Best U2 Live Performances

[bobsaget77]

Individual performances, doesn't necessarily have to be recorded. Doesn't have to be a list either, I just like making lists.

1 Love Is Blindness - Sydney 1993
2 One - Modena 1995
3 Sunday Bloody Sunday- Denver 1987
4 Please - Sarajevo 1997
5 Bad - Dublin 1993
6 Lemon - Sydney 1993
7 Kite - Australia 2006
8 Streets - Slane Castle 2001
9 The Fly - Boston 2001
10 Walk On - Grammy's 2002
11 Sunday Bloody Sunday - Slane 2001
12 Hawkmoon - Sydney 1989
13 One Tree Hill - Point Depot 1989
14 Streets - Super Bowl 2002
15 Bad - Rome 2010
16 Bad - Band Aid 1985
17 Exit - Denver 1987
18 Walk On - NYC 2001
19 With or Without You - Point Depot 1989
20 Miami - Leeds 1997






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[mikal]

Please - MTV VMA's
Mofo - MTV EMA's
Mysterious Ways - Sydney 93

Just to add a couple.

 

[Desert Dog]

SBS - New Jersey 1986 and the whole fucking set was epic

 

[CosmoKramer]

Beautiful Day VH1 Awards in 2000. Awesome performance.


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[thavidesco]

Hawkmoon Australia

Mercy Helsinki

Boy Fall From The Sky Coimbra

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Any of the live performances captured during the filming of the Rattle & Hum movie are pure gold!

 

[brooklynmike]

21st anniversary of Zoo TV Sydney today. Great show!


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[ImNotSleeping]

This was one is rocking!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piEaKQCqr0E

 

[RaisedByWolves]

This was one is rocking!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piEaKQCqr0E

Thanks after seeing that I gave my Vertigo concert DVD a spin

 

[rennowba]

U2 at the brits 2001

 

[Vlaco]

@OP: I like your list. Some additions:
Streets: Dublin 26-12-1989 (definitive version)
Running To Stand Still: Dublin 26-12-1989 (Rotterdam 6-1-1990 is great too)
Bad: Rotterdam 10-1-1990
Ultraviolet: Washington DC 16-8-1992
Please: Rotterdam 18-7-1997

 

[cobl04]

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[Rhiannon64]

SBS - New Jersey 1986 and the whole fucking set was epic

I wish more live video from the Amnesty Tour would be released. Those performances were so powerful.

Here's my favorite performance of Bad from the Chicago Amnesty Show. To me, this a great example of what made that song folklore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYzrUx6SAZA

 

[bobsaget77]

@OP: I like your list. Some additions:
Streets: Dublin 26-12-1989 (definitive version)
Running To Stand Still: Dublin 26-12-1989 (Rotterdam 6-1-1990 is great too)
Bad: Rotterdam 10-1-1990
Ultraviolet: Washington DC 16-8-1992
Please: Rotterdam 18-7-1997

Great additions. I forgot about those. The 12-26 version of Streets is probably my favorite version, it sounds really unique compared to its other versions.
And Ultraviolet, Please, and Running were all phenomenal.


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[bobsaget77]

Oh. One I forgot was North and South of The River in 1998. Without a doubt, my favorite acoustic performance by them. And another one is Stay in Dublin 1993.


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[ImNotSleeping]

Thanks after seeing that I gave my Vertigo concert DVD a spin

Last night I watched several more from that show. Cannot wait for the tour!!

 

[nickoslo]

zoo station
ebbtr
mysterius ways
one
until the end..

ACHTUNG DORTMUND
my favorite bootleg of them all

 

[thavidesco]

I forgot about this one. HAUNTING, MOVING, SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE
ULTIMATE ONE HELL OF A LIVE SONG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oymNbCTZDAc

 

[purpleoscar]

Just to add to the long list:
One/Walk On Irving Plaza
Entire Unforgettable Fire Tour Dortmund
The Fly Glastonbury
Desire Sydney Lovetown tour

Thanks for Night and Day live!

