Setlist for U2's farewell concert?

[BANZAI]

What songs do you think (or wish) U2 are gonna play at their farewell concert (hopefully this won't happen the next 10 years)?

(1) You can put your own favorites in but also have to be realistic: popular songs like Sunday Bloody Sunday or One WILL be on the setlist.

(2) The setlist can only contain 25 songs

(3) Of course there will be a few songs on it from their next album(s), but I will choose from already existing songs.


1. City Of Blinding Lights
2. Beautiful Day
3. I Will Follow
4. Mysterious Ways
5. Even Better Than The Real Thing
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. I Still Haven't Found...
8. Desire
9. Pride
10. One
11.Until The End of The World
12.New Year's Day
13. Stay
14. Bad
15. Gloria
16. Vertigo
17. Acrobat
18. With Or Without You
19. OneTree Hill
20. Walk On

Encore 1

21. MOFO
22. Discotheque
23. All I Want Is You

Encore 2

24. Where The Streets Have No Name
25. "40"

 

[kingofsorrow]

drowning man. then they walk off the stage and go into retirement.

 

[Aygo]

Pop Muzik – intro
MOFO
I will follow
Lemon
[snippet: New Year’s Day] Elevation
Until the end of the world
I still haven't found what I'm looking for
Sometimes you can't make it on your own [snippet: No regrets]
Yahweh
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Desire [snippet: La bamba]
Staring at the sun
Bullet the blue sky [snippet: America]
Sunday bloody Sunday [snippet: Please]
Miss Sarajevo
Running to stand still / Hallelujah
Where the streets have no name
One
All I want is you

Numb (remix) – intro
Discotheque [snippet: Life during wartime]
The fly
With or without you

Beautiful day [snippet: Blackbird]
Walk on [MLK speech + snippet: Pride (in the name of love)]
40

Vertigo [snippet: She loves you]

 

[gareth brown]

Songs 1 through 20
all from the bands most recent 2-3
albums at the time...

songs 21 through 24

One
Streets
With Or Without You
Pride

all played without a trace of gusto.

 

[thelaj]

I did this a couple of months ago - I chose 26 songs as it equals their longest setlist so far (Vertigo, Dublin). The songs in smaller font represent snippets of varying length.
This is just the concert I would like to see at the present time, not a realistic expectation (obviously).




1. 4th of July (over PA) / City of Blinding Lights
2. Beautiful Day / The Goal is Soul / Some Days Are Better Than Others
3. Elevation / Miami
4. The Cry / The Electric Co. / Bullet With Butterfly Wings / I Can See For Miles
5. 11 O’ Clock Tick Tock / Call Out Your Name
6. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For / Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
7. Stuck in A Moment You Can’t Get Out of (acoustic) / Lemon
8. Desire
9. Discotheque / Staring At The Sun
10. Mysterious Ways / If You wear That Velvet Dress
11. Until The End of The World
12. New Year’s Day
13. Bullet The Blue Sky
14. Please
15. Gone / Electrical Storm
16. The Unforgettable Fire
17. Where The Streets Have No Name
18. One / Drowning Man / Love is Blindness
Intermission: Pop Muzik (over PA), segueing into Mofo
19. Mofo
20. Vertigo / Stories For Boys
21. Even Better Than The Real Thing
22. The Fly (with "Gotta Go" ending)
Intermission: Zooropa (over PA), segueing into Dirty Day
23. Dirty Day
24. Bad / The First Time / All I Want is You
25. With or Without You / Tomorrow / Love Will Tear us Apart / Shine Like Stars
26. One Step Closer / Kite / 40

 

[the tourist]

MLK
Trip Through Your Wires
Love Rescue Me
The Playboy Mansion
A Man and a Woman
Sixty Seconds in Kingdom Come
So Cruel
Babyface
Elvis Ate America
Elvis Presley and America
Into the Heart
Is That All?
Red Light
When Love Comes To Town
In A Little While
Peace On Earth
Stateless
Yahweh
Mercy (the fist 37 seconds)
Heaven and Hell
The Wanderer (featuring Larry on lead vocals)
A Different Kind of Blue
Race Against Time
Things To Make and Do
Mofo (the remix)

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I predict that if there is a U2 "farewell" concert, the setlist will include at least one song from the upcoming album(s).

So this is hard.

I Will Follow and Streets would be in there, though.

 

[last unicorn]

They'll play Acrobat and nothing else and then walk away into retirement bliss while this forum will implode.

 

[Rosebud]

LU, for comedy's sake - I really hope that actually happens.

 

[kingofsorrow]

They'll play Acrobat and nothing else and then walk away into retirement bliss while this forum will implode.

damn, i forgot about aacrobat. okay they can open with drowning man, do wild honey, then close with acrobat.
and of course people on this forum will argue about the manner in which they are enjoying their retirement.

