| Rattle and Hum | ||||
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| Released | 10 October 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1987–1988 | |||
| Venue | Various locations | |||
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| Genre | Roots rock[1] | |||
| Length | 72:27 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Producer | Jimmy Iovine | |||
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Rattle and Hum is a hybrid live/studio album by Irishrock bandU2, and a companionrockumentary film directed byPhil Joanou. The album was produced byJimmy Iovine and was released on 10 October 1988, while the film was distributed byParamount Pictures and was released on 27 October 1988. Following the breakthrough success of the band's previous studio album,The Joshua Tree, theRattle and Hum project captures their continued experiences withAmerican roots music onthe Joshua Tree Tour, further incorporating elements ofblues rock,folk rock, andgospel music into their sound. A collection of new studio tracks, live performances, and cover songs, the project includes recordings atSun Studio inMemphis and collaborations withBob Dylan,B. B. King, andHarlem's New Voices of Freedom gospel choir.
AlthoughRattle and Hum was intended to represent the band paying tribute to legendary musicians, some critics accused U2 of trying to place themselves amongst the ranks of such artists. Critical reception to both the album and the film was mixed; oneRolling Stone editor spoke of the album's "excitement"; another described it as "misguided and bombastic".[4] The film grossed just $8.6 million, but the album was a commercial success, reaching number one in several countries and selling 14 million copies. The lead single "Desire" became the band's first UK number-one song while reaching number three in the US.[5] Facing creative stagnation and a critical backlash toRattle and Hum, U2 reinvented themselves in the 1990s through a new musical direction and public image.
"I was very keen on the idea of going wide at a time like that, just seeing how big this thing could get. I had always admiredColonel Parker andBrian Epstein for realising that music could capture the imagination of the whole world."
While inHartford duringthe Joshua Tree Tour in 1987, U2 met film directorPhil Joanou who made an unsolicited pitch to the band to make a feature-length documentary about the tour. Joanou suggested they hireMartin Scorsese,Jonathan Demme, orGeorge Miller to direct the film. Joanou met the band again in Dublin to discuss the plans and again in France in September before the band chose him as director. The movie was originally titledU2 in the Americas and the band planned to film inChicago andBuenos Aires later in the year.[7] It was later decided that the Chicago venue was not suitable, and instead U2 used theMcNichols Sports Arena inDenver to film. Following the success ofLive at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky, which had been filmed in Denver four years earlier, the band hoped that "lightning might strike twice".[8] With production problems and estimated costs of $1.2 million the band cancelled the plans for December concerts in South America. At the suggestions of concert promoterBarry Fey, the band instead bookedSun Devil Stadium at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, the same city where the Joshua Tree Tour began.[8]
The movie is arockumentary, which was initially financed by the band and intended to be screened in a small number of cinemas as an independent film. After going over budget, the film was bought byParamount Pictures and released in theatres in 1988, before arriving on video in 1989. It was produced byMichael Hamlyn and directed by Joanou.Paul Wasserman served as the publicist.[9] It incorporates live footage with studio outtakes and band interviews. The album is a mix of live material and new studio recordings that furthers the band's experimentation withAmerican music styles and recognises many of their musical influences. It was produced byJimmy Iovine and also released in 1988.
The title,Rattle and Hum, is taken from a lyric from "Bullet the Blue Sky", the fourth track onThe Joshua Tree. The image used for the album cover and movie poster, depicting Bono shining a spotlight on Edge as he plays, was inspired by a scene in the live performance of "Bullet the Blue Sky" recorded in the film and album, but was recreated in astills studio and photographed byAnton Corbijn.[10] Several vinyl copies have the message "We Love You A.L.K." etched into side one, a reference to the band's production manager Anne Louise Kelly, who would be the subject of another secret dedication message on several CD copies of the band's later album,Pop.
