1. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    I've always wondered that. What I've heard is a small excerpt of it (more than a snippet) of about two or three minutes. Maybe the sound effects are too hard to recreate live, properly, or the song is far too long for live and fitting other long(er) songs in too.

    I think this is the list I have of the songs, alphabetically for each album (Boy - No Line) that haven't ever been played live or just snippeted.



    Achtung Baby
    Lady With The Spinning Head
    Salome
    Acrobat


    All That You Can't Leave Behind
    When I Look At The World
    Grace
    Electrical Storm


    Boy
    Saturday Night


    How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    A Man And A Woman
    One Step Closer
    Mercy


    Other Songs
    Levitate
    Love You Like Mad
    Smile
    Flower Child
    Beautiful Ghost
    Jesus Christ
    Xanax and Wine
    Native Son
    Always
    Summer Rain
    Big Girls Are Best
    Neon Lights
    Are You Gonna Wait Forever
    Holy Joe
    Stateless
    Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle of Milk / Korova 1
    Happiness Is A Warm Gun



    No Line On The Horizon
    Moment of Surrender
    Stand Up
    Fez / Being Born
    White As Snow
    Cedars of Lebanon
    Winter


    October
    Scarlet
    Is That All
    Stranger In A Strange Land
    J Swallow


    Passengers
    United Colors
    Slug
    Your Blue Room
    Always Forever Now
    A Different Kind of Blue
    Beach Sequence
    Ito Okashi
    One Minute Warning
    Corpse
    Elvis Ate America
    Plot 180
    The Swan (Theme)
    Let's Go Native (Theme)


    Pop
    The Playboy Mansion


    Rattle and Hum
    Heartland
    Dancing Barefoot
    Everlasting Love
    Hallelujah Here She Comes
    A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel


    The Joshua Tree
    Red Hill Mining Town
    Race Against Time
    Desert of Our Love
    Rise Up
    Drunk Chicken / America
    Luminous Times
    Walk To The Water


    The Unforgettable Fire / Wide Awake In America
    Promenade
    Elvis Presley and America
    Bass Trap
    Love Comes Tumbling
    Sixty Seconds In Kingdom Come
    Boomerang I
    Boomerang II


    War
    Drowning Man
    The Refugee
    Red Light
    Endless Deep
    Angels Too Tied To The Ground


    Zooropa
    Some Days Are Better Than Others


    I don't expect this list to shorten any by the end of next tour.
  2. Ok, UC was my bad.
  3. Ignore the list.
  4. Scarlet has been played live at some radio performance, it's on the october bonus disc, isnt it ?


  5. I liked this version, it was cool
  6. Holy Joe was played NY 12-2-97
  7. Originally posted by Remy:Album songs never played live:

    * Boy: all have been played
    * October: Stranger In a Strange Land, Is That All?
    * War: Drowning Man, The Refugee, Red Light
    * The Unforgettable Fire: Promenade, 4th of July, Elvis Presley & America
    * Wide Awake in America: The Three Sunrises, Love Comes Tumbling
    * The Joshua Tree: Red Hill Mining Town
    * Rattle and Hum: Heartland
    * Achtung Baby: Acrobat (was performed only in soundchecks and rehearsals for Zoo TV, but never in an actual concert)
    * Zooropa: Some Days Are Better Than Others
    * Pop: The Playboy Mansion (snippets were sung after "Streets" at some PopMart shows, but never the full song)
    * Best of 1980-1990: all have been played
    * All That You Can't Leave Behind: Peace On Earth (never the full song), When I Look at the World (never the full song), Grace
    * Best of 1980-1990: Electrical Storm
    * How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: A Man and a Woman, One Step Closer



    They played Electrical Storm once during the rehearsals in Brussels (2005)
    And damn how i would love to hear Red Hill Mining Town live.
  8. If we're picky, you're wrong: it was played twice during that rehearsals But anyway, it doesn't count as a live performance at all as long as there was no official public during the performance (that's why Acrobat doesn't count either).