help with boxset

[RickFly]

i have decided, since u2 doesnt have a box set out, that i am going to creat my own personal one for right now. 4 discs, and i was wondering if everyone could help me design the best setlists for them. any suggestions please help.

 

[Zoots]

Well, since the Best Of is about to be released I'm sure a Box Set isnt coming anytime in the near future. I think they'll write 2 or 3 more albums and then think about it. At that point, I would divide the set into 4 discs...
Disc 1 - Boy, October, War
Disc 2 - UFire, JT, R&H
Disc 3 - Achtung, Zooropa, Pop
Disc 4 - ATYCLB, album 11(HQ???). album 12 drool: )

Of course there would be a mix of A sides and B sides with preference of course on the former.

So there!

 

[david]

Well, since the Best Of is about to be released I'm sure a Box Set isnt coming anytime in the near future. I think they'll write 2 or 3 more albums and then think about it. At that point, I would divide the set into 4 discs...
Disc 1 - Boy, October, War
Disc 2 - UFire, JT, R&H
Disc 3 - Achtung, Zooropa, Pop
Disc 4 - ATYCLB, album 11(HQ???). album 12 drool: )

Of course there would be a mix of A sides and B sides with preference of course on the former.

So there!

I like your disc ideas, cept I think on disc 4 he should put stuff from Million Dollar Hotel, Ground Beneath Her Feet, ATYCLB, Hands That Built America, and Electrical Storm, Since he is planning this now right?

 

[Zoots]

Oops, sorry. I thought you were asking opinions about what U2 would do.

 

[UnforgettableLemon]

I can give you my four-disc tracklisting, since I made one. These are chronological for the sake of a continuous listening experience. This is fairly close ot my original tracklisting, but the two most recent songs have been added, as well as the new mix of Gone in place of a live version. This is strictly based on MY preferences.

Boy-October-War Era: ( I may have had Electric Co. on, don't recall)

11 O'Clock Tick Tock
I Will Follow
Out of Control
A Day Without Me
Another Time, Another Place
Stories for Boys
Gloria
I Threw a Brick Through a Window
Fire
Tomorrow
October
A Celebration
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day
Like a Song
Two Hearts Beat as One
Surrender
40

Unforgettable Fire- Joshua Tree- Rattle and Hum Era

A Sort of Homecoming (live)
Pride
The Unforgettable Fire
Bad
MLK
Where the Streets Have no Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
With or Without You
Bullet the Blue Sky
In God's Country
One Tree Hill
Spanish Eyes
Sweetest Thing (original)
Desire
Angel of Harlem
When Love Comes to Town
God Part II
All I Want is You

Achtung Baby-Zooropa-Pop Era

Even Better Than the Real Thing
One
Until the End of the World
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Temple Bar Edit)
The Fly
Mysterious Wyas
Numb (original)
Lemon
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
The First Time
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Discotheque (original mix)
If God Will Send His Angels (single version)
Staring at the Sun (original mix)
Gone (new mix)
Please (single version)
North and South of the River

All That You Can't Leave Behind- Million Dollar Hotel- Passengers- Other

Night and Day
Beautiful Day
Stuck in a Moment
Elevation (Tomb Raider mix)
Walk On (Hallelujah mix)
Kite
New York
Electrical Storm
The Hands That Built America
Your Blue Room
Miss Sarajevo
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Won't Get Fooled Again (live)

 

[typhoon]

I suggest putting the Passengers tracks and "Night and Day" with the Achtung Baby and Zooropa material. Then move Pop with the Million Dollar Hotel and onward (if you're worried about coherency, use the new mixes, since they sit better with the MDH and ATYCLB songs).

Toss "Party Girl" on the first disc while you're at it.

 

[brimcart]

I actually did this back in 1999 and was able to fit a lot of good songs onto 4 discs, with the last disc having B-Sides, and commercially released live tracks. With this live CD I was able to seamlessly fade tracks from 1982, with tracks from R&H DVD, PopMart Mexico city, and other faves.

The only problem is, if you are like me, you end up having to ax some songs that you really love just to make them fit onto a CD-R.