Bono said "Hawkmoon 269" was in part as a tribute to writerSam Shepard, who had released a book entitledHawk Moon. Bono also said that the band mixed the song 269 times. This was thought to be a joke for years until it was confirmed by guitaristthe Edge inU2 by U2, who said that they spent three weeks mixing the song. He also contradicted Bono's assertion about Shepard, saying that Hawkmoon is a place inRapid City, South Dakota, in the midwestern United States.[11]
"Angel of Harlem" is a horn-filled tribute toBillie Holiday. The bass-heavy "God Part II" is a sequel of sorts toJohn Lennon's "God".
The lead single, "Desire", sports aBo Diddley beat. During the Joshua Tree tour, in mid-November 1987, Bono and Bob Dylan met in Los Angeles; together they wrote a song called "Prisoner of Love" which later became "Love Rescue Me". Dylan sang lead vocals on the original recording, a version which Bono called "astonishing", but Dylan later asked U2 not to use it citing commitments toThe Traveling Wilburys.[12] The live performance of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (recorded with a fullchurch choir) is agospel song. "When Love Comes to Town" is ablues rocker featuringB. B. King on guitar and vocals.
U2 recorded "Angel of Harlem", "Love Rescue Me" and "When Love Comes to Town" atSun Studio inMemphis, Tennessee, whereElvis Presley,Roy Orbison,Johnny Cash and many others also recorded. They also recorded an unreleased version of "She's a Mystery to Me" and Woody Guthrie's "Jesus Christ", which appeared onFolkways: A Vision Shared. The band started writing "Heartland" in 1984 duringThe Unforgettable Fire sessions, and it was worked on duringThe Joshua Tree sessions.[13] All of the studio tracks apart from "Heartland" were performed in concert on theLovetown Tour, which began almost a year afterRattle and Hum's release.
In addition to the nine studio tracks that comprised one half of the double album, a number of additional recordings from theRattle and Hum sessions would be released on various singles and side projects. "Hallelujah Here She Comes" was released as a B-side to "Desire", and "A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel" was released as a B-side to "Angel of Harlem". Covers were released as B-sides for the rest of the singles—an abbreviated cover ofPatti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot" would be released as a B-side to "When Love Comes to Town" (the full version would see release on the 12" version of the single and on CD on the 1994 soundtrack album toThreesome), while "Unchained Melody" and "Everlasting Love" would be released as the B-sides to "All I Want Is You". A cover of "Fortunate Son" recorded with Maria McKee would not be released until 1992's "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" single; a version of the soul classic "Everybody Loves a Winner" byWilliam Bell, also recorded with McKee, would eventually be released on the 20th anniversary edition ofAchtung Baby.
Studio versions of "She's a Mystery to Me" (a Bono/Edge composition that would eventually be recorded and released byRoy Orbison),Bruce Cockburn's "If I Had a Rocket Launcher",Percy Sledge's "Warm and Tender Love", and "Can't Help Falling in Love With You", while recorded, have yet to be released. (A solo Bono cover of the Elvis Presley classic would be released on 1992'sHoneymoon in Vegas album, however.) A cover of theWoody Guthrie song "Jesus Christ" was also recorded during these sessions for eventual inclusion on the cover albumFolkways: A Vision Shared. Lastly, a cover of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" was recorded and released for the firstA Very Special Christmas album, released at the end of 1987.
The band chose to film the black-and-white footage over two nights atDenver'sMcNichols Sports Arena on 7 and 8 November 1987. They chose the city following the success of theirU2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky video which was filmed inRed Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver in 1983. The Edge said, "We thought lightning might strike twice". The first night's performance disappointed the group, with Bono finding that the cameras infringed on his ability to play to the crowd.[8] The second Denver show was far more successful and seven songs from the show are used in the film, and three on the album.
Hours before the second Denver performance, anIRA bomb killed eleven people at aRemembrance Day ceremony in the Northern Irish town ofEnniskillen (seeRemembrance Day bombing). During a performance of "Sunday Bloody Sunday", which appears on the film, Bono condemned the violence in a furious mid-song rant in which he yelled, "Fuck the revolution!" The performance was so powerful that the band said they were not sure the song should have been used in the film. After watching the film, they considered not playing the song on future tours.[14]
Colour outdoor concert footage is from the band'sTempe, Arizona shows on 19 and 20 December 1987. Tickets were sold for US$5 each and both nights sold out within days. The set was different each night with the band throwing in some rarely performed songs, including "Out of Control", "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", "One Tree Hill", and "Mothers of the Disappeared". For the latter, all four members played at the front of the stage, each under a large spotlight.
