If I'd Been In Charge

[the tourist]

If I'd been in charge of the order of release of U2 songs, this is how it would have gone. I expect to be yelled at for some of my ideas. But when I get ideas like this, I can't get them out of my head until I get them onto paper. And once I've gone through copious amounts of labor doing this, I must have an audience to bounce my thoughts off of. So, flame if you will. But this is how I would have done it if I were in charge (and some of you may be glad I'm not).

ALBUM::
Boy (early 1980)

I Will Follow
Twilight
An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
Out Of Control
Boys And Girls
Stories For Boys
The Ocean
11 O’Clock Tick Tock (re-recorded)
A Day Without Me
Another Time, Another Place
Shadows And Tall Trees

SINGLES::
I Will Follow
The Fool
Things To Make And Do

11 O’Clock Tick Tock (re-recorded)
Another Day
Street Mission

>>



ALBUM::
October (late 1981)

Gloria
I Fall Down
I Threw A Brick Through A Window
Rejoice
Fire
Tomorrow
October
With A Shout
Stranger In A Strange Land
The Cry/The Electric Co./Is That All?
Scarlet

SINGLES::
Fire
J. Swallow
Touch
Boys And Girls (live)

Gloria
Is That All?
An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart (live)

>>



ALBUM::
War (early 1983)

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Seconds
New Year’s Day
A Celebration
Like A Song
Red Light
Two Hearts Beat As One
Treasure
Drowning Man
Surrender
40 (different recording, extended, and played like live with Adam on guitar)

SINGLES::
New Year’s Day
Fire (live)
I Threw A Brick Through A Window/A Day Without Me (live)
New Year’s Day (remixes)

Two Hearts Beat As One
Trash, Trampoline, And The Party Girl
The Ocean/11 O’Clock Tick Tock (live)
Two Hearts Beat As One (remixes)

Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Refugee
The Endless Deep
Twilight (live)

>>


LIVE ALBUM::
Under A Blood Red Sky (late 1983)

Gloria (live)
11 O’ Clock Tick Tock (live)
I Will Follow (live)
A Celebration (live)
Two Hearts Beat As One (live)
Party Girl (live)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (live)
Is That All/The Cry/The Electric Co. (live)
October (live)
New Year’s Day (live)
Seconds (live)
Surrender (live)
40 (live)

>>


ALBUM::
The Unforgettable Fire (late 1984)

A Sort Of Homecoming
Pride
Wire
The Unforgettable
Promenade
4th Of July
Bad
Indian Summer Sky
Elvis Presley And America
Love Comes Tumbling
MLK

SINGLES::
Pride
Boomerang I
Boomerang II
Be There
4th Of July (long version)

The Unforgettable Fire
Bass Trap
Sixty Seconds In Kingdom Come
MLK

>>


LIVE ALBUM::
Wide Awake In America (mid 1985)

A Sort Of Homecoming (live)
Bad (live w/snippets Promenade)
MLK (live)
The Unforgettable Fire (live)
Knocking On Heaven’s Door (live)
Pride (live)
Boomerang II (extended)
4th Of July (extended)

>>


ALBUM::
The Joshua Tree (early 1987)

Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
With Or Without You
Luminous Times (more formed bridge and instrumentation)
Walk To The Water
Bullet The Blue Sky (lengthened solo like ZooTV)
Running To Stand Still
Red Hill Mining Town
Trip Through Your Wires
One Tree Hill
Exit (louder)
Mothers Of The Disappeared

SINGLES::
With Or Without You
All Along The Watchtower (studio cover)
Knocking On Heaven’s Door (studio cover)
Out Of Control (live)
Stories For Boys (live)

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Help (studio cover)
Springfield Mining Disaster (studio cover)
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (gospel choir studio)

Where The Streets Have No Name (edit)
The Three Sunrises
Race Against Time
Helter Skelter (studio cover)
Where The Streets Have No Name (album)

>>


ALBUM::
Rattle & Hum (early 1989)

