What would your 1980-2002 Best Of tracklisting be?

[kosull]

Not withstanding any crap about it doesn't represent the whole of the period, it's not what the band would release, it's not the right version, what bonus tracks - the usual nitpicking stuff - what would everyone choose if they were asked to pick their favourite 16 U2 tracks? Just out of interest. Without album track snobbery or what would the casual listener like. Just what are people's favourite tracks. ANd just so you can have a go at my choice, here it is. Definitely not what anyone else would choose I'd say, but here ya go!

The Best Of 1980-2002!?

1. I Will Follow
2. Until the End of the World
3. New Year's Day
4. In God's Country
5. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
6. Beautiful Day
7. Sweetest Thing
8. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of (Acoustic)
9. Staring At The Sun (Acoustic)
10. One Tree Hill
11. Bad
12. The Hands That Built America
13. The Unforgettable Fire
14. Where the Streets Have No Name
15. Walk On (Single Version)
16. One

No With or Without You, No Pride, No Sunday Bloody Sunday... Is there anyone else on whom Sunday gets on their nerves? I can't really listen to it all that often!

 

[gherman]

1. Beutiful Day
2. Until the End of the World
3. New Year's Day
4. Pride
5. With Or Without You
6. Stay(faraway, so close)
7. I Will Follow
8. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of (Acoustic)
9. Gone
10. All I Want Is You
11. Bad
12. Kite
13. The Unforgettable Fire
14. Where the Streets Have No Name
15. Walk On
16. One

 

[Whats The Story?]

1.Where The Streets Have No Name
2.Beautiful Day
3.So Cruel
4.With Or Without You
5.The Fly
6.Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
7.Zooropa
8.I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
9.Stay(Faraway So Close!)
10.Mysterious Ways
11.Discotheque
12.Ultraviolet
13.Lemon
14.Pride(In The Name Of Love)
15.One
16.All I Want Is You

That would be fucking amazing! The best best-of ever!

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

here they are, in no particular order:

1. i will follow
2. a day without me
3. 11 o'clock tick tock
4. gloria
5. fire
6. new year's day
7. seconds
8. i still haven't found what i'm looking for
9. running to stand still
10. zoo station
11. even better than the real thing
12. zooropa
13. lemon
14. hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me
15. discotheque
16. please

 

[Salome]

in no particular order:
1. A Sort of Homecoming
2. New Year's Day
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. Rejoice
5. One
6. I still haven't found ...
7. Where the streets ...
8. Beautiful Day
9. Stuck in a moment
10. Lemon
11. With or Without You
12. Bad
13. I threw a brick ...
14. The Wanderer
15. Surrender
16. The Fly

 

[A Maaaaaaan]

1. Even better than the real thing
2. HMTMKMKM
3. Gone
4. Wire
5. Desire
6. Running to stand still
7. Stuck
8. Bad
9. Beautiful day

10. When I look at the world
11. BTBS
12. Kite
13. Sunday bloody sunday
14. Please
15. One
16. Walk on

This Best Of tells you an story.

 

[sv]

1. Out of Control
2. Like A Song
3. Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop?)
4. Bad
5. One Tree Hill
6. Silver and Gold
7. Hawkmoon 269
8. The Fly
9. Acrobat
10. Zooropa
11. Gone
12. Wake Up Dead Man
13. Beautiful Day
14. Walk On
15. Kite
16. Peace On Earth

 

[anitram]

I don't know that I could get it down to 16 and not be bothered by omitting something, lol.

 

[U2fan42]

1. I Will Follow
2. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (live)
3. Zooropa
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday
5. Lemon
6. New Year's Day
7. The Unforgettable Fire
8. A Sort of Homecoming
9. Bad
10. With or Without You
11. Streets
12. Staring at the Sun
13. One
14. Until the End of the World
15. The Fly
16. Mysterious Ways
17. Discotheque
18. Mofo
19. Walk On
20. Kite

 

[MacPhisto066]

well here's mine

1. Out Of Control
2. I Will Follow
3. Gloria
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday
5. New Year's Day
6. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
7. Where The Streets Have No Name
8. With Or Without You
9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
10. Desire
11. Mysterious Ways
12. One
13. Stay (Faraway, So Close !)
14. Discoth?que
15. Beautiful Day
16. Elevation


16 is way not enough, but that would ne the sweet sixteen for me
obviously, no album has to be forgotten and must be represented by at least one song on the CD. so there you have it

 

[SkeeK]

1. Zooropa
2. Please (Live)
3. Wake Up Dead Man
4. Walk To The Water
5. In A Little While
6. Stay (live Toronto)
7. So Cruel
8. Mysterious Ways
9. One Tree Hill
10. Bad (Zoo Europa)
11. Bullet The Blue Sky (Zoo Europa)
12. Running To Stand Still (Zoo Europa)
13. Where The Streets Have No Name (Zoo Europa)
14. Ultraviolet
15. With or Without You (RnH)
16. One (warchild)

wouldn't fit on a CD.. for that you gotta drop zooropa.

close calls: a sort of homecoming, lemon, love is blindness (live), walk on (live), gone

 

[STING2]

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. New Years Day
3. Pride(In The Name Of Love)
4. With Or With Out You
5. Unforgettable Fire
6. Heartland
7. Whose Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
8. A Sort Of Homecoming
9. UltraViolet
10. Acrobat
11. One
12. Kite
13. Walk On
14. Tomorrow
15. Like A Song
16. Drowning Man

That was easy. I actually have my top 80 U2 songs now ranked in order. I'm trying to rank all 150 or so U2 songs.

