A Little Time Period Experiment

[Screwtape2]

Okay, I want you to create a single disc album for each of these time frames.

Pre-Boy-War
TUF-Rattle & Hum
Achtung Baby-Pop
Million Dollar Hotel-Bomb

Then rate and rank them. You can also rank other people’s. I want to see if anyone is surprised by their results. I for one was.

Early 80’s
1. Tomorrow
2. Saturday Night
3. An Cat Dubh
4. Into The Heart
5. Be There
6. Drowning Man
7. New Year’s Day
8. With A Shout
9. Scarlet
10. Rejoice
11. Surrender
12. Electric Co.
13. Shadows and Tall Trees
4.5 out of 5

Mid-Late 80’s

1. Beautiful Ghost
2. Where The Streets Have No Name
3. A Sort of Homecoming
4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. Red Hill Mining Town
6. Rise Up
7. One Tree Hill
8. Elvis Presley & America
9. Bad
10. With Or Without You
11. Deep In The Heart
12. Luminous Times
13. Walk To The Water
14. All I Want Is You
5 out of 5

90’s
1. United Colours
2. Zooropa
3. Daddy’s Gonna Pay
4. Lady With The Spinning Head (Extended Dance Mix)
5. Do You Feel Loved?
6. Numb
7. Lemon
8. Always Forever Now
9. Salome (Zooromancer Mix)
10. One Minute Warning
11. Acrobat
12. Until The End of The World
13. Wake Up Dead Man
4.5 out of 5

2000’s
1. City Of Blinding Lights
2. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
3. Stateless
4. Always
5. When I Look At The World
6. Peace On Earth
7. Love and Peace or Else
8. Big Girls Are Best
9. Native Son
10. Fast Cars
11. Miracle Drug
12. Mercy
4.5 out of 5

1. Mid-late 80’s
2. Early 80’s
3. 2000’s
4. 90’s

 

[the tourist]

EARLY:

01. Gloria
02. New Year's Day
03. Like A Song
04. Drowning Man
05. Tomorrow
06. Sunday Bloody Sunday
07. The Electric Co (seguing into...)
08. Is That All (a segue similar to An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart)
09. Two Hearts Beat As One
10. I Will Follow
11. Twilight
12. An Cat Dubh
13. Into The Heart
14. October

LATE

01. Where The Streets Have No Name
02. Pride
03. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
04. Desire
05. Spanish Eyes
06. One Tree Hill
07. Heartland
08. All I Want Is You
09. Bad
10. Exit
11. God Part II
12. Dancing Barefoot
13. With Or Without You
14. The Unforgettable Fire
15. A Sort Of Homecoming

90s

01. Zooropa
02. Ultraviolet
03. Acrobat
04. Love Is Blindness
05. Your Blue Room
06. Last Night On Earth
07. The Fly
08. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
09. Miss Sarajevo
10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
11. Wake Up Dead Man

00s.

01. City Of Blinding Lights
02. Beautiful Day
03. Electrical Storm
04. Window In The Skies
05. One Step Closer
06. New York
07. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
08. Stateless

1st: Late 80s
2nd: Early 80s
3rd: 90s
4th: 00s

 

[The John Tree]

at Be There. Forgot about that one. Never was too big on it.

 

[The John Tree]

Here's Mine:

Disc 1 (Early U2-War):

1. I Will Follow
2. Out of Control
3. Saturday Night
4. Tomorrow
5. Twilight
6. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
7. October
8. New Year's Day
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. Like A Song
11. The Refugee
12. With A Shout (Jerusalem)
13. Another Time, Another Place
14. The Ocean
15. 40

Disc 2 (The Unforgettable Fire-Rattle & Hum)

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. With Or Without You
4. Luminous Times
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. Promenade
7. Bad
8. All I Want Is You
9. Angel of Harlem
10. Desire
11. Silver & Gold
12. Bullet The Blue Sky
13. Exit
14. MLK
15. Mothers of the Disappeared

Disc 3 (The 90's)

1. Discotheque
2. Mofo
3. Do You Feel Loved
4. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
5. Lemon
6. Even Better Than The Real Thing
7. The Fly
8. Until The End of the World
9. The First Time
10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
11. One
12. Gone
13. Acrobat
14. Please
15. Love Is Blindness

Disc 4 (The 2000s):

1. City of Blinding Lights
2. Vertigo
3. Beautiful Day
4. All Because of You
5. Kite
6. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
7. The Hands That Built America
8. Walk On
9. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
10. In A Little While
11. Wild Honey
12. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
13. Original Of the Species
14. Xanax & Wine
15. Mercy

CD Order:

1. The 90's
2. The 00's
3. The 80's
4. Early U2

This did surprise me. I spend so much time longing for U2 to get "Arty" again that I forgot how much I really loved their output in the 2000s.

All That You Can't Leave Behind and especially How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb are criminally underrated. Those are two classic albums, fuck what the haters say.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

not too sure about the ordering:

early:
1. gloria
2. a celebration
3. i threw a brick through a window
4. a day without me
5. new year’s day
6. another day
7. drowning man
8. 11 o’clock tick tock
9. an cat dubh/into the heart
10. the electric co.
11. seconds
12. tomorrow

late:
1. a sort of homecoming
2. boomerang 1
3. desire
4. walk to the water
5. 60 seconds in the kingdom come
6. all i want is you
7. where the streets have no name
8. heartland
9. exit
10. the unforgettable fire
11. promenade
12. one tree hill

90s:
1. zoo station
2. even better than the real thing
3. zooropa
4. your blue room
5. alex descends into hell for a bottle of milk/korova 1
6. salome
7. discotheque
8. the fly
9. mofo
10. lemon
11. last night on earth
12. united colours
13. miss sarajevo
14. the first time

00s:
1. native son
2. always
3. all because of you (alternate version)
4. walk on
5. kite
6. love and peace or else
7. city of blinding lights
8. summer rain
9. fast cars
10. big girls are best
11. the ground beneath her feet

rankings:
90s
late 80s
early 80s
00s

 

[Bottle Bono]

I am glad you included "Like a Drowning Man."

