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if you had to make a 12 song compilation from 1991 onwards how would it be?
AFter careful selection I chose this tracklist based on personal emotional attachment and musical quality:

1. elevation
2. gone
3. miss sarajevo
4. the fly
5. beautiful day
6. wake up dead man
7. vertigo
8. until the end of the world
9. magnificent
10. mofo
11. stay
12. one
 
Chronological order:

1. Until The End Of The World
2. Mysterious Ways
3. Zooropa
4. Lemon
5. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
6. Your Blue Room
7. Do You Feel Loved
8. Wake Up Dead Man
9. Beautiful Day
10. When I Look At The World
11. Moment Of Surrender
12. Breathe
 
1) Magnificent
2) Beautiful Day
3) Mysterious Ways
4) Gone
5) Vertigo
6) Until The End Of The World
7) Your Blue Room
8) If God Will Send His Angels
9) Elevation
10) Breathe
11) One
12) The Fly
 
My personal faves (which isn't to say they're the best) in chronological order:

1. Even Better Than the Real Thing
2. Mysterious Ways
3. Do You Feel Loved
4. Stateless
5. Walk On
6. Wild Honey
7. Electrical Storm
8. Love and Peace (or Else)
9. Crumbs from Your Table
10. Window in the Skies
11. Breathe
12. Moment of Surrender
 
no song post 2000 is better than the worst of the 90s!

01) The Fly
02) Until The End Of The World
03) Acrobat
04) One
05) Gone
06) Stay
07) Lemon
08) Do You Feel Loved
09) MoFo
10) Mysterious Ways
11) Ultraviolet
12) Love Is Blindness
Special Edition
13) HMTMKMKM
14) Your Blue Room
15) Numb
16) Miss Sarajewo
 
Maybe;

1 Zooropa
2 The Fly
3 Mysterious Ways
4 Gone
5 Original of The Species
6 In a Little While
7 Beautiful Day
8 Discotheque
9 Electrical Storm
10 No Line on The Horizon
11 Please
12 Moment of Surrender
 
Based on both personal preferences, but also the required hts. I also used creative license to include any released song.

1. Gone (Hedges Mix)
2. Acrobat
3. Your Blue Room
4. Beautiful Day
5. Electrical Storm (Orbit Mix)
6. Magnificent
7. Stay
8. Vertigo
9. Unknown Caller
10. When I Look at the World
11. Crumbs From Your Table
12. Ultraviolet
13. Kite
14. Please (single version)
15. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
16. One (Live Modena 1995 w/ Brian Eno)

I think that is the strongest traclist I could come up with. The only transition I dont have total faith in is Stay into Vertigo... even though I love that change
 
1. Zooropa
2. Fez-Being Born
3. Ultraviolet
4. Until The End Of The World
5. Gone
6. The Fly
7. Lemon
8. Walk On
9. Miracle Drug
10. Beautiful Day
11. Stay
12. Please
13. Moment of Surrender
14. Unknown Caller
15. Love Is Blindness

Couldn't keep it at twelve. :D It's not chronological btw.
 
no song post 2000 is better than the worst of the 90s!

:scratch:



My personal favorites... (in no particular order)

1) Beautiful Day
2) Moment of Surrender
3) Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)
4) The Fly
5) City of Blinding Lights
6) Breathe
7) Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
8) Magnificent
9) Vertigo
10) Mysterious Ways
11) Even Better Than The Real Thing
12) Kite

Runners Up...
- Window In The Skies
- Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
- Zoo Station
- The Wanderer
- Gone (New Mix)
- Mofo
- Elevation
- All Because of You
- One
- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
 
I'm sorry, but I don't see how anyone could believe that Ito Okashi is better than Moment of Surrender.
i really adore Ito Okashi and the whole passengers album. i am not ironic or kidding. MOS is lame and overrated...
i am here and you are there. you are the man on the moon and i am a bavarian earthling. thats all.
:wave:
 
01 Magnificent
02 Beautiful Day
03 One
04 Moment of Surrender
05 Peace on Earth
06 Stuck in a Moment
07 Crazy Tonight
08 Sometimes you can't make it on your own
09 City of Blinding Lights
10 The Fly
11 Lemon
12 The Wanderer
 
1. Zoo Station
2, Kite
3. City of Blinding Lights
4. So Cruel
5. FEZ-Being Born
6. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
7. Walk On
8. Mofo
9. Ultraviolet
10.Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
11.Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
12.Discotheque

Bonus songs:
Window In the Skies
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Until the End of the World
If God Will Send His Angels
Love and Peace (Or Else)
Moment of Surrender
Even Better Than the Real Thing
The Fly
No Line On the Horizon
Always Forever Now
Slug
 
Magnificent
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Acrobat
Original of the Species
Electrical Storm
Kite
Walk On
Beautiful Day
Breathe
Zoo Station
Please
One


^^Way too hard, that's just off the top of my head.
 