 

[theSoulfulMofo]

In no particular order:

1. Lady With the Spinning Head
2. Bad
3. Until the End of the World
4. A Celebration
5. All I Want Is You
6. North and South of the River
7. A Cat Dubh
8. Running to Stand Still
9. God Part II
10. A Room at Heartbreak Hotel
11. The First Time
12. Zooropa
13. If God Would Send His Angels
14. Mofo
15. Elevation
16. Walk On

 

[Flaming Friar Sr]

1. another time, another place
2. until the end of the world
3. the unforgettable fire
4. stay
5. the ground beneath her feet
6. red hill mining town
7. beautiful day
8. please (live)
9. heartland
10. acrobat
11. with or without you
12. if god would send his angels
13. one
14. bad
15. walk on
16. all i want is you
uk customers: the fly
(hidden track: numb - perfecto mix)

 

[AdamsPoptart]

1.I Will Follow
2.Out Of Control
3.Gloria
4.I Threw A Brick Through A Window
5.Seconds
6.Surrender
7.40
8Sunday Bloody Sunday(from live at Red Rocks)
9.New Years Day(from Red Rocks)
10.Pride(In The Name Of Love)
11.Wire
12.BAD
13.In God's Counrty
14.Red Hill Mining Town
15.Bullet the Blue Sky(R&H version)
16.Desire
17.Van Diemans Land
18.Until The End Of The World
19.The Fly
20.Mysterious Ways
21.Numb
22.Lemon
23.The First Time
24.Hold Me,Thrill Me,Kiss Me,Kill Me
25.Blue Room
26.Elevation
27.Kite
28.The Hands That Built America
29.Electrical Storm



__________________-

Off with the horns..
On with the show..

~MacPhisto~

 

[~*Buffalo*~]

Hmmm this is a bit tricky ... in no particular order ...

1. New Year's Day
2. One
3. The Sweetest Thing
4. Pride
5. Angel of Harlem
6. Gone
7. All I Want is You
8. Walk On
9. Mysterious Ways
10. With or Without You
11. Gloria
12. Staring at the Sun
13. Beautiful Day
14. Sunday Bloody Sunday
15. Zooropa
16. The Hands that Built America

 

[Pinball Wizard]

1. Until the End of The World
2. Mysterious Ways
3. One
4. I Will Follow
5. Even Better Than The Real Thing
6. Discoteque/Staring At The Sun (Live Medley)
7. Bad/40
8. Please
9. Where The Streets Have No Name
10. Lemon
11. Gloria
12. Electric Co.
13. With Or Without You
14. Stay
15. Sunday Bloody Sunday
16. Pride

(with special live hidden tracks: Love is Blindness and New Year's Day)

Carpe Diem

 

[typhoon]

Is there anyone else on whom Sunday gets on their nerves?

If you want that sentence to be grammatically correct, it'd be:

"Is there anyone else on whose nerves 'Sunday...' gets?"

I'm not even going to try compressing twenty years of tunes into twenty tracks.

 

[BigMacPhisto]

SBS
NYD
ASOH
Pride
Bad
UF
WTSHNN
ISHFWILF
WOWY
OTH
The FLY
Until The End of the World
Mysterious Ways
One
Beautiful Day
Walk On

 

[cujo]

It saddens me that I know all these song abbreviations.

 

[Axver]

16 is hard, but ...

1. Gloria (UABRS version)
2. The Electric Co. (UABRS version)
3. Walk On
4. 11 O'clock Tick Tock (UABRS video version)
5. A Day Without Me
6. Stories For Boys
7. Exit
8. Out Of Control
9. New Years Day
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday
11. Seconds
12. A Sort Of Homecoming
13. Zooropa
14. Last Night On Earth
15. Some Days Are Better Than Others
16. Bad

That was incredibly hard ...

 

[alexvilagosh]

1. I Will Follow
2. Bad
3. Beautiful Day
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. Where The Streets Have No Name
7. The Fly
8. Even Better Than The Real Thing
9. Until The End Of The World
10. Gone
11. With Or Without You
12. Stuck In A Moment
13. If God Will Send His Angels
14. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
15. Bullet The Blue Sky
16. All I Want Is You

 

[FelipeVox]

particular order:

1 The Fly
2 In God?s Country
3 Beautiful Day (live from Boston - Elevation Tour)
4 With or Without You
5 Running to Stand Still (live from Sydney - ZOO TV)
6 Until the End of The World
7 Desire (live acoustic)
8 Stay (live acoustic)
9 One
10 Walk On
11 Staring At The Sun
12 Please (live)
13 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
14 I Will Follow
15 Sunday Bloody Sunday
16 Exit
17 Where The Streets Have No Name (live from Boston - Elevation Tour)
Hidden track: Bad live from Rattle and Hum video