The album opens with a live cover ofthe Beatles' "Helter Skelter". Its inclusion on the album was intended by the band to reflect the confusion of The Joshua Tree Tour and their new-found superstar status. Bono opens "Helter Skelter" with this statement: "This is a songCharles Manson stole from the Beatles. We're stealing it back".[15]
The album contains a live version ofBob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower". The performance is from the band's impromptu "Save the Yuppies" concert inJustin Herman Plaza in San Francisco, California on 11 November 1987. The video intersperses the performance of the song with footage from the band's performance of "Pride" from the same show, during which Bono spray-painted "Rock and Roll Stops the Traffic" on theVaillancourt Fountain. This caused a bit of controversy, and ultimately, the band paid to repair the damage and publicly apologised for the incident. The phrase "Rock and Roll Stops the Traffic" reappeared 18 years later in the video "All Because of You" when an unnamed fan appeared with the sign at 1:55 in the video.[16] It also reappeared in February 2009, when the band played on the rooftop of the BBC Radio studios in Langham Place.[17]
Dennis Bell, director of New York gospel choir The New Voices of Freedom, recorded a demo of a gospel version of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".[18] While in Glasgow in late July during the Joshua Tree Tour, Rob Partridge of Island Records played the demo for the band.[19] In late September, U2 rehearsed with Bell's choir in a Harlem church, and a few days later they performed the song together at U2'sMadison Square Garden concert. Footage of the rehearsal is featured in the movie, while the Madison Square Garden performance appears on the album.[20] After the church rehearsal, U2 walked around the Harlem neighbourhood where they came across blues duo,Satan and Adam, playing in the street. A 40-second clip of them playing their composition, "Freedom for My People", appears on both the movie and the album.[21]
During "Silver and Gold", Bono explains that the song is an attack onapartheid. "The Star Spangled Banner" is an excerpt ofJimi Hendrix's famousWoodstock performance in 1969. The noise of the crowd was sampled extensively byThe KLF for 'the Stadium House Trilogy' of singles on their 1991 albumThe White Room.[22]
Alternative live concert footage captured for the film in other cities during the 1987 tour (but ultimately not used for the final cut of the film) included:
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| The Arizona Republic |   [23] |
| Austin American-Statesman | [24] |
| Chicago Sun-Times | [25] |
| The Cincinnati Enquirer |  [26] |
| Knight-Ridder News | [27] |
| Los Angeles Times | [28] |
| New York Daily News | [29] |
| NME | 8/10[30] |
| Rolling Stone | [31] |
| The Village Voice | B+[32] |
The album divided critics when it was released in 1988.[33] Some reviewers panned it, feeling that U2 were making a deliberate and pretentious attempt at rock and roll renown.[30]Jon Pareles ofThe New York Times called it a "mess" that exuded "sincere egomania", and said the "band's self-importance got in the way" of their ambition for the album. He said it was plagued by the group's "attempts to grab every mantle in theRock-and-Roll Hall of Fame" and that each one was "embarrassing in a different way".[34]David Stubbs ofMelody Maker said thatRattle and Hum "lacks cohesion" and "is musically, stylistically confused". He criticised Bono's "reverential nods to the great white heroes of rock" and the band's "homages to the bluesmen and gospel greats".[35] Thom Duffy of theOrlando Sentinel said thatRattle and Hum is "greatly in need of a focal point" and "often sounds like an over-reaching attempt to claim chunks of pop history as [U2's] own story". He believed the group had "merely celebrated its own ascension into the pop history books... and little more".[36] Tom Carson fromThe Village Voice called it an "awful record" by "almost any rock-and-roll fan's standards", and said the group's failure did not "sound attributable to pretensions so much as to monumental know-nothingism".[37] FellowVillage Voice criticRobert Christgau was more complimentary, calling the record "looser and faster than anything they've recorded since their first live mini-LP".