The alternative tracklisting SUPERTHREAD.

[gareth brown]

I've read a few threads recently that say "<songnamehere> should have been put on the album! Why not?!"

So, why not write your alternative tracklisting for whatever album you felt U2 fell short on.

Rules: NONE. Any album, add/remove any tracks!

GO...! NOW.

I'll start with 'The Unforgettable Fire'.

Here's a cover I used when including this expanded album in a self made boxset. If I can find the box, I'll show you, opted for proper boxes rather than plastic jewel cases.

I included every B-side simply because I personally feel they all match the standard of the whole album and leaving some tracks off or not even using them on a later album was just a WASTE! Epsecially 'The Three Sunrises', 'Love Comes Tumbling' and 'Bass Trap'.

Disc One-

1. The Three Sunrises
2. Pride
3. Boomerang I
4. Wire
5. Boomerang II
6. 4th of July
7. Love Comes Tumbling
8. Elvis Presley and America

Disc Two-

1. A Sort of Homecoming
2. Indian Summer Sky
3. Sixty Seconds in Kingdom Come
4. Promenade
5. The Unforgettable
6. Bass Trap
7. Bad
8. MLK

I was pleased with this list since I feel the tracks all flow well and you get a more 'rocky' disc followed by some some tracks in the same vein but slotted between a lot more 'mellow' tracks.

Okay, I don't expect much of this thread since it will probably be ignored for whatever reason, but if we could get a lot of you joining in that would be great!

Someone reply...

 

[Exit thru Wire]

A lot of people say Rattle and Hum should have been 2 discs - 1 studio, 1 live - and I agree with this. The mixture feels a little messy and takes away from the superb quality of the new songs.

1. Van Diemens Land
2. Desire
3. Hawkmoon 269
4. Angel of Harlem
5. Love Rescue Me
6. When Love Comes To Town
7. Everlasting Love
8. God Part II
9. Heartland
10. All I Want Is You
Bonus Track: Hallelujah Here She Comes

Live
1. Helter Skelter
2. All Along The Watchtower
3. I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For
4. Freedom For My People-Silver and Gold
5. Pride
6. Star Spangled Banner-Bullet The Blue Sky
Bonus: Exit
Bonus: Bad
Bonus: With or Without You
Bonus: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bonus: People Get Ready (from Save the Yuppies)

11 Tracks for each CD - works better.

 

[gareth brown]

Nice one!

I have the Rattle and Hum studio stuff on my iTunes without the live stuff, I just don't think the original record goes well at all!!

 

[Niceman]

A lot of people say Rattle and Hum should have been 2 discs - 1 studio, 1 live - and I agree with this. The mixture feels a little messy and takes away from the superb quality of the new songs.

1. Van Diemens Land
2. Desire
3. Hawkmoon 269
4. Angel of Harlem
5. Love Rescue Me
6. When Love Comes To Town
7. Everlasting Love
8. God Part II
9. Heartland
10. All I Want Is You
Bonus Track: Hallelujah Here She Comes

Live
1. Helter Skelter
2. All Along The Watchtower
3. I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For
4. Freedom For My People-Silver and Gold
5. Pride
6. Star Spangled Banner-Bullet The Blue Sky
Bonus: Exit
Bonus: Bad
Bonus: With or Without You
Bonus: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bonus: People Get Ready (from Save the Yuppies)

11 Tracks for each CD - works better.

No Dancing barefoot?

 

[gareth brown]

never mind THAT. Submit your own! If someone else had made this thread it would be HEAVING with lists! Or did everyone suddenly decide every album is perfect?!

 

[2861U2]

Ok, here I go

WAR:

1) A Celebration
2) Sunday Bloody Sunday
3) Seconds
4) Red Light
5) Surrender
6) The Refugee
7) Like A Song
8) Drowning Man
9) New Years Day
10) Two Hearts Beat As One
11) 40

I think adding A Celebration to the beginning would have made War a little better. But maybe thats just me, who is obsessed with the song

 

[the tourist]

The Joshua Tree

Disc One:

Beautiful Ghost
Where The Streets Have No Name
Silver And Gold
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Spanish Eyes
With Or Without You
Lumious Times
Walk To The Water
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still

Disc Two

Race Against Time
Red Hill Mining Town
Heartland
In God's Country
Trip Through Your Wires
The Sweetest Thing
One Tree Hill
Deep In The Heart
Exit
Mothers Of The Disappeared

 

[the tourist]

Pop

Discotheque
Do You Feel Loved?
Mofo
Last Night On Earth
Staring At The Sun
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Please
Gone
Give Me Something I Can Feel (finished version of Miami)
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Wake Up Dead Man

 

[Rafiennes]

Rattle & Hum (double disc extravaganza)

Disc One - Rattle

1. Desire
2. van Diemen’s Land
3. Angel Of Harlem
4. Hawkmoon 260
5. Love Rescue Me
6. Heartland
7. God Part II
8. When Love Comes To Town
9. Hallelujah, Here She Comes
10. All I Want Is You

Disc Two - Hum

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. In God’s Country
3. Exit
4. Helter Skelter
5. All Along The Watchtower
6. Bullet The Blue Sky
7. Bad
8. MLK
9. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
10. With Or Without You
11. Pride

Zooropa (Zootopia track order)

Side one
1. Zooropa
2. Babyface
3. Numb
4. Lemon
5. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
6. Slow Dancing

Side two
7. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
8. Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
9. Some Days Are Better Than Others
10. The First Time
11. Dirty Day
12. The Wanderer

All That You Can’t Leave Behind

1. Beautiful Day
2. Elevation (Tomb Raider version)
3. Peace On Earth
4. New York
5. In A Little While
6. Wild Honey
7. Stuck In A Moment
8. Kite
9. Love You Like Mad
10. Walk On (without the Barry White opening)
11. Grace

 

[gareth brown]

Sweet! I am liking those Rattle and Hum discs!

