The ultimate U2 live DVD

[MikeyJB]

So, if you had to create a mix-DVD comprising the best versions of U2's best songs from the officially released tour DVDs to win over a non-fan, what would you include.

Heres my offering -

Zoo Station - ZooTV
I Will Follow - Red Rocks
Beautiful Day - Elevation
City of Blinding Lights - Vertigo (Chicago)
The Electric Co. - Joshua Tree (Paris)
Until the End of the World - Zoo TV
New Year's Day - Red Rocks
Mysterious Ways - Popmart
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Rattle & Hum
Wake Up Dead Man - Slane Castle
Magnificent - 360
Angel of Harlem - Slane Castle
Vertigo - Vertigo (Chicago)
I Still Haven't Found - 360
Stay (faraway, so close!) - Zoo TV
Miss Sarajevo - Vertigo (Milan)
Running to Stand Still - Zoo TV
Bad - Rattle & Hum
All I Want Is You - Slane Castle
Where the Streets Have No Name - 360
Pride (in the name of love) - Rattle & Hum
One - Popmart
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Discotheque - Popmart
Lemon - Zoo TV
The Fly - Elevation
Bullet the Blue Sky - Rattle & Hum
With or Without You - Rattle & Hum
Moment of Surrender - 360
40 - Red Rocks

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

hum... I would add a question: which era look you want them to have?

I go with a R&H look beacuse that s when they looked the best to me...

1. Zoo Station (Zoo TV)
2. Twilight (Red rocks)
3. Until the end of the world (Zoo TV)
4. New Years Day (Red rocks)
5. No line on the Horizon (360)
6. The Unforgettable Fire (JT Paris)
7. Bad (R&H)
8. Desire (Zoo TV "I have a vision, television...")
9. Gone (Elevation Boston)
10. The Electric Co (Red Rocks)
11. Vertigo (360)
12. The Fly (Elevation Boston)
13. Bullet the blue sky (Elevation Boston)
14. MLK (R&H)
15. Sunday bloody Sunday (R&H)
16. Running to stand still (Zoo TV)

17. Where the streets have no name (R&H)
18. Mysterious Ways (Zoo TV)
19. Unknow caller (360)
20. With or without you (R&H)

21. Mofo (POPmart)
22. Hold me thrill me kiss me kill me (POPmart)
23. Moment of Surrender (360)
24. 40 (Red rocks)

Then I ll die in peace....

 

[chocky]

Zoo Station (Zoo TV)
Beautiful Day (Go Home)
No Line on the Horizon (360)
Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (JT Paris)
Until the End of the World (Zoo TV)
New Years Day (Red Rocks)
The Unforgettable Fire (JT Paris)
Bad (R&H)
Gone (Elevation Boston)
Kite (Go Home)
Bullet the Blue Sky (Zoo TV)
Running to Stand Still (Vertigo Chicago)
11 O Clock Tick Tock (Red Rocks)
With or Without You (R&H)
The Fly (Zoo TV)
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me (PopMart)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (R&H)

I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (360)
Mysterious Ways (Zoo TV)
Love is Blindness (Zoo TV)

Where the Streets Have No Name (R&H)
One (Go Home)
Moment of Surrender (360)
40 (Red Rocks)

 

[JUSTinPUSHPLAY]

I dont like how the JT paris show is directed, and rattle and hum for all it's cinematic beauty would stand out like a sore thumb cut in with recent concert footage

Get On Your Boots - 360
I Will Follow - Popmart
Vertigo - Vertigo (Chicago)
Even Better Than The Real Thing - Popmart
Mysterious Ways - ZOO TV
Until The End Of The World - Elevation (Boston)
New Year's Day - ZOO TV
Out Of Control - Elevation (Slane)
Elevation - 360
Beautiful Day - Vertigo (Chicago)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - 360
All I Want Is You - Vertigo (Milan)
City Of Blinding Lights - 360
Crazy Tonight - 360
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own - Vertigo (Milan)
Miss Sarajevo - Vertigo (Milan)
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Elevation (Slane)
Please - Popmart
Angel Of Harlem - ZOO TV
Desire - Popmart
Stay - Elevation (Boston)
Bad - Elevation (Boston)
Where The Streets Have No Name - Elevation (Boston)
Pride - ZOO TV
One - Popmart
__________

Discotheque - Popmart
Ultraviolet - 360
Lemon - ZOO TV
With Or Without You - Elevation (Slane)
__________

Bullet The Blue Sky - Elevation (Boston)
The Fly - Elevation - (Boston)
Moment Of Surrender - 360

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

i would use ONE from ZooTV, by far, that song never sounded so good. Unless you are talking the special features from somewhere in Canada and then that is pretty good too.. lots of spiritual urgency.