[32]David Browne of theNew York Daily News said the album's "scope and disjointedness" recalled double albums such asExile on Main St. orThe Beatles, but that until it aged as well as those records, "'Rattle and Hum' just prattles and numbs".[29] Andrew Means ofThe Arizona Republic thought the album was "no substitute" for the "exhilaration and conviction" of the Joshua Tree Tour. He believed that Bono's passion on record was not "quite as mesmerizing as it is on stage" and that the group's new material did not "add significantly" to their message or image.[23] Lynden Barber ofThe Sydney Morning Herald called it "an ambitious project, and the result is almost inevitably a mixed bag". He lamented the songs that presented the band's Christianity "as a fait accompli", as well as their proclivity for "jams around a couple of chords substituting themselves for considered song-writing".[38] A reviewer forKnight-Ridder News said, "this double-album boondoggle manages to make the band sound like quintessential overreachers".[27]
Writing inRolling Stone,Anthony DeCurtis said that the record succeeded at capping U2's rise to stardom "on a raucous, celebratory note", finding it to be "most enjoyable when the band relaxes and allows itself to stretch without self-consciously reaching for the stars". DeCurtis ultimately deemed it a "tad calculated in its supposed spontaneity" and said it demonstrated "U2's force but devot[ed] too little attention to the band's vision".[31] In a rave review for theLos Angeles Times,Robert Hilburn calledRattle and Hum a "frequently remarkable album" that more than matchedThe Joshua Tree, and he credited U2 for reviving the "idealism and craft of [rock's] finest moments".[28]J. D. Considine ofThe Baltimore Sun said that the album's songs "draw upon every musical strength U2 has developed over the years" and that the "sheer muscular physicality of its sound" setRattle and Hum apart from its predecessors. He said that despite the record being "occasionally pretentious", the group "never seems out of its depth" amongst the guest artists.[39]Jay Cocks ofTime said, "U2 has never sounded better or bolder", callingRattle and Hum: "the best live rock album ever made. The record, in every sense, of their lives".[40]Hot Press reviewerBill Graham said it was U2's "most ambitious record" yet,[41] while John Mackie ofThe Vancouver Sun said it "should consolidate the band's stature asthe Beatles of the late '80s".[42] Cliff Radel ofThe Cincinnati Enquirer said thatRattle and Hum "proves the achievements of the band's previous album... were no accident", and that it demonstrated the group's ability to create "highly charged songs in the studio and on stage".[26] In the UK, Robin Denselow ofThe Guardian said that "the whole sounds far greater than the sum of the decidedly variable parts". The review found the cover songs to be the weakest material but judgedRattle and Hum overall to be a "solid, versatile piece of work" that "leaves much of the best until last".[43] Stuart Baillie ofNME gave it a positive 8/10 review.[30] Contentiously, his review replaced a much more negative 4/10 review by Mark Sinker, in which he described it as "the worst album by a major band in years". It was pulled byNME editor Alan Lewis, as it was feared that criticism of U2 would affect the magazine's circulation;[44] Sinker resigned in protest.[30]
At the end of 1988,Rattle and Hum was voted the 21st-best album of the year in thePazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published byThe Village Voice.[45] In other critics' lists of the year's top albums, it was ranked number one byHUMO, second by theLos Angeles Times andHot Press, 17th byOOR, 23rd byNME, and 47th bySounds.[citation needed]
"But I wasn't prepared for the difference in the size of the movie campaign and the average record campaign ... how all across America for a couple of weeks, you couldn't turn on your TV without getting U2 in your face. That's not the way records are marketed. It's much more subtle and I think a lot of the band's old fans found it distasteful. The aftermath I think, quite honestly, was that no one wanted to hear about U2 for a while."
