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  1. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (Agree)
    Miracle Drug (Both are good)
    Discotheque (I prefer live, the last version in the vertigo tour was awesome, they have to play it more offen like that)
    Do You Feel Loved (Agree)
    If God Will Send His Angels (Agree)
    If You Wear That Velvet Dress (Agree)
    Babyface (Agree)
    The First Time (Agree)
    Even Better Than the Real Thing (live rocks!!))
    Ultra Violet (Both are good)
    Exit (both are excellent)
    Gone (I like the new mix (1990-2000 more tahn the album version)


  2. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own => Ok
    Miracle Drug => No, i like eg the version at Chicago
    Discotheque => Completely, especially when you see the movie-clip with it ! !
    Do You Feel Loved => Ok
    If God Will Send His Angels => Ok
    If You Wear That Velvet Dress => Ok
    Zooropa => Ok
    Babyface => Ok
    The First Time Ok
    Even Better Than the Real Thing => No! If i think about ZooTV...
    Ultra Violet => Nope, i love it when MacPhisto songs it
    Hawkmoon 269 => Ok
    Tomorrow => Ok



  3. Hi friends!!

    Songs that I prefer CD versions:
    Sweetest Thing
    If God Will Send His Angels
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet
    Zooropa
    Yahweh
    A Sort Of Homecoming

    See you friends!!
  4. For me studio versions are just some skin and bones that gets soul when played live.
  5. Originally posted by YogiFor me studio versions are just some skin and bones that gets soul when played live.


    Agree. Nicely said!
  6. no! no! nooooo!!!!!!!
    YAHWEH
    THE SWEETEST THING
    And A SORT OF HOMECOMING are GREAT SONGS
    PLAYED LIVE !!!!!
    i love these songs very much
    Yahweh has a great lyric and sounded live way much better than the album version
    The sweetes thing is great because i have a lot of memory's by this song .
    my first daughter was born when the single came out !!!
    and i like the beginning of the live version with first only the bass of adam ...
    and then bono singing ; oohoohoooooooo/oohhoohoooooooo/the sweetest thing
    and then the crowd starts to know that it's that song and start singing along with bono
    before he fals in with the piano part !!!!!!!
    and a sort of home coming is great because i played this song grey !!!!
    i love the version of the wide awake ep the most and i love the video clip
    because you can see that u2 is driving across europe in there tour bus
    and you can see they drive to rotterdam (MY TOWN OF BORN !)
  7. Originally posted by YogiFor me studio versions are just some skin and bones that gets soul when played live.


    Absolutely. 'Making songs are like making planes; you don't get a chance to fly them until you play them live'
  8. Originally posted by rmann83[..]

    Absolutely. 'Making songs are like making planes; you don't get a chance to fly them until you play them live'


    Haha great quote!
  9. Originally posted by emielno! no! nooooo!!!!!!!
    YAHWEH
    THE SWEETEST THING
    And A SORT OF HOMECOMING are GREAT SONGS
    PLAYED LIVE !!!!!
    i love these songs very much
    Yahweh has a great lyric and sounded live way much better than the album version
    The sweetes thing is great because i have a lot of memory's by this song .
    my first daughter was born when the single came out !!!
    and i like the beginning of the live version with first only the bass of adam ...
    and then bono singing ; oohoohoooooooo/oohhoohoooooooo/the sweetest thing
    and then the crowd starts to know that it's that song and start singing along with bono
    before he fals in with the piano part !!!!!!!
    and a sort of home coming is great because i played this song grey !!!!
    i love the version of the wide awake ep the most and i love the video clip
    because you can see that u2 is driving across europe in there tour bus
    and you can see they drive to rotterdam (MY TOWN OF BORN !)


    Hi friend
    How are you??

    I love that songs too...A Sort Of Homecoming,Zooropa,Yahweh and Sweetest Thing are amazings,beautiful and lovely songs...I love when U2 play all this songs in a show...but I'd rather the CD version than live versions of those songs cause for me I think that they have something special in the Cd,or because U2 can't play them like the they play on the CD.For exemple:Sweetest thing have piano and guitar and Edge can't play both at the same time...so this songs look like incomplete for me...A Sort Of Homecoming is other exemple:the Cd version have more drums and is faster...and I prefer it.I don't know if you understand me and this is my opinion.I respect yours and as I said I love this songs and live versions of the songs.

    See you friend!!
  10. Originally posted by rmann83[..]

    Absolutely. 'Making songs are like making planes; you don't get a chance to fly them until you play them live'



    That's true!!!
  11. helllo aidanformigino how are you my friend
    didn't you know that bono play's the piano part on the live versions
    of the sweetest thing ???
    i understand you for what you wrote about the album version .
    there great to but i think they got more power live .
    oke a sort of homecoming is faster on the album but that's also
    for new yearsday / pride and many more .
    the live version of bullit the blue sky was in the time of
    the joshua tree tour also slower .
    but new yearsday was in the early years until the joshua tree tour
    played faster after that they slowed it down more ...
    thats how i think about it

    see you
  12. Originally posted by zooTV4all
    I think all of you agree that most of the songs by U2 are better live. But there are some exceptions, I think.
    These songs sounds better on CD in my opinion, musically and emotionally:


    Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
    Miracle Drug
    Discotheque
    Do You Feel Loved
    If God Will Send His Angels
    If You Wear That Velvet Dress
    Zooropa
    Babyface
    The First Time
    Even Better Than the Real Thing
    Ultra Violet
    Hawkmoon 269
    Tomorrow

    Does anyone agree?


    I would be hard-pressed to put together a better list than the original myself.
    I would add...

    New York: I absolutely love the way ATYCLB's version came out, despite "ba-da-da-da-da-da" live.
    All Because Of You: Inspires me on the album (Bono's INSANE vocal singing & screaming), Edge's guitar & the beat. Doesn't inspire me much live. Live you either get Edge's chords, or the lead riff, but NOT both.
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