But seriously, if you have to make a DVD to win over a fan, why bother? If they don't know/don't like u2 at this point, after 30 years of making great music, fuck em they can have lady gaa gaa gaa or justin berber or whatever the hell that is

 

[MikeyJB]

^ Yeah I guess, I just used that as a hypothetical situation. I just like the idea of a 'Greatest Hits' DVD, jumping to and from amazing performances from their whole career within the framework of an actual concert setlist. Or maybe I'm just bored at work?!

 

[hillers]

In no particular order:

1. I Will Follow (Red Rocks)
2. New Year's Day (Red Rocks)
3. 40 (Red Rocks)
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Rattle and Hum)
5. With or Without You (Rattle and Hum)
6. WTSHNN (Rattle and Hum)
7. Running To Stand Still (ZooTV)
8. Love Is Blindness (ZooTV)
9. Mofo (Popmart)
10. HMTMKMKM (Popmart)
11. One (Popmart)
12. UTEOTW (Elevation Boston)
13. Stay (Elevation Boston)
14. Kite (Elevation Slane)
15. Beautiful Day (Elevation Slane)
16. COBL (Vertigo Chicago)
17. The Fly (Vertigo Chicago)
18. Magnificent (360)
19. Ultraviolet (360)
20. MOS (360)

Sooooo hard to choose between Red Rocks and Rattle and Hum for Sunday Bloody Sunday.

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

Hard to choose????

To me it's the easiest choice ever..... R&H SBS is by far the best version ever done of this song!

 

[kayley10]

Here is a 2DVD set (See What You Think of It):
DVD 1: (1980 - 1989)
1. 11 O'clock Tick Tock - A Video Collection (Por the people who don't know about this 1987 promotional VHS, this is live from Leixlip same as "A Day Without Me")
2. A Day Without Me - A Video Collection
3. The Electric Co. - A Video Collection (And this is live from London)
4. Seconds - Red Rocks Under a Blood Red Sky
5. I Threw a Brick Through a Window - Red Rocks Under a Blood Red Sky
6. Gloria - Red Rocks Under a Blood Red Sky
7. Bad - Live Aid (Nobody Thought about that yet)
8. A Sort of Homecoming - The Unforgettable Fire Collection (It's a Live Preformance Anyway)
9. MLK - A Conspiracy of Hope
10. Pride (In the Name of Love) - A Conspiracy of Hope
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday - Rattle and Hum
12. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Foxboro '87 (From the Rattle and Hum Outtakes)
13. When Love Comes to Town - Lovetown Sydney '89 Special
14. Where the Streets Have no Name - Lovetown at the Point Debot
15. I Will Follow - Lovetown at the Point Depot
16. All Along the Watchtower - Lovetown Sydney '89 Special
17. God Part II - Lovetown Sydney '89 Special
18. All I Want is You - Lovetown Sydney '89 Special
DVD 2: (1990- - 2009)
1. Zoo Station - ZooTv Sydney
2. Until the End of the World - ZooTv (FOX Special)
3. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World - ZooTv (FOX Special)
4. Bullet the Blue Sky - ZooTv (FOX Special)
5. Desire - ZooTv (FOX Special)
6. Ultraviolet (Light My Way) - Washington '92
7. Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car - ZooTv Sydney
8. MacPhisto Speech - Basel '93
9. Gone - Popmart Mexico
10. Last Night on Earth - Popmart Mexico
11. Lemon (Perfecto Mix) - Popmart Mexico
12. Discothèque - Popmart Mexico
13. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - Popmart Mexico
14. Beautiful Day - Elevation Boston
15. Elevation - Elevation Boston
16. Stay (Faraway, So Close) - Elevation Boston
17. Out of Control - Slane Castle
18. Kite - Slane Castle
19. Walk On - Slane Castle
20. Vertigo - Vertigo Milan
21. City of Blinding Lights - Vertigo Milan
22. Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own - Vertigo Milan
23. Original of the Species - Vertigo Milan
24. No Line on the Horizon - 360
25. Get on Your Boots - 360
26. Magnificent - 360

 

[hasin73]

Mysterious Ways ... Popmart live from Mexico.

 

[65980]

I think the ultimate video mix, for me, would have to include some studio tracks if I'm trying win people over. For me, there has never been a really good filmed version of "Bad" or "Pride" -- I liked those songs a lot more live on the 1984-85 (esp. '84) tour, and they've never sounded quite right since. (I don't think the R&H version of either song is good -- in fact, I think they're both weak.)

I guess there's a video for the live/studio "Bad" on Wide Awake in America, which is probably the best bet (is that really entirely live?). I'd stick with the "Pride" studio version, and also "All I Want Is You", which is okay live but never really takes off for me due to the lack of two guitars (well, Bono did play a bit in 89) and the big string ending. Great video for that one, too.

As far as live goes, I almost always prefer performances of recent songs to performances of old songs. In fact, when I go back to U2 DVDs from, say, the 2000s, I skip over most of the old songs. To me, they always sound better when they're fresh and new.