So, if I were you, make 5 discs instead of 4 so that you can have plenty to choose from. And trust me, when you really start to go through those albums and pick songs that you'd like to include, you won't have any trouble filling up 5 discs.

 

[brimcart]

I actually did this back in 1999 and was able to fit a lot of good songs onto 4 discs, with the last disc having B-Sides, and commercially released live tracks.
With these live tracks I was able to seamlessly fade tracks from 1982, with tracks from R&H DVD, PopMart Mexico city, and other faves.

The only problem is, if you are like me, you end up having to ax some songs that you really love just to make them fit onto a CD-R.

So, if I were you, make 5 discs instead of 4 so that you can have plenty to choose from. And trust me, when you really start to go through those albums and pick songs that you'd like to include, you won't have any trouble filling up 5 discs.

 

[mysteriousspirit]

Hi RickFly. I've been working on the idea of how a possible box set release may look in the future too, and its still being worked on as i type, but i'll try real hard to get it posted here in the next few days. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but by Christ its a labour of love!! As a basis i have pretty much a similar format to those posts above, but of course a variation in track layout.

So it should be here soon, and hey if you wait a while longer you'll probably get three at once....!

 

[ouizy]

U2 DOES HAVE A BOX SET OF SINGLES OUT!!!!!!!

I bought it in college and totally forgot about it, but then saw it on Ebay yesterday.

it is called U2 "The singles collection" I think it is from 1979-1989


It is all the singles they released up to that date.

It is a black box with gray "U2" letters on it...

 

[Zoots]

U2 DOES HAVE A BOX SET OF SINGLES OUT!!!!!!!

I bought it in college and totally forgot about it, but then saw it on Ebay yesterday.

it is called U2 "The singles collection" I think it is from 1979-1989


It is all the singles they released up to that date.

It is a black box with gray "U2" letters on it...

I noticed a 7 CD box set on ebay. The link for that item follows...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=915626012

 

[Fritz]

I need alot more than 4 discs, so here it is:

Disc one:
1. I Will Follow
2. Twilight
3. An Cat Dubh
4. Into The Heart
5. Out Of Control
6. Stories For Boys
7. The Ocean
8. A Day Without Me
9. Another Time, Another Place
10. The Electric Co.
11. Shadows And Tall Trees

Disc two:
1. Gloria
2. I Fall Down
3. I Threw a Brick Through a Window
4. Rejoice
5. Fire
6. Tomorrow
7. October
8. With a Shout
9. Stranger in a Strange Land
10. Scarlet
11. Is That All?

Disc three:
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. Seconds
3. New Year's Day
4. Like A Song...
5. Drowning Man
6. The Refugee
7. Two Hearts Beat As One
8. Red Light
9. Surrender
10. '40'

Disc four:
1. Sort of Homecoming
2. Pride (In the Name of Love)
3. Wire
4. Unforgettable Fire
5. Promenade
6. 4th of July
7. Bad
8. Indian Summer Sky
9. Elvis Presley and America
10. MLK

Disc five:
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. With Or Without You
4. Bullet The Blue Sky
5. Running To Stand Still
6. Red Hill Mining Town
7. In God's Country
8. Trip Through Your Wires
9. One Tree Hill
10. Exit
11. Mothers Of The Disappeared

Disc six:
1. Helter Skelter [Live]
2. Van Diemen's Land
3. Desire
4. Hawkmoon 269
5. All Along the Watchtower [Live]
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For [Live]
7. Freedom for My People
8. Silver and Gold [Live]
9. Pride (In the Name of Love) [Live]
10. Angel of Harlem
11. Love Rescue Me
12. When Love Comes to Town
13. Heartland
14. God, Pt. 2
15. Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix
16. Bullet the Blue Sky [Live]
17. All I Want Is You

Disc Seven:
1. Zoo Station
2. Even Better Than The Real Thing
3. One
4. Until The End Of The World
5. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
6. So Cruel
7. The Fly
8. Mysterious Ways
9. Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
10. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
11. Acrobat
12. Love Is Blindness

