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  1. Originally posted by fleavox:Boy:
    I Will Follow (1981-03-03 - Washington)
    Twilight (1983-03-14 - London)
    An Cat Dubh (1981-12-13 - Lido Beach)
    Into The Heart (1981-12-13 - Lido Beach)
    Out Of Control (1980-10-14 - Hilversum)
    Stories For Boys (1981-11-28 - Los Angeles)
    The Ocean (1982-02-11 - New Orleans)
    A Day Without Me (1985-04-18 - Worcester)
    Another Time, Another Place (1981-12-13 - Lido Beach)
    The Electric Co. (1985-01-31 - Cologne)
    Shadows And Tall Trees (1980-02-26 - Dublin)

    October:
    Gloria (1987-11-24 - Fort Worth)
    I Fall Down (1982-12-06 - London)
    I Threw A Brick Through A Window (1981-12-13 - Lido Beach)
    Rejoice (1981-12-13 - Lido Beach)
    Fire (1982-02-11 - New Orleans)
    Tomorrow (1983-03-24 - Glasgow)
    October (1985-07-06 - Torhout)
    With A Shout (1981-08-23 - London)
    Stranger In A Strange Land (never played)
    Scarlet (1981-09-03 - London)
    Is That All? (never played)

    War:
    Sunday Bloody Sunday (1987-10-28 - Rosemont)
    Seconds (1984-10-23 - Nantes)
    New Year's Day (2009-08-06 - Chorzow)
    Like A Song (1983-02-26 - Dundee)
    Drowning Man (not played in concert, but soundchecked in Barcelona 2009)
    The Refugee (never played)
    Two Hearts Beat As One (1984-08-31 - Wellington)
    Red Light (never played)
    Surrender (1984-11-07 - Glasgow)
    40 (1985-01-31 - Cologne)

    The Unforgettable Fire:
    A Sort Of Homecoming (1987-04-24 - Daly City)
    Pride (In The Name Of Love) (1984-11-15 - London)
    Wire (1984-10-30 - Rotterdam)
    The Unforgettable Fire (1985-04-30 - Jacksonville)
    Promenade (never played)
    4th Of July (never played)
    Bad (impossible only one, so 3 performances: 1985-04-15 East Rutherford, 1992-11-14 Anaheim and 2005-09-21 Chicago)
    Indian Summer Sky (1984-10-23 - Nantes)
    Elvis Presley and America (never played, but was the first song ever to be snippeted in Bad in 1984-11-02 - London and sounds really good)
    MLK (2002-02-03 - New Orleans)

    The Joshua Tree:
    Where The Streets Have No Name (1990-01-09 - Rotterdam)
    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (1987-09-28 - New York)
    With Or Without You (1987-06-28 - Dublin and 1992-05-07 - Paris)
    Bullet The Blue Sky (2016-10-05 - Daly City)
    Running To Stand Still (another example of I need to choose 3 performances, 1990-01-06 Rotterdam, 1987-11-18 Los Angeles and 1992-10-24 Tempe)
    Red Hill Mining Town (never played)
    In God's Country (1987-07-21 - Munich)
    Trip Through Your Wires (1987-10-28 - Rosemont)
    One Tree Hill (1989-12-26 - Dublin)
    Exit (1987-05-07 - Hartford)
    Mothers Of The Disappeared (1987-12-19 -Tempe and 1987-04-14 - San Diego)

    Rattle and Hum:
    Helter Skelter (1987-11-07 - Denver)
    Van Diemen's Land (1989-10-09 - Melbourne)
    Desire (1990-01-10 - Rotterdam)
    Hawkmoon 269 (1989-11-18 - Sydney)
    All Along The Watchtower (1989-12-26 - Dublin)
    Silver And Gold (1987-11-07 - Denver)
    Angel Of Harlem (2015-05-04 - New York)
    Love Rescue Me (1989-12-01 - Osaka)
    When Love Comes To Town (1987-11-24 - Fort Worth)
    Heartland (never played, but was snippeted into Streets and sounds good)
    God Part II (1989-11-23 - Yokohama)
    All I Want Is You (1990-01-09 - Rotterdam)

    Achtung Baby:
    Zoo Station (1992-04-07 - Austin)
    Even Better Than The Real Thing (1992-02-29 Lakeland)
    One (1992-04-21 Tacoma, 1992-08-18 Saratoga and 1992-08-30 New York)
    Until The End Of The World (1992-08-16 Washington)
    Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (1992-02-29 Lakeland and 1992-03-09 Uniondale)
    So Cruel (1992-08-06 Hershey soundcheck)
    The Fly (1992-05-22 Milan and 2001-04-06 Denver)
    Mysterious Ways (1997-08-02 Gothenburg)
    Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World (one of my fave live songs, 1992-06-13 Kiel, 1992-08-13 East Rutherford and 1992-08-18 Saratoga)
    Ultra Violet (Light My Way) (1992-05-22 Milan)
    Acrobat (never played in concert, but soudchecked in accoustic way into Zoo Station in Hershey, sounds amazing)
    Love Is Blindness (other of my faves... 1992-03-05 Atlanta, 1992-06-04 Dortmund and 1992-06-13 Kiel)
    Please vote on the show pages for all these songs!
  2. Not really. Many of these songs have loads of votes as "top performances" just because they belong to famous shows like Dublin '93, Sydney '93, Sarajevo or the Point Depot residence. But quite often that doesn't mean these are particularly brilliant performances - just that more people know them.


