Songs Macphisto should sing

[Joey788]

What songs in U2's entire catalouge do you think would work with Macphisto's personality that he hasn't already done?

I think Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me would be amazing with Macphisto performing it. Maybe An Cat Dubh for the theatrical element.

 

[Screwtape2]

Do You Feel Loved?
IYWTVD
Acrobat

 

[discothequeLP]

Daddy's Gonna Pay
Lemon
With or Without You
Love is Blindness
Ultraviolet
Can't Help Falling in Love

 

[coolian2]

The Playboy Mansion

 

[salty72]

I believe I read somewhere there was an idea of MacPhisto singing 11 O'Clock Tick Tock on the Zooropa tour.

 

[Screwtape2]

I believe I read somewhere there was an idea of MacPhisto singing 11 O'Clock Tick Tock on the Zooropa tour.

That's true. Bono wrote 11 O'Clock Tick Tock to be sung like a lounge singer. Frank Sinatra and MacPhisto aren't too far apart.

 

[gareth brown]

Daddy's Gonna Pay
Lemon
With or Without You
Love is Blindness
Ultraviolet
Can't Help Falling in Love

well i think half the people who originally intended to post can sleep easy!

 

[thelaj]

Macphisto should sing Xanax & Wine in an evil way.......

 

[JCOSTER]

If You Wear That Velvet Dress - Jools Holland version.

(I would also like to hear him sing the Doors - Light My Fire)

 

[salty72]

That's true. Bono wrote 11 O'Clock Tick Tock to be sung like a lounge singer. Frank Sinatra and MacPhisto aren't too far apart.

Hey Screwtape2. You live in a lovely location!

 

[IanIinTheSky]

Grace

 

[pepokiss]

Johnny Cash's version of HURT

 

[Hoodlem]

This might sound a little crazy but hear me out...

Beautiful Day

Imagine a fully irreverent and hammed up version of this as performed by Big Mac himself. I am sure the 00 lovers will cry sacrilidge but I think it would be brilliant.

I am imaginning it could be similar in vibe to the whole "what a night, what a show..." bit from the end of desire.

The beginning would also be great. Imagine "The heart is a bloom, shoots up through the stony ground" in that thick, posh accent. Brilliant I tell you.

 

[Screwtape2]

Hey Screwtape2. You live in a lovely location!

So do you!

Back to the thread, I think MacPhisto would do a great version of Miami as well.

 

[Joey788]

Zooropa
Some Days Are Better Than Others
If God Will Send His Angels
Wake Up Dead Man

 

[An Cat Gav]

Wake up Dead Man or The Ground Beneath Her Feet

 

[yeter]

Mack the Knife

 

[pepokiss]

Mercy

 

[coolian2]

Mofo, slightly more glitzed up.

 

[Lemonfix]

That's true. Bono wrote 11 O'Clock Tick Tock to be sung like a lounge singer. Frank Sinatra and MacPhisto aren't too far apart.

I would give my firstborn to hear that.

I second Jools Holland Velvet Dress, too.

 

[Joey788]

Salome
Lady with the Spinning Head

 

[fandangamoq]

I always thought kicking off thge Mac encore with Zooropa would have been spectacular.

Imagine Mac sitting in his dressing room, singing smoothly along with lounge-esque piano for the first bit, then walking out just as the song kicks into high gear (similar to the "Daddy's Gonna Pay!!! bit)

My Zoo encore would be:

Zooropa
Lemon (Maybe replaced by LWTSH every once in a while)
With or Without You/All I Want Is You
Love Is Blindness
Night And Day




~A.j.~

 

[vaz02]

A man and a women

 

[LyricalDrug]

Brilliant thread, Joey788.

I'd say Mercy, Tryin' to Throw Your Arms..., and Discotheque.

 

[BluRmGrl]

All I Want is You

 

[BluRmGrl]

Night and Day

 

[tpsglick2424]

Bad
Dirty Day
HMTMKM
Discotheque
Mofo

 

[CTU2fan]

Nothing. Mac was the worst element of the ZooTV tour, no question. May we never see him again...

 

[phillyfan26]

God Part II

 

[Zoocoustic]

Nothing. Mac was the worst element of the ZooTV tour, no question. May we never see him again...

Very interesting...would like to hear you expand on why you think this.

To the other posts, I've got to say that the idea of MacPhisto singing Wake Up Dead Man crosses some sort of line. I can't see MacPhisto singing anything about God.