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Sure it's been done in one form or another about a billion times, but what the hell, it's a monday.

If you could only do a ten track disk and wanted just "rock" songs, what would the ten be? So, no ballads, no bluesy or jazzy tracks. Don't come here with Your Blue Room or Stateless. Up tempo only, no slow or mid tempo songs. What are your ten favorite rocking U2 tracks?

1. Streets
2. I Will Follow
3. One Tree Hill (borderline I know; but the end makes the grade)
4. Beautiful Day
5. Vertigo
6. City Of Blinding Lights
7. Electrical Storm (Band Version)
8. Two Hearts Beat As One
9. Zoo Station
10. Surrender

The Fly & HMTMKMKM should make the list, but I'm totally sick of these songs at the mo.
 
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Will Follow
3. Electric Co.
4. Gloria
5. Rejoice
6. New Years Day
7. Like A Song
8. In God's Country
9. The Fly
10. Acrobat

:rockon:
 
Oh... what the hell, I'll do another one. :wink:

This has better overall album representation.

1. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
2. The Fly
3. Mofo
4. Acrobat
5. In God's Country
6. New Years Day
7. Like A Song
8. Rejoice
9. Desire
10. Electric Co.

I think the intro to DGPFYCC makes for a good opening. And the faux outro to Electric Co. is perfect at the end.
 
Vertigo
Desire
God part II
All because of you
The Fly
Electric co
Discotheque
Exit
Gone
Hold me thrill me kiss me kill me
 
Well some of them seem to "rock" way more in the live arrangements, so:

HMTMKMKM (Rock 2000 Remix)
The Fly (live from anything)
Love and Peace (live from Vertigo Tour)
Electric Co (live from Vertigo Tour)
Gone (live from Elevation Tour)
Last Night On Earth (Live from Mexico City, PopMart)
Please > Streets (live from PopMart)
Desire > All Along The Watchtower (live from LoveTown)

Those last four are inseperable in their pairs :drool:
 
1. Zoo Station (live from Twickenham, Vertigo)
2. The Fly (live from Sao Paulo, Vertigo)
3. Mysterious Ways (live from Sao Paulo, Vertigo)
4. Desire (TV Special, "I have a vision! Television!" version, Zoo TV)
5. Dirty Day (live from Sydney, Zoo TV)
6. Mofo (live from Mexico City, PopMart)
7. Discotheque (live from Toronto/Chicago, Vertigo)
8. Miami (live from Leeds, PopMart)
9. Bullet (live from Boston, Elevation)
10. Love and Peace or Else (Katrina Benefit performance)
11. Holy Joe (Guilty Mix)
12. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me (live from Sarajevo, PopMart)
13. Vertigo (live from Chorzow/Katowice, Vertigo)
14. City of Blinding Lights (live from Milan, Vertigo)

:rockon::rockon::rockon:
 
1. Gloria
2. New Year's Day
3. Rejoice
4. The Electric Co.
5. Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop?)
6. God Part II
7. Like A Song ...
8. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
9. The Fly
10. Gone
 
Axver I rather like your listing! The only change I'd make would be to add LAPOE, but I don't want to replace it with any of the 10 songs you chose! Dilemna!
 
Cool thread...

WTSHNN
Vertigo
Wire
Like A Song
Rejoice
The Fly
Gone
Another Time, Another Place (highly underrated song that I can't get enough of just now)
Acrobat
Exit

Wow, I'd need a Rock Volume 2...
 
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday (live - War Tour)
2. Vertigo (live - Vertigo Tour)
3. Where the Streets Have No Name (live - Elevation Tour)
4. Bullet the Blue Sky (live - ZooTV Tour)
5. Until the End of the World (live - Vertigo Tour)
6. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (studio)
7. The Fly (live - ZooTV Tour, and it is the only one which I am certain of which version you need - must be live from ZooTV)
8. Discotheque (live - POPMart Tour)
9. God Part II (live - LoveTown Tour)
10. Elevation (live - Vertigo Tour)

Too short, barely cut out...
11. New Year's Day (live - ZooTV Tour)
12. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car (studio)
13. Gone (studio)
14. Like a Song... (studio)
 
Carek1230 said:
Axver I rather like your listing! The only change I'd make would be to add LAPOE, but I don't want to replace it with any of the 10 songs you chose! Dilemna!

I considered LAPOE but I didn't really have a good place to put it so it was cut pretty early.

The one I'm annoyed I omitted is Twilight, but I don't want to change that tracklisting. And of course, I just realised there's no Wire. Oh, what the hell, here's a second one:

1. Love And Peace Or Else
2. The Fool
3. The Dream Is Over
4. Wire
5. Twilight
6. Last Night On Earth
7. Until The End Of The World
8. Acrobat
9. Exit
10. Out Of Control
 
1. Electric Co
2. Out of Control
3. Mofo
4. I Will Follow
5. Elevation
6. The Fly
7. Love & Peace
8. Where the Streets Have No Name
9. Bullet the Blue Sky
10.Sunday Bloody Sunday
 
Interesting concept. I like it
No real order here

1) Vertigo
2) Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)
3) Mofo
4) I Will Follow
5) Cry + Electric Co (Off of "Under a Blood Red Sky")
6) Sunday Bloody Sunday
7) God Pt II
8) Mysterious Ways (does this one count??) :scratch:
9) Desire
10) Elevation
 
Carek1230 said:
:giggle: That's what I was thinking.....to limit to ONLY ten songs is nearly impossible! :up: Good choices again!

Definitely an impossible limit! I've decided to make a live version (this re-uses a few songs I've already used):

1. Mofo (23 September 1997, Sarajevo)
2. Desire (27 September 1989, Sydney)
3. All Along The Watchtower (27 September 1989, Sydney)
4. Bullet The Blue Sky (11 August 1993, London)
5. God Part II (23 November 1989, Yokohama)
6. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (31 July 1997, Mannheim)
7. The Fly (20 September 2005, Chicago)
8. The Electric Co. (20 September 2005, Chicago)
9. Exit (18 November 1987, Los Angeles)
10. 11 O'clock Tick Tock (5 June 1983, Denver)

Mindblowingly good rocking stuff. :drool:
 
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