Introducing U2 Playlist

[BVS]

So pretty simple, make a playlist introducing someone to U2.

Here are the rules:

1 song from every album.

Only using proper albums(no compilations) and Passengers, and only album songs(no bonus tracks).


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[BVS]

I Will Follow
Tomorrow
SBS
Bad
Streets
Hawkmoon
The Fly
Zooropa
MS
Mofo
Beautiful Day
Sometimes
MOS
Troubles


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[MackTheCasbah]

I'll do it (in order of album),

1) Out of Control
2) Gloria
3) New Year's Day
4) Unforgettable Fire
5) Where The Streets Have No Name
6) All I want is you
7) Love is Blindness/Until the End of the World
8) Zooropa
9) Do You Feel Loved?
10) Beautiful Day
11) Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own
12) Moment of Surrender
13) Every Breaking Wave



sorry if something is missing!!

 

[DomCobb]

Only one song from every album? If not this list would look a little different. As is, I wouldn't be surprised if someone else has the same exact list (tried to keep from making it best of each but I couldn't help myself on some).

1. I Will Follow
2. Tomorrow
3. New Year's Day
4. Bad
5. Where the Streets Have No Name
6. All I Want Is You
7. One
8. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
9. Miss Sarajevo
10. Wake Up Dead Man
11. Beautiful Day
12. City of Blinding Lights
13. Magnificent
14. This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now

 

[CosmoKramer]

1-I Will Follow
2-Gloria
3-Sunday Bloody Sunday
4-Pride
5-With or Without you
6-All I Want is You (3 big songs here...damn)
7-One(mysterious ways.....ugh, choices)
8-Stay
9-Miss Sarajevo
10-Do you feel Loved
11-Beautiful Day
12-Vertigo
13-Magnificent
14-Every Breaking Wave
15(hidden track)- Desire



Track list......

With or Without You
I Will Follow
Beautiful Day
Magnificent
Vertigo
Stay
Pride
Gloria
Sunday Bloody Sunday
One
Do You Feel Loved
Every Breaking Wave
Miss Sarajevo
All I Want is You
Desire(hidden)


I picked a lot of slow to mid tempo songs, so it was difficult to mix them up. Personally, I wouldn't choose anything from October or Passengers....even for the follow up album!

Btw....my follow up album:

Streets
Still Haven't Found
New Years Day
Bad
Angel of Harlem
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Mysterious Ways
Who's gonna ride your wild horses
Numb
discotheque
Walk on
elevation
Love and Peace
city of blinding lights
California

My second album is the rocker.




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[CosmoKramer]

Only one song from every album? If not this list would look a little different. As is, I wouldn't be surprised if someone else has the same exact list (tried to keep from making it best of each but I couldn't help myself on some).

1. I Will Follow
2. Tomorrow
3. New Year's Day
4. Bad
5. Where the Streets Have No Name
6. All I Want Is You
7. One
8. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
9. Miss Sarajevo
10. Wake Up Dead Man
11. Beautiful Day
12. City of Blinding Lights
13. Magnificent
14. This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now

We were close but WUDM over Do You Feel Loved.....blah. I'm not buying your album!


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[DomCobb]

Does it help if I say that I was an inch away from picking Mofo instead, or nah? (Not a big fan of DYFL)

 

[CosmoKramer]

Does it help if I say that I was an inch away from picking Mofo instead, or nah? (Not a big fan of DYFL)

It would have helped a little but if you said Miami, I would have given up on you


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[DomCobb]

It would have helped a little but if you said Miami, I would have given up on you


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I think Miami's the worst so don't worry about that

 

[BigMacPhisto]

The Best Of 1979-2014:

1. New Year's Day
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday
3. A Sort of Homecoming
4. Bad
5. Where The Streets Have No Name
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
7. With Or Without You
8. All I Want Is You
9. Mysterious Ways
10. The Fly
11. Until The End Of The World
12. Lemon
13. Discotheque
14. Beautiful Day
15. Walk On
16. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out of
17. City Of Blinding Lights

 

[gvox]

The Best Of 1979-2014:



1. New Year's Day

2. Sunday Bloody Sunday

3. A Sort of Homecoming

4. Bad

5. Where The Streets Have No Name

6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

7. With Or Without You

8. All I Want Is You

9. Mysterious Ways

10. The Fly

11. Until The End Of The World

12. Lemon

13. Discotheque

14. Beautiful Day

15. Walk On

16. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out of

17. City Of Blinding Lights

Oh come on!


