Yet Another Setlist Challenge

[Numb1075]

Ok folks, here we go. I like the whole setlist game. So here is the scenario and this WILL take thought (but thinking is usually good). Hypothetically, U2 is doing ONE LAST SHOW (I know, the horror !!), you are in the front row. HTDAAB was never made and ATYCLB is the last studio album produced by U2. The band asks you, "give us your favorite 25 U2 songs and we will play them." You choose the order ! Your top 25 in any order you want them. You can choose obscure songs or major U2 hits (remember, do not include HTDAAB because we don't know too much about it).

Try not to mock or ridicule your friends here as this top 25 is quite subjective.

Here is my shot at it.

1. Acrobat
2. Discoteche
3. The Fly
4. HMTMKMKM
5. Gloria
6. Hawkmoon 269
7. Staring at the Sun
8. North and South of the River
9. Kite
10. Heartland
11. Sort of Homecoming
12. New Year's Day
13. Bad
14. All I Want is You
15. Heartbreak Hotel
16. Numb
17. Pride

Encore One:
18. Where the Streets Have No Name
19. Drowning Man
20. Elvis Presley and America
21. Walk On

Encore Two:
22. One Tree Hill
23. Dancing Barefoot
24. Running to Stand Still
25. One

 

[Numb1075]

I created the darn setlist and left off God II !!
I will replace Heartland w/ God II. I told you this was tough.

 

[Axver]

I've thought about this quite a bit, but never had it in me to make the full setlist. Here goes my first attempt ...

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. One Tree Hill
3. Bad
4. All I Want Is You
5. Please
6. Tomorrow
7. In God's Country
8. Exit
9. Bullet The Blue Sky
10. Running To Stand Still
11. A Sort Of Homecoming
12. October --> New Year's Day
13. Gloria
14. I Will Follow
15. 11 O'clock Tick Tock
16. God Part II

17. Hawkmoon 269
18. Desire
19. All Along The Watchtower
20. Until The End Of The World
21. Gone

22. Surrender
23. One
24. With Or Without You
25. 40

That was too hard. There's so much missing.

 

[Numb1075]

I know, it's extremely tough, hurts the brain. I would be real happy going to a show with your setlist here. It's really up tempo all the way through.

 

[Axver]

I know, it's extremely tough, hurts the brain. I would be real happy going to a show with your setlist here. It's really up tempo all the way through.

Thanks! Can you tell I'm not so keen on the acoustic set and I love the uptempo parts of eighties sets? I'm not quite sure I really stuck to your original specifications seeing I did some of it more out of interest to enhance the setlist - namely, the Desire/AATW Lovetown combination that I adore and include in almost all of my setlists.

A setlist for U2's final show would have to be about fifty songs to include even half of everything that should be played, That's part of the reason why I hope U2 never retire - a last show would be too difficult. If they slowly ease themselves out of touring or just play a select number of shows, it would probably be a lot easier, and make all of us happy!

 

[bonojr62]

Alright here it is....

1.Mofo
2.Out of Control
3.The Fly
4.Even better then the real thing.
5.Your blue room.
6.Please
7.Until the End of the world.
8.New Years Day
9.Sunday Bloody Sunday.
10.All I want is you.
11. Stay (faraway so close!)
12. Angel of Harlem
13. Bad
14. Streets
15. Still Havent found what i'm lookin for.
16. Satellite Of Love
17.Kite
18.Lemon
19.Wake up Deadman

20.Beautiful Day.
21.Acrobat
22.With or Without you.

23.Walk On
24.One/unchained Melody
25. 40

 

[ponkine]

Hola amigos

That´s a real hard choise !!!! but, imagining Bono and his boys can perform every song perfectly well ( I´m talking about Band´s energy, Bono´s voice, etc ) and considering the band´s performance of these songs, here´s my list:

1- Zoo Station
2- I Will Follow ( full version, like old times )
3- God Part II
4- Even Better Than The Real Thing
5- Mysterious Ways ( with belly dancer...don´t be jealous Edge )
6- All Along The Watchover ( Lovetown Tour version )
7- Surrender ( War Tour version )
8- New Year´s Day ( War Tour version )
9- Exit
10-In God´s Country ( Joshua Tree Tour version )
11-Desire ( Lovetown Tour version )
12-Sunday Bloody Sunday ( War Tour version )
13-The Electric Co ( Unforgettable Fire Tour version )
14-Bad ( Live aid version )

15-Dancing Barefoot
16-Staring At The Sun ( Bono and The Edge version )
17-Please ( Elevation version )

18-Bullet The Blue Sky ( Zoo TV version )
19-Running To Stand Still ( Zoo TV version )
20-Where The Streets Have No Name ( Zoo TV version )
21-All I Want Is You ( Lovetown Tour Version )

22-Discotheque ( Pop Mart Tour version )
23-Angel Of Harlem ( Lovetown Tour version )
24-Pride ( Unforgettable Fire Tour version )
25-With Or Without You ( Joshua Tree Tour version )

I know probably tomorrow I´d change this setlist, but for me, today is ok

 

[anders]

 

[anders]

Ok, here's my attempt.