Beautiful Ghost (fades out into…)
All I Want Is You
Desire
Spanish Eyes
Silver And Gold (more formed solo like in the live Rattle & Hum)
Angel Of Harlem
When Love Comes To Town
The Sweetest Thing
In God’s Country
Heartland
Van Diemen’s Land
God Part II (more formed solo like from Lovetown Tour)
Deep In The Heart
Hawkmoon 269 (slide guitar intro like from Lovetown Tour)

SINGLES::
Desire
A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
Hallelujah Here She Comes
Dancing Barefoot (studio cover)
Star Spangled Banner/Bullet The Blue Sky (live)
Desire (remix)

All I Want Is You (edit)
She’s A Mystery To Me
Everlasting Love (studio cover)
Unchained Melody (studio cover)
God Part II (remix)
All I Want Is You (album)

Angel Of Harlem
Love Rescue Me
Helter Skelter (live)
Exit (live)
All Along The Watchtower (live)
In God’s Country (live)

>>


LIVE ALBUM:
The Howling Wind (late 1989)

Hawkmoon 269 (live)
Desire (live)
All Along The Watchtower (live w/snippet In God’s Country)
God Part II (live)
Bullet The Blue Sky (live)
Running To Stand Still (live w/snippet Dirty Old Town)
Bad (live)
All I Want Is You (live)
MLK (live)
Where The Streets Have No Name (live)
With Or Without You (live)
Angel Of Harlem (live)
Pride (live)
40 (live)

>> (to be continued....)

 

[liamcool]

Do you mean Boy/Girl instead of Boys And Girls?

 

[the tourist]

COMPILATION ALBUM::
Best Of 1980-1990* (disc one; the best of)

Pride
New Year’s Day I Will Follow
With Or Without You
Heartland
Where The Streets Have No Name
11 O’ Clock Tick Tock
Desire
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bad
Angel Of Harlem
Gloria
The Unforgettable Fire
All I Want Is You
October
40

Best Of 1980-1990* (disc two; the b-sides)

Helter Skelter
Dancing Barefoot
Love Rescue Me
Hallelujah Here She Comes
Bass Trap
The Three Sunrises
The Refugee
Trash, Trampoline, And The Party Girl
The Endless Deep
Race Against Time
Boomerang II
All Along The Watchtower
Everlasting Love
A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
Unchained Melody

Best Of 1980-1990* (disc three; the rest of – album tracks)

A Sort Of Homecoming
Surrender
Exit
Silver And Gold
The Electric Co
Out Of Control
Two Hearts Beat As One
Fire
Spanish Eyes
One Tree Hill
Love Comes Tumbling
Stories For Boys
God Part II
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still
Promenade
Hawkmoon 269

*(disc one only, $14.99; disc one and two only, $19.99; all three, $23.99 or something like that....)

to be continued....

 

[the tourist]

Do you mean Boy/Girl instead of Boys And Girls?

I meant to imply that was the same song, only a later version of it..... Woops.

 

[liamcool]

I meant to imply that was the same song, only a later version of it..... Woops.

Oh, okay. I likey so far...

 

[the tourist]

ALBUM::
Achtung Baby (late 1991)

Zoo Station
Even Better Than The Real Thing
One
Until The End Of The World
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
So Cruel
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
Salome
Lady With The Spinning Head (like the extended edition only without the extended intro)
Acrobat
Love Is Blindness (bigger solo like ZooTV)

SINGLES::
The Fly
Korova 1
The Lounge Fly
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (acoustic)

Mysterious Ways
She’s Gonna Blow Your House Down
Mysterious Ways (remix)

One
Lady With The Spinning Head (extended)
Satellite Of Love (studio cover)
Night And Day (studio cover)

Even Better Than The Real Thing
Paint It Black (studio cover)
Fortunate Son (studio cover)
Where Did It All Go Wrong?