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[2861U2]

I Will Follow
Gloria
New Year's Day
Bad
With Or Without You
Desire
The Fly
Dirty Day
Your Blue Room
Gone
Beautiful Day
City Of Blinding Lights
Magnificent
The Troubles


And the tracklist:

1) Desire
2) Beautiful Day
3) Magnificent
4) Gloria
5) I Will Follow
6) Dirty Day
7) Your Blue Room
8) With Or Without You
9) City Of Blinding Lights
10) New Year's Day
11) The Fly
12) Gone
13) Bad
14) The Troubles

I'm kind of surprised to see everyone picking Miss Sarajevo over Your Blue Room so far. I think YBR would be much more intriguing to someone who has never heard it.

 

[prbiker15]

I'll give this a shot, and do some tweaking afterwards.

I Will Follow
Gloria
New Year's Day
A Sort of Homecoming
Where the Streets Have No Name
All I Want Is You
Until the End of the World
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Your Blue Room
Discothèque
When I Look At The World
City of Blinding Lights
Moment of Surrender
This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now

 

[BVS]

The Best Of 1979-2014:



1. New Year's Day

2. Sunday Bloody Sunday

3. A Sort of Homecoming

4. Bad

5. Where The Streets Have No Name

6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

7. With Or Without You

8. All I Want Is You

9. Mysterious Ways

10. The Fly

11. Until The End Of The World

12. Lemon

13. Discotheque

14. Beautiful Day

15. Walk On

16. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out of

17. City Of Blinding Lights

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[nbelcik]

1. Out of Control
2. Tomorrow
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. Bad
5. With or Without You
6. Desire
7. The Fly
8. Zooropa
9. Mofo
10. Beautiful Day
11. City of Blinding Lights
12. Moment of Surrender
13. California (There Is No End to Love)

I tried to choose songs that I felt each represented the themes and sounds of each album. I think as an introductory piece to U2, it works pretty well. I would also throw in a B-Side from each of the eras (early 80s, late 80s, 90s, 00s). Those would probably be 11 O'Clock Tick Tock, Love Comes Tumbling, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, and Invisible. From Passengers I would throw in Miss Sarajevo.


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[purpleoscar]

I totally went atmospheric on this one:

1. An Cat Dubh/Into the heart
2. Fire
3. Drowning man
4. A sort of homecoming
5. Where the streets have no name
6. Heartland
7. Zoo Station
8. Numb
9. Discotheque
10. Beautiful day
11. City of blinding lights
12. Moment of surrender
13. The Troubles

 

[269er]

1. I Will Follow
2. Gloria
3. New Year's Day
4. Pride
5. WTSHNN
6. All I Want is You
7. One
8. Lemon
9. Please
10. Beautiful Day
11. City of Blinding Lights
12. Magnificent
13. Every Breaking Wave

Now to have a playlist to turn a person away from U2 ( still some good tracks)

1. Shadows and Tall Trees
2. Stranger in a Strange Land
3. Red Light
4. 4th of July
5. Mothers of the Disappeared
6. Love Rescue Me
7. So Cruel
8. Babyface
9. Miami
10. Grace
11. Love and Peace or Else
12. Stand Up Comedy
13. Volcano



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[Montrose]

Fez/Being Born
Until The End of the World
Lemon
City of Blinding Lights
I Will Follow
Angel of Harlem
All I Want Is You
Where the Streets Have no Name
Every Breaking Wave
Miss Sarajevo
New Year's Day
Beautiful Day
October


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[JUSTinPUSHPLAY]

City Of Blinding Lights
Beautiful Day
Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day
With Or Without You
I Will Follow
Tomorrow
Stay
Gone
A Sort Of Homecoming
All I Want Is You
Raised By Wolves
Moment Of Surrender

 

[Vlaco]

Good thread

1. I Will Follow
2. October
3. New Year's Day
4. Pride
5. With Or Without You
6. Desire
7. The Fly
8. Stay
9. Please (live)
10. Beautiful Day
11. City Of Blinding Lights (don't like the song, but still)
12. No Line On The Horizon
13. The Troubles

Tracklist:

1. I Will Follow
2. Pride
3. No Line On The Horizon
4. Beautiful Day
5. Desire
6. Stay
7. Please
8. City Of Blinding Lights
9. October
10. New Year's Day
11. The Fly
12. With Or Without You
13. The Troubles

Some of the above songs are by no means my favourite album songs, but those are the songs that will be loved by the majority of the general public I think....

 

[Salome]

01. I Will Follow
02. Rejoice
03. New Year's Day
04. The Unforgettable Fire
05. Where the Streets Have No Name
06. All I Want Is You
07. The Fly
08. Lemon
09. Miss Sarajevo
10. MOFO
11. Beautiful Day
12. Sometimes You Can't Make It
13. Magnificent
14. California

 

[Musikwala]

So pretty simple, make a playlist introducing someone to U2.