Disc eight:
1. Zooropa
2. Babyface
3. Numb
4. Lemon
5. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
6. Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
7. Some Days Are Better Than Others
8. First Time
9. Dirty Day
10. Wanderer

Disc Nine:
1. Discoth?que
2. Do You Feel Loved
3. Mofo
4. If God Will Send His Angels
5. Staring at the Sun
6. Last Night on Earth
7. Gone
8. Miami
9. Playboy Mansion
10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
11. Please
12. Wake up Dead Man

Disc Ten:
1. Beautiful Day
2. Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
3. Elevation
4. Walk On
5. Kite
6. In a Little While
7. Wild Honey
8. Peace on Earth
9. When I Look at the World
10. New York
11. Grace

Disc Eleven:
Grond Beneth Her Feet
Statless
Boy/Girl
11 o'clock tick tock
Three Sunrises
Spanish Eyes
Sweetest Thing
Love Comes Tumbling
Bass Trap
Dancing Barefoot
Everlasting Love
Unchained Melody
Walk to the Water
Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)
Hallelujah Here She Comes
Silver and Gold
Endless Deep
Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl

and on and on.............

sorry, i just had to do it

fritz

 

[mysteriousspirit]

umph... ..agh.. ...turning into.. ...U2-man...!

Well, it hasn't been easy.

But here is a U2 boxset with four discs as i'd like to see it. I coulda easily used 6 discs but thats another thread i guess. All the discs here clock in at around 78mins 30secs if my maths is right. I've tried to go for a popular mix of songs as well as a few unusual tracks or B-sides. Here's the first half:


1st DISC:
1. I Will Follow
2. Boy-Girl
3. 11 o'clock Tick Tock
4. An Cat Dubh
5. Into The Heart
6. Out Of Control
7. The Electric Co.
8. Gloria
9. October
10. Fire
11. Tomorrow
12. A Celebration (LIVE)
13. Party Girl (LIVE)
14. Sunday Bloody Sunday
15. Endless Deep
16. New Years Day
17. Two Hearts Beat As One
18. Surrender
19. "40"
20. Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop) [HIDDEN TRACK]

2nd DISC:
1. MLK
2. Pride
3. Bad
4. A Sort Of Homecoming (LIVE)
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. Where The Streets Have No Name
7. With Or Without You
8. Bullet The Blue Sky
9. In Gods Country
10. Walk To The Water
11. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
12. When Love Comes To Town
13. Silver And Gold
14. Van Diemens Land
15. Desire
16. Angel Of Harlem
17. All I Want Is You
18. Unchained Melody [HIDDEN TRACK]

 

[mysteriousspirit]

...U2 completely.. taking over... ..mind and body....

Off with the horns and on with the show. Here's the 2nd half:

3rd DISC:
1. Zoo Station
2. The Fly
3. One
4. Even Better Than The Real Thing
5. Mysterious Ways
6. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Temple Bar Edit)
7. Satellite Of Love ('One' single version)
8. Until The End Of The World
9. The First Time
10. Lemon
11. Stay(Faraway, So Close)
12. Numb
13. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
14. Your Blue Room
15. Miss Sarajevo
16. Dirty Day
17. Mission Impossible Theme [HIDDEN TRACK]

4th DISC:
1. Discotheque
2. Pop Muzik (Edit)
3. Gone
4. Mofo
5. If God Will Send His Angels
6. Staring At The Sun
7. Wake Up Dead Man
8. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
9. Stateless
10. Sweetest Thing (Single Mix)
11. Elevation (Tombraider Mix)
12. Beautiful Day
13. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
14. Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)
15. Kite
16. Grace
17. Walk On [HIDDEN TRACK]


Well thats it. In case u r wondering, certain tracks are in certain places because they improve the flow of how the disc would sound when listened to all the way through. Of course some tracks are just there cos they are MY preferences. I appreciate its probably not that easy to obtain all the above songs, but this is just my hope of what a U2 boxset might be like.


Bye for now.

 

[RickFly]

what live versions of what songs should be on the box set? i am making the setlists and trying to see what songs would sound good with each other?
i have recently rediscovered "wire" and also what pics should i use for the cover art?