Best Live Performance

[edge_2125]

Any U2 song... from any concert, any bootleg, personal experience - if you're lucky enough to have had it - anything. I find it pretty impossible to isolate one, so I'm going to list a few of my faves..

Mysterious Ways (Dublin - 28 Aug 1993)
With or Without You (Rattle and Hum)
One Tree Hill (Dublin - 26 Dec 1989)
The Fly (Elevation Boston)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (Rattle and Hum)
Love Is Blindess (ZooTV Sydney)
Please (MTV Video Music Awards, 1997)
Stay (Dublin - 28 Aug 1993)




Add yours!

 

[mikal]

Bad - Chicago 5/7/05

 

[namkcuR]

Any Popmart full-band performance of Please.

 

[Irishteen]

Stand By me with Bruce Springstein

 

[Acrobat_Al]

Please (single live version)
With or without you (RHTicket)
Discotheque (Popmart Las Vegas)
Misterious ways (Popmart Mexico)
Holy Joe (Kmart)
Kite (Elevation Boston)
If you wear that velvet dress (Popmart Mexico, Jools Holland Show)

 

[miss becky]

Mysterious Ways, Zoo TV Houston

And I second mikal's choice of Bad from the Chicago show on the 7th. Absolutely incredible.

 

[Axver]

One Tree Hill, 26 December 1989, Dublin.

There is no competition.

 

[Aardvark747]

Heartland - Live @ Wembley in 89'.



















If only...

 

[discothequeLP]

One Tree Hill, 26 December 1989, Dublin.

There is no competition.

actually, i thought the performance of One Tree Hill on December 31 was better.


Bad from the 12/31 concert was amazing also.

 

[bonojr62]

Last night on earth-Popmart Santiago
Or UTEOTW from Santiago also

 

[gareth brown]

Mysterious Ways (Dublin - 28 Aug 1993)
With or Without You (Rattle and Hum)
One Tree Hill (Dublin - 26 Dec 1989)
The Fly (Elevation Boston)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (Rattle and Hum)
Stay (Dublin - 28 Aug 1993)

This sums it up for me, congratulations on being the only person I've met here with taste!

seriously though, Mysterious Ways, I'm so glad everyone else likes this one, it's the best by far. The Fly Boston can't be beat either.

 

[gareth brown]

plus - Last Night on Earth (Popmart Mexico City)

 

[1stepcloser]

Streets - Boston 2001

 

[RA-D]

Bullet The Blue Sky (Leeds '97) - "Come on, come on, come on, come on" "Hala-la-la-la-America"

Sunday Bloody Sunday (Slaine '01) - "29 people: too many"

Pride (R&H '87) - "In the name of Martin Luthor King: sing"

 

[neutral]

If I had to pick just one it would be Mofo from the '97 EMAs.

 

[IntoTheHeartland]

- The Fly (Anaheim, 4/24/01) - with Bono's "My baby's having a baby" intro

- Lemon (Sydney, 11/27/93)

- WOWY (R&H version)

 

[discothequeLP]

Mysterious Ways from Irving Plaza 2000 beats ANY OTHER performance of that song! it's just perfect, it's way better than even the 8-28-93 performance!

 

[gareth brown]

do you have an MP3 you could send me?? I'd like to make my own decision the guitar solo on the Zoo TV Aug '93 Dublin performance is pretty damn fine!

 

[Shawn Bonneau]

MOFO at the Europe Awards in 97.

SMB

 

[mtoreilly]

With Or Without You from Rattle & Hum - awesome!

Last Night On Earth from Mexico City 3/12/97 - I wanted to meet God, but he sold me religion!

With Or Without You from Birmingham 14/8/01 - When Bono started singing Love Will Tear Us Apart at the end I nearly wet myself. In a word, beautiful.

I have copies of all of these if anyone's interested

 

[Neenie]

Mofo ~ Sao Paulo - 1998-01-31
One - America's Millenium Party - 1999-12-31
Where The Streets Have No Name - popmart EP
With or Without You - Dublin - 26 Dec 1989
Beautiful Day - Farmclub - 2000-10-27
Mysterous ways ~ Irving Plaza 2000-12-05
Please ~ popmart EP
The Fly ~ Minneapolis 2001-05-01
Walk On ~ Tribute to Heroes 2001
Discotheque ~Miami March 24 2001
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own ~ Dublin Studios - 2004-11-16 -

 

[Zooropean103]

Mysterious Ways 28-08-1993
Discotheque- Leeds 28-08-1997
Mofo- at the Europe Awards in 97
The Fly- Boston DVD
Dirty Day- Sydney video
Desire- 16-08-1992
Bullet The Blue Sky- Slane DVD
Miami- Leeds 28-08-1997
Last Night on Earth- 23-09-1997
One Tree Hill- 12-31-1989
Night and Day- MusiCares (not full band)



And many, many, many others...

 

[matt76]

One Tree Hill, 26 December 1989, Dublin.

There is no competition.

You got it on MP3 Axver??

if so forward on will you?
mattellis_@hotmail.com

Ta

 

[Palace_Hero]

You have mail.

 

[vanessajones82]

Elevation from the VMA's in 2001 where they fucked up. lol.

 

[popmart86]

LIVE AID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ellay]

Mysterious Ways, Zoo TV Houston

I agree, this performance set the standard for all M Ways performances to come. Get it. Love it.

 

[The_One1932]

the fly - 4-20-01 san jose, best fly solo ever
bullet- 6-05-92 dormund, edge on acid

 

[corianderstem]

I'm so glad I have shoeboxes full of bootlegs, so I can go home and play all (okay, some) of these tracks and remember why they're so awesome.

Off the top of my head:

Out of Control, from Red Rocks '83 ("Do you know who this is?? THIS IS THE EDGE!!!!")

Bad from 8/28/93 (The perfection of the Bono's falsetto on the first "wide awake" .... ooooooh!)

the second Vertigo from the second Seattle show (it rocked so hard, it hurt me)

 

[jumpmanst]

Stuck in A Moment BBC
Beautiful Day Slane
One Brit Awards
All because of you brooklyn bridge
VErtigo BBC Carpark