Ultimate Setlist

[phillyfan26]

Create your ultimate U2 setlist under this format:

18 songs
[encore]
7 songs

for a total of 25 songs.

 

[nightninja56]

hmmm alright, this is tough especially the openers and closers

Where the Streets Have No Name
Vertigo (She loves you snippet)
Elevation
Beautiful Day (sgt peppers snippet)
Kite
Walk On
Staring at the Sun
Mysterious Ways
The Fly
Gone
One (with REAL emotion)
Still Havent Found
Stuck in a Moment
One Tree Hill
The Unforgettable Fire
Yahweh
Stay (Faraway, So Close)
With or Without You

Encore: (my plan is to kinda come out crazy, end softly)
Zoo Station
Even Better than the Real Thing
Love & Peace or Else
In God's Country
The Ground Beneath her feet (acoustic)
Love is Blindness
Can't Help Falling in Love

not sure if its the bomb, just what i thought would be fun

 

[Aygo]

Wasn't this supposed to be in another section? Maybe the setlists section in Vertigo Tour section...

 

[nightninja56]

dont know, maybe we are imagining that we are having a whole new tour

teehee

 

[Axver]

This is the kind of thing that changes every time (though I always use some combinations), but alright, here goes:

1. Hawkmoon 269
2. Desire / Not Fade Away (snippet) / 1969 (snippet) / So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star (snippet)
3. All Along The Watchtower / Like A Hurricane (snippet) / In God's Country (snippet)
4. 11 O'clock Tick Tock / Drowning Man (snippet)
5. Twilight
6. City Of Blinding Lights
7. Smile
8. One Tree Hill / Yahweh (snippet)
9. Heartland
10. Bass Trap
11. A Sort Of Homecoming
12. Resolution And Independence (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name
13. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
14. Promenade (snippet) / Bad / Four Seasons In One Day (snippet) / Norwegian Wood (snippet) / Irish Heartbeat (snippet) / Six Months In A Leaky Boat (snippet) / Space-Dye Vest (snippet)
15. The Unforgettable Fire
16. Exit / Riders On The Storm (snippet) / Deep (snippet) / Van Morrison's Gloria (snippet)
17. Acrobat
18. God Part II

19. The Fly / This Is No Rehearsal (snippet)
20. Until The End Of The World / Rock 'n' Roll ****** (snippet)
21. New Year's Day
22. Spanish Eyes
23. Gloria
24. The Electric Co. / Bullet With Butterfly Wings (snippet) / Break On Through (snippet) / I Can See For Miles (snippet)
25. Gone

 

[vaz02]

Zoo station ( zoo tv style )

this has gotta be the opener

 

[pgv]

18 songs
[encore]
7 songs

Elevation
I will follow
beautiful day/sgt peppers snippet
pride
dancing barefoot
the unforgettable fire
exit/gloria(snippet)
bullet the blue sky/ruby tuesday(snippet)/sympathy for the devil(snippet)
love and peace or else
sunday bloody sunday/rock the casbah (snippet)
i still havent found what I'm looking for
tomorrow/twilight(snippet)
city of blinding lights
in a little while
all along the watch tower
lemon/with or without you
love is blindness
one
(encore)
spanish eyes
instant karma
angel of harlem
discotheque
stuck in a moment (acoustic)
the sweetest thing
walk on

(and ideal location? dublin please!)

 

[00Kevin]

1.Beautiful day
2.Until the End of the World
3.New Years Day
4.The Cry/Electric Co
5.Gloria
6.Original of the Species
7.City of Blinding Lights
8.Love and Peace or Else
9.Sunday Bloody Sunday
10.Gone
11.Exit
12.In God's Country
13.Bad
14.All I Want is You
15.Pride (In the Name of Love)
16.Please
17.Running to a Standstill
18.Where the Streets Have no Name

encore

19.Discotheque
20.The Fly
21.Mysterious Ways
22.With or Without You/Shine Like Stars
23.Party Girl
24.11 O'Clock Tick Tock/Give Peace a Chance
25.Walk On

 

[phillyfan26]

Wasn't this supposed to be in another section? Maybe the setlists section in Vertigo Tour section...

No, this isn't Vertigo, this a general thing of all their songs.