Impossible task – for a real 'Best Of' in true sense of its name 12 slots are not enough. For a commercial 'Best Of' aka 'Greatest Hits' take 12 U2 singles ...
 
Chronologically:

01. Ultraviolet
02. Acrobat
03. Zooropa
04. The First Time
05. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
06. Your Blue Room
07. Last Night On Earth
08. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
09. Wake Up Dead Man
10. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
11. No Line On The Horizon II
12. Fez-Being Born

Put in the right order, that would make a killer album.
 
no song post 2000 is better than the worst of the 90s!

01) The Fly
02) Until The End Of The World
03) Acrobat
04) One
05) Gone
06) Stay
07) Lemon
08) Do You Feel Loved
09) MoFo
10) Mysterious Ways
11) Ultraviolet
12) Love Is Blindness
Special Edition
13) HMTMKMKM
14) Your Blue Room
15) Numb
16) Miss Sarajewo

I go with this. :up:
 
1. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
2. Ultraviolet
3. Lemon
4. Gone
5. Beautiful Day
6. When I Look at the World
7. Miracle Drug
8. City of Blinding Lights
9. Original of the Species
10. Crazy Tonight
11. Magnificent
12. Fez-Being Born
 
1. Zooropa
2. The Fly
3. Magnificent
4. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
5. Unknown Caller
6. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
7. Kite
8. Discotheque
9. Staring At The Sun
10. One Step Closer
11. Fez-Being Born
12. Moment of Surrender

That, my friends, is according to me the ultimate setlist! :heart:
 
This will be tough to narrow down to just 12, but i'll give it a shot:

Walk On
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Kite
Acrobat
Magnificent
Breathe
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
When I Look At The World
One
 
1. Zooropa
2. The Fly
3. Even Better Than The Real Thing
4. Lemon
5. Your Blue Room
6. One
7. Stay
8. Miss Sarajevo
9. Until The End Of The World
10.Gone
11. Mofo
12. Magnificent
13. HMKMKMTM
14. Acrobat.
15. The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
16. Ultraviolet
17. Love Is Blindness

This exercise has put things in perspective a little, I found it hard to leave out songs like Numb, Electrical Storm, The Wanderer and Mysterious Ways, but had no qualms about basically skipping most of the last decade. I'd like to include Fast Cars, SYCMIOYO, Vertigo, Beautiful Day, FEZ and Cedars, but I just don't love them as much as the 90s stuff.
 
Is this thread a covert dis of the 80s???

Today, whilst attempting to procrastinate from the test-writing assignment I should be doing, I decided to compile CD-R lists of U2 compilations for each decade, that would actually fit onto an 80-minute CD. This is the result:

1980s:
1. I Will Follow
2. Out of Control [Boy version]
3. Gloria
4. October
5. New Year's Day [album version]
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. A Sort of Homecoming
8. Pride [album version]
9. The Unforgettable Fire
10. Bad
11. Bass Trap
12. Where The Streets Have No Name [single version]
13. With Or Without You
14. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
15. Running To Stand Still
16. Desire [rehearsal, from R&H movie]
17. Angel Of Harlem [album version]
18. All I Want Is You [album version]

NOTES: Studio versions only... Can't have more than 4 tracks per LP since there are several releases this decade, so I had to cut "One Tree Hill"... include "Bass Trap" to have something a bit special, and because it's frickin' the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard... cut "Tomorrow" due to time restrictions... I much prefer the R&H rehearsal of "Desire" to the released track -- it's faster, punchier, and actually has a good harmonica bit (unlike the wayward one on the master track).


