Here's a cool video someone put together of the concert that never happened. This is over 2 hours of music if you just want to push play and relax. Enjoy:
Without further adieu, here's U2's Top 12 songs according to me. Comments, compliments and complaints always requested and encouraged. In the parenthesis is the rankings of the song on the scale from 1 to 10 and the CD the song comes from.
12) "Vertigo" (10, "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb"):
11) "One" (10, "Achtung Baby"):
10) "New Year's Day" (10, "War"):
"New Year's Day" (Live):
9) "With or Without You" (10, "The Joshua Tree"):
8) "Elevation" (10, "All That You Can't Leave Behind)":
7) "Red Hill Mining Town" (10, "The Joshua Tree")
6) "Desire" (10, "Rattle and Hum"):
Band Introductions, "Desire" (Live):
5) "Pride (10, "In The Name of Love)":
4) "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" (10, "Batman Forever" Soundtrack):
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" (Live):
3) "Until The End of The World" (10, "Achtung Baby"):
2) "Bullet The Blue Sky" (10, "The Joshua Tree"/ "Rattle and Hum"):
1) "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (10, "War"):
From "Red Rocks", audio of U2's very famous concert:
What Rolling Stone says about this CD:
"A live recording that features real danger. When U2 played Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver on June 5, 1983, the weather was so terrible that less than half the sold out crowd showed up, and both opening acts (the Alarm and Divinyls) canceled over safety concerns. That did nothing to deter U2 and especially Bono. In 2004, guitarist The Edge told Rolling Stone that Bono "scared the shit out of me" by climbing a lighting rig to wave a white flag during "The Electric Co.," coming close to live wires. But the real lightning came from this live album, concert film and the fog-shrouded "Sunday Bloody Sunday" music video. Even though most of Under a Blood Red Sky's album tracks came from shows in Boston and Germany, the Red Rocks visuals stand as U2's last moment of young, ragged glory before mega-stardom set in. "It was a benchmark," said Adam Clayton. "We could say now: 'Right, we've got to a point where we're contenders. We're at the starting gate." David Menconi
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-live-albums-of-all-time-20150429#ixzz3YlnTv4kr
From "Red Rocks", audio of U2's very famous concert:
What Rolling Stone says about this CD:
"A live recording that features real danger. When U2 played Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver on June 5, 1983, the weather was so terrible that less than half the sold out crowd showed up, and both opening acts (the Alarm and Divinyls) canceled over safety concerns. That did nothing to deter U2 and especially Bono. In 2004, guitarist The Edge told Rolling Stone that Bono "scared the shit out of me" by climbing a lighting rig to wave a white flag during "The Electric Co.," coming close to live wires. But the real lightning came from this live album, concert film and the fog-shrouded "Sunday Bloody Sunday" music video. Even though most of Under a Blood Red Sky's album tracks came from shows in Boston and Germany, the Red Rocks visuals stand as U2's last moment of young, ragged glory before mega-stardom set in. "It was a benchmark," said Adam Clayton. "We could say now: 'Right, we've got to a point where we're contenders. We're at the starting gate." David Menconi
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-live-albums-of-all-time-20150429#ixzz3YlnTv4kr
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