 

[ponkine]

1- City Of Blinding Lights
2- I Will Follow
3- Cry/The Electric Co - I want To Live in America (snippet)
4- Mofo
5- Even Better Than The Real Thing
6- Misterious Ways
7- Exit - Gloria (snippet)
8- Acrobat
9- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
10-Hawkmoon 269
11-Discotheque - Whole Lotta Love - Staying Alive (snippets)
12-One Tree Hill

Acoustic Set

13-Dancing Barefoot (full Band)
14-Everlasting Love (full Band)
15-Please (Bono And The Edge)
16-Sunday Bloody Sunday (Edge solo)

17-Dirty Day
18-Surrender - In The Midnight Hour (snippet)
19-Running To Stand Still - Dirty Old Town (snippet)
20-Where The Streets Have No Name

Encores

21-Zooropa
22-A Celebration
23-A Sort Of Homecoming
24-Bad - Walk On The Wild Side - Symphaty For The Devil - Ruby Tuesday - Biko - When I Look At The World - The First Time (snippets)

25-Love Is Blindness

 

[Aygo]

Hummm ok, gonna try one...


1. Discotheque / MoFo
2. Vertigo / Stories for boys
3. Elevation
4. The fly
5. 11 o'clock tick tock
6. New Year's Day
7. Beautiful day / Blackbird
8. Desire
9. City of blinding lights
10. Sometimes you can't make it on your own
11. Gloria

[acoustic set]
12. All I want is you
13. Stay
14. Stuck in a moment

15. Bad
16. Sunday bloody Sunday
17. Please / Bullet the blue sky
18. Where the streets have no name

[Numb (remix) - interlude]
19. I will follow
20. Mysterious Ways
21. With or without you

22. Pride (in the name of love)
23. One
24. Walk on

25. "40"

Whatever, I tried... eheheh

 

[LMP]

I haven't done one of these in a while:

1. Zoo Station
2. The Fly / (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (snippet)
3. Mofo
4. I Will Follow
5. The Cry / The Electric Co. / Bullet With Butterfly Wings (snippet)
6. Gloria / Van Morrison's 'Gloria' (snippet)
7. Beautiful Day / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (snippet)
8. Desire / Not Fade Away (snippet)
9. Norwegian Wood (snippet) / Original of the Species
10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / The Promised Land (snippet)
11. Stay (Faraway So Close!)
12. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Edge, Acoustic)
13. Miss Sarajevo
14. Love and Peace or Else
15. Until the End of the World
16. New Year's Day
17. Please
18. City of Blinding Lights / 40 (snippet)

19. Elevation
20. Last Night on Earth
21. Mysterious Ways / Sexual Healing (snippet)
22. With or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet)

23. Running to Stand Still
24. Satellite of Love (snippet) / Bad / Walk on the Wild Side (snippet) / Heroes (snippet) / Fly Like an Eagle (snippet) / Hey Jude (snippet)
25. All I Want is You
26. Where the Streets Have No Name

 

[Bluer White]

1 Elevation
2 Until The End Of The World
3 Cry / Electric Co.
4 New Year’s Day
5 Stuck In A Moment (full band)
6 Gone
7 Last Night On Earth
8 Kite (In A Little While snippet)
9 Stay
10 Love and Peace
11 A Day Without Me
12 Sunday Bloody Sunday
13 Running To Stand Still
14 Original of the Species (Satellite of Love snippet)
15 Dirty Day
16 Please
17 City of Blinding Lights (Streets snippet)


18 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
19 New York
20 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
21 With Or Without You
22 Wild Horses (full band)
23 Party Girl
24 Vertigo


25 Bad

 

[KUEFC09U2]

amazing thread

loving this, but dont really have the bottle to do my own setlist, just loving everyone elses

 

[IanIinTheSky]

Where the Streets Have No Name
Vertigo/A Celebration (snippet)
Out of Control
The Boys are Back in Town (snippet)/ Elevation/ Steppin' Stone (snippet)
Gloria
An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
The Last Night on Earth
Until the End of the World/Two Tribes (snippet)
New York
Sunday Bloody Sunday/Get Up Stand Up (snippet)
New Years Day
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus (snippet)
Running to Stand Still /Dirty Old Town (snippet)
Beautiful Day/ Ultraviolet (snippet)
Orginal of the Species
Your Blue Room / Helpless (snippet)
Mothers of the Disappeared /El Pueblo Vencera (snippet)
One/ Walk On (snippet)

Discotechque/Life During War Time (snippet)/Lets Twist Again (snippet)
The Fly/ Break On Through (snippet)
Spanish Eyes/Fast Cars (snippet)
With or Without You

I Will Follow
11'O Clock Tick Tock/ A Sort of Homecoming (snippet)
Bad/ Walk on the wild Side (snippet)/ Bitter Sweet Symphony (snippet)/ Sympathy For the Devil (snippet)
"40"


What does everyone think?