Until The End Of The World
Until The End Of The World (extended)
I Feel Free
Can’t Help Falling In Love (studio cover)

>>


ALBUM::
Zooropa (mid 1993)

Zooropa
Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Numb
Lemon
Ultraviolet
Stay
Slow Dancing
Some Days Are Better Than Others
Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
The Wanderer (Bono on vocals)

SINGLES::
Stay
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (w/Frank Sinatra)
The Wanderer (w/Johnny Cash)
Slow Dancing (w/Willie Nelson)
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Lemon (edit)
Lemon (album)
Lemon (remix)
Zooropa (edit)
Bottoms

>>


ALBUM::
A String Of Pearls (early 1996)

Theme From Let’s Go Native (with full words)
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Miss Sarajevo (w/o Pavarotti)
Your Blue Room
Always Forever Now (shorter)
Corpse
Beach Sequence (more words, no chorus, sorta like Promenade)
Slug
Babyface
Dirty Day (a little more rocking and without the “days ran away like horses” line)
The First Time

SINGLES:
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Elvis Ate America
A Different Kind Of Blue
Viva Davidoff
Plot 180
Theme From The Swan

Miss Sarajevo
Miss Sarajevo (w/Pavarotti)
One Minute Warning
Ito Okashi
United Colours Of Plutonium

>>


ALBUM::
Pop (early 1998)

Discotheque (rockin’ and polished like the Hedges, climactic like the album -- WITH the boom-cha's!)
Do You Feel Loved?
Mofo (how it was done live)
If God Will Send His Angels (single version)
Staring At The Sun
Last Night On Earth (single version)
Gone (like the album, only with Edge’s live backing vocals on the chorus)
Holy Joe
Miami (sun shine’s east, sun shine’s west, I know where the sun shines best line added)
The Playboy Mansion
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Please (single version)
Wake Up Dead Man (less “busy”)

SINGLES::
Discotheque
Discotheque (remix)
Holy Joe (remix)
Pop Muzik

Last Night On Earth
North And South Of The River
Pop Muzik (remix)
Happiness Is A Warm Gun (studio cover)
Numb (remix)

Staring At The Sun
I’m Not Your Baby
Dirty Day (remix)
Mofo (remix)
Always Forever Now (remix)

Please
Two Shots Of Happy One Shot Of Sad
Please (live w/snipped The Playboy Mansion)
Where The Streets Have No Name (live)
With Or Without You (live)
Staring At The Sun (live acoustic)

>>
to be continued....

 

[the tourist]

COMPILATION ALBUM::
Best Of 1990-2000 (disc one, the best of)

The Fly
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Last Night On Earth
Lemon
Discotheque
Dirty Day
Until The End Of The World
Gone
Stay
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Miss Sarajevo
Please
One
Staring At The Sun
Mysterious Ways
Wake Up Dead Man
The First Time

Best Of 1990-2000 (disc two, the b-sides)

United Colours Of Plutonium
I’m Not Your Baby
Night And Day
Happiness Is A Warm Gun (studio cover)
The Wanderer (w/Johnny Cash)
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Elvis Ate America
Slow Dancing (w/Willie Nelson)
Korova I
Where Did It All Go Wrong?
North And South Of The River
Satellite Of Love
She’s Gonna Blow Your House Down
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (w/Frank Sinatra)
Two Shots Of Happy One Shot Of Sad
Can’t Help Falling In Love

Best Of 1990-2000 (disc three, the rest of)

Zooropa
Your Blue Room
If God Will Send His Angels
Zoo Station
Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Mofo
Lady With The Spinning Head
Always Forever Now
Ultraviolet
Acrobat
Slug
Beach Sequence
Babyface
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Love Is Blindness

(same one disc, two disc, or three disc selling format... from casual fan to interference member)
to be concluded....

 

[the tourist]

ALBUM::
All That You Can’t Leave Behind (early 2001)

Beautiful Day
Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Walk On (like the single version at the intro; like the album version at the outtro)
Kite (real string orchestra!)
In A Little While
Wild Honey
The Sweetest Thing (updated)
Stateless
Peace On Earth
When I Look At The World
Elevation (like the Tomb Raider mix)
New York
Grace

SINGLES::
Beautiful Day
Always
I Remember You (studio cover)
Discotheque/If You Wear That Velvet Dress (live)
Beautiful Day (remix)

The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of (double A-side)
Summer Rain
New York (remix)
Stuck In A Moment (acoustic)

Elevation
Elevation (remix)
Big Girls Are Best
Where The Streets Have No Name (live)
Last Night On Earth (live)
Stay (live)

Walk On
Walk On (acoustic)
Don’t Take Your Guns To Town (studio cover)
Beat On The Brat (studio cover)

