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Justin24

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1. All I want is you. (Best U2 song period)
2. Angel of Harlem. (Most uplifting Song)
3. With or With out You.
4. Where the Streets Have no Name.
5. Running to Stand Still. (LOVE IT SO DAMN MUCH!!)
6. I Still Haven't found what I'm Looking for.
7. Ultra Violet(Light My Way)
8. Kite.
9. Mysterious Ways
10. Bullet The Blue Sky
11. Pride(In the Name of Love)
12. Sunday Bloody Sunday
13. Walk On
14. Stuck in a Moment
15. Origin of the Species
16. Miracle Drug
17. I Will Follow
18. Tomorrow
19. October
20. One
21. The Fly
22. In God's Country
23. If God Would Send his Angels
24. Wake up Dead Man
25. MLK
 
Hmm...very difficult. Here's my try!

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. With Or Without You
3. Bad
4. Acrobat
5. Stay
6. I Still Haven't Found...
7. The Fly
8. All I Want Is You
9. New Year's Day
10. Promenade
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. Running To Stand Still
13. One
14. Love Is Blindness
15. Heartland
16. Who's Gonna Ride...
17. The Unforgettable Fire
18. Ultraviolet
19. Mercy
20. Pride
21. Lemon
22. Kite
23. City Of Blinding Lights
24. Angel of Harlem
25. Beautiful Day


I noticed a few things in my list...

* Only 4 songs post-1993 (nr. 19, 22, 23, 25).
* No songs from Boy, October and Pop.
* 6 songs from Achtung Baby, 4 from The Joshua Tree and 4 from The Unforgettable Fire. And indeed, these are my three favorite U2 albums.
 
It's a very tough choice, but I can't resist this kind of thing!!
In no particular order.

1 The Unforgettable Fire
2 Bad (live, WAIA)
3 Promenade
4 One Tree Hill
5 Where The streets Have No Name
6 Running to stand still (live ZOO TV)
7 Night And Day
8 Hawkmoon 269 (live at love town)
9 All I Want Is you
10 An Cat Dubh
11 Tomorrow
12 Even Better Than The Real Thing
13 The Fly
14 Stay
15 The Wanderer
16 Zooropa
17 Electrical Storm
18 City Of Blinding Lights
19 Beautiful Day
20 New Years Day
21 With or Without You
22 One
23 Desire (live at lovetown with So you wanna be in a rock n roll band...)
24 Mofo
25 Wake Up Dead Man
26 Until The end of the world
 
Oh crap, I forgot Pride, that needs to be included!
I notice that every album is represented on my list, plus a cover version :)
Not too many from the last albums, although Vertigo, Fast Cars and The Ground beneath Her Feet came close.
 
1. Angel Of Harlem
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday
3. Spanish Eyes
4. The Fly
5. One
6. Exit
7. The Sweetest Thing
8. Bullet The Blue Sky
9. Twilight
10. Fire
11. Stories for boys
12. Red Hill Mining Town
13. A man and a woman
14. running to stand still
15. lemon
16. with or without you
17. if you wear that velvet dress
18. discotheque
19. walk on
20. love and peace or else
21. in a little while
22. pride (in the name of love)
23. do you feel loved
24. tryin' to throw your arms around the world
25. tomorrow

In no order. And no doubt i have missed loads off, but at the minute that would be my ideal playlist of u2 songs.
 
Well i always imagined the following as my ultimate U2 concert. The reason it's so long is i imagine this as being their last ever concert and that they know it, so they make that extra special effort :)

Main set:
Bad
Gloria
Electric Co.
Elevation
Beautiful Day
Kite
WGRYWH
ISHFWILF
New Years Day
COBL
Vertigo
LAPOE
Sunday Bloody Sunday
BTBS (I loved these 3 from the vertigo tour)
SYCMIOYO
Pride
Stay (Full band)
One

Zoo Encore:
Zoo Station
The Fly
UTEOTW
Mysterious Ways

Popmart Encore:
Gone
Please
WUDM

Final Encore:
Walk On
WOWY
RTSS (ZooTV version)
WTSHNN
40

I'm guessing you will all have noticed the many similarities to a Vertigo setlist, well i couldn't help myself it's just such a great tour :)
 
Karlonthe2nd said:
I'm guessing you will all have noticed the many similarities to a Vertigo setlist, well i couldn't help myself it's just such a great tour :)

:yes: i agree - i think the vertigo setlists were my favourite as it had a great mix and all the songs worked well together. Lets hope the next tour is similiar!
 
U think angel of harlem is uplifting ? never seen it that way.
 
My Ultimate U2 Playlist
Beautiful Day
Until The End Of The World
The Fly
I Will Follow
Gone (New Mix)
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
With Or Without You
City Of Blinding Lights
One
Bad (live)
Running To Stand Still
Where The Streets Have No Name (Edited Single)
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Gloria
A Sort Of Homecoming
New Year's Day (edit)
Whos Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (video mix)
Staring At The Sun (Live From Rotterdam)
Original Of The Species (Single Version)
Kite
In God's Country
Angel Of Harlem
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Please (Single Edit)
Miss Sarajevo
Zooropa
Vertigo
Out Of Control
Discotheque (single edit)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Stateless
Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)
All I Want Is You
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Walk On (single version)
 
Justin24 said:
why does it depress U?

i dunno , just gets on my nerves . maybe its cos of the trumpets and the yeah yeah's.

the video too.
 
In no particular order:

MOFO
ACROBAT
ALL BECAUSE OF YOU
ARE YOU GONNA WAIT FOR EVER
ALL I WANT IS YOU
EXIT
STILL HAVENT FOUND
CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS
HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME KILL ME
WAKE UP DEAD MAN
EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING
BAD
REFUGEE
ZOOROPA
DIRTY DAY
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
WILD HORSES
WITH OR WITHOUT YOU
ELECTRICAL STORM
I WILL FOLLOW
PLEASE
LAST NIGHT ON EARTH (live)
STAY (Far away so close)
LADY WITH THE SPINNING HEAD
ELEVATION
 
Mofo
Vertigo
Elevtion
I Will Follow
Electric Co.
Discotheque
Lemon
Mysterious Ways
Until the End of the World
Beautiful Day
Bad
All I Want is You
Ground Beneath Her Feet
LAPOE
SBS
BTBS
Please
Streets

Hawkmoon 269
God Part 2
Desire
Exit
In God's Country
A Sort of Homecoming
Acrobat
Zoo Station
The Fly
 
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