Album openers and closers - from favourite to least favourite

[Saracene]

My picks (album versions only):

Openers:
1. Streets
2. I Will Follow
3. Beautiful Day
4. Gloria
5. Discotheque
6. Helter Skelter
7. Zooropa
8. A Sort of Homecoming
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. Zoo Station

Closers:
1. Wake Up Dead Man
2. All I Want Is You
3. Grace
4. Mothers of the Disappeared
5. 40
6. The Wanderer
7. Love Is Blindness
8. Shadows and Tall Trees
9. Is That All?
10. MLK

 

[kobayashi]

cool question. here's my list.
Openers:
1. Streets
2. Zoo Station
3. Beautiful Day
4. I Will Follow
5. Discotheque
6. Zooropa
7. Gloria
8. A Sort of Homecoming
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. Helter Skelter

Closers:
1. 40
2. All I Want Is You
3. The Wanderer
4. Mothers of the Disappeared
5. Wake Up Dead Man
6. Love Is Blindness
7. Grace
8. Shadows and Tall Trees
9. Is That All?
10. MLK



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[christiana]

It's very hard to choose, I love them all!!

Openers:
1. Streets
2. Zooropa
3. Discotheque
4. Beautiful Day
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. Helter Skelter
7. Zoo Station
8. A Sort of Homecoming
9. Gloria
10. I Will Follow

Closers:
1. Love Is Blindness
2. All I Want Is You
3. Wake Up Dead Man
4. The Wanderer
5. 40
6. Mothers of the Disappeared
7. Grace
8. Shadows and Tall Trees
9. MLK
10. Is That All

 

[Michael Griffiths]

Favourite openers:

1. Where The Streets Have No Name (perhaps the best opener of any album ever?)
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday (talk about a wake up call!)
3. Zooropa
4. Beautiful Day
5. Zoo Station
6. I Will Follow
7. Gloria
8. Discotheque
9. Helter Skelter
10. A Sort of Homecoming (a beautiful song, but just doesn't work for me as an opener, which is not to say it doesn't work)

Favourite Closers:

1. Mothers of the Disappeared (perhaps not so coincidentally from the same album with my favourite opener -- a sign of perfection)
2. All I Want Is You
3. Grace
4. MLK
5. 40
6. Shadows and Tall Trees
7. Love Is Blindness
8. The Wanderer
9. Wake Up Dead Man
10. Is That All (I was left wondering the same thing...)


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The Tempest

 

[Salome]

Openers:
1. A Sort of Homecoming
2. Where the Streets
3. Beautiful Day
4. Gloria
5. Zooropa
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. I Will Follow
8. Discotheque
9. Zoo Station
10. Helter Skelter

Closers:
1. The Wanderer
2. Love is Blindness
3. All I Want Is You
4. 40
5. Grace
6. Mothers of the Disappeared
7. MLK
8. Wake Up Dead Man
9. Shadows and Tall Trees
10. Is That All?

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Salome
Shake it, shake it, shake it

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[senrab]

1. Streets
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday
3. Beautiful Day
4. I Will Follow
5. Gloria
6. Discotheque
7. A Sort of Homecoming (I love the song, but I think Pride would have fit better as an opener. But what do I know?)
8. Zoo Station
9. Helter Skelter
10. Zooropa

1. 40
2. All I Want is You
3. Mothers of the Disappeared
4. MLK
5. Love is Blindness
6. Shadows and Tall Trees
7. Is That All?
8. Grace
9. Wake Up Dead Man
10. The Wanderer

 

[scatteroflight]

I likes this question...

Openers:

1. Streets
2. A Sort of Homecoming
3. Gloria
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday
5. Beautiful Day
6. Zoo Station
7. I Will Follow
8. Zooropa
9. Helter Skelter
10. Discotheque

Closers:

1. All I Want Is You
2. Mothers of the Disappeared
3. 40
4. MLK
5. Love is Blindness
6. Is That All?
7. Shadows and Tall Trees
8. Grace
9. Wake Up Dead Man
10. The Wanderer.


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Your seven worlds collide
Whenever I am by your side
Dust from a distant sun
Will shower over everyone

-Crowded House

 

[The Blunt Edge]

I agree, cool thread. My picks -

Openers:
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday
3. Zoo Station
4. Zooropa
5. Beautiful Day
6. I Will Follow
7. Helter Skelter
8. Discotheque
9. A Sort of Homecoming
10. Gloria

Closers:
1. 40
2. All I Want is You
3. Love is Blindness
4. Grace
5. Mothers of the Disappeared
6. Wake up Dead Man
7. MLK
8. The Wanderer
9. Shadows and Tall Trees
10. Is That All?