1- Zoo Station
2- The fly (Zoo-version)
3- Gone
4- In gods country
5- A sort of homecoming
6- Streets
7- Bad
8- Stuck in a moment
9- The unforgettable fire
10- New Years day
11- I Still havent found
12- Staring at the sun
13- All I want is U
14- God part II

--Acoustic set--
15- Kite
16- Stay (Zoo-version)
17- The hands that built America
--

18- Please (full band version!!!!)
19- Mysterious ways
20- October ---> Running to stand still

--Encore---

21- Red hill mining town
22- Acrobat
23- With or without you
24- In a little while
25- One tree hill
26- One---> Unchained melody

 

[2861U2]

1) Zooropa
2) Hawkmoon 269
3) Beautiful Day
4) Desire
5) Discotheque
6) I Will Follow
7) New Years Day
8) I Fall Down
9) Wild Honey
10) A Sort Of Homecoming
11) When I Look At The World
12) Where The Streets Have No Name
13) Trip Through Your Wires
14) Stay
15) October
16) Drowning Man
17) If You Wear That Velvet Dress
18) Gone
19) Elevation

20) One
21) Lemon
22) Last Night On Earth

23) Gloria
24) Until The End Of The World
25) Out Of Control

 

[2861U2]

a new one i like better


1) Desire
2) Always
3) Beautiful Day
4) Trip Through Your Wires
5) I Fall Down
6) Another Time Another Place
7) Discotheque
8) Even Better Than The Real Thing
9) Mysterious Ways
10) Hawkmoon 269
11) The Refugee
12) Sunday Bloody Sunday
13) The Ground Beneath Her Feet
14) Gone
15) Wire
16) In God's Country
17) A Sort Of Homecoming
18) Where The Streets Have No Name
19) Elevation

20) One
21) Lemon
22) Last Night On Earth

23) Gloria
24) Until The End Of The World
25) Out Of Control

damn thats tough

 

[bono_man2002]

1. Zoo Station
2. Electric Co
3. Beauiful Day
4. Until The End Of The World
5. I Will Follow
6. Out Of Control
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
8. New Years Day
9. Even Better Than The Real Thing
10.Kite
11.Angel Of Harlem (On B-Stage)
12.When Love Comes To Town (On B-Stage)
13.Stay (Faraway So Close!) (B-Stage)

Edge, Adam and Larry Leave the b-stage)

14.All I Want Is You (Bono Accoustic- B Stage)
15.Bullet The Blue Sky
16.Running To Stand Still
17.Where The Streets Have No Name
18.Pride (In The Name Of Love)
19.Still Havent Found What i'm looking for
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Encores:
20. Hawkmoon 269
21. Gloria
22.Mysterious Ways (Bono screaming the "Alright's!" like on go home)
23.11'O Clock Tick Tock
24.Walk On
25"40"

all i would change is prehaps put bad in there somewhere.

 

[Macfistowannabe]

I think we should put how they should enter the stage.

 

[korczykp]

well... this is tough...

because some of my favourite songs wouldn't quite suit being played live, and there's some songs that I don't care for that much, but are just amazing performed live, like Bullet..

but here it is

1) The Fly
2) Out of Control
3) Mofo
4) Until The End of the World
5) Love is Blindness
6) Trip Through Your Wires
7) Desire
8) Gloria
9) Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
10) All Along the Watchtower
11) So Cruel (Acoustic w/ Piano)
12) In God's Country (Acoustic)
13) If God Would Send His Angels (Acoustic)
14) When I Look at the World (Acoustic)
15) I Will Follow
16) New Years' Day
17) With Or Without You
18) Bad
19) Where the Streets Have No Name

20) Pride (In the Name of Love)
21) Sunday Bloody Sunday
22) Bullet the Blue Sky

23) Beautiful Day
24) One
25) Dirty Day... (would just sound amazing with the show fading out on 'those days, days, days, run away like horses over the hill')

 

[knox]

How can you not end with Sunday Bloody Sunday?

So much of U2 all comes back to some of the ideas in that song. Even listening to the new album you can hear it. Sure, they sing about all sorts of things, but in the end, if there was one underlying theme for the band, it's in trying to move us all forwards. "NO MORE!" "Wipe your bloodshot eyes!" seems to me to be the way to go out, as the song is just as appropriate to today's world as it was when written in the early 1980s.