slower to catch your breath again. That's been the flaw in Dusseldorf 2011 as well (even though LH and WLOL weren't even in the set). The placement of slower or unknown mid-tempo songs prevented the show from taking off at any point of the night.