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I think there is a special forum for this, but “it is official” – I should have known better.
As background, looking back at my first few spins through HTDAAB, I was a bit skeptical as to how the songs would play live. As usual, U2 found a way to make these songs crackle, rock, and zip – even fans in the bleeders for Denver 2 danced all night long. I should have known better.
That said, here are my top few songs considering the following: which songs we’re better live than on the CD, past few albums, recent tours, not necessarily ranked in order:
Zoo Tour – UTEOTW – Just OK on the CD, holy cow live – “Is this rock and roll!”
Elevation – Stuck In A Moment – hmm, kind of a yawner on the album, and I never understood why it was the second single (I think) but wonderful and soulful live.
Vertigo Tour - Miracle Drug – like the CD, loved it live.
Elevation – New York – probably a polarizing choice here, but the album version nearly felt like a throw away, but for me, this song rocked live.
Zoo Tour – the three song trifecta of Zoo Station, Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World, and Love is Blindness – especially the latter two, relatively slow and simple on the CD, but much more fun live.
Finally, not sure if I should count it, but the album to live translation of Streets is still pretty amazing.
What are your thoughts?
As background, looking back at my first few spins through HTDAAB, I was a bit skeptical as to how the songs would play live. As usual, U2 found a way to make these songs crackle, rock, and zip – even fans in the bleeders for Denver 2 danced all night long. I should have known better.
That said, here are my top few songs considering the following: which songs we’re better live than on the CD, past few albums, recent tours, not necessarily ranked in order:
Zoo Tour – UTEOTW – Just OK on the CD, holy cow live – “Is this rock and roll!”
Elevation – Stuck In A Moment – hmm, kind of a yawner on the album, and I never understood why it was the second single (I think) but wonderful and soulful live.
Vertigo Tour - Miracle Drug – like the CD, loved it live.
Elevation – New York – probably a polarizing choice here, but the album version nearly felt like a throw away, but for me, this song rocked live.
Zoo Tour – the three song trifecta of Zoo Station, Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World, and Love is Blindness – especially the latter two, relatively slow and simple on the CD, but much more fun live.
Finally, not sure if I should count it, but the album to live translation of Streets is still pretty amazing.
What are your thoughts?
I got that cute smile-to-devilish-smirk look from him 
total eye contact, total Adam moment 
