Favorite song that never gets played...

[villavarian]

One of my favorite U2 songs is "Somedays are Better than Others" from the Zooropa album. However, it is never played live. I was wondering if anyone else has a favorite song that is never played.

 

[acrobatica]

acrobat! will i ever get to hear this song live????

 

[ayearwome]

Too many to list!!!

When I Look at the World
Crumbs from your table (thus far!)

 

[Arcadion]

ELECTRICAL STORM

 

[bray]

One of my favorite U2 songs is "Somedays are Better than Others" from the Zooropa album. However, it is never played live.

third leg setlist as follows
1.city of blinding lights
2.vertigo
3.elevation
4.last night on earth
5.the fly
6.twilight ( alternate electric co.
7. even better than the real thing
8. bullet the blue sky
9. new york
10. the unforgettable fire
11. in Gods country
12. heartland
13.crumbs from the table
14. electrical storm
15. beautiful day
16. miracle drug
17. numb ( alternate some days are better than others)
18.love & peace or else
19. where the streets have no name
encore 1
20.one tree hill
21.sometimes you cant make it on your own
22.walk on
encore 2
23. october/ new years day
24.until the end of the world

you saw it here first

 

[MusicalJourneyman]

One Tree Hill and Unforgettable Fire!!!!

 

[jacobus]

A C R O B A T
please sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/qv3d4382/petition.html

 

[villavarian]

One Tree Hill and Unforgettable Fire!!!!

One Tree Hill is one of my other favorites in this category. I don't think they ever play that...ever.

I'll also add Dirty Day and So Cruel

 

[God Part III]

Until The End Of The World
Acrobat
11 O'Clock Tick Tock

At least not on this tour

 

[one4u2]

Acrobat
When I look at the world
Indian Summer Sky
Promenade
So Cruel
Love is blindness
Surrender

I know there's tons more but those are the first in mind

 

[broken toy]

Well, there's what they "don't play," and what they've *never* played. Of course, at this point we can probably treat them the same.

My list of favorite U2 songs that I'd love to see live, but which haven't been in any kind of regular rotation for years, or which have never been performed:

1. One Tree Hill
2. Hawkmoon 269
3. Acrobat
4. Two Hearts Beat As One
5. A Celebration
6. Like A Song
7. Red Hill Mining Town
8. The First Time
9. Mothers of the Disappeared
10. So Cruel

I might throw Dirty Day in there, but it was "only" 12 years ago or so that it was performed!

 

[U2alli]

heartland

 

[RA-D]

Villavarian: I assume you are new to this forum. If so, welcome, you will quickly learn the myth of Acrobat and it's legendary 'never been played' status. Have you noticed a thread called 'What song is your Acrobat?'?
Honestly, if the song is ever played, the number of people populating the board will drop dramatically.

 

[Mullen4Prez]

1. One Tree Hill
2. Hawkmoon 269
3. Acrobat
4. Two Hearts Beat As One
5. A Celebration
6. Like A Song
7. Red Hill Mining Town
8. The First Time
9. Mothers of the Disappeared
10. So Cruel

I might throw Dirty Day in there, but it was "only" 12 years ago or so that it was performed!

Around the same

 

[No spoken words]

A Sort of Homecoming
The Unforgettable Fire
Heartland
One Tree Hill
Red Hill Mining Town
Acrobat
A Day Without Me
I Fall Down
Surrender
Zooropa
When I Look at the World

I never expect to hear any of these, and that is ok.....but it sure would be neat.

