Make A Playlist To Help Introduce Someone To U2

[TheEdge25]

So I am needing help with a sort of "Introductory" Playlist to make for a friend. She loves current Pop music and some country/rock. She heard Invisible last night and like it a lot and wanted to hear more stuff from U2. I was thinking it would be easier to help her get into it and start liking it if she heard some U2 songs along with some songs from other bands.


Post your playlists of at least 20 songs, with 10 from U2 and 10 from other bands that would be a good list to give to someone to help them start enjoying U2. (I will post mine later, just getting this thread started).

 

[allbecauseofu2]

What's 10 songs from other bands for?

 

[TheEdge25]

Well I thought maybe to even it out? Doesn't have to be. haha I will change it!

 

[LuckyNumber7]

You might not want to do 10 and 10. If you want someone to listen and like, they're going to need a quicker, more repeatable playlist. The best U2 songs to go to are probably Beautiful Day, COBL, Vertigo, WOWY, and perhaps Invisible if she already likes that.

Mash it up with The Script, OneRepublic, Coldplay, The Killers, and perhaps Imagine Dragons if she's into today's pop music. That's my advice.

 

[allbecauseofu2]

What does this person like about today's music? Pop music you said ?

 

[U2freakboy]

It's funny you ask I just made a 10 song U2 playlist for my girlfriend. Songs I included...

1) Beautiful Day
2) Invisible
3) I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
4) With or Without You
5) The Sweetest Thing
6) Where the Streets Have No Name
7) Pride
8) Vertigo
9) Mysterious Ways
10) One

No big surprises here, but for a U2 novice, it works. She likes it.

 

[digitize]

What sort of music does she like?

 

[gvox]

10 songs? Impossible for me. And I did try...

 

[LemonMelon]

New Year's Day
A Sort of Homecoming
Streets
All I Want Is You
Until the End of the World
The Fly
Zooropa
Stay
HMTMKMKM
Beautiful Day

If that doesn't get their motor running, they're hopeless anyway.

Bands that sound like U2 are usually pretty awful, but the Jezabels, M83 and Arcade Fire hit that epic sweet spot.

 

[BigMacPhisto]

U250: The Essential Songs

1. 11 0'Clock Tick Tock

2. A Day Without Me
3. I Will Follow

4. Gloria
5. I Fall Down
6. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
7. October

8. New Year's Day
9. Two Hearts Beat As One
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday
11. Seconds

12. Pride
13. The Unforgettable Fire
14. Bad (from Wide Awake In America)
15. A Sort of Homecoming (from Wide Awake in America

16. With or Without You
17. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
18. Where The Streets Have No Name (Single Mix)
19. In God's Country
20. One Tree Hill
21. Bullet The Blue Sky
22. Running To Stand Still
23. Red Hill Mining Town

24. Desire
25. Angel of Harlem
26. All I Want Is You

27. The Fly
28. Mysterious Ways
29. One
30. Even Better Than The Real Thing
31. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Temple Bar Mix)
32. Until The End Of The World (Soundtrack Mix)

33. Numb
34. Lemon
35. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
36. Zooropa (Radio Edit)

37. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

38. Discotheque
39. Gone (New Mix)

40. Sweetest Thing (Single Mix)

41. Beautiful Day
42. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
43. Walk On (Single Mix)
44. Elevation
45. Kite
46. In A Little While

47. Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)

48. Vertigo
49. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
50. City of Blinding Lights


Best Of 1980-1990: Represented by 13 of 14 tracks (14 of 15 if you count "October")
Best of 1990-2000: Represented by 12 of 16 tracks (13 of 17 on foreign editions)
U218 Singles: Represented by 18 of 18 tracks (19 of 19 on foreign editions)


My Personal Top 10:

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. The Fly
3. Walk On
4. Beautiful Day
5. A Sort of Homecoming
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
7. Until The End Of The World
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. New Year's Day
10. With or Without You

 

[purpleoscar]

U2 is more important than that. Have her slowly listen to the catalog in chronological order. Tell her the sonic landscapes change approx every 3 albums.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

You guys all seem to think that if you tell someone to listen attentively to 2-15 hours of music they just will.

Take the context. Stuff like October or TUF or Boy doesn't belong here. That's stuff you learn to love. This is about pop U2. This is WOWY. Beautiful Day.

 

[INSTCUWSUMVC]

I just made my girlfriend one 13 songs though.

1. Streets (Single Mix)
2. Beautiful Day
3. Crazy Tonight
4. Invisible
5. Mysterious Ways
6. Angel of Harlem
7. One
8. City of Blinding Lights
9. Vertigo
10. Two Hearts Beat As One
11. Wild Horses
12. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
13. With or Without You

 

[BGD75]

As many have pointed out - this top 10 would really depend on what style of music your friend prefer.. U2's music varies depending on the decade... Songs included in my top 10 In no particular order) would be:
- The Fly
- Actobat
- Stay
- Where the streets have no name
- One
- Running to stand still
- Love is blindness
- Vertigo
- Bad
- New Year's Day

 

[pepokiss]

10 songs to get someone to KNOW U2?
It's easy to go with the hits, but U2 is more than the hits, I think.
It has to be a mixture.


01 - Where The Streets Have No Name
02 - Vertigo
03 - One
04 - The Unforgettable Fire
05 - New Year's Day
06 - Beautiful Day
07 - With Or Without You
08 - Zooropa
09 - Like A Song
10 - Mofo

The last 3 are for mental blowing, for her to say "they can play like that as well? Is this the same band?"


But I really can't imagine Invisible is the FIRST U2 song she has heard. How old is she? Maybe she already knows some songs, or some ones she doesn't even know they're theirs