    As an example, Exit has these 4 shows as its "top performances":

    -1987-04-29 Rosemont, Illinois (5 votes) >> Rock's Hottest Ticket, Joshua Tree Tour's most famous bootleg,
    -1987-11-08 Denver, Colorado (5 votes) >> the show where most of Rattle And Hum live portions come from,
    -1987-11-18 Los Angeles, California (3 votes) >> Joshua Tree Tour's best proshot concert,
    -1987-11-07 Denver, Colorado (3 votes) >> excellent soundboard usually mistaken with the 8th as the night where most of R&H was filmed.

    But no mention of truly great performances like Hartford 05-07, Rosemont 10-28 or Boston 09-17 which are not as widely known as the shows above. I guess Fleavox has done his list after listening to hundreds of gigs with no (or little) bias towards famous shows vs unknown ones (hence the choices of God Part II at Yokohama, October at Torhout, etc. )
  3. I am genuinely stunned! I'm inspired to try this for myself but... I don't know if I could do it! But thanks for posting this... I have a lot of new bootlegs to check out now!
  4. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    Not really. Many of these songs have loads of votes as "top performances" just because they belong to famous shows like Dublin '93, Sydney '93, Sarajevo or the Point Depot residence. But quite often that doesn't mean these are particularly brilliant performances - just that more people know them.

    It has also something to do with the quality of the recording. Not many people will listen to recordings with quality 3 and lower... so it won't get the votes...
  5. Originally posted by Alvin:[..]

    It has also something to do with the quality of the recording. Not many people will listen to recordings with quality 3 and lower... so it won't get the votes...
    I agree with this - but I'm surprised by how many shows actually have really good recordings that I for one have never discovered before and no one really talks about! For example I just finished listening to Jacksonville 1985-04-30 - and it's an incredible show I was mainly drawn to for being in my region of the US. The sound on the show page is listed at 3.5 stars but it's easily 4, probably more like 4.5, so there are a lot of good recordings out there sort of 'hiding.'
  6. Originally posted by Alvin:[..]

    It has also something to do with the quality of the recording. Not many people will listen to recordings with quality 3 and lower... so it won't get the votes...
    Yeah, that's what I mean with the "famous" bootlegs. Good sounding recordings get more downloads and therefore more votes, but it doesn't mean the performances themselves are particularly brilliant.
  7. Not... because I already voted in many, many songs, before to know my current favorites
  8. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    Not really. Many of these songs have loads of votes as "top performances" just because they belong to famous shows like Dublin '93, Sydney '93, Sarajevo or the Point Depot residence. But quite often that doesn't mean these are particularly brilliant performances - just that more people know them.


    As an example, Exit has these 4 shows as its "top performances":

    -1987-04-29 Rosemont, Illinois (5 votes) >> Rock's Hottest Ticket, Joshua Tree Tour's most famous bootleg,
    -1987-11-08 Denver, Colorado (5 votes) >> the show where most of Rattle And Hum live portions come from,
    -1987-11-18 Los Angeles, California (3 votes) >> Joshua Tree Tour's best proshot concert,
    -1987-11-07 Denver, Colorado (3 votes) >> excellent soundboard usually mistaken with the 8th as the night where most of R&H was filmed.

    But no mention of truly great performances like Hartford 05-07, Rosemont 10-28 or Boston 09-17 which are not as widely known as the shows above. I guess Fleavox has done his list after listening to hundreds of gigs with no (or little) bias towards famous shows vs unknown ones (hence the choices of God Part II at Yokohama, October at Torhout, etc. )
    This!!
  9. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    Yeah, that's what I mean with the "famous" bootlegs. Good sounding recordings get more downloads and therefore more votes, but it doesn't mean the performances themselves are particularly brilliant.
    This is true, but even among songs that have good sound (3.5 stars or higher - and I discover, as I mentioned above that many, many 3-3.5 star bootlegs are often more like 4 stars) there's really only a small percentage that are well-known. ZooTV, Lovetown, and Joshua Tree I think are maybe a bit skewed where more of the good-sounding recordings are known, but there's really a very wide range of decent to even excellent boots that are never talked about. Maybe about 15-20% of good sounding shows are well-known.
  10. Originally posted by Alvin:[..]

    It has also something to do with the quality of the recording. Not many people will listen to recordings with quality 3 and lower... so it won't get the votes...
    It's many concerts here listed with 3,5 or 3 stars on sound quality that sounds very good!!

    1985-04-30 - Jacksonville for example... a really gem, listed as 3,5 but with 4 stars, great sound and performance even better!
  11. This thread is a lot of fun and thanks Gustavo for such comprehensive list. Maybe one day I sit down and compile my list too.

    What I find difficult is that sometimes there is a very special performance of a song, like a rare snippet, or the song is extended, etc., like Two Hearts from Wellington in the Under Australian Skies leg, but there are also near perfect performances, maybe not very different from the tour, but they still deserve to be ranked as best performances. That's why I prefer Two Hearts from 1984-11-07. That is just out of this world.
    Same thing happens to me with other songs.
  12. I'll be honest, I'm not really picky with voting 'best performances' - I use this mainly as a way to mark out really special and powerful versions rather than just limiting myself to one or two versions of each song.