1990s:
1. The Fly
2. One
3. Until The End Of The World
4. Mysterious Ways
5. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
6. Slow Dancing [the "Stay" B-side]
7. Numb
8. Dirty Day
9. Stay (Faraway So Close!)
10. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
11. Your Blue Room
12. Discotheque [single version]
13. Staring At The Sun [album version]
14. If God Will Send His Angels [single version]
15. Gone
16. Please [single version]
17. Sweetest Thing

NOTES: Tried to elimate one more Achtung Baby song, but couldn't -- "Ultra Violet" is too good not to include, so I axed "Even Better Than The Real Thing"... I don't particularly like "Hold Me, Thrill Me", but I felt obliged to include it since it was a big international hit... prefer "Your Blue Room" to "Miss Sarajevo", as I can't stand operatic singing or Pavarotti... needless to say, the Pop-era tracks are the contemporary ones, not the 2002 (post-90s) remixes!


2000s:
1. Beautiful Day
2. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of [acoustic version]
3. Walk On [album version]
4. In A Little While
5. Flower Child
6. Electrical Storm [William Orbit mix]
7. The Hands That Built America
8. Vertigo
9. Miracle Drug
10. All Because Of You
11. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
12. City Of Blinding Lights
13. Mercy
14. Magnificent
15. Unknown Caller
16. Cedars Of Lebanon

NOTES: Can never decide if the 'Walk On' single or LP version is better, but went with the LP version... I love "Flower Child", and put it on to have something special... All the Bomb songs are the LP versions... I despise "Get On Your Boots" and "Crazy Tonight", so needless to say they didn't make it...
 
Can't see why there would be a 12-track comp of 90s/00s, but if there were then I guess I would go...

1990s/00s:
1. The Fly
2. One
3. Until The End Of The World
4. Slow Dancing [the "Stay" B-side]
5. Stay (Faraway So Close!)
6. Discotheque [single version]
7. Please [single version]
8. Beautiful Day
9. Electrical Storm [William Orbit mix]
10. Vertigo
11. City Of Blinding Lights
12. Magnificent
 
if you had to make a 12 song compilation from 1991 onwards how would it be?
AFter careful selection I chose this tracklist based on personal emotional attachment and musical quality:

1. elevation
2. gone
3. miss sarajevo
4. the fly
5. beautiful day
6. wake up dead man
7. vertigo
8. until the end of the world
9. magnificent
10. mofo
11. stay
12. one
If it's only 12 tracks, then it would just be "Achtung Baby".

If it could be 18 tracks, then I'd add (in order of most to least favorite)
"Lemon"
"Please (single version)"
"Stuck in a Moment"
"Original of the Species"
"In a Little While"
"Mofo"
"Breathe"
"Do You Feel Loved"
"Magnificent"
"Miracle Drug"
"Your Blue Room"
"Numb"
"Miss Sarajevo" (Passengers version)
Man, this is actually tough! I'd really want these songs
 
If it's only 12 tracks, then it would just be "Achtung Baby".

If it could be 18 tracks, then I'd add (in order of most to least favorite)
"Lemon"
"Please (single version)"
"Stuck in a Moment"
"Original of the Species"
"In a Little While"
"Mofo"
"Breathe"
"Do You Feel Loved"
"Magnificent"
"Miracle Drug"
"Your Blue Room"
"Numb"
"Miss Sarajevo" (Passengers version)
Man, this is actually tough! I'd really want these songs
Let me revise that by placing "Lemon" in between and "In a Little While" and "Mofo", so that "Please (single version)" is first after "Achtung Baby."
 
Impossible task – for a real 'Best Of' in true sense of its name 12 slots are not enough. For a commercial 'Best Of' aka 'Greatest Hits' take 12 U2 singles ...

This said, my personal 'Best Of' in its true sense, would be from the studio recordings:

THE BALLADS
1. One
2. Love Is Blindness
3. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
4. The First Time
5. Slow Dancing
6. Miss Sarajewo
7. North And South Of The River
8. Staring At The Sun
9. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
10. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
11. White As Snow
12. Cedars Of Lebanon


THE ROCKERS
1. Until The End Of The World
2. The Fly
3. Acrobat
4. Dirty Day
5. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
6. Last Night On Earth
7. Please
8. Beautiful Day
9. Elevation
10. New York
11. Vertigo
12. Stand Up (Comedy)
 
Ranked from best to worst

1. Zooropa
2. Ultraviolet
3. Lemon
4. Until the End of the World
5. Unknown Caller
6. No Line On The Horizon
7. Stay
8. Beautiful Day
9. Mysterious Ways
10. Your Blue Room
11. Mofo
12. Magnificent

Album breakdown:

AB: 3
Zooropa: 3
Passengers: 1
Pop: 1
ATYCLB: 1
HTDAAB: None
NLOTH: 3
 
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