if you were putting together a live album. . .

[Snowlock]

Let's say you've been tasked with putting together 2 hours of live U2 recordings that represented not only the best songs but the best performances of those songs. They could be from any live performance--tours, television, radio, etc.

To be eligible the recording would have to be soundboard quality or very good audience.

Let's start with "Out of Control." On what performance does the band really shine most?

Slane, definately.

 

[Snowlock]

1. Please - MTV VMA's 1997
2. Streets - Superbowl 2001
3. WOWY - Rattle & Hum
4. All I Want Is You - Slane
5 & 6. Beautiful Day & Elevation - Irving Plaza - 2000
7 & 8. The Fly & Mysterious Ways - Houston 1992 (Outside broadcast)
9. Desire - Zooropa Dublin 1992
10. Vertigo - San Diego Night 2 leg 1
11. WGRYWH - Minneapolis - 1991
12. RTSS - Rattle & Hum
13. UTEOTW - NY 1992
14. TTTYAATW - Zooropa Dublin 1992
15. Zoo Station - Zooropa Dublin 1992
16. Two Hearts Beat As One - Love Town Dublin Night 3? 1989
17. The Unforgettable Fire - Love Town Dublin Night 3 1989
18. Staring At The Sun - Rotterdam 1997
19. OOTS - Milan night 2 2005
20. Gloria - Red Rocks

 

[OneDayFly]

this is awesome. i have been working on this as well for a long long time. ill post my results as well. does anyone have a great sounding version of hawkmoon from the lovetown special?

Curious to see your selection and to hear your results!

Here is the best Hawkmoon version available, it's from the Lovetown Documentary from Sydney:
http://www.save file.com/files/152305

You gotta love Edge's guitar on this one. I considered including it myself in the ultimate concert, but I think the motorsounds in the beginning don't fit in... too bad!

And Go For It I shall!!

one more question for right now.

should i make it career spanning or try and make it like one concert? if i make it one concert i would for the most part only be able to use shows from elevation and vertigo tours because of bonos voice changing so much? or do you think that wouldnt matter?

As you saw I make it career spanning. You're right about Bono's voice change, but I think it would be a shame to exclude the fantastic performances of for instance Lovetown and ZooTV.. I don't have the illusion to make it realistic and as long as it all sounds U2, it should be some sort of unity. I doubt if it sounds more realistic if you only use Vertigo and Elevation tours, you always have the difference in sounds and quality of bootlegs.. Or do you or anybody know a method or tool to normalize live recordings: to make them sound more the same? That would really help me and u 2 !

 

[coach]

Out of Control in Slane rocks my world.
Until the end of the world my personal favorite is from the brits ... 2000 i think. where bono sang a snippet of live forever at the very end.

 

[RickFly]

Curious to see your selection and to hear your results!

Here is the best Hawkmoon version available, it's from the Lovetown Documentary from Sydney:
http://www.save file.com/files/152305

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

i used to have this but lost it when my computer crashed.

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

They have done too many records and tours since Under A Blood Red Sky to just put out a double live record. They should put a live box with 4 live cds out. Yes, it would be expensive as hell but worth every penny I think. This is what I would be cool (it's not in order):


01. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (Boy Tour)
02. I Will Follow (Boy Tour)
03. Twilight (Boy Tour)
04. Out Of Control (The Joshua Tree Tour)
05. The Electric Co. (The Unforgettable Fire Tour)
06. An Cat Dubh / Into The Heart (War Tour)
07. Gloria (October Tour)
08. October (War Tour)
09. I Threw A Brick Trough A Window (War Tour)
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Live Aid)
11. Two Hearts Beat As One (The Unforgettable Fire Tou)
12. Surrender (War Tour)
13. New Year's Day (PopMart)
14. 40 (The Joshua Tree Tour)
15. A Sort Of A Homecoming (The Unforgettable Fire Tour)
16. The Unforgettable Fire (The Joshua Tree Tour)
17. Bad (The Unforgettable Fire Tour)
18. Pride (Conspiracy Of Hope Tour)
19. MLK (Conspiracy Of Hope Tour)
20. Maggie's Farm (Conspiracy Of Hope Tour)
21. Where The Streets Have No Name (Lovetown)
22. I Still Haven’t Found What I'm Looking For (PopMart)
23. With Or Without You (Lovetown)
24. Bullet The Blue Sky (Zoo TV)
25. Running To Stand Still (Lovetown)
26. Desire (Lovetown)
27. Angel Of Harlem (Lovetown)
28. When Love Comes To Town (Lovetown)
29. God Part II (Lovetwon)
30. Love Resuce Me (Lovetown)
31. All I Want Is You (PopMart)
32. All Along The Watchtower (Lovetwon)
33. Zoo Station (Zoo TV)
34. The Fly (Vertigo Tour)
35. Mysterious Ways (Zoo TV)
36. One (Zoo TV)
37. Until The End Of The World (PopMart)
38. Even Better Than The Real Thing (PopMart)
39. Stay (Zoo TV)
40. Numb (Zoo TV)
41. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car (Zoo TV)
42. Dirty Day (Zoo TV)
43. Lemon (Zoo TV)
44. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (PopMart)
45. Mofo (PopMart)
46. Discothèque (PopMart)
47. Staring At The Sun (PopMart)
48. Please (PopMart)
49. Gone (Elevation Tour)
50. Last Night On Earth (PopMart)
51. Elevation (Elevation Tour)
52. Beautiful Day (Vertigo Tour)
53. Walk On (Elevation Tour)
54. Kite (Elevation Tour)
55. Stuck In A Moment (Elevation Tour)
56. New York (Elevation Tour)
57. Vertigo (Vertigo Tour)
58. All Because Of You (Vertigo Tour)
59. Love And Peace Or Else (Vertigo Tour)
60. Miracle Drug (Vertigo Tour)
61. Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own (Vertigo Tour)
62. City Of Blinding Lights (Vertigo Tour)
63. Yahweh (Vertigo Tour)



And it would be great if they added a fifth cd as limited edition bonus kind of thing with other versions of some of those songs and songs that didn't get into the box:

01. 11 O' Clock Tick Tock (Elevation Tour)
02. Sunday Bloody Sunday (The Joshua Tree Tour)
03. Wire (The Unforgettable Fire Tour)
04. Bad (Elevation Tour)
05. Where The Streets Have No Name (Elevation Tour)
06. One Tree Hill (Lovetown)
07. Desire (Zoo TV)
08. The Fly (Zoo TV)
09. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horse (Zoo TV)
10. Ultraviolet (Zoo TV)
11. Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World (Zoo TV)
12. Miami (PopMart)
13. Stuck In A Moment (Vertigo Tour)
14. Elevation (Vertigo Tour)
15. Original Of The Species (Vertigo Tour)

 

[OneDayFly]

1. Please - MTV VMA's 1997
2. Streets - Superbowl 2001
3. WOWY - Rattle & Hum
4. All I Want Is You - Slane
5 & 6. Beautiful Day & Elevation - Irving Plaza - 2000
7 & 8. The Fly & Mysterious Ways - Houston 1992 (Outside broadcast)
9. Desire - Zooropa Dublin 1992
10. Vertigo - San Diego Night 2 leg 1
11. WGRYWH - Minneapolis - 1991
12. RTSS - Rattle & Hum
13. UTEOTW - NY 1992
14. TTTYAATW - Zooropa Dublin 1992
15. Zoo Station - Zooropa Dublin 1992
16. Two Hearts Beat As One - Love Town Dublin Night 3? 1989
17. The Unforgettable Fire - Love Town Dublin Night 3 1989
18. Staring At The Sun - Rotterdam 1997
19. OOTS - Milan night 2 2005
20. Gloria - Red Rocks

Do you happen to upload or send that NY 1992 version of UTEOTW? (yjmedema _at_ gmail.com)
Funny to see that we only have 2 songs in common btw.. (Please & MW). To each his own