Here are the rules:

1 song from every album.

If I was introducing someone to U2, I would use at least 3 songs (probably the first 3) from The Joshua Tree and at least 3 songs from Achtung Baby. So this rule does not work at all for me.

 

[Axver]

1. Twilight
2. Gloria
3. New Year's Day
4. A Sort of Homecoming
5. One Tree Hill
6. Heartland
7. Love Is Blindness
8. Zooropa
9. Gone
10. When I Look at the World
11. City of Blinding Lights
12. Fez-Being Born
13. Cedarwood Road

For the most part it flows well too.

 

[Axver]

If I was introducing someone to U2, I would use at least 3 songs (probably the first 3) from The Joshua Tree and at least 3 songs from Achtung Baby. So this rule does not work at all for me.

Oh just lighten up and play the game instead of being pointlessly difficult.

 

[Sken]

Just for kicks give your friend a double CD:

The Openers
I Will Follow
Gloria
Sunday Bloody Sunday
A Sort Of Homecoming
Where The Streets Have No Name
Desire (couldn't use Helter Skelter as its not a U2 song)
Zoo Station
Zooropa
Discotheque
Beautiful Day
Vertigo
No Line On The Horizon
The Miracle

The Closers
Shadows And Tall Trees
Is That All
40
MLK
Mothers Of The Disappeared
All I Want IS You
Love is Blindess
The Wanderer
Wake Up Dead Man
Grace
Fast Cars
Cedars Of Lebanon
Troubles

 

[BVS]

Fez/Being Born
Until The End of the World
Lemon
City of Blinding Lights
I Will Follow
Angel of Harlem
All I Want Is You
Where the Streets Have no Name
Every Breaking Wave
Miss Sarajevo
New Year's Day
Beautiful Day
October


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2 from R&H and none from Pop or UF?


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[BVS]

If I was introducing someone to U2, I would use at least 3 songs (probably the first 3) from The Joshua Tree and at least 3 songs from Achtung Baby. So this rule does not work at all for me.

Hence the challenging aspect.


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[dan_smee]

Great thread. I did something similar with my wife to get her into U2, but limiting to only 1 each album is killer.

I'd probably go with (and assuming they know the BIG singles/songs):

Boy - Another Time, Another Place
October - Gloria
War - Like A Song
TUF - A Sort of Homecoming
TJT - Streets (though it is big to fans, I never hear it on the radio like ISHF, WOWY, One etc)
R&H - Heartland
AB - Acrobat
Zooropa - Zooropa
Passengers - Your Blue Room
Pop - Please
ATYCLB - Kite
HTDAAB - Miracle Drug
NLOTH - Fez- Being Born
SOI - Raised By Wolves

I think that shows some good diversity, and depth beyond the famous songs. I would probably give them another CD the next day with:

Boy - Stories For Boys
October - With a Shout
War - Drowning Man
TUF - Wire
TJT - Exit
R&H - Hawkmoon
AB - Ultraviolet
Zooropa - Stay
Passengers - Slug
Pop - Last Night on Earth
ATYCLB - When I Look at the World
HTDAAB - Crumbs From Your Table
NLOTH - Moment of Surrender
SOI - The Troubles

 

[Ifeelnumb84]

1. I Will Follow
2. Gloria
3. New Year's Day
4. Bad
5. Where The Streets Have No Name
6. Hawkmoon 269
7. The Fly
8. Zooropa
9. Your Blue Room
10. Please
11. Beautiful Day
12. Love and Peace or Else
13. Unknown Caller
14. Raised by Wolves

Track order:
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. New Year's Day
3. Raised by Wolves
4. Love And Peace Or Else
5. Beautiful Day
6. Zooropa
7. The Fly
8. Unknown Caller
9. I Will Follow
10. Hawkmoon 269
11. Gloria
12. Your Blue Room
13. Please
14. Bad

 

[pepokiss]

The FAN tracklist

01 - Twilight
02 - Tomorrow
03 - Like A Song
04 - The Unforgettable Fire
05 - Where The Streets Have No Name
06 - Hawkmoon 269
07 - Acrobat
08 - Zooropa
09 - Mofo
10 - Beautiful Day
11 - Vertigo
12 - Moment Of Surrender
13 - California


the INTRODUCTION tracklist

01 - I will Follow
02 - Gloria
03 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
04 - The Unforgettable Fire
05 - Where The Streets Have No Name
06 - Angel Of Harlem
07 - One
08 - Zooropa
09 - Discotheque
10 - Beautiful Day
11 - Vertigo
12 - Moment Of Surrender
13 - California