1. The Joshua Tree - Personally I think this is U2 most overrated album and perhaps even one of the most overrated albums of all time. However this is where U2 got it's legacy as an artist especially due to the trademark innovative "Infinite Guitar' sound. The "Generic U2" sound was defined by this album
2. Under The bLood Red Sky DVD - A Marvelous live performance with near perfect setlist (except for Party Girl which is a mediocre B-side, also I Fall down was cut from the DVD due to damaged master tapes) taking the best songs from the first three albums and gave it an energetic harder rocking performance that offer a nice contrast to the more polished studio version similar to Live At Leeds/Wight does to Tommy. In a way this serves as a pretty good introduction to the first 3 albums of U2. Also 11 O'Clcok Tick Tock is completely reinvented live and is absolutely stunning.
The rest
3. Boy
4. Achtung Baby
5. War
6. Unforgettable Fire
7. October
8. Zooropa
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: As ultimately a live DVD is a live album plus
: visual. I mean I heard you name check the
: bridge to babylon tour DVD positively so why
: not just review it?
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: I mean if an obstacle in reviewing DVD is
: that it's beyond the scope to review the
: visuals such as camera work or visual
: performance skills from an artist then a way
: to solve it is to simply rip the DVD into
: audio file and treat it as a live album and
: only review it from the context of the audio
: only. So there really is no reason why to
: snub it especially considering your love for
: live album in general
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: Also you mention that you want a 2cd life
: retrospective of Sparks with full band. Well
: why not just listen to the Sparks Dee Vee
: Dee. While they do play the entire Hello
: young lovers for the first act. There's a
: second set where it's basically the best of
: 70's Sparks with a full band plus A two hand
: one mouth version of change and a reprise of
: dick around. That's a perfectly good
: substitute for a live album.
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: Also when you get into U2 I can't imagine
: how it is possible to accurately assess U2
: as a live artist without reviewing Under The
: Blood Red sky DVD. The Cd is completely
: worthless due to a) incomplete setlist b)
: taking performance from different concert c)
: reducing the distortion from The Edge guitar
: to make the album "more
: commercial"
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: The DVD however captures the Red Rick live
: performance that defined U2 as a live artist
: (if that was a double album I would say it's
: U2 best album and give it a hex D).
: Reviewing U2 without reviewing the DVD is
: like reviewing The Who without reviewing
: Live At Leeds as you are ignoring a core
: part of their legacy.
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