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  1. im not sure if this topic has been brought up recently , sorry if it has, just wondering on peoples thoughts on which song u2 has never played live that you would like to hear cheers everybody
  2. We still need 3 more from SOI, but if you mean like in "ever"... my first instinct would be to say "all of them!" but I'll limit myself to just 5 just 7, not including the remaining SOI3.

    1) Acrobat.
    Best song in Achtung Baby for me. It sounds like it could sound great live too. No point in saying anything more about this one.

    2) Elvis Presley And America.
    I really love this song (probably in my top 5 ever) and would love to listen it live, though I recon that chances are it wouldn't work live. Because how it was recorded and because the band is not too fond of playing atmospheric tracks like this.

    3) Promenade
    Gorgeous song and I think it would work great live, and because of its length, it could even work almost as a snippet into or after several songs.

    4) Fez Being Born
    Maybe the best track in No Line for me, and one of my favourites ever. As for them playing it live, I think it's between my thoughts on Acrobat and EPAA... it should sound great live, but the band doesn't play atmospherics anymore.

    5) Red Hill Mining Town
    This song was destined to be one of their biggest hits and classic tunes ever, but in the end Bono realized he wouldn't be able to sing it live, so it wasn't released as a single and ended up becoming nothing. So, we already know that they couldn't play it, but it would've been amazing if they had gone there.

    6) Always
    I do love Beautiful Day, but since the beginnng I thought the earlier version was even better. Or at least on par with it. This would work live, but it wouldn't make any sense play it, since either it would mean to replace a big hit with an unknown version of the same song or play both songs at the same show. Either way we're just dreaming in here.

    7) I'm Not Your Baby
    It's also another atmospheric song, it requires female vocals, it's too long and it belongs to a different era, so no it wouldn't work live. Sadly.
  3. Originally posted by Bloodraven:We still need 3 more from SOI, but if you mean like in "ever"... my first instinct would be to say "all of them!" but I'll limit myself to just 5 just 7, not including the remaining SOI3.

    1) Acrobat.
    Best song in Achtung Baby for me. It sounds like it could sound great live too. No point in saying anything more about this one.

    2) Elvis Presley And America.
    I really love this song (probably in my top 5 ever) and would love to listen it live, though I recon that chances are it wouldn't work live. Because how it was recorded and because the band is not too fond of playing atmospheric tracks like this.

    3) Promenade
    Gorgeous song and I think it would work great live, and because of its length, it could even work almost as a snippet into or after several songs.

    4) Fez Being Born
    Maybe the best track in No Line for me, and one of my favourites ever. As for them playing it live, I think it's between my thoughts on Acrobat and EPAA... it should sound great live, but the band doesn't play atmospherics anymore.

    5) Red Hill Mining Town
    This song was destined to be one of their biggest hits and classic tunes ever, but in the end Bono realized he wouldn't be able to sing it live, so it wasn't released as a single and ended up becoming nothing. So, we already know that they couldn't play it, but it would've been amazing if they had gone there.

    6) Always
    I do love Beautiful Day, but since the beginnng I thought the earlier version was even better. Or at least on par with it. This would work live, but it wouldn't make any sense play it, since either it would mean to replace a big hit with an unknown version of the same song or play both songs at the same show. Either way we're just dreaming in here.

    7) I'm Not Your Baby
    It's also another atmospheric song, it requires female vocals, it's too long and it belongs to a different era, so no it wouldn't work live. Sadly.
    great list would also like to hear Cedars Of Lebanon such a great song!!
  4. I'm sure we've had topics like this before, Sergio will dig them up for us. But I'll go ahead and post my top five:

    1) Drowning Man
    2) Disappearing Act
    3) Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
    4) Heartland
    5) Cedars of Lebanon
  5. Originally posted by iTim:I'm sure we've had topics like this before, Sergio will dig them up for us. But I'll go ahead and post my top five:

    1) Drowning Man
    2) Disappearing Act
    3) Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
    4) Heartland
    5) Cedars of Lebanon
  6. 1. The real version of Mercy
    2. Disappearing act
    3. Acrobat
    4. Heatland
    5. Fez
  7. 1. Drowning Man
    2. Heartland
    3. Crystal Ballroom
    4. Promenade
    5. Summer Rain

    Don't care much about Acrobat, sorry. Besides, even if they play it fans will just complain that Bono butchered it.
  8. I'd love to hear Acrobat. And The Playboy Mansion. I just love the laid backness of the latter.
  9. Originally posted by cesar_garza01:1. Drowning Man
    2. Heartland
    3. Crystal Ballroom
    4. Promenade
    5. Summer Rain

    Don't care much about Acrobat, sorry. Besides, even if they play it fans will just complain that Bono butchered it.
    I've always said this...there is no way they would be able to do the darkness and hauntingness of that song justice live. The album version is surreal...although I'd love to hear their live take on it, I doubt it would ever completely satisfy me.


    See: Mercy
  10. 1. Lady With The Spinning Head
    2. Acrobat
    3. Fez-Being Born
    4. I'm Not Your Baby
    5. Love You Like Mad

    + Sleep Like A Baby Tonight
  11. 1 Luminous Times
    2 Acrobat
    3 Disappearing Act
    4 Fez
    5 Stand Up Comedy

    also Crystal Ballroom, but I think we can hear still in 2015
  12. wow some songs are really you picked are surprising .

    Mine is :

    1-Heartland
    2-Red Hill Mining Town
    3-Acrobat
    4-When I Look At The World
    5-Playboy Mansion

    BT: The Refugee
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