U2 essential disc...thoughts????

[innocent_eyes]

Hey, i'd like your thoughts on songs to include and a running order. Here's what i've come up with so far!

-Streets
-Pride
-Sunday bloody sunday
-New years day
-SHFWILF
-WOWY
-sweetest thing
-Mysterious ways
-the fly
-One
-Stay
-the ground beneath her feet
-Beautiful day
-Elevation
-Kite
-Vertigo
-SYCMIOYO

thoughts??? Trying to keep it somewhat chronological. How about the running order?

edited to replace walk on with kite?? thoughts??

 

[SeattleVertigo]

That's a nice list, but why not any early U2 like I Will Follow or Out of Control?

 

[innocent_eyes]

I don't thnk she'll like the early post-punk sound, maybe if she begins to like them and ask for more, i'll be like, check out their early work. Personally i love boy but i don't know if its her taste!

I also think the live versions of their early work are where it's really at and i don't wanna mix studio with live stuff!

 

[tennispunk]

I agree I'd include some more early stuff.....especially "Out of Control" or "The Electric Co." or "I Will Follow" something off of Boy, and if you really must, perhaps "Gloria" off of October, although I usually pretend that album was never recorded.

Also, if you're trying to keep it chronological, you'd have to change the order a bit at the beginning to put "Sunday Bloody Sunday" & "New Year's Day" before "Pride", and then the tracks off The Joshua Tree

I like your list, but I'd also include:
Bad
Bullet the Blue Sky
Dirty Day
Gone and/or Discotheque (you've gotta have something off Pop)
In a Little While
A Man and a Woman
....and i'd probably leave off Kite, Vertigo, The Sweetest Thing, and Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own.

 

[arsenalfan]

I would buy them a copy of Joshua Tree, and then I would go chronologically:

Out Of Control
I Will Follow
Gloria
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day
Pride
Bad (Live)
All I Want Is You
Even Better Than The Real Thing
One
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
Stay
Gone (Live)
Staring At The Sun
Beautiful Day
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Elevation
Walk On
Vertigo
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
City Of Blinding Lights
All Because Of You
Original Of The Species

and then, because it's Christmas time, I'd throw on Baby, Please Come Home.

 

[bonojr62]

Add Please onto that. Even though it wasnt a mainstream song Its essential U2.

 

[U2Soar]

Streets
Pride
Beautiful Day
The Fly
Hold Me Thrill Me
Vertigo
Mysterious Ways (Live)
Please (live)
Bad (live)
New Years Day
One
All I Want Is You (Radio Edit)
Stay
With Or Without You
Miracle Drug
Still Haven’t Found
Desire
Sunday Bloody Sunday

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

I didn't do this in a chronological order.
Running time: 1:20:10, so you're gonna have to cut 10 seconds out of one song, or a few seconds here and there.

Where The Streets Have No Name
Pride
Stuck In A Moment
With Or Without You
Beautiful Day
I Will Follow
Vertigo
Mysterious Ways
Angel Of Harem
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
One
Gloria
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Last Night On Earth
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Discothèque (best of version)
Stay
The Fly

 

[amniar]

Just give them the PopHeart EP and you'll be sorted.

 

[pwmartin]

You need to have Until the End of the World on there, as well as All I Want is You and Lemon. Those are "essential" U2. And something off Pop, to round it out. Staring at the Sun probably.

 

[WinnieThePoo]

is it a best of ???


I Will Follow

Gloria

New Years Day

Unforgettable Fire

Bad

Where The Streets Have No Name

With Or Without You

Desire

All I Want Is You

The Fly

One

Stay

Hold Me , Thrill Me , Kiss Me , Kill Me

Discotheque

Beatiful Day

Walk On

Vertigo