 

[loverippedaway]

Mercy
Beautiful Day
Vertigo
I Will Follow
Even Better then the Real Thing
New Years Day
Until the end of the world
Gone
Sunday Bloody Sunday
I still haven't found what I'm looking for
(10)
Acoustic*
Stay/Full band
First time
Slow Dancing
(13)
The Unforgettable Fire
Miss Sarajevo
Please
Streets
One
(Breakkk)

Mofo
Discotheque
The Fly
Ultraviolet
Walk On

Encore 2
With or without you/love will tear us apart
Love is blindness

 

[phillyfan26]

Turns out I didn't do my own.

1-Where the Streets Have No Name
Elevation (Vertigo style)
Beautiful Day
New Year's Day
5-I Will Follow
Discotheque
City of Blinding Lights
Desire (LoveTown style)
Cry/The Electric Co. (Vertigo style)
10-Out of Control (Elevation style)
Bad
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of (Acoustic, full band finish)
Dirty Day
Running to Stand Still (with Hallelujahs)
15-Vertigo/Stories for Boys (snippet)
Exit
One Tree Hill
Original of the Species

[Encore]
(all ZooTV style)
Zoo Station
20-The Fly
Even Better Than the Real Thing
Until the End of the World
Bullet the Blue Sky
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
25-Love is Blindness/Can't Help Fallin' in Love

 

[JulioArca]

This is the kind of thing that changes every time (though I always use some combinations), but alright, here goes:

1. Hawkmoon 269
2. Desire / Not Fade Away (snippet) / 1969 (snippet) / So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star (snippet)
3. All Along The Watchtower / Like A Hurricane (snippet) / In God's Country (snippet)
4. 11 O'clock Tick Tock / Drowning Man (snippet)
5. Twilight
6. City Of Blinding Lights
7. Smile
8. One Tree Hill / Yahweh (snippet)
9. Heartland
10. Bass Trap
11. A Sort Of Homecoming
12. Resolution And Independence (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name
13. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
14. Promenade (snippet) / Bad / Four Seasons In One Day (snippet) / Norwegian Wood (snippet) / Irish Heartbeat (snippet) / Six Months In A Leaky Boat (snippet) / Space-Dye Vest (snippet)
15. The Unforgettable Fire
16. Exit / Riders On The Storm (snippet) / Deep (snippet) / Van Morrison's Gloria (snippet)
17. Acrobat
18. God Part II

19. The Fly / This Is No Rehearsal (snippet)
20. Until The End Of The World / Rock 'n' Roll ****** (snippet)
21. New Year's Day
22. Spanish Eyes
23. Gloria
24. The Electric Co. / Bullet With Butterfly Wings (snippet) / Break On Through (snippet) / I Can See For Miles (snippet)
25. Gone

This is one hell of setlist Ax, however I would make a few changes myself.

1) Replace Smile with Out of Control and swap spot with Blinding Lights; Twilight, Control, City etc.

2) Dirty Day instead of Sort of Homecoming

3) Love is Blindness instead of Gloria and removed it to the last spot.

So here it goes:

1. Hawkmoon 269
2. Desire / Not Fade Away (snippet) / 1969 (snippet) / So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star (snippet)
3. All Along The Watchtower / Like A Hurricane (snippet) / In God's Country (snippet)
4. 11 O'clock Tick Tock / Drowning Man (snippet)
5. Twilight
6. Out Of Control
7. City Of Blinding Lights
8. One Tree Hill / Yahweh (snippet)
9. Heartland
10. Bass Trap
11. Dirty Day
12. Resolution And Independence (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name
13. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
14. Promenade (snippet) / Bad / Four Seasons In One Day (snippet) / Norwegian Wood (snippet) / Irish Heartbeat (snippet) / Six Months In A Leaky Boat (snippet) / Space-Dye Vest (snippet)
15. The Unforgettable Fire
16. Exit / Riders On The Storm (snippet) / Deep (snippet) / Van Morrison's Gloria (snippet)
17. Acrobat
18. God Part II

19. The Fly / This Is No Rehearsal (snippet)
20. Until The End Of The World / Rock 'n' Roll ****** (snippet)
21. New Year's Day
22. Spanish Eyes
23. Gone
24. The Electric Co. / Bullet With Butterfly Wings (snippet) / Break On Through (snippet) / I Can See For Miles (snippet)
25. Love is Bilndness

 

[kristbg]

Always a fun thing to do.