According to aUSA Today survey of reviews at the time of the film's release,Rattle and Hum had an average review score of 64/100.[47] According toreview aggregation websiteRotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 62%.[48]Roger Ebert panned the film as a "mess", saying the concert footage was poorly lit and did not show the audience enough, and that the band being "deliberately inarticulate" in interview segments was "not cute". His review partnerGene Siskel was more complimentary, praising the group's performance with the Harlem gospel choir as "powerful and emotional" and calling Bono's statements during "Sunday Bloody Sunday" the film's highlight.[49]Hal Hinson ofThe Washington Post called the film "an exercise in rock 'n' roll hagiography" and "a fanzine on celluloid", and said that despite its "stunning look", the film came across as "stagy and overproduced". He said that the band's "attempts to place themselves in the rock continuum are fairly strenuous and more than a little presumptuous".[50]Joyce Millman of theSan Francisco Examiner described it as a "tediously pious and self-important" film that "successfully captured everything the faithful love, and we pagans loathe, about the biggest band of the '80s". She said the film "does nothing to pierce the band's vagueness" and that they were upstaged by King and the Harlem gospel choir. Millman judged that the cinematography's "gargantuan pomposity... perhaps unintentionally" personified "the essence of U2".[51]Gary Graff of theDetroit Free Press called the film "a conceptual mess that lacks focus and flow", and said that it neither chronicles the band's breakout success of 1987 adequately nor offers additional insight into the band. He said that "many of the individual components of [the film] are excellent" but that Joanou failed to tie them together.[52]Carrie Rickey ofThe Philadelphia Inquirer said, "Self-indulgent to the point of absurdity,U2 Rattle and Hum might be the silliest concert film ever made." She said it compared unfavourably to other concert movies due to its lack of narrative, and that Joanou's reverence for U2 bordered on "unintentional hilarity", adding, "Rob Reiner and company couldn't do aSpinal Tap on this;Rattle and Hum is already a parody."[53] Joanou himself called the picture "pretentious".[54]
Michael MacCambridge of theAustin American-Statesman disagreed with the film's detractors, calling it a "very good and at times excellent concert movie" whose "studied avoidance of drifting into self-parody" distinguished it from predecessors and headed off comparisons toThis Is Spinal Tap. MacCambridge enjoyed the black-and-white footage of the band "in the middle of becoming legend" and their scenes with King and the Harlem gospel choir, but thought the switch to colour footage interrupted the film's "pace and momentum".[55] David Silverman of theChicago Tribune said that Joanou "steadily brings the viewer into a relationship with the band and brings an understanding to the new music", while "provid[ing] an innovative, fast-paced insight" to U2. Silverman praised the documentary scenes with the individual band members and the "beautiful artistic" performance footage, and said the director "succeeded in bringing U2 to the screen in a creative, introspective and exciting film that will add to the legend and preserve the integrity of the decade's most influential contribution to rock".[56] Barbara Jaeger ofThe Record called it a "moving, beautifully photographed look at the group" that properly captured the energy of their live performances. She said, "If there is to be a standard against which future rock movies will be judged, 'U2 Rattle and Hum' is it."[57] Mackie ofThe Vancouver Sun said that despite the film offering "few insights into the individual members, the live footage is nothing short of brilliant." He described Bono's speech during "Sunday Bloody Sunday" as a "raw, emotional moment, a spontaneous outburst that crystalizes the powerful message of peace and love that U2 preach".[58] Michael Wilmington of theLos Angeles Times said the film "records some savagely compelling live performances" and offers proof of why "this unlikely band... are often ranked by critics as the world's best". He thought that despite Joanou not setting the proper context for the film or conducting an engaging interview with U2, "he matches the impassioned sounds with spectacular visuals".[59]