 

[theet the moth]

I am glad you included "Like a Drowning Man."

John didn't use it.

 

[Bottle Bono]

Song No 7 on early.

 

[popacrobat]

All That You Can't Leave Behind and especially How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb are criminally underrated. Those are two classic albums, fuck what the haters say.

agreed.

this is a neat thread, I'll make mine in a bit.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

Song No 7 on early.

october?

 

[luna_lovegood]

Early 80s:
1. Out of Control
2. Drowning Man
3. The Refugee
4. Electric Co
5. I Will Follow
6. Tomorrow
7. Party Girl
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Scarlet
10. Seconds
11. 40
12. Two Hearts Beat As One
13. 11 OClock Tick Tock

Mid/Late 80s:
1. Pride (In the Name of Love)
2. Bad
3. God, Pt 2
4. A Sort of Homecoming
5. Where the Streets Have No Name
6. Hallelujah Here She Comes
7. Running to Stand Still
8. With or Without You
9. One Tree Hill
10. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
11. Desire
12. Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
13. Promenade
14. Sweetest Thing
15. Hawkmoon 269

90s:
1. Zooropa
2. One
3. Mysterious Ways
4. Acrobat
5. The Fly
6. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
7. Even Better Than The Real Thing
8. Lady With The Spinning Head
9. North And South of the River
10. Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle of Milk / Korova 1
11. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
12. Please
13. Your Blue Room
14. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
15. Discotheque

00s:
1. Beautiful Day
2. Walk On
3. Kite
4. Grace
5. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
6. Instant Karma
7. Summer Rain
8. Wild Honey
9. The Hands That Built America
10. Electrical Storm
11. City of Blinding Lights
12. Vertigo
13. Window In The Skies
14. Smile
15. Fast Cars

Ranked:
1. Late 80s
2. 90s
3. 00s
4. Early 80s

 

[Bottle Bono]

october?

No on yours.

 

[Scorpionac]

Late 80s:

1. A Sort of Homecoming
2. Where the Streets Have No Name
3. Pride (in the Name of Love)
4. Bullet the Blue Sky
5. Running to Stand Still
6. Promenade
7. With or Without You
8. Silver and Gold
9. Exit
10. Angel of Harlem
11. Everlasting Love
12. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
13. Indian Summer Sky

90s:

1. Zooropa
2. Mysterious Ways
3. Numb
4. Lemon
5. The Fly
6. Gone
7. Mofo
8. North and South of the River
9. Please
10. Your Blue Room
11. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
12. Ultraviolet
13. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
14. The Wanderer

00s:

1. Beautiful Day
2. When I Look at the World
3. Window in the Skies
4. Electrical Storm
5. Miracle Drug
6. Fast Cars
7. Summer Rain
8. Vertigo
9. Walk On
10. Mercy
11. Stateless

 

[The John Tree]

The problem with this is, in trying to keep the albums a realistic length (about 15 songs or so) I had to cut a few favorites of mine.

"Drowning Man" was one of them. "One Tree Hill" was another.

 

[dan_smee]

Pre-Boy-War

1. Electric Co
2. An Cat Dubh
3. Into the Heart
4. October
5. New Years Day
6. Stories For Boys
7. Out of Control
8. Drowning Man
9. I Will Follow
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday
11. 11 O'Clock, Tick Tock
12. Gloria
13. 40

TUF-Rattle & Hum

1. Where the Streets Have No Name
2. Pride
3. Indian Summer Sky
4. Red Hill Mining Town
5. Hawkmoon 269
6. Wire
7. Exit
8. Bad
9. With or Without You
10. Bullet the Blue Sky
11. Running to Stand Still
12. MLK
13. Wave of Sorrow

Achtung Baby-Pop

1. Acrobat
2. Mofo
3. Gone
4. One
5. Until the End of the World
6. Discotheque
7. Miss Sarajevo
8. The Fly
9. Do You Feel Loved?
10. So Cruel
11. Mysterious Ways
12. Please (Single Version)
13. Love is Blindness

Million Dollar Hotel-Bomb

1. Beautiful Day
2. Original of the Species (Single Version)
3. Vertigo
4. Miracle Drug
5. City of Blinding Lights
6. Crumbs From Your Table
7. Kite
8. Fast Cars
9. In A Little While
10. Never Let Me Go (I know... i know)
11. Walk On
12. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
13. Mercy

I would rank these:

AB-Pop

MDH-HTDAAB

UF-R&H

BOY-WAR

I'm not going to assign marks to each album, as I think that if it's my favourite over 3 U2 albums, so surely I would think it was at elast 5 out of 5 (if not waaaaay more)

 

[Bottle Bono]

Well done dan, "drowning man" is in.

 

[Bottle Bono]

"Drowning Man"

Bono has said that he has trouble listening to this song due to the choked nature of his voice. For me, though, the rough, exposed edges on his voice are what make this song: the sparse, mostly acoustic instrumentation underpinned by a beautiful electric violin part largely leaves Bono's voice out in the open and perhaps vulnerable, even. He holds nothing back when he sings "hold on, hold on tightly," at the climax of the song, and I have trouble deciding if this is an imperative command, a helpless, impassioned plea, or both at the same time. Whatever it is, it's breathtaking and it's beautiful.