Top 10 Songs U2 Should Play Live Again
As fans, we spend a lot of time debating a) which songs U2 should stop playing, and b) which songs they should play live for the first time. I’ve listened recently to a couple old concerts that I haven’t listened to in ages, and heard a whole bunch of songs I’d love to hear again.
So, with that in mind, here’s my list of the Top 10 Songs U2 Should Play Live Again. Any song is eligible, except for songs they played during the Vertigo Tour. (So, “One Tree Hill” is disqualified because it was played a couple times in New Zealand. And “Kite” is out because it was played late in ‘06, too.)
1.) Please
2.) Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
3.) The Unforgettable Fire
4.) Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around the World
5.) A Sort of Homecoming
6.) October
7.) Ultraviolet
8.) In God’s Country
9.) Gone
10.) Exit
What would be on YOUR list?
Niterpi said,
February 19, 2008 @ 4:58 am
i threw a brick
another time, another place
in god’s country
two hearts beat as one
please
ultraviolet
i fall down
seconds
mofo
a sort of homecomming
U2roeli said,
February 19, 2008 @ 6:02 am
Do you mean played AGAIN, as in only songs that have been played before?
Because I still don’t understand why they have never played Acrobat live…
bostonguy said,
February 19, 2008 @ 6:26 am
1) Ultraviolet
So Cruel
2) A Sort of Homecoming
3) In God’s Country
4) Exit
5) Tomorrow
6) The UF
7) Seconds
9) Do You Feel Loved
10) MLK
Erika said,
February 19, 2008 @ 8:57 am
I’d love to hear “Lemon,” but Bono could never get his voice that high again lol.
Jake Robinson said,
February 19, 2008 @ 9:46 am
Wire
Last Night on Earth
Wake Up Dead Man (full band version)
God Part II
Acrobat
Ultraviolet
Dirty Day
Do You Feel Loved
Promenade
Heartland
Tassoula said,
February 19, 2008 @ 9:47 am
1. Ultraviolet
2. The Unforgettable Fire
3. Electrical Storm
4. The Refugee
5. Dirty Day
6. In God’s Country
7. 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
8. Surrender
9. Stay (Faraway So Close)
10. A Day Without Me
Rachel said,
February 19, 2008 @ 10:09 am
I definitely would include Please and Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me.
Did they play Miss Sarajevo during Vertigo?
I’d also love to hear A Sort of Homecoming and Gloria.
Nic said,
February 19, 2008 @ 10:56 am
Wire
Electrical Storm
The Sweetest Thing
The Hands That Built America
Ultraviolet
In A Little While
Surrender
Exit
The Unforgettable Fire
I Threw A Brick Trhough A Window
But I don’t think Bono can do the Wire whistle anymore
…
m2 said,
February 19, 2008 @ 11:07 am
Ummm, they never played “Electrical Storm,” so you guys can’t put that on your list. This is songs you’d like to hear AGAIN.
Sweetest Thing said,
February 19, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
1. Sweetest Thing
2. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
3. Big Girls are Best
4. Acrobat
5. Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
6. Exit
7. So Cruel
8. Desire
9. Staring At The Sun
10. Discotheque
Tara said,
February 19, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
Gloria was played at a few Vertigo shows but I missed it…
Out of Control/11 O’clock Tick Tock
Exit
In A Little While
Ultraviolet/Acrobat
Gone
mschaus said,
February 19, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
1) Ultraviolet
In a Little While
2) In God’s Country
3) Exit
4) HMTMKMKM
5) The Wanderer (I think it was played once on TV, but never live, so not sure if that counts)
6) Gone (may have been played at a few Vertigo shows)
7) Out of Control
9) Stand by Me (I liked their cover during the JT tour)
10) Helter Skelter (ditto on that cover)
jon said,
February 19, 2008 @ 10:28 pm
1.) Do you feel loved?
2.) Seconds (they could work it into SBS really easy)
3.) New York
4.) All I want is you (they played it once or twice in vertigo, not nearly enough)
5.) Ultraviolet
6.) In a Little While
7.) Helter Skelter
8.) Please
9.) Dirty Day
10.) Zooropa
Candy said,
February 19, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
Seconds
I Threw A Brick Through A Window
11 O’clock Tick Tock
Twilight
Boy/Girl
Ultraviolet
A Celebration
Electrical Storm
Love Is Blindness
Exit
Spoutnik said,
February 20, 2008 @ 4:47 am
1)Mofo…using it as the opening of an encore…that would ROCK!!!