The Joshua Tree Double Disc. SORRY! I always get wordy when describing things!!

Posted this one a while ago. I kept the 'Holy Trinity' together as disc one's tracks 1-3. And slotted in tracks on Disc One where I thought they followed the similar them, (WOWY, WTTW, and Luminous Times) and tried my best to make them all flow...see what you think. I also have 'Red Hill Mining Town' closing Disc One the way it SHOULD have done side one of the original LP!

The 'death suite' is nearly kept together but with 'Silver and Gold' before 'Mothers' since I think it really follows 'Exit' well, not to mention the fact it's MIXED BETTER! And I really like having a good hard track to fade out at the end before the finale!

Disc One ('Beautiful Ghost' on Track One, depending on how I feel )
1. Where the Streets Have No Name
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. With or Without You
4. Walk to the Water
5. Trip Through Your Wires
6. Luminous Times (Hold onto Love)
7. Race Against Time
8. Red Hill Mining Town

Disc Two
1. In God's Country
2. Spanish Eyes
3. Sweetest Thing
4. Deep in the Heart
5. Bullet the Blue Sky
6. Running to Stand Still
7. One Tree Hill
8. Exit
9. Silver and Gold
10. Mothers of the Disappeared

 

[00Kevin]

Boy
1.I will Follow
2.11 O'Clock Tic Toc
3.twilight
4.an cat dubh
5.into the heart
6.stories for boys
7.another time another place
8.out of control
9.the electric co.
10. a day without me
11.shadows and tall trees
12.the ocean

Pop
1.Discotheque
2.do you feel loved
3.hold me thrill me kiss me kill me
4.mofo
5.gone
6.last night on earth
7.please
8.staring at the sun
9.wake up dead man

 

[POP-ROMANCER]

POP

Side 1:

01. Discotheque
02. Gone
03. Last night on earth
04. Staring at the sun
05. Please
06. Holy joe

Side 2:

01. Mofo
02. Do you feel loved
03. If you wear that velvet dress
04. Hold me thrill me kiss me kill me
05. Miami
06. Wake up dead man

 

[the tourist]

Rattle & Hum


Rattle & Hum, studio
1. Hawkmoon 269
2. Angel Of Harlem
3. Desire
4. Hallelujah Here She Comes
5. A Room A The Heartbreak Hotel
6. Love Rescue Me
7. When Love Comes To Town
8. Dancing Barefoot
9. Everlasting Love
10. Van Diemen's Land
11. God Part II
12. Heartland
13. All I Want Is You

Rattle & Hum, live (released in 1990, after Lovetown)
1. Bullet The Blue Sky
2. Running To Stand Still
3. One Tree Hill
4. Where The Streets Have No Name
5. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
6. All I Want Is You
7. Bad
8. All Along The Watchtower (In God's Country snippet)
9. Desire
10. God Part II
11. Hawkmoon 269
12. Van Diemen's Land
13. Angel Of Harlem
14. When Love Comes To Town
15. Pride
16. With Or Without You

 

[Exit thru Wire]

HTDAAB - Seeing as I havent heard many outtakes for the Bomb I just added 1 bside, shook up the order, and took out my 2 least fav songs - OOTS and AMAAW. Personally I think it looks fresh and a better album.

1. Love and Peace or Else
2. City of Blinding Lights
3. Miracle Drug
4. Sometimes You Cant Make It On Your Own
5. Vertigo
6. Are You Gonna Wait Forever
7. Fast Cars
8. All Because of You
9. One Step Closer
10. Crumbs From Your Table
11. Yahweh

 

[Zoots]

Give Me Something I Can Feel (finished version of Miami)

No offence but
Miami is perfect as it is!

 

[LMP]

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb REDUX

1// Love and Peace or Else
2// Native Son
3// Crumbs from Your Table
4// Mercy
5// Miracle Drug
6// Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own
7// One Step Closer
8// Neon Lights
9// City of Blinding Lights
10// All Because of You
11// Xanax and Wine
12// Are You Gonna Wait Forever?
13// A Man and a Woman
14// Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)
15// Smile
16// Original of the Species
17// Yahweh (Alt Version)
18// Vertigo

 

[Zoots]

Here are some that have worked for me.

ELEVATION ..... alt. ATYCLB
1. Beautiful Day
2. Elevation
3. Kite
4. New York
5. In A Little While/Scatter Of Light
6. Stuck In A Moment (acoustic)
7. Levitate
8. Peace On Earth
9. Wild Honey/Stateless
10. When I Look At The World
11. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
12. Walk On

SOLAR ..... alt. HTDAAB
1. Vertigo
2. Miracle Drug
3. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
4. City Of Blinding Lights
5. Original Of The Species
6. Yahweh
7. All Because Of You
8. Crumbs From Your Table
9. A Man And A Woman
10. Fast Cars
11. Love And Peace Or Else
12. One Step Closer

Notes: BD/Elevation/Kite... , Stuck closing side A, Levitate closing side B, AMAAW/Fast Cars/LAPOE...

 

[Bono's shades]

THE OCTOBER BOY
1. I Will Follow
2. Out Of Control
3. An Cat Dubh
4. A Celebration
5. Gloria
6. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
7. Tomorrow
8. October
9. The Electric Co.
10. 11 o'clock Tick Tock
11. A Celebration
12. Scarlet