build your own U2 tribute album :D

[imaginary friend]

2 ways to do this:

1) pick at least 12 songs from various albums and come up with someone you'd like to hear record each of them.

or

2) pick an album and choose artists to cover each track.

I'm going with option 1...

"the unforgettable fire" - Sarah McLachlan
"stories for boys" - All-American Rejects
"breathe" - Rush
"gone" - Imogen Heap
"One Tree Hill" - Anathema
"discotheque" - Pink
"heartland" - Muse
"with or without you" - Hikaru Utada
"please" - Alicia Keys
"kite" - Soundgarden
"bad" - Lacuna Coil
"the fly" - Tool
"vertigo" - Social Distortion
"acrobat" - Portishead

...hmmm, half the singers would be female. not planned, but very cool nonetheless. 

[Thunder Peel]

Neat idea.

1. "Out of Control"-The Gaslight Anthem
2. "Discotheque"-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. "The First Time"-Elvis Costello
4. "Running to Stand Still"-Beck
5. "Love is Blindness"-Radiohead
6. "New Year's Day"-The Killers
7. "FEZ-Being Born"-Bjork
8. "Last Night on Earth"-Foo Fighters
9. "Wild Honey"-Nada Surf
10. "Wire"-Arctic Monkeys
11. "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car"-The Flaming Lips
12. "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses"-The National

[@lmighty DS]

UV - The Killers
Heartland - i forget who did it but it's a studio-recorded b-side by a young christian band? any idea who this might be? it's not The Fray i know that. maybe they aren't christian i just know i heard it on youtube

[Alton Dalton]

7. "FEZ-Being Born"-Bjork

^This.


Great idea for a thread... I'll be back with mine shortly

[imaginary friend]

Neat idea.

3. "The First Time"-Elvis Costello
7. "FEZ-Being Born"-Bjork
9. "Wild Honey"-Nada Surf

I loooove these three. 

[mrbono]

Fez - Being Born = The Killers
Vertigo = Pearl Jam
Out Of Control = The Thrills
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses = Idlewild
Kite = The Doves
If God Will Send His Angels = Embrace
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own = Alicia Keys
Running To Stand Still = Bruce Springsteen
City Of Blinding Lights = Coldplay
I'll Go Crazy (Remix) = Ting Tings
Discotheque = Pink
Even Better Than The Real Thing = Karen O
Bad = Bikini Atoll
Where The Streets Have No Name = Feeder
With Or Without You = College and Electric Youth
Heartland = Sarah McLachlan

[TheSceneoftheAccident]

1.) Where the Streets Have No Name - Bruce Springsteen
2.) Pride (In the Name of Love) - Pearl Jam
3.) Mofo - Nine Inch Nails
4.) Sunday Bloody Sunday - The Killers
5.) Running to Stand Still - Bon Iver
6.) One - Beck
7.) The Fly - Soundgarden
8.) Mysterious Ways - Red Hot Chili Peppers
9.) Gloria - Muse
10.) The Unforgettable Fire - Portishead
11.) Vertigo - Foo Fighters
12.) With or Without You - Coldplay
13.) Stay (Faraway, So Close!) - Radiohead
14.) Zooropa - Animal Collective

[imaginary friend]

back with Vol. 2!! 

"City of Blinding Lights" - Nightwish
"red hill mining town" - band of Horses
"elevation" - Esthero
"Mysterious Ways" - Delerium
"love is blindness" - Alice in Chains
"wake up dead man" - Melissa Etheridge
"mofo" - Filter
"tomorrow" - Loreena McKennitt
"miss sarajevo" - Zola Jesus
"all i want is you" - Sade
"unknown caller" - Steely Dan
"a sort of homecoming" - Kate Bush
"hawkmoon 269" - Ozomatli
"rejoice" - AFI

[Dali]

Black Dub - In A Little While
T Bone Burnett - So Cruel
Gavin Friday - Stories For Boys
Black-Eyed Peas - Even Better Than the Real Thing
Elvis Costello - Mofo
Zucchero - Kite (Italian version)
Norah Jones - Stuck in A Moment
Nick Cave - Heartland
Sean Puffy Combs feat. Cassie - Hear Their Heartbeat (retitled Mothers Of the Disappeared cover)
Rihanna - Get On Your Boots
Jakob Dylan - Two Hearts Beat As One
Lady Gaga - Love And Peace Or Else


I picked some related artists and some big name artists to make it somewhat realistic.

[U2-obsessed and proud]

1. Beautiful Day-Green Day
2. City Of Blinding Lights- Snow Patrol
3. With Or Without You-Keane
4. Where The Streets Have No Name-Muse
5. One- Mumford And Sons
6. Mercy- Foo Fighters
7. Ultraviolet-The Killers
8. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For-Bruce Springsteen
9. Magnificent- Arcade Fire
10. Every Breaking Wave-Sara Bareilles

[imaginary friend]

^ counting isn't exactly your strong suit, is it?

[U2-obsessed and proud]

^ counting isn't exactly your strong suit, is it?

Didn't see your requirement for 12, my bad

11. Sunday Bloody Sunday- 30 Seconds To Mars
12. All I Want Is You- Katy Perry (joking, but not really)

[ITM]

New Year's Day - Big Country
The Unforgettable Fire - Florence and The Machine
Where The Streets .. - Simple Minds
Running To Stand Still (Into Hallelujah) - Adele
One Tree Hill - Manic Street Preachers
Hawkmoon 269 - Bruce Springsteen
One - Travis
Until The End of The World - Metallica
The Fly - The Cult
Ultraviolet -  Arcade Fire
Stay - David Gray
The Wanderer - Social Distortion
Your Blue Room - David Bowie
Gone - Radiohead
Kite - Coldplay
Yahweh - Ben Harper
Magnificent - The Verve

[lorijane]

The Joshua Tree.  The marked ones are already on Youtube.

* 1.  Where the Streets Have No Name - Muse, featuring Edge
* 2.  I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Disturbed
* 3.  With Or Without You - 2Cellos
* 4.  Bullet the Blue Sky - Queensryche
* 5.  Running to Stand Still - Elbow
* 6.  Red Hill Mining Town - Dream Theater
* 7.  In God's Country - Tribe of  Heaven (Dave Matthews before DMB made it big)
   8.  Trip Through Your Wires - Bruce Springsteen
   9.  One Tree Hill - Kimbra
* 10.  Exit - Matt Nathanson (at about 3:10 to 4:00 of the video)
   11.  Mothers of the Disappeared - @U2's very own jab

* Bonus track - Pride (In the Name of Love) - Dierks Bentley

[imaginary friend]

*bump*