Your favorite special appearances

[jeevey]

I'm putting a playlist together of one-off performances; tv guest spots, mixed bill concerts like San Remo and anything else that was a not a U2 show. I'm also trying to limit it to U2 proper, not U2+ Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello or whoever since I already have a list for those. What are your essentials?

 

[david]

U2 doing The Wanderer.

 

[Danny Boy]

Womanfish.

 

[digitize]

I'm very fond of U2's 2009 SNL performance. Performing a set consisting of Breathe, Moment of Surrender, and Ultraviolet was a bit gutsy.

 

[pacemaker]

The POP-era VMA performances - Please and Mofo.

 

[Globo14]

Womanfish.

This this this this this.

This.

 

[purpleoscar]

U2 - The Ground Beneath Her Feet (acoustic) - YouTube

U2 - North and South of the River - YouTube

U2 Please 1997 MTV Video Music Awards - YouTube

U2 - Beautiful Day Live Letterman 4th Night [HD - High Quality] - YouTube

U2, Bono - Ballad of Springhill Mining Disaster,Dubliners - Don't get married girls,1987,Luke Kelly - YouTube

U2 - Until The End Of The World [Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony] - YouTube

Bono & Edge - Two Shots Happy, One Shot of Sad - YouTube

U2 Moment Of Surrender Berlin, Brandenburg Gate 2009-11-05 - U2gigs.com - YouTube

I'm very fond of U2's 2009 SNL performance. Performing a set consisting of Breathe, Moment of Surrender, and Ultraviolet was a bit gutsy.

I don't think I've seen that one.

 

[last unicorn]

There are quite a few I enjoy. Here are two more recent ones, though they're just B & E, not U2 as a band (and probably don't count because of that, but I'll name them anyway) -

The 2008 Islington Chapel performance for Mencap, just Bono and Edge doing a four-song-set including Wave of Sorrow, Bono shadeless.

The 2011 Decade of Difference concert hosted by Bill Clinton with Bono and Edge doing A Man and a Woman.

 

[AndrewCowley]

Their performance at the 2005 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction was pretty great. Especially when Springsteen joined them for ISHFWILF.

 

[djerdap]

North and South of the River, Omagh tribute.

And of course WOMANFISH

 

[cobl04]

Womanfish is the only respectable answer.

 

[Rhiannon64]

Just a few of my faves.
Love the Old Grey Whistle test performances. This is from 1981
U2 The Old Grey Whistle test 1981 - YouTube

U2 I Will Follow Old Grey Whistle Test 1981] - YouTube

This Tube performance from '87 is fun.
U2 - Lost Highway (The Tube 1987) - YouTube

 

[chork]

"Oh Jeannie" from "Outside It's America"

 

[jeevey]

Well, I have a big messy list of ones I really like stuck randomly together. Anybody want to help arrange it into a playlist? I'm terrible about playlists so help would be greatly appreciated.


AIWIY--Omagh bombing tribute, 1999
North and South of the River, same
Invisible- Fallon appearance
Ordinary Love, same
Breathe, Letterman, 2009
Two Shots of Happy, 1995 Sinatra tribute
TGBHF, St Patricks Day 2000
Miss Sarajevo- 1995 Modena with Pavorotti
One, 1995 Modena
Night and Day
Stuck in a Moment Letterman 2012
Peace on Earth/Walk On, America tribute 2001
BD/One/UTEOTW, Brits performance, 2001
Please, MTV awards 1997
Mofo, VMAs 1997
Womanfish
Vertigo, unplugged Island 50th anniversary 2005
Wanderer, Johnny Cash tribute

I'm very fond of U2's 2009 SNL performance. Performing a set consisting of Breathe, Moment of Surrender, and Ultraviolet was a bit gutsy.

I could only find breathe from this performance but I'd definitely take MOS if someone had it. Still taking other "must have's" too.

Everything on here is 1995 and after other than womanfish, which I'm not sure belongs in this mix because of the stylistic differences and also because the sound quality is pretty atrocious in comparison to the others. Maybe a separate playlist for ones earlier than Zoo?

 

[U2girl]

Elevation and I will follow on SNL.

Vidéo Vertigo, Sometimes You Can't Make It..., I Will Follow - Live SNL 2004 - Musique

U2 - Elevation - Live On SNL Video by mpadawer | Photobucket

Mofo on MTV awards.

U2 - Mofo - 6 Nov 1997 - European Music Awards - YouTube

The top 3.

 

[domo-kun]

Tibetan Freedom Concert 1997 just popped into mind, they played Please with some nice snippets. UTTEOTW , MW , One and Gone.

 

[AndrewCowley]

> AIWIY--Omagh bombing tribute, 1999
> North and South of the River, same

Very special.

 

[Peterrrrr]

I must say that Ordinary Love on Tonight Show is one of my favorite...

 

[jeevey]

Agreed. No takers on crafting a playlist from the tracks I posted? Domo, I'll listen to the ones you suggest. I don't have a MW on my mix yet, and Pop was a very special time for that song.

 

[purpleoscar]

Agreed. No takers on crafting a playlist from the tracks I posted? Domo, I'll listen to the ones you suggest. I don't have a MW on my mix yet, and Pop was a very special time for that song.

Organized it and added a few others:


U2 - I Will Follow (Live On TV) - YouTube
Bad (Live Aid)
Womanfish
Exit (Old Grey Whistle Test)
U2 | Where the Streets Have no Name @ Point Depot, Dublin - YouTube
U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing - Glastonbury 2011 [HD] - YouTube
Miss Sarajevo- 1995 Modena with Pavorotti
One, 1995 Modena
Two Shots of Happy, 1995 Sinatra tribute
Tibetan Concert
Please, MTV awards 1997
Mofo, VMAs 1997
North and South of the River, same
AIWIY--Omagh bombing tribute, 1999
TGBHF, St Patricks Day 2000
Peace on Earth/Walk On, America tribute 2001
BD/One/UTEOTW, Brits performance, 2001
Vertigo, unplugged Island 50th anniversary 2005
Stuck in a Moment Letterman 2012
Wanderer, Johnny Cash tribute
Breathe, Letterman, 2009 (Would prefer Jonathan Ross version of Breathe)
Invisible- Fallon appearance
Ordinary Love, same

 

[ImOuttaControl]

This is probably the performance that cemented me as a fan. I'm surprised that it hasn't been mentioned yet. I especially like the awkward guy clapping at the 6:25 mark.

U2 (Live San Remo) - All I want is you - The ground beneath her feet...ALE - YouTube

 

[jeevey]

Just want to say that I absolutely adore this period just before ATYCLB, when Edge was moving out of the pornstache phase and Bono rocked the Buddy Holly glasses. There's something very tender about all the performances that they did together at that time.

 

[clifedge]

U2 doing The Wanderer.

Yes

 

[rennowba]

U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing - Glastonbury 2011 [HD] - YouTube

That is a shocker of a performance. The worst U2 song I've experienced live. It sounds 100 times better on tv you should of been there. It was that bad I couldn't work out if it was a remix or not?truly terrible. The fly blew my mind though!