U2 best trio of songs?

[Joey788]

Virtually any three songs on Achtung Baby are a great hat trick.

The Fly - Mysterious Ways - Tryin to Throw Your Arms Around the World is a personal favorite though.

 

[Axver]

Take out the live tracks from Rattle and Hum and you've got Heartland / God Part II / All I Want is You..

Even if you keep the live tracks, in that run you get a pretty great Bullet.

How on earth a band who are much better live managed to choose RAH's live tracks so poorly that they're a weak link, I'll never understand...

 

[david]

If only a Love Town version of Watchtower were able to replace the crappy, even overdubbed to fix things, but still crappy 87 version on Rattle and Hum.


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[mikal]

I actually love the version of Pride on R&H and Heater Skelter is cool too but yeah. Should have been a true double album, disk one with 10 studio tracks (add Room At The Heartbreak Hotel) and disk two as a live album.

The perfect live disk of 10 songs from the movie would have been:

Helter Skelter
Exit
In God's Country
Bad
Where The Streets Have No Name
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still
With Or Without You
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Pride


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[AndrewCowley]

I actually love the version of Pride on R&H

Yeah but suspiciously it's miles better than any other JT tour version I've heard. I suspect it was touched up in the studio.

But really I think Pride was at its live peak on the UF tour.

 

[chocky]

My top 5 ALBUM trios would probably be:

Ultra Violet - Acrobat - Love is Blindness

Bullet the Blue Sky - Running to Stand Still - Red Hill Mining Town

Bad - Indian Summer Sky - Elvis Presley & America

New Years Day - Like a Song - Drowning Man

Another Time Another Place - The Electric Co. - Shadows and Tall Trees

But NOTHING, from any release by any band EVER, can top this trio from the CD single:

With or Without You - Luminous Times - Walk to the Water



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[An Cat Gav]

Maybe ISHF is a touch tiresome live because of the sparse Bono vocals of late and 'why aren't they playing x song instead' factor, but it's timeless on JT.

Agreed on Numb / Lemon / Stay, great example of songs together being greater than the sum of their parts, and gives Zooropa a lot of its character.

I agree with Numb, Lemon, Stay. U2 have a lot of great hat trick runs on albums, ZOO St, EBTTRT and One is another great one, but so is UV, Acrobat and LIB. Ditto on the Joshua Tree the first and last trio are incredible.

Even NLOTH gets in on the act, NLOTH, Magnificent and MOS is a brilliant combination.

For displaying the sheer breadth of artistic creativity the band are capable of Numb to Stay wins it for me.

 

[Axver]

It's funny to see people say Pride from RAH is not bad, because I distinctly remember the first time hearing it. I had heard no live U2 up to this point and Pride was one of my favourite songs, so I was pretty excited. Suffice it to say the letdown was strong, and I may have been convinced U2 were not a good live band if it weren't for RAH's version of Bullet or for getting the videos of UABRS and RAH soon thereafter.

I'm forever baffled why the CD of RAH did not include WOWY or SBS.

And I've said this many times, but few live versions of Pride beat the studio version - for those who want to hear one that does, check out 31 August 1984, Wellington.

 

[Registered Dude]

Meh. Once you've song along to it a few times you've got all that it's going to give.

ISHFWILF is elevated to greatness by the band's performance on that recording. Sure, any yokel could get up and sing the song for karaoke, but you put Bono's aching vocal (in that key), over Adam/Larry's Crisp-As-F groove and Edge's textures, and you've got one of this band's greatest.

One of their best headphone listens too... that song/production just creates its own world.

Another vote for the JT 1,2 and 3

 

[Registered Dude]

...UTEOTW, Wild Horses and So Cruel is pretty fucking great too

 

[zoopop]

For me:

SATS
LNOE
GONE

is when Pop turns into something special. Nice trio to counter the Dance Party at the start.

NLOTH
Magnificent
MOS

is vastly underrated. One of U2's strongest starts to an album. Never really recovered after Crazy though....

 

[Hewson]

and Heater Skelter is cool too

I would have thought it would be warm, not cool.


#autocorrectisnotalwayscorrect

 

[Oregoropa]

2. Even Better Than The Real Thing

3. One

4. Until the End of The World

Even Better is my favorite U2 track. One is just One (amazing). Uteotw is lyrical and musical perfection.

Sorry Bob. MOTD never did anything for me. My least favorite track on JT


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[bobsaget77]

2. Even Better Than The Real Thing

3. One

4. Until the End of The World

Even Better is my favorite U2 track. One is just One (amazing). Uteotw is lyrical and musical perfection.

Sorry Bob. MOTD never did anything for me. My least favorite track on JT


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It's alright. "One" has never done anything for me. Least favorite on AB.

 

[mikal]

It's funny to see people say Pride from RAH is not bad, because I distinctly remember the first time hearing it. I had heard no live U2 up to this point and Pride was one of my favourite songs, so I was pretty excited. Suffice it to say the letdown was strong, and I may have been convinced U2 were not a good live band if it weren't for RAH's version of Bullet or for getting the videos of UABRS and RAH soon thereafter.