 

[AndrewCowley]

I think The Fly from the Elevation tour is a standout. One of the hardest hitting most awesome live arrangements they ever came up with.

 

[prbiker15]

I think The Fly from the Elevation tour is a standout. One of the hardest hitting most awesome live arrangements they ever came up with.

I love that arrangement.

 

[brooklynmike]

I think The Fly from the Elevation tour is a standout. One of the hardest hitting most awesome live arrangements they ever came up with.

Agreed!


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[nbelcik]

I'm surprised that no one's mentioned Bullet the Blue Sky from Sydney, Edge's fingers look like they're about to spontaneously combust during that solo.


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[rennowba]

For all glastonburys flaws the fly there was imense. Probaly the best live track ive ever heard live

 

[djerdap]

Love is Blindness - Birmingham, June 1st 1992

Beautiful, stunning, breathtaking, Bono reciting Yeats' September 1913 at the end. Edge's performance is out of this world.

Bullet the Blue Sky, London, August 11th 1993

"ZOONITED NATIONS!"

Exit - Austin, November 22nd 1987

Featuring snippets of Riders on the Storm, Gloria (Van Morrison) and Silver and Gold. Edge goes crazy in the end, extending the song til it explodes.

Mysterious Ways - Dublin, August 28th 1993 and Sao Paulo, January 31st 1998

One of their best live songs.

Bad - East Rutherford, April 15th 1985

A 16-minute version. It never outstays its welcome.

Dirty Day - Sydney, November 27th 1993

This doesn't warrant an explanation.

With or Without You - East Rutherford, March 18th 1992

Early ZooTV shows combined the spectacle with a bit of Lovetown spontaniety. This version is a key example of that.

Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World - Stockholm, June 11th 1992

Loose and fun.

Running to Stand Still - Rotterdam, January 6th 1990

Amazing crowd, motivating the band to keep going with the song, Bono adding an extra Bongolese verse at the end.

Hawkmoon 269 - Sydney, November 18th 1989

Again, no explanation needed.

Desire - Rotterdam, January 10th 1990

Edge shredding. Enough said.

...and many more.

 

[Axver]

You all know what I'm going to post.

The finest five minutes of U2 ever. They could have begun and finished their career with this and I would like them no less:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2kWgm-0xmM

Perfection.

 

[thavidesco]

Love is Blindness - Birmingham, June 1st 1992

Beautiful, stunning, breathtaking, Bono reciting Yeats' September 1913 at the end. Edge's performance is out of this world.

Bullet the Blue Sky, London, August 11th 1993

"ZOONITED NATIONS!"

Exit - Austin, November 22nd 1987

Featuring snippets of Riders on the Storm, Gloria (Van Morrison) and Silver and Gold. Edge goes crazy in the end, extending the song til it explodes.

Mysterious Ways - Dublin, August 28th 1993 and Sao Paulo, January 31st 1998

One of their best live songs.

Bad - East Rutherford, April 15th 1985

A 16-minute version. It never outstays its welcome.

Dirty Day - Sydney, November 27th 1993

This doesn't warrant an explanation.

With or Without You - East Rutherford, March 18th 1992

Early ZooTV shows combined the spectacle with a bit of Lovetown spontaniety. This version is a key example of that.

Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World - Stockholm, June 11th 1992

Loose and fun.

Running to Stand Still - Rotterdam, January 6th 1990

Amazing crowd, motivating the band to keep going with the song, Bono adding an extra Bongolese verse at the end.

Hawkmoon 269 - Sydney, November 18th 1989

Again, no explanation needed.

Desire - Rotterdam, January 10th 1990

Edge shredding. Enough said.

...and many more.

 

[Bad Exit]

From the New Year's Day concert at Point Depot, the following combo:

(Bullet The Blue Sky)--> Running to Stand Still --> Dirty Old Town --> Times They Are A-Changin' --> New Year's Day

 

[Bad Exit]

Oh, and obviously for me:
Bad and Exit from the R&H movie.

 

[popacrobat]

Discotheque from Toronto on the Vertigo tour.