Ok, let's do it:

1 - Vertigo/Even Better Than The Real Thing/Elevation Medley - Vertigo starts as in the later legs of the Vertigo Tour. They play it until the "all of this can be yours" part, when Larry stops playing and Edge plays the main riff from EBTTRT. When the second chorus from EBTTRT ends, Larry bangs a drum roll and Bono shouts "A mole, digging in a hole!". The band resumes with Elevation, until the end of the song. Crowd goes nuts. Bono gives a little welcome speech, then Larry bangs the first rolls from...
2 - Gloria
3 - The Electric Co. - Still in the "Boy" theme. Song ends and the ultra-mega-giant screen lights up, as the next song begins...
4 - Last Night On Earth - Song ends and Bono says "thank you" in about 32 languages. He introduces the band and says a few more words as a piano is set up at the B-stage. He sits at the front of it, mentions he's been taking some lessons and starts playing...
5 - Sweetest Thing - after the band plays it, the whole place goes dark.
6 - Exit/Gloria - which flows into...
7 - Running To Stand Still

At this point, the lights go out again. Bono walks towards the B-stage, singing...

8 - Promenade - Just Bono's voice, nothing else. As he arrives at the B-stage, Edge is already there at the piano, where they play...
9 - Miss Sarajevo - All right, now Bono looks satisfied. Adam and Larry return.

10 - All I Want Is You

As the crowd sing "All I Want is Yooooooooouu", Bono introduces a guest, "blues monster! Mr. B.! B.! Kiiiiiiing!!!" Larry bangs the drum roll from...

11 - Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of - B. B. adds his guitar licks to the song. He sings the entire 2nd verse, and he, Edge and Bono sing the ending together. B. B.'s band plays the horns at the end. Before the crowd starts cheering...
12 - When Love Comes To Town - The place turns into a small club. Everyone is dancing and singing along. This version runs about 8 minutes long. Bono and B.B. thank the crowd and leave the stage. Edge returns to the B-stage and plays...

13 - Numb - No Zoo TV effects, just Edge, Adam and Larry. The song ends and the screen light up again, as begins...

14 - City Of Blinding Lights
15 - Desire - A full band version.
16 - God Part II - At this point, Bono is completely crazy. He runs around the stage the entire song.

17 - Please/MLK - Here things finally get political. As Please ends, Bono sings the first verse of "MLK", which obviouly leads into...
18 - Where The Streets Have No Name

19 - PopMuzik Intro/Mofo/Discothèque - Wefinally get a PopCore. Bono has assumed his Fly persona.
20 - The Fly - Naturally.
21 - Ultraviolet (Light My Way) - Here the show is coming to an end. Bono starts saying "thank you" every 20 seconds...
22 - A Sort Of Homecoming - This version is a little extended. Bono starts talking about "beginnings and endings", only to introduce the next song...
23 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock - When 11'O Clock ends, the band already has that "goodbye face". Adam slowly plays the first notes from...
24 - The Wanderer - Bono says "Well, this was an amazing evening. Thanks for sticking with us. Now I would like to introduce a very special person..."

Then I enter the stage.

Bono thanks me and the sequencer starts playing...
25 - Bad/"40" - This one runs about 20 minutes. There are probably about 38 snippets included. We thank the crowd and start singing "how long to sing this song".

This is it. Except for the ending , I don't think it's too unrealistic...

 

[Salome]

I think they should play R.E.M. songs only and throw in a couple of U2 snippets

 

[jimjam]

Xanax and Wine
Vertigo
The Electric Co
11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Gloria
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Until the End of the World
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
All I Want Is You
Where the Streets Have No Name
Hawkmoon 269
I WIll Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday (Rattle and Hum version)
Wake Up Dead Man
In a Little While
Crumbs From Your Table
God Part 2

Zoo Station
The Fly
Discotheque
All Because Of You
With Or Without You/Shine Like Stars
Bad/Love Rescue Me/Love Is Blindness

 

[Axver]

This is one hell of setlist Ax, however I would make a few changes myself.

1) Replace Smile with Out of Control and swap spot with Blinding Lights; Twilight, Control, City etc.

I don't object too much to that suggestion, though I do prefer having Smile in the set. I quite like that song, despite the lack of attention it seems to have received on this forum.

2) Dirty Day instead of Sort of Homecoming

I really dislike that change, because One Tree Hill through to Streets is the big unchangeable part of the set for me. Bass Trap --> A Sort Of Homecoming --> Streets is critical. Here's how I envisage that sequence working:

Transitions:

One Tree Hill through modified Yahweh to Heartland:
“Oh great ocean, oh great sea
Run to the ocean, run to the sea …
… the sun is coming up over the ocean …
… the sun is coming up over the sea …
… see the sun rise over the ocean …
… see the sun rise over her skin
Don’t change it
See the sun rise over her skin
Dawn changes everything”

Heartland’s instrumental outro blends into Bass Trap, which then builds into A Sort Of Homecoming. A Sort Of Homecoming resembles the Unforgettable Fire Tour performances rather than the studio version at the beginning to aid the transition.

