En los últimos días se ha comentado la evolución de U2 y cómo es un grupo que destaca claramente en el directo, ¿pero cuánto? Propongo una lista canción por canción señalando si la canción es mejor en la versión de estudio o en directo, independientemente de que ahora la puedan tocar en acústica o con desgana.

En negrita pongo las canciones que sí son superiores (bajo mi juicio) en directo. En normal, aquellas no lo son. Y en cursiva, las que no aplican, ya sea porque nunca se han tocado en directo o porque se ha tocado en 'playback' o como intro.

¡Voy!

BOY
I will follow
Twilight
An Cat Dubh
Into the Heart
Out of Control
Stories for Boys
The Ocean
A Day Without Me
Another Time, Another Place
The Electric Co.
Shadows and Tall trees

OCTOBER
Gloria
I Fall Down
I Threw a Brick Through a Window
Rejoice
Fire
Tomorrow
October
Stranger in a Strange Land
Scarlet
Is That All?

WAR
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Seconds
New Year's Day
Like a Song...
Drowning Man
The Refugee
Two Hearts Beat As One
Red Light
Surrender
'40'

THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE
A Sort of Homecoming
Pride (In The Name of Love)
Wire
The Unforgettable Fire
Promenade
4th of July
Bad
Indian Summer Sky
Elvis Presley and America
MLK

THE JOSHUA TREE
Where the Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
With or Without You
Bullet the Blue Sky
Running to Stand Still
Red Hill Mining Town
In God's Country
Trip Through Your Wires
One Tree Hill
Exit
Mothers of the Disappeared

RATTLE AND HUM
Van Diemen's Land
Desire
Hawekmoon 269
Angel of Harlem
Love Rescue Me
When Love Comes to Town
Heartland
God Part II
All I Want is You

ACHTUNG BABY
Zoo Station
Even Better than the Real Thing
One
Until the End of the World
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wld Horses
So Cruel
The Fly
Misterious Ways
Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
Ultra Violet (Light my Way)
Acrobat
Love Is Blindness

ZOOROPA
Zooropa
Babyface
Numb
Lemon
Stay (Faraway, so Close!)
Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
Some Days Are Better than Others
The First Time
Dirty Day
The Wanderer

POP
Discothèque
Do You Feel Loved?
Mofo
If God Will Send His Angels
Staring at the Sun
Last Night on Earth
Gone
Miami
The Playboy Mansion
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Please
Wake Up Dead Man

ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND
Beautiful Day
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Elevation
Walk On
Kite
In a Little While
Wild Honey
Peace on Earth
When I Look at the World
New York
Grace

HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB
Vertigo
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
City of Blinding Lights
All Because of You
A Man and a Woman
Crumbs from Your Table
One Step Closer
Original of the Species
Yahweh

NO LINE ON THE HORIZON
No Line on the Horizon
Magnificent
Moment of Surrender
Unknown Caller
I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Get On Your Boots
Stand Up Comedy
Fez-Being Born
White As Snow
Breathe
Cedars of Lebanon

SONGS OF INNOCENCE
The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)
Every Breaking Wave
California (There Is No End to Love)
Song For Someone
Iris (Hold me Close)
Volcano
Raised by Wolves
Cedarwood Road
Sleep Like a Baby Tonight
This is Where You Can Reach Me Now
The Troubles


SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
Love Is All We Have Left
Light of Home
You're the Best Thing About Me
Get Out of Your Own Way
American Soul
Summer of Love
Red Flag Day
The Showman (Little More Better)
The Little Things That Give You Away
Landlady
The Blackout
Love is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way
13 (There Is a Light)


OTRAS
Party Girl
Spanish Eyes
Silver and Gold
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Miss Sarajevo
The Ground Beneath her Feet
Electrical Storm
The Hands that Built America
Window in the Skies
Ordinary Love
Invisible
Lucifer's Hands
The Crystal Ballroom
The Book of your Heart