I'm forever baffled why the CD of RAH did not include WOWY or SBS.

And I've said this many times, but few live versions of Pride beat the studio version - for those who want to hear one that does, check out 31 August 1984, Wellington.

LOL I think we were destined to disagree in this thread.

I don't know that I would say that it's the greatest version of Pride ever, but it was a great way to end the movie. The sound and crowd noise really brought a sense of energy to the performance. The first time I heard this version was actually when I watched the film, and the crowd singing during the last chorus blew me away and still gives me the chills. Now, yes I understand that the crowd noise was probably pumped up a bit for cinematic effects but doesn't change the result for me.

 

[bobsaget77]

"NYD-Like A Song-Drowning Man" is really strong.


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[popacrobat]

Lol like we're gonna sit here and fuckin pretend Streets/ISHFWILF/WOWY isn't it.

Yea this is the right answer.

No Line, Magnificent and Moment of Surrender is probably my No. 2

Tip of the cap to Real Thing, One, Until the End of the World as well as Staring at the Sun, Last Night on Earth and Gone.

 

[mikal]

Yea this is the right answer.

No Line, Magnificent and Moment of Surrender is probably my No. 2

Tip of the cap to Real Thing, One, Until the End of the World as well as Staring at the Sun, Last Night on Earth and Gone.

All of this.

And I've been arguing with Axver too much to remember if anyone posted the first 3 tracks on POP but yeah, those pretty much give me the "O Face".

 

[zoopop]

All of this.

And I've been arguing with Axver too much to remember if anyone posted the first 3 tracks on POP but yeah, those pretty much give me the "O Face".

Discotheque
Do You Feel Loved
Mofo

Is easily the biggest hat trick. Such a bold statement to open an album with those.

 

[mikal]

Discotheque
Do You Feel Loved
Mofo

Is easily the biggest hat trick. Such a bold statement to open an album with those.

They really define an era within U2 that is both unfamiliar but surprising to many. I played these first 3 songs for a friend who hates Bono and U2 but admittedly only really knows their 80's and newer stuff. He immediately said "this is U2?".

 

[Oregoropa]

DYFL is such an awesome song. Too bad they never made it work live. It was neutered when they tried to perform it. Mofo quite the opposite. I think it the best example of a live improvement over the studio version


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[Axver]

LOL I think we were destined to disagree in this thread.

I don't know that I would say that it's the greatest version of Pride ever, but it was a great way to end the movie. The sound and crowd noise really brought a sense of energy to the performance. The first time I heard this version was actually when I watched the film, and the crowd singing during the last chorus blew me away and still gives me the chills. Now, yes I understand that the crowd noise was probably pumped up a bit for cinematic effects but doesn't change the result for me.

Well we at least agree here that Pride worked much better in the context of the movie! Both the selection and placement of the live tracks on the album is mystifying, while the sequencing in the movie is pretty damn good.

 

[mikal]

Well we at least agree here that Pride worked much better in the context of the movie! Both the selection and placement of the live tracks on the album is mystifying, while the sequencing in the movie is pretty damn good.

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[RoKKeR]

Lol like we're gonna sit here and fuckin pretend Streets/ISHFWILF/WOWY isn't it.

Yeah seriously.

 

[cobl04]

Can't have this No Line-Magnificent-MoS business. Magnificent sucks.

I can, however, absolutely have Numb-Lemon-Stay and Discotheque-DYFL-Mofo. Both kick arse.

 

[mikal]

Can't have this No Line-Magnificent-MoS business. Magnificent sucks.

I can, however, absolutely have Numb-Lemon-Stay and Discotheque-DYFL-Mofo. Both kick arse.

That darn Magnificent. The first minute is gold but just flakes out after a while.

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[Axver]

I'm sure I'm about to get pelted with rotten tomatoes but MOS is the weakest link in NLOTH's opening trio.

Not that any of them are especially strong links compared to most of the other trios already mentioned.

 

[mikal]

I'm sure I'm about to get pelted with rotten tomatoes but MOS is the weakest link in NLOTH's opening trio.

Not that any of them are especially strong links compared to most of the other trios already mentioned.

You're lucky Nick66 hasn't logged in for awhile, lol!

I'm half way with you on this one. I like MOS but I don't think it's the second coming or anything.

I personally think NLOTH and Fez-Being Porn are the top two songs on the album.

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[Axver]

You're lucky Nick66 hasn't logged in for awhile, lol!

I sort of miss the guy. Made EYKIW more lively anyway.

I'm half way with you on this one. I like MOS but I don't think it's the second coming or anything.

I personally think NLOTH and Fez-Being Porn are the top two songs on the album.

Yep, those two are probably the two I'm most inclined to play nowadays. I also retain some fondness for White As Snow.

Not sure I'm likely to play the whole album until we do another forum Survivor tournament though...

 

[LemonMelon]

Put me down as a huge fan of NLOTH's opening trio. I would rather have that than all of SOI. I can't think of three songs from that album that I like as much as those.