Favorite spin-shivering U2 moments

[blueyedpoet]

I was just watching U2 performance videos on youtube and something that keeps dawning on me is that this band has these incredible musical/emotional moments within songs. Yes, the songs on the whole are great, but there are just some amazingly spin-shivering moments. For instance:
1. Wild Horses "Don't you look back...." sung live, especially around 92
2. UV, "I remember when we could sleep on stones," live 92-93...raw intense vocal emotion
3. MW, the edge solo is actually quiet beautiful live; it takes on this whole new life
4. Streets, intro


What other moments have just sent shivers down your bone?

 

[coolian2]

The woah oh oh part of With Or Without You (live) - its really been hitting me lately.

 

[gump]

Lighting on Streets, anyone?

 

[Alisaura]

If I listen to the album version of Bad on headphones, that first shimmery cymbal sound from left to right will give me shivers...

 

[JulioArca]

'September, streets capsizing (sp)....'
Any Please performance really

When the drums comes in during 'Love is Blindness', when Larry starts with the snaredrum.

'Call out your name...' 11 O'Clock TT Irving Plaza

 

[europop2005]

The solo on The Fly

 

[waynetravis]

the intro the City of Blinding Lighs live
Love is Blindness live solo
the ''where is there is only love, only loooooove'' part in Ground Beneath Her Feet
''if the sky can crack, there must be some way back'' par after the guitar riff in Electrical Storm
the solo and the outro to Mysterious Ways on POPMart Mexico
the interference/''what do you want?'' in Zooropa


so many to choose

 

[prideofzootv]

Strees from elevation boston
the whoo oh oh oh of with or without you of Vertigo milan (bootleg version)
the outro of COBL in Vertigo Chicago

 

[JCOSTER]

Sunday Bloody Sunday - Bono humming in the intro ....spine tingling.

Mothers of the Disappeared - See their tears in the rainfall and the light chimes come in.

Exit - from R & H - the whole song gives me goose bumps.

All I Want is You - Slane the ending into Streets.

Gloria - the hard beat of the song.

Jools Holland IYWT Velvet Dress.

Red Hill & One Tree Hill - the whole song gives me shivers here and there.

Gone from Boston Elevation - The guitars on this is what does it!

 

[Aygo]

Any starting riff of "I Will Follow" live. And it gets better if it's on the beggining of the show.

 

[sue4u2]

Love Comes Tumbling came on the radio yesterday at work... chills
I emailed the radio station and thanked them.

 

[LMP]

Before I answer, what exactly is a spin-shiver?

 

[sue4u2]

Before I answer, what exactly is a spin-shiver?

You know, that indescrible feeling you get when you can't spell or think or care what others think.
You've been there and you know it.

 

[Idun]

When One starts. Live when Bono start singing ISHFWILF, the intro and the edges solo in Love is blindness, SYCMOYO when Bono sings "Sing you're the reason I sing.." yeah.. etc Oh and yeah, the intro to Streets of course.

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

Before I answer, what exactly is a spin-shiver?

Glad I'm not the only one who wondered this

 

[LMP]

You know, that indescrible feeling you get when you can't spell or think or care what others think.
You've been there and you know it.

An erection?

 

[blueyedpoet]

sometimes i can't spell...or i just make up words to fit my purposes

 

[coolian2]

The Please/Sunday Bloody Sunday drumbeat middle eight.

Unfreakingbelievable.

 

[U2lunatic]

transition between UTEOTW and New Year's day with bono's scream on ZooTV 1993
Edge's guitar solo in Kite on Vertigo tour 5th leg

 

[mandrake]

The outro to Gloria after the bass solo...makes you want to sing it out at the top of your lungs.

 

[europop2005]

The orchestra acoustic version of One with just Bono and Edge...unbelievably beautiful

 

[JCOSTER]

Everytime Bono does a Halle, Hallejuhlia it just tingles me spine and gives me goose bumps! No one does them like he does.

 

[u2fan628]

1st Unforgetable Fire- "don't push me too far..tonight"
2nd Zooropa- "and I have no reason,no reason to look back"
3rd Streets- Intro
4th So cruel-"Then she makes you watch her from above,and you need her like a drug"
5th The Fly Live in Boston-"we could have it all.."
6th Gone-I'm not coming down"
7th UV- Baby Baby Baby light my way"
8th Exit-The whole song
9th Kite - " I know that this is not goodbye"
10th Zoo Station Live Intro

 

[Mr. V]

The opening of COBL.

 

[last unicorn]

Everytime Bono does a Halle, Hallejuhlia it just tingles me spine and gives me goose bumps! No one does them like he does.

That's right. Since I was a little sick yesterday I watched some of my U2 DVD's, also Vertigo Chicago, which I love (despite of what most people seem to think of it here). Running to Stand Still is such a shiver song for me, the whole performance, and with the Hallelujahs in the end it is almost overwhelming.

(And I really like the closeups of Bono's, err, mouth).

Serioulsy, with U2 there are so many spin-shivering and moving moments, it's hard to list them, at least for me.

 

[CKONE]

Sunday Bloody Sunday - Bono humming in the intro ....spine tingling.

Mothers of the Disappeared - See their tears in the rainfall and the light chimes come in.

Exit - from R & H - the whole song gives me goose bumps.

All I Want is You - Slane the ending into Streets.

Gloria - the hard beat of the song.

Jools Holland IYWT Velvet Dress.

Red Hill & One Tree Hill - the whole song gives me shivers here and there.

Gone from Boston Elevation - The guitars on this is what does it!

Exit - from R & H - the whole song gives me goose bumps.

I just got goose bumps reading this section of your goose bumps!

 

[Galeongirl]

The intro of streets, the JT version, long intro, then the click clacks of larry's sticks.... the hi hat....

the solo's of both Love is Blindness and Acrobat...

 

[CKONE]

Joshua Tree - all of it
Bad
The intense look on Edge's face when he is strumming the background to Bono's Eniskilin (sp) speech from Sunday Bloody Sunday - Rattle & Hum
The second too long on Larry's interview about Elvis - Rattle & Hum
Edge flicking the guitar off his hip in Streets on Rattle & Hum
Sometimes You Cant Make It On Your Own
October - Red Rocks
When I first saw them live coming on stage at NEC Birmingham.

Exit - from R & H - the whole song gives me goose bumps.

 

[BoyStupidBoy88]

'Mother, am I still your son....'

Gets me every time.

 

[U2 Beginner]

The Edge's outro to One at Live 8

Intro and outro to City Of Blinding lights (studio version and live versions)

Where The Streets Have No Name (the whole song) and from ZOO TV DVD

Original Of The Species intro (video version)

Walk On (the whole song)

Miracle Drug Solo

The Fly Solo

Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (the whole song) but especially when Bono sings: ''Can you hear me when I sing, you are the reason I sing, you're the reason why the opera is in me....'' up until the end of the song!

Beautiful Day at Live 8, as Bono sings: ''It was a beautiful day, don't let it get away....'' and the birds fly out of their cages and Bono looks up at the sky!

All beaU2ful, spine - shivering moments!

And there are lot of other spine - shivering moments which I can't think of right now.