U2 - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland, 8-28-1993

I recently discovered that I'd missed a 1993 U2 BBC concert. This was annoying, because it meant I'd have to renumber the four U2 BBC albums that come after this one. But in this case it's very much worth it because U2 was at or near the peak of the creativity and popularity around this time.

In 1991, U2 changed their sound with the classic album "Achtung, Baby." They followed that up in 1993 with an album in a similar vein, "Zooropa." This concert took place on the tour to support that album, so many of the songs are from those two albums. There also are a smattering of cover versions: "Unchained Melody," "Satellite of Love," "Help!," and "Can't Help Falling in Love." Also, as U2 likes to do, there were little snippets of other songs. For instance, "Bad" includes snippets from "Candle in the Wind," "Fool to Cry," and "The First Time." 

Since U2 was from Dublin, Ireland, this concert was a homecoming for them. It was the second of two nights of concerts there. It also was the end of their European tour. They did a short swing through Australia, New Zealand, and Japan later that year. 

Keep in mind the renumbering of the four albums after this this I mentioned above, which means new album covers and changed mp3 tags and so forth. It took me some extra work to find them - maybe "U2" is too short to work for this internal search engine. So here are the links to help you, if you want to redownload them:

Volume 8: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/08/u2-bbc-sessions-volume-7-2000-2009.html

Volume 10: 

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

Volume 11: 

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

Volume 12: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/02/u2-bbc-sessions-volume-10-u2-at-bbc.html

(Note that I later changed the numbering of the last three after discovering material for a Volume 9.) 

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long. 

01 Intro (U2)
02 Zoo Station (U2)
03 talk (U2)
04 The Fly (U2)
05 Even Better than the Real Thing (U2)
06 Mysterious Ways (U2)
07 talk (U2)
08 One - Unchained Melody (U2)
09 Until the End of the World (U2)
10 New Year's Day (U2)
11 Numb (U2)
12 Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World (U2)
13 Angel of Harlem (U2)
14 When Love Comes to Town (U2)
15 talk (U2)
16 Stay [Faraway, So Close] (U2)
17 Satellite of Love (U2)
18 Bad (U2)
19 Bullet the Blue Sky (U2)
20 Running to Stand Still (U2)
21 Where the Streets Have No Name (U2)
22 Pride [In the Name of Love] (U2)
23 Desire (U2)
24 talk (U2)
25 Help (U2)
26 Ultra Violet [Light My Way] (U2)
27 With or Without You (U2)
28 Love Is Blindness (U2)
29 Can't Help Falling in Love (U2)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/XKB3WYMR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/YGCRhMrsJHSDdUo/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.