 

[I'm Ready]

Im going to the U2 show tomorrow so heres my list of songs id love to hear but have accepted that U2 will not play it

-Like a Song
-Zooropa
-Two Hearts Beat as One
-Acrobat
-Lemon
-Unforgettable Fire
-Wire
-In Gods Country
-Love is Blindness
-Out of Control
-Desire


I do find it understandable why they do not play some songs, such as zooropa an lemon it may be hard to get the sound right in concert and I heard that when U2 tried to play Like a Song live they could not get the energy of the song on stage that they got in the studio

 

[bray]

acrobat was done as an acoustic on a soundcheck during the zoo tv tour. like a song is on a bootleg i have and it was done as one of the last songs. bonos speech before the song was kinda the same as his speech last night before original of the species

 

[dudeman]

One of my favorite U2 songs is "Somedays are Better than Others" from the Zooropa album. However, it is never played live.

third leg setlist as follows
1.city of blinding lights
2.vertigo
3.elevation
4.last night on earth
5.the fly
6.twilight ( alternate electric co.
7. even better than the real thing
8. bullet the blue sky
9. new york
10. the unforgettable fire
11. in Gods country
12. heartland
13.crumbs from the table
14. electrical storm
15. beautiful day
16. miracle drug
17. numb ( alternate some days are better than others)
18.love & peace or else
19. where the streets have no name
encore 1
20.one tree hill
21.sometimes you cant make it on your own
22.walk on
encore 2
23. october/ new years day
24.until the end of the world

you saw it here first

that's a pretty good setlist there - i'd drop 'elevation' like a bad habit, however. i'd also like to see 'bullet' retired - they've already done it better than they ever will (zoo era) and LAPOE occupies similar space. maybe trade 'gone' for 'elevation', fit 'all i want is you' in there somewhere...

 

[dudeman]

i got off topic there...
favorite songs never/hardly ever played (anymore)-
1. one tree hill
2. red hill mining town
3. a sort of homecoming
4. i fall down
5. rejoice
6. do you feel loved?
and, of course, acrobat (naturally).
thank god for high quality recordings of old shows!

 

[flaxjm]

zooropa
so cruel
acrobat
like a song
wire
indian summer sky
twilight
surrender
dirty day
love is blindness
sort of homecoming
in god's country

 

[jcoriha]

Another Day
A Day Without Me
Another Time, Another Place
Shadows and Tall Trees
I Fall Down
Tomorrow
A Celebration
Seconds
Like a Song...
Drowning Man
Two Hearts Beat as One
A Sort of Homecoming
Wire
The Unforgettable Fire
Indian Summer Sky
One Tree Hill
Exit
Hawkmoon 269
Love Rescue Me
Heartland
So Cruel
Ultra Violet
Acrobat
Zooropa
Lemon
Dirty Day
Do You Feel Loved
MoFo
If God Will Send His Angels
Miami
The Playboy Mansion
Kite
In a Little While
When I Look at the World

 

[knox]

MOFO.

 

[theoeiii]

Villavarian: I assume you are new to this forum. If so, welcome, you will quickly learn the myth of Acrobat and it's legendary 'never been played' status. Have you noticed a thread called 'What song is your Acrobat?'?
Honestly, if the song is ever played, the number of people populating the board will drop dramatically.

Hilarious! I love it. It's just all about the hype. Can you imagine if Streets never got famous and they NEVER played it live? There would be people and their petitions and every other damn thing. That song is 1,000,000 times better, but because it's so huge - ho-hum. If Acrobat was played on one tour consistently, it'd never be talked about.

PS. I LOVE Acrobat too.

 

[theoeiii]

Oh, and here's mine that no one's said:

North and South of the River

 

[peach]

Heartland
Wire
Night and Day

 

[annabelle]

Mofo
Gone
A Sort of Homecoming
Promenade
Spanish Eyes
Wire
Unforgettable Fire


...oh and Discotheque

 

[PopMart2005]

I'd like to see Bono bring back the MacPhisto/Fly funny voice... as when he used to sing Lemon...

Miiidniiiiiiiiiiiiight is when the day begins

 

[djerdap]

Acrobat. Duh.

 

[matt_tx00]

this is of course "never played live on THIS tour":

who's gonna ride your wild horses

if they actually play until the end of the world at one of the third leg shows i go to that'll make up for it!

 

[Blue Room]

Actually my favorite U2 song gets played every single night. But the songs I really like that dont get played are:

God Part II
Hawkmoon 269
One Tree Hill
So Cruel

Electric Co was part of this list until this tour!! I still cant believe they are playing it.