2)Seconds
3)So cruel
4)God’s country
5)Ultraviolet
6)Desire “Full band”…(Like zootv)
7)Even better than the real thing
8)Gloria
9)Please..Give a rest to “Bullet” and put that one instead
10)A sort of homecoming
Silvrlvr said,
February 20, 2008 @ 8:50 am
Love is Blindness. That’s all. (I’m wearing out my iTunes download.)
U2rules said,
February 20, 2008 @ 8:53 am
Exit (I would do anything to see that live)
Dirty Day (ditto)
Please (full band, fading into Streets)
Desire (full band version, none of that acoustic stuff)
God Part II
Hawkmoon 269
Discotheque (the Vertigo version “This is a love song!” that they only played a few times)
HMTMKMKM
Mofo
The Wanderer (with the “wah, wah, wah, wah, Wandering!” bit)
and Exit AGAIN!
Fraser said,
February 20, 2008 @ 11:28 am
1. Please. Give it the full treatment, for the love of all that’s holy. It’s what Bullet should be.
2. Ultraviolet
3. Desire
4. God Part II
5. Exit, please, please, amazing
6. Wake Up Dead Man. And sing the whole thing for once, how about?
7. Electrical Storm would be cool.
8. Play With or Without You the way you used to, like Rattle and Hum or the early ZooTV shows, before you got scared of singing a really, really sad song and changed the ending. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0i93JSkYP4
All other spots given to Please.
Sylvia said,
February 20, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
1. Ultraviolet - honestly, how can you drop such a great song, for me this song is up there with JT and other songs that are always played
2. The Unforgettable Fire
3. Electrical Storm
4. In God’s Country
5. Surrender
6. Stay (Faraway So Close)
7. A Day Without Me
8. Like a song
One I wouldn’t care to see them try singing again is “Dancing Queen” cover.
Cameron said,
February 20, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
1. Mofo
2. Gone
3. Please
4. Stay
5. Ultraviolet
6. Even Better Than The Real Thing
7. Exit
8. The Unforgettable Fire
9. Seconds
10. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Sherry said,
February 21, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
(In no particular order…)
1. Mofo
2. A Sort of Homecoming
3. Wild Honey
4. Kite
5. Tomorrow
6. Unforgettable Fire
7. Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World
8. Zooropa
9. Hawkmoon 269
10. Please
cormaxtacy said,
February 22, 2008 @ 12:44 am
In no particular order
1. Gone
2. Please
3. Even Better Than The Real Thing
4. Hole Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
5. Ultraviolet
6. Exit
7. All I Want is You
8. Love Is Blindness
9. Running To Stand Still (they did play this last tour but not when I saw them, play it more often, love that song).
10. Mercy!
Jack said,
February 28, 2008 @ 2:03 am
In this particular order
1 Dirty day
2 Last night on earth
4 Hold me, thrill me…
5 A sort of homecoming
3 The unforgettable fire
7 Exit
8 Another time, another place
9 I fall down
10 I threw a brick…
6 Please
Robert Hay said,
February 28, 2008 @ 2:30 am
1. Mofo (take out Where the Streets Have No Name and put that one in)
2. Numb
3. Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car (take out Bullet The Blue Sky and put that one in)
4. Tomorrow
5. The Electric Co.
6. A Sort Of Homecoming (the way you hear it on “The Unforgettable Fire”)
7. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
8. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
9. Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
10. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Joe said,
February 28, 2008 @ 3:23 am
1. Bad
2. A Sort of Homecoming
3. Desire
4. Exit
5. Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World
6. The Wanderer
7. Out of Control
8. Lemon
9. Silver & Gold
10. Discotheque
Hedge said,
February 28, 2008 @ 3:42 am
Trying to throw your arms is on that list - sheesh!
No thanks!
I’d like to see…
Acrobat
Gone
UV
Love Is Blindness - not just that snippet on the last tour but a full band version.