A Sort Of Homecoming through a snippet of William Wordsworth’s Resolution And Independence plus an alteration of an impromptu Samuel Beckett tribute from 26 December 1989 into Where The Streets Have No Name:
“Oh don’t sorrow, no don’t weep
For tonight, with you, I am coming home
I’m already home …
(Where The Streets Have No Name organ begins)
I’m already home
… (vocal pause as organ builds up) …
… His voice to me was like a stream
Scarce heard; nor word from word could I divide;
And the whole body of the man did seem
Like one whom I had met in a dream
Some men dream of other roads
Some men dream of other lands
Of another home, of another home
Where the streets have no name!
Take me, TAKE ME!”

3) Love is Blindness instead of Gloria and removed it to the last spot.

Well, I'm not sure whether I prefer Gloria or LIB - LIB only just missed out on making my set - but if I were to add LIB, I wouldn't have altered the order like you did. Gone is quite important to me as a closer, as I envisage it ending with a huge solo from Edge and Larry thumping the life out of his drums. So what I would do is move LIB to the main set and close the main set with Acrobat/LIB, and make God Part II open the encore (which was my original plan, actually). Here's how I'd do it:

17. Acrobat
18. Love Is Blindness

19. God Part II
20. The Fly / This Is No Rehearsal (snippet)
21. Until The End Of The World / Rock 'n' Roll ****** (snippet)
22. New Year's Day
23. Spanish Eyes
24. The Electric Co. / Bullet With Butterfly Wings (snippet) / Break On Through (snippet) / I Can See For Miles (snippet)
25. Gone

 

[nightninja56]

man, you people are insane

how about

snippet snippet
snippet
snippet snippet snippet snippet snippet
snippet
snippet snippet snippet
snippet snippet snippet snippet
Bad (w/ 20 snippets)

 

[Axver]

man, you people are insane

how about

snippet snippet
snippet
snippet snippet snippet snippet snippet
snippet
snippet snippet snippet
snippet snippet snippet snippet
Bad (w/ 20 snippets)

Snippets.

 

[nightninja56]

im not bashing them...but just like blue crack and Pop, everything in moderation

 

[Axver]

im not bashing them...but just like blue crack and Pop, everything in moderation

When you're a bored setlist website maintainer listening to bootlegs to flesh out setlists, every snippet gives you something to do, so I say "the more the merrier!"

 

[nightninja56]

eh...fair

 

[theu2fly]

01 // Lady With The Spinning Head
02 // I Will Follow
03 // 11 O'Clock Tick
04 // Vertigo
05 // Until The End Of The World
06 // New Year's Day
07 // Even Better Than The Real Thing
08 // Beautiful Day
09 // Discotheque
10 // City Of Blinding Lights
11 // Gloria
12 // Sunday Bloody Sunday
13 // Fast Cars
14 // Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
15 // Kite
16 // Original Of The Species
17 // All I Want Is You
18 // Where The Streets Have No Name
19 // Pride (In The Name Of Love)

20 // Dirty Day
21 // Elevation
22 // Desire
23 // All Along The Watchtower
24 // Electrical Storm

25 // Bullet The Blue Sky
26 // Running To Stand Still
27 // With Or Without You
28 // One

29 // Yahweh
30 // Bad

 

[LMP]

When you're a bored setlist website maintainer listening to bootlegs to flesh out setlists, every snippet gives you something to do, so I say "the more the merrier!"

they add to the flavor.

i put 26 songs, your rules can't harm me, don't you know who i am?!?

im the jugganaut bitch!

 

[Joey788]

1. City of Blinding Lights
2. Vertigo/Stories For Boys (snippet)/She Loves You (snippet)
3. Elevation
4. Cry/Electric Co./Bullet with Butterfly Wings (snippet)
5. Until the End of the World
6. Mysterious Ways
7. Exit/Gloria (snippet)
8. In God's Country
9. God Part 2
10. A Sort of Homecoming
11. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
12. Love and Peace or Else
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday
14. Bullet the Blue Sky
15. Please
16. Streets
17. Bad

(Pop Musik intro.)
18. Mofo
19. Gone
20. Discotheque
21. Lemon
22. Ultraviolet
23. Acrobat (Edge's guitar feedback plays for a couple of minutes, then he begins the next song)
24. Zoo Station (after the song ends, Bono begins playing The Fly on his acoustic for about 30 seconds, screams "Where is The Fly?" and the next song begins)
25. The Fly