Tuesday, August 6, 2024

U2 - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: 2000-2009

This album consists of BBC studio sessions performed by U2 from 2000 to 2009, though there was a very small studio audience for some of the songs.

U2 performed some BBC studio sessions in the early 1980s, when they were just starting to get famous. Later in the 1980s, they did some full concerts that were broadcast by the BBC. Then I don't think they did anything for the BBC for the entire 1990s. 

That takes us to 2000. That year, the band released the album "All that You Can't Leave Behind." The first five songs are from a BBC session promoting that album. Tracks 6 to 11 are from a 2004 session. The remainder are from two different sessions in 2009.

I cut out a few songs because they were essentially repeats without much variation. I don't remember what I cut out exactly, but I think there were two more versions of "Beautiful Day." As it is, I included two versions of that song here. Four would have been way too much, in my opinion. These two versions differ in that one includes a snippet of the Pogues song "A Rainy Night in Soho," and the other includes a snippet of the Beatles song "Blackbird." There also are two versions of "Vertigo." The first one is just the song done in a standard way. The second one includes snippets of "Substitute" by the Who and "She Loves You" and "Dig It," both by the Beatles.

This album is an hour and one minute long.

01 Elevation (U2)
02 New York (U2)
03 Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of (U2)
04 Beautiful Day - A Rainy Night in Soho (U2)
05 She's a Mystery to Me (U2)
06 Vertigo (U2)
07 All Because of You (U2)
08 talk (U2)
09 Miracle Drug (U2)
10 talk (U2)
11 Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own (U2)
12 Get on Your Boots (U2)
13 Beautiful Day - Blackbird (U2)
14 Breathe (U2)
15 talk (U2)
16 Magnificent (U2)
17 talk (U2)
18 Vertigo - Substitute - She Loves You - Dig It (U2)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16941732/UTOO2000-2009BBSessonsVolum7_atse.zip.html

 The cover photo of Bono and The Edge comes from a BBC performance, but not one of the ones featured here. It's from Top of the Pops at BBC Television Centre on October 15, 2004.

1 comment:

  1. What a wonderful post! Thank you very much for sharing, my friend, your work here is always exquisite. A hug from your friend from Brazil.

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