>>


ALBUM::
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (mid 2004)

City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Electrical Storm
The Hands That Built America
Crumbs From Your Table
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
A Man And A Woman
One Step Closer
Love And Peace Or Else
All Because Of You
Fast Cars
Miracle Drug
Original Of The Species
Yahweh

SINGLES::
Vertigo
Are You Gonna Wait Forever
Beautiful Day (live)
New York (live)
Vertigo (remix)

Electrical Storm
All Because Of You (double A-side)
Ave Maria (w/Pavarotti)
The Fly (live)
Electrical Storm (remix)

Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
City Of Blinding Lights (edit) (double A-side)
Neon Lights (studio cover)
Smile
Vertibanjo




critiques?

 

[the tourist]

Maybe it's not as disliked as I thought it would be.

 

[UnforgettableLemon]

I haven't looked through it all, but thematically I can't see taking Electric Co. off of Boy. It's essential to that album.

 

[blueeyedgirl]

Tourist, ever considered getting a hobby? Or maybe doing as your name suggests?????

 

[the tourist]

Tourist, ever considered getting a hobby? Or maybe doing as your name suggests?????

I'm usually very busy with work, my band, my girl, writing, walking, reading, churchwork, and on the go in general. But I had a two hour lull between when I got home from band practice and when my girlfriend got off work.

 

[jonnytakeawalk]

ALBUM::
A String Of Pearls (early 1996)

Theme From Let’s Go Native (with full words)
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Miss Sarajevo (w/o Pavarotti)
Your Blue Room
Always Forever Now (shorter)
Corpse
Beach Sequence (more words, no chorus, sorta like Promenade)
Slug
Babyface
Dirty Day (a little more rocking and without the “days ran away like horses” line)
The First Time

I actually really like this idea

HMTMKMKM however seems a bit out of place though

 

[blueeyedgirl]

I'm usually very busy with work, my band, my girl, writing, walking, reading, churchwork, and on the go in general. But I had a two hour lull between when I got home from band practice and when my girlfriend got off work.

Well, that's good. I was just getting a little, well, concerned

 

[erin4618]

I don't like taking Ultraviolet off of AB--I really feel it's important to the overall theme/story of the album, and I think AB wouldn't be as good any other way... In the same vein, I guess I wouldn't take off TTTYAATW either, even though I don't love it as much as Ultraviolet. But still essential to my mind.

Otherwise it's some interesting thoughts, not at all interesting in a bad way. I do really like the changes to the last two albums, especially HTDAAB--you've given them a KICK that I think they really need. And there's no excuse for opening an album with the first single (Vertigo) instead of the song that was just made for it (COBL).

 

[Niceman]

I don't think that I'm cool with "double A side" singles.

I can't imagine Achtung gutted that way. It isn't just a collection of songs, it's a story.

Why is Summer Rain not on All That, and why is New York there? (personal taste, I guess)

It would be a shame making so many great Passengers tracks B-sides. Sometimes it is good to have a B-album. You know?

You released Knocking on Heaven's Door twice.

Good work putting Zooropa and the Fly on the best of.

It's fun playing what if, isn't it? And you know, with your MP3s you CAN make all of these albums and re-write history!

 

[monke]

i just used your lists for albums on my MD player, and they flow smoothlly, greta job

 

[longingforBono]

Tourist, ever considered getting a hobby? Or maybe doing as your name suggests?????

LMAO
I was just going to say I think someone has too much time on their hands.
I can gladly share my job with you if you'd like.

 

[the tourist]

You released Knocking on Heaven's Door twice.

Once was live and once was studio.

 

[the tourist]

LMAO
I was just going to say I think someone has too much time on their hands.
I can gladly share my job with you if you'd like.

No thanks! 40 hours of work a week plus 15 hours of preparing for/helping out with church youth group plus 10 hours of band practices keep me pretty busy!

 

[LMP]

I like all the idea except Wild Honey still on ATYCLB, Three Sunrises going AWOL, and the deconstruction of Achtung Baby

other than that, I think that's pretty cool you put all the time and effort into this

 

[XHendrix24]

No UV on Achtung? That's one of the best songs there.