 

[EdgeIsTooSexy]

dude i dont even want to think about this!

but i def. wont let anything stop me from being there!

 

[pepokiss]

we had one of this some time ago, and I posted my greatest thought ever there


but I can't find it

 

[cobl04]

I've thought about this on numerous occasions, and the conclusion I came up with was that the show would end with Bad / 40 / Where the Streets Have No Name

 

[The Sad Punk]

MLK
Trip Through Your Wires
Love Rescue Me
The Playboy Mansion
A Man and a Woman
Sixty Seconds in Kingdom Come
So Cruel
Babyface
Elvis Ate America
Elvis Presley and America
Into the Heart
Is That All?
Red Light
When Love Comes To Town
In A Little While
Peace On Earth
Stateless
Yahweh
Mercy (the fist 37 seconds)
Heaven and Hell
The Wanderer (featuring Larry on lead vocals)
A Different Kind of Blue
Race Against Time
Things To Make and Do
Mofo (the remix)

Needs more Womanfish.


And One.

 

[intedomine]

New Years Day
Vertigo
I Will Follow
Gone
Mysterious Ways
The Fly
In God's Country
Stay
Desire
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
October (Edge piano solo)
Bad
City Of Blinding Lights
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Angel Of Harlem
Party Girl
Please
Beautiful Day

Lemon
Pride
Please
With Or Without You
One

11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Where The Streets Have No Name
40

 

[danondorf]

Beautiful Day
I Will Follow
Even Better Than The Real Thing
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
Stay
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Electrical Storm
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
The Wanderer
Bullet The Blue Sky/Love and Peace Or Else

*Break*

Acoustic Segment:

Please
Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Staring At Sun
Sunday Bloody Sunday (Edge solo)-Segues into Full Band


Band Returns*

An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
Sweetest Thing ('cause Ali would be there for the last show)
Your Blue Room

Break 2:

*Pop Muzik Intro*

Mofo
Until The End Of The World
Last Night On Earth

Break 3:

Returns and Bono introduces band one last time......

All I Want Is You
Pride
Where The Streets Have No Name

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I'd seriously pay $1000 for this setlist.

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

Urgent: We need a new album to write about. The threads in this forum get more and more ridiculous ...

 

[Mr. V]

there are far more ridiculous threads than this...

 

[intedomine]

Where The Streets Have No Name into 40 HAS to be last song in my opinion.......it's the last time the greatest live song of all time will ever be played, it would be the highest of highs....

"It's all I can do...."

 

[kingofsorrow]

how about a 40 minute version of "40"?

 

[Moser]

I'd say a good ender would be Discotheque....cause it would end with a
BOOOOOMMM................................








cha.

 

[The_acrobat]

There is a .000000000000001 chance that it will end with a song other than 40.

 

[europop2005]

Flower child...

















































...seriously

 

[Gonna Run 2 U]

[Newest "Upbeat" Single]
I Will Follow
[Second Newest Single]
I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For
October
New Years Day
Wire
[Newer Song]
Whose Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Pride
Red Hill Mining Town
Party Girl
Promenade
Into The Heart
Is That All?
Kite
Stay
With Or Without You
Miss Sarajevo
Spanish Eyes
MLK
The Unforgettable Fire
One
Where The Streets Have No Name
40

 

[pepokiss]

if they're intelligent, it will be 40... then after 4 o 5 minutes of HOW LONG.... they'll come back to play STREETS one more time... the final time... the last song... everyone crying.. omg

 

[Mr. V]

it's paining me to actually contemplate U2 saying goodbye.

 

[PopFly]

Musicians don't have retirement concerts unless they're dead. They all comeback shows eventually. Even Led Zeppelin

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

there are far more ridiculous threads than this...

- To speculate for the zillionth time about a setlist, that obviously will never happen at least within the next 12 years?

- To speculate about a song choice, that is pure nonsense, because you don't know
a) the structure of the gig
b) the songs to be recorded in the next decade
c) the songst to be chosen by the band?

- To speculate about an event, that might never happen, just because U2 might never ever want to do a "final gig"?

- To speculate about a setlist chosen by fans, that chose their own favourite ones again and again and again?

- To speculate about an event, that even U2 don't care about a second, because they want to walk on as a band for minimum more than a decade – when some of their so-called hardcore fans share their fantasies about U2's death as artists?

That is ridiculous and a waste of time. Cu in another thread, worth writing there ...

 

[Mr. V]

if you think it's ridiculous, then piss off and stop whinging.

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

if you think it's ridiculous, then piss off and stop whinging.

Just answered the question – no need to be aggressive. Great, how some of the so-called U2 fans can behave. They call each other names here – without having to fear to do so eye-to-eye– and then talk about "Peace On Earth" and being "One". Very mysterious ...