Remember your first Best Of?

[Snowlock]

Was it dubbed to tape? Burned on CD? Mixed on your iPod? What songs grabbed you as you bought your first U2 album, then worked your way backwards through their catalog?

Mine was on tape, starting with The Joshua Tree:

1. Streets
2. I Will Follow
3. New Years Day
4. A Sort Of Homecoming
5. Bad (Live from Wide Awake In America)
6. With or Without You
7. In God's Country
8. Gloria
9. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
10. The Refugee
11. The Electric Co
12. Wire
13. Running To Stand Still
14. 40 (Live from Under A Blood Red Sky)

 

[pgv]

I made this one ages, actually I think it was the first thing I burned when I got my laptop!

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. Seconds
3. Fire
4. Pride
5. Angel Of Harlem
6. Running To Standstill
7. One
8. With Or Without You
9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for
10. Mysterious Ways
11. Bad
12. All I want is you
13. The Fly
14. I will follow


No live versions, as I was without bootlegs then!

 

[thelaj]

Sunday Bloody Sunday [Rattle & Hum Version] x 10 on repeat

 

[LemonMelon]

I put onto a 90 minute tape back in 2002...I was 11 then. Good times.

Side 1
1. I Will Follow
2. Pride
3. Streets
4. Desire
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. Bullet The Blue Sky
7. Bad (Live from Elevation Boston)
8. Zoo Station
9. Mysterious Ways
10. Even Better Than The Real Thing

Side 2
11. One
12. The Sweetest Thing (The Single Mix)
13. When Love Comes To Town
14. Angel Of Harlem
15. The Unforgettable Fire
16. Elevation (Live from Elevation Boston)
17. Beautiful Day (Live from Elevation Boston)
18. Stuck In A Moment (Live from Elevation Boston)
19. Kite (Live from Elevation Boston)
20. Walk On (Live from Elevation Boston)

Great tape.

 

[2morrow]

Being young(er) and making mix tapes = definitely good times. I never made a mix...my best friend got me the Best Of 90-00 for Christmas and I just baught all their cds after that, staring w/ Bomb. Now that I have everything on my mp3 player, I just shuffle all the U2 songs, including bootlegs and rare stuff. Too lazy/choosey to actually make a favorites playlist.

 

[Chizip]

Achtung Baby

 

[gareth brown]

if i remember correctly my first 'Best Of' mix was a two CD affair of what I thought was a 'real' Best of 1980-1990 in chronological order since there was too much to consider in terms of running order and 'flow'.

I shall look for the tracklisting and paste it here in the meantime but I think I was fair.

 

[the tourist]

My first live U2 mix.

1. Bad (Wide Awake In America)
2. Twilight/An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart (Sweetest Thing B-Sides)
3. A Sort Of Homecoming (Wide Awake In America)
4. The Unforgettable Fire (bootlegged from sometime in 1989 or 1990 from Lovetown)
5. Please/Where The Streets Have No Name/With Or Without You (Popheart EP)
6. Silver & Gold/Pride (Rattle & Hum)
7. Star Spangled Banner/Bullet The Blue Sky (Rattle & Hum)

 

[Joey788]

My first U2 mix CD:

Disc 1:
1. Mofo
2. Vertigo
3. I Will Follow
4. Pride
5. City of Blinding Lights
6. Discotheque
7. Gone
8. Angel of Harlem
9. Electric Co.
10. Bad
11. All I Want is You
12. LAPOE
13. SBS
14. BTBS
15. Please
16. Streets

Disc 2:
1. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
2. Lemon
3. Miami
4. Zooropa
5. Dirty Day
6. Desire
7. Zoo Station
8. The Fly
9. EBTTRT
10. Mysterious Ways
11. Elevation
12. One
13. Staring at the Sun
14. Walk On
15. 40

 

[marik]

wow. no with or without you, joey 788?

 

[Nisse]

can't remember the exact track list (it was a best of 80's cd)
the tracks i remember:

SBS
Streets
I Will Follow
In God's Country
4th Of July
God Part II
With A Shout
Exit
Promenade
I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For
New Year's Day
Heartland
With Or Without You
Gloria

 

[Mirrorballman83]

my first was

Pride
New Year's Day
One
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Heartland
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Will follow
WOWY
Zoo Station
All I want is you

I'd only the best 80-90, R&H and AB

 

[Joey788]

wow. no with or without you, joey 788?

Surprisingly, no. I think I had just really discovered 90s U2 and I couldn't fit it in. How I could have left out WOWY and put in the album version of Miami is beyond me.