Albums That Should Exist: U2 - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-24-2011

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

U2 - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-24-2011

I screwed up with the album numbering for a BBC series yet again. But I'll keep on making changes until I get it right. Luckily, in this case, the screw-up only involves one album that I posted recently. There's a new "BBC Sessions, Volume 8" for U2, because I stumbled onto the Glastonbury Festival performance they gave in 2011, which was broadcast by the BBC.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm not that enthusiastic about new U2 music after the early 2000s. But if you feel the same, don't worry, because they only played two songs from their most recent album at the time, 2009's "No Line on the Horizon." (The two were "Get on Your Boots" and "Moment of Surrender," which are fine songs.) Instead, no doubt mindful of the fact they would be playing to a crowd of nearly 200,000 people, many of whom weren't big U2 fans already, they generally stuck to their greatest hits. Although I like the fact that they finished with "Out of Control," a relatively obscure songs from their debut album in 1980.

As U2 likes to do, they slipped in little snippets of other songs here and there. In two cases, I added those to the song titles, because they were fairly significant. I didn't do that for some of the shorter snippet. Those include bits of "Independent Women," "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "Move On Up," "Rain," "She Loves You," "Love Will Tear Us Apart," and "Pretty Vacant."

The sound quality is excellent. I don't believe anything here has been officially released.

Oh, by the way, if you want to grab the renumbered volume, the former Volume 8 that is now Volume 9, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/u2-bbc-sessions-volume-8-acoustic.html

This album is an hour and 40 minutes long.

01 Even Better than the Real Thing (U2)
02 The Fly (U2)
03 Mysterious Ways (U2)
04 Until the End of the World (U2)
05 talk (U2)
06 One (U2)
07 Jerusalem - Where the Streets Have No Name (U2)
08 I Will Follow (U2)
09 talk (U2)
10 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2)
11 talk (U2)
12 Stay [Faraway, So Close] (U2)
13 Beautiful Day (U2)
14 Elevation (U2)
15 Get on Your Boots (U2)
16 Vertigo (U2)
17 Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2)
18 Bad (U2)
19 Pride [In the Name of Love] (U2)
20 With or Without You (U2)
21 Yellow - Moment of Surrender (U2)
22 Out of Control (U2)