God Part II
A Sort of Homecoming also…
donna said,
February 28, 2008 @ 4:49 am
in no particular order:
love is blindness
when i look at the world
a sort of homecoming
hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me
if you wear that velvet dress
exit
acrobat
mothers of the disappeared
in god’s country
trip through your wires
Chris said,
February 28, 2008 @ 5:14 am
Songs i’d love to be played live again.
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
A Sort Of Homecoming
October
In Gods Country
Exit
Angel Of Harlem
Seconds
Surrender
The Unforgettable Fire
MLK
Hawkmoon 269
So Cruel
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
Love Is Blindness
Ultraviolet
Zooropa
Babyface
Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Discotheque
Sweetest Thing
Susan said,
February 28, 2008 @ 6:29 am
My top choices for songs not played on the Vertigo tour:
Unforgettable Fire
Red Hill Mining Town
In God’s Country
–take your pick from the October album– I Threw a Brick Through a Window, I Fall Down, October…
If they could play One Tree Hill in the US, or play An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart, or play BAD at more concerts–I would love it. (I realize these were played some on the Vertigo tour, but not when I saw them!)
James said,
February 28, 2008 @ 6:45 am
1. ULTRAVIOLET
2. Even Better Than the Real Thing
3. One Tree Hill
4. Trip Through Your Wires
5. MOFO
6. Surrender
7. NUMB
8. October
9. Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World
10. A really good, way out of left field cover.
brad said,
February 28, 2008 @ 6:56 am
1- zooropa
2- a sort of homecoming
3- so cruel
4- acrobat
5- do you feel loved
6- wire
7- surrender
8- your blue room
9- when i look at the world
10- sweetest thing
derek said,
February 28, 2008 @ 7:13 am
1 - hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me
2 - gone
3 - please
4 - mofo
5 - so cruel
6 - zooropa
7 - stay (faraway, so close!)
8 - dirty day
9 - the ground beneath her feet
10 - numb (lol)
m2 said,
February 28, 2008 @ 8:53 am
You guys are funny. This is supposed to be songs you want them to play AGAIN, and you’re tossing out stuff like “Acrobat” and “Red Hill Mining Town” and “When I Look at the World” … they’ve never played those! hehehe. C’mon, now. Stay on topic.
bowieno said,
February 28, 2008 @ 8:58 am
z00ropa
acrobat
I fall down
Unforgetable Fire
Exit
Gone
ultraviolet
sweetest thing
Walk On
Werner said,
February 28, 2008 @ 9:08 am
1. Zooropa (!!)
2. Dirty Day
3. Exit
4. Ultra Violet
5. Heartland
6. Numb
7. All along the watchtower
8. Mofo
9. New York
10. Hawkmoon 269
ZooTV8 said,
February 28, 2008 @ 10:22 am
A Man and A Woman
Hawkmoon 269
In God’s Country (full electric)
A Sort of Homecoming
Dirty Day / Ultra Violet (Light My Way) / Exit medley (a.k.a., The New “Heart of Darkness” set)
Surrender
The Fly/Discotheque/Starring at the Sun/Daddy’s Gonna Pay medley
Mikey said,
February 28, 2008 @ 10:43 am
I think Bono ought to just lose the stupid sun glasses and go back to Cher… I mean, what was he thinking???
santiago2u said,
February 28, 2008 @ 11:31 am
:::U2 should re-work some classics according Bono’s deeper-lower voice, just like the musical arrengement of ‘Window in the Skies’.
1.Please
2.MoFo
3.Last Night On Earth
4.Gone
5.Dirty Day
6.Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
7.Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
8.In God’s Country
9.The Unforgettable Fire
10.11 O’clock Tick Tock
Jon said,
February 28, 2008 @ 12:21 pm
1. until the end of the world
2. 11 o’clock tick tock
3. ultra violet
4. the unforgettable fire
5. a day without me
6. bad
7. a day without me
8. mothers of the disappeared
9. seconds
10. love is blindness
Kevin said,
February 28, 2008 @ 4:30 pm
Hi Everybody - this is really fun -I hope you like this one -
1. A Sort of homecoming
2. Surrender
3. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
4. Staring at the Sun (acoustic)
5. Trip Through Your Wires / In God’s Country
6. Fire
cubfanet said,
February 28, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
ULTRAVIOLET!!!!
can I vote for it 10 times!!