 

[zoomerang II]

Openers
1. Streets
2. Beautiful Day
3. Zooropa
4. A Sort of Homecoming
5. Zoo Station
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. I Will Follow
8. Gloria
9. Discotheque
10. Helter Skelter


Closers:
1. Love Is Blindness
2. All I Want Is You
3. Mothers of the Disappeared
4. Wake Up Dead Man
5. Grace
6. 40
7. Shadows and Tall Trees
8. Is That All?
9. MLK
10. The Wanderer



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In the stillness of the evening
When the sun has had its day
I heard your voice whispering...

 

[WHYWHY]

Openers (studio):
1. Streets
2. Beautiful Day
3. Discotheque
4. Zooropa
5. Helter Skelter
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. Zoo Station
8. A sort of Homecoming
9. Gloria
10. I will follow

closers (studio):
1. All I want is you
2. Love is blindness
3. Mothers of the disappeared
4. 40
5. Grace
6. Wake Up Dead Man
7. MLK
8. The Wanderer
9. Is that all?
10. Shadows and Tall trees

Openers (Live):
1. Streets
2. Until the end of the world (It has...)
3. Beautiful Day (Occasionally)
4. Elevation
5. Bullet the Blue sky (Lovetown)
6. Mofo
7. Zoo station
8. 11 O'clock tick tock
9. God Part 2
10. The Ocean

Closers (Live)
1. Love is Blindness
2. Walk On
3. One
4. Mothers of the disappeared
5. 40
6. Wake Up Dead Man
7. MLK
8. Amazing Grace

I know there are a couple from the BOY?OCTOBER period, I just can't remember them for now...
So there it is...
Bless ya!
WHYWHY

 

[Dustybot]

Openers:
1. Streets
2. Zooropa
3. Beautiful Day
4. Zoo Station
5. Discotheque
6. I Will Follow
7. A Sort of Homcoming
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Gloria
10. Helter Skelter

Closers:
1. Love is Blindness
2. Wake Up Dead Man
3. Mothers of the Disappeared
4. All I Want Is You
5. MLK
6. Grace
7. 40
8. Shadows and Tall Trees
9. The Wanderer
10. Is That All?

 

[IvanClaytonJnr]

Openers :
1.Beautiful Day
2.I Will Follow
3.Where The Streets Have No Name
4.A Sort Of Homecoming
5.Zoo Station
6.Discotheque
7.Helter Skelter
8.Zooropa
9.Gloria
10.Sunday Bloody Sunday

Closers;
1.All I Want Is You
2.Wake Up Dead Man
3.Grace
4.The Wonderer
5.Love Is Blindness
6.MLK
7.Mothers Of The Disappeared
8.'40'
9.Shadows and Tall Trees
10.Is That All ?

 

[Monkey79]

1. Streets (Undisputed)
2. Zoo Station
3. BD (BD great, but Elevation better?)
4. I Will Follow
5. Gloria
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. A Sort of Homecoming (Wire better suited?)
8. Zooropa
9. Discoteque
10. Helter Skelter

1. 40
2. All I Want Is You
3. Grace
4. MLK
5. Wake Up Dead Man
6. Mothers of the Disappeared
7. Love is Blindness
8. Shadows...
9. Is That All?
10. The Wanderer

 

[madonna's child]

openers:
1. zoo station
2. streets
3. a sort of homecoming
4. zooropa
5. beautiful day
6. sunday bloody sunday
7. i will follow
8. discotheque
9. gloria
10. helter skelter

closers:
1. love is blindness
2. shadows and tall trees
3. wake up, dead man
4. all i want is you
5. MLK
6. mothers of the disappeared
7. 40
8. Is That All?
9. Grace
10. The Wanderer


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[Zoocifer]

Screw the "in order" thing -

The greatest album opener: "Beautiful Day"
The greatest album closer: "Wake Up Deadman"

Thank you. I'll be here all night.

~z~

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[blood red edge]

Openers:
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. Streets
3. Discotheque
4. I Will Follow
5. Beautiful Day
6. Helter Skelter
7. A Sort of a Homecoming
8. Gloria
9. Zoo Station
10. Zooropa

Closers:
1. Love is Blindness
2. All I Want is You
3. MLK
4. Shadows and Tall Trees
5. Mothers of the Disappeared
6. 40
7. Is That All?
8. Grace
9. Wake Up Dead Man
10. The Wanderer

 

[oliveu2cm]

neat thread.. interesting the relations between all the closing songs.

openers: (in this order)
Streets
Zoostation
IWF
SOH
SBS
Elevation
Zoostation
Discotheque
Gloria
(excluded R&H from this list)

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closers:
Wanderer
LIB
AIWIY
40
WUDM
MLK
MOTD
Grace
Shadows
Is that all?


-wow looking over everyone's lists, the wanderer really got trashed on. i love that closer. it's the perfect closer to that album- there is no other closer. wow. ok lol lata

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[This message has been edited by oliveu2cm (edited 01-23-2002).]

 

[EXIT_TO_THE_NORTH]

Fav Opener:

ZOOROPA

Fav Closer:

LOVE IS BLINDNESS