Eric said,
February 28, 2008 @ 6:49 pm
Anything from Rattle and Hum
Desire
Angel of Harlem
All I Want is You
God pt. 2 (dream on)
also
Wake Up Dead Man
Bad
Zooropa
Johnno said,
February 28, 2008 @ 8:31 pm
MOFO
Acrobat (I don’t care if it hasn’t been done…PLAY IT!!!!)
Zooropa
Ultraviolet
Please
Gone
God Part 2
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Justin said,
February 29, 2008 @ 5:04 pm
1. Love is Blindness
2. Stay (faraway so close)
3. Zooropa
4. Ultraviolet (light my way)
5. Please
6. Another Tiime, Another Place
7. Wake Up Deadman (full version)
8. A Sort of Homecoming
9. The Unforgettable Fire
10. Do You Feel Loved
MPG said,
February 29, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
hmmmm..
lets see…
Ultraviolet
Stay
A Sort of Homecoming
Walk On
Even Better Than the Real Thing
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Lemon
Unforgettable Fire
A Celebration
Out of Control (just cos i kinda miss it)
now ask me which songs i think U2 should RETIRE….
MPG said,
February 29, 2008 @ 7:18 pm
heh…i forgot about
In a Little While
puckfreak said,
March 1, 2008 @ 6:37 am
Exit
God Part 2
Do You Feel Loved
Walk On (not an acoustic version)
In God’s Country
Please
11 O’clock Tick Tock
Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
MoFo
Gone
Bad (I know that makes 11 but can never get enough of this song live)
Lennu said,
March 1, 2008 @ 8:09 am
1. A Sort Of Homecoming
2. MLK
3. Bad
4. Until The End Of The World
5. Ultra Violet
6. Crumbs From Your Table
7. Lemon
8. Please
9. Wake Up Dead Man
10. New York
Mike said,
March 1, 2008 @ 11:25 am
Not in any order…
1. Miami (this was great live)
2. Acrobat (not sure if it was ever played)
3. Holy Joe (played at Pop Tour press conference)
4. Exit
5. Love is Blindness
6. Crumbs
7. In God’s Country
8. Unforgettable Fire
9. The Fly (The Boston version, which was very different from Veritgo)
10. Surrender (even a new arrangement would rock too)
Mike said,
March 1, 2008 @ 11:27 am
Ok, maybe Acrobat wasn’t played…sub that for “Won’t get fooled again” Who cover they did in NY
Karl G said,
March 2, 2008 @ 5:18 am
If they played Unforgettable Fire, , Ultraviolet, then Exit as their main setlist, and then encored with Love Rescue Me, I’d be happy. Aside from Love Rescue Me, it’s encouraging to see the other three show up on so many other top tens. The band really needs to take a look at this list. (IMHO)
James said,
March 2, 2008 @ 11:03 pm
1. Ultraviolet
2. Please
3. When I Look At The World (this was played live, I think in Miami during the Elevation tour, right after Bad)
4. 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
5. Another Day
6. Trevor (Touch)
7. The Unforgettable Fire
8. Zooropa
9. HMTMKMKM
10. Love Is [Fooking] Blindness
Mark said,
March 3, 2008 @ 5:06 am
1.A Day Without Me
2. Stories for Boys
3. Boy/Girl
4.Ultra Violet
5.The Electric Co.
6.In God’s Country
7.Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around The World
8.Until the End Of The World
9. Babyface
10. 40
Michael said,
March 3, 2008 @ 1:05 pm
Ultraviolet!!!
u2rodeogirl said,
March 3, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
1. Definitely MOFO! It’s so great live!
2. Discoteque
3. Gone
4. Please
5. Electrical Storm (BECAUSE they haven’t played it)
6. Party Girl
7. Love is Blindness
8. Unforgettable Fire
9. Twilight
10. And….VELVET DRESS - preferably the jazzy “Jools Holland” type of version with that low sexy Bono voice! Whew!
Chip said,
March 5, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
1. “The Unforgettable Fire”
2. “Lemon”
3. “Do You Feel Loved” (Bono could sing it well now!)
4. “Last Night on Earth”
5. “Tomorrow”
6. “October” (right before “Tomorrow,” as in ‘81-’82)
7. “Please” (full band, not acoustic)
8. “Like a Song” (Even only being played once counts!)
9. “A Sort of Homecoming”
10. “Dirty Day”