Despite the criticism, theRattle and Hum album was a strong seller, continuing U2's burgeoning commercial success. It hit number one on the USBillboard 200 albums chart, remaining at the top spot for six weeks; it was the first number-one double album in the US sinceBruce Springsteen'sThe River in 1980.[60]Rattle and Hum also reached number one in the UK and Australian charts. In the UK, it sold 360,000 copies in its first week, making it the fastest-selling album at that point (a record it held until the release ofOasis'sBe Here Now in 1997).[61][62] Lifetime sales for the album have surpassed 14 million copies.[63]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | [1] |
| Chicago Tribune | [64] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [65] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B[66] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [67] |
"Rattle and Hum was conceived as a scrapbook, a memento of that time spent in America on the Joshua Tree tour. It changed when the movie, which was initially conceived of as a low-budget film, suddenly became a big Hollywood affair. That put a different emphasis on the album, which suffered from the huge promotion and publicity, and people reacted against it."[68]
— The Edge
In 1989, while at a press tour in Sydney, Australia (where U2 were touring with B. B. King and working on demos for the follow-up albumAchtung Baby), Bono stated, "making movies: that's the nonsense of rock & roll", whichRolling Stone magazine claimed was almost an apology for the film. "Playing shows is the reason we're here", he added.[69] Despite their commercial popularity, the group were dissatisfied creatively; Bono believed they were musically unprepared for their success, while Mullen said, "We were the biggest, but we weren't the best."[70] By the Lovetown Tour, they had become bored with playing their greatest hits.[71] U2 believe that audiences misunderstood the group's collaboration with King onRattle and Hum and the Lovetown Tour, and they described it as "an excursion down a dead-end street".[72][73] Towards the end of the Lovetown Tour, Bono announced on-stage that it was "the end of something for U2", and that "we have to go away and ... dream it all up again".[73] The band subsequently reinvented themselves in the 1990s; beginning withAchtung Baby in 1991, they incorporatedalternative rock,electronic dance music, andindustrial music into their sound, and adopted a more ironic, flippant image by which they embraced the "rock star" identity they struggled with in the 1980s.[74]
All lyrics are written byBono; all music is composed byU2, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Performer | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Helter Skelter" (live atDenver, Colorado) | Lennon–McCartney (lyrics and music) | U2 | 3:07 |
| 2. | "Van Diemen's Land" | The Edge (lyrics) | U2 | 3:06 |
| 3. | "Desire" | U2 | 2:58 | |
| 4. | "Hawkmoon 269" | U2 | 6:22 | |
| 5. | "All Along the Watchtower" (live from "Save the Yuppie Free Concert", San Francisco) | Bob Dylan (lyrics and music) | U2 | 4:24 |
| 6. | "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (live atMadison Square Garden, New York) | U2 with The New Voices of Freedom | 5:53 | |
| 7. | "Freedom for My People" | Sterling Magee (lyrics and music); Adam Gussow (music) | Sterling Magee and Adam Gussow | 0:38 |
| 8. | "Silver and Gold" (live from Denver, Colorado) | U2 | 5:50 | |
| 9. | "Pride (In the Name of Love)" (live from Denver, Colorado) | U2 | 4:27 | |
| 10. | "Angel of Harlem" | U2 | 3:49 | |
| 11. | "Love Rescue Me" | Bono and Bob Dylan (lyrics) | U2 with Bob Dylan | 6:24 |
| 12. | "When Love Comes to Town" | U2 withB. B. King | 4:14 | |
| 13. | "Heartland" | U2 | 5:02 | |
| 14. | "God Part II" | U2 | 3:15 | |
| 15. | "The Star Spangled Banner" (live) | John Stafford Smith (music) | Jimi Hendrix | 0:43 |
| 16. | "Bullet the Blue Sky" (live atSun Devil Stadium,Tempe, Arizona) | U2 | 5:37 | |
| 17. | "All I Want Is You" | U2 | 6:30 | |
| Total length: | 72:27 | |||
| U2: Rattle and Hum | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Phil Joanou |
| Produced by | Michael Hamlyn |
| Starring | U2 |
| Cinematography | Robert Brinkmann (black-and-white footage) Jordan Cronenweth (Color footage) |
| Edited by | Phil Joanou |
| Music by | U2 |
Production company | Midnight Films |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $8.6 million[75] |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Performer | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Helter Skelter" (live atMcNichols Arena,Denver,Colorado, 8 November 1987[76]) | Lennon–McCartney | U2 | |
| 2. | "Van Diemen's Land" (recorded at thePoint Depot,Dublin,Ireland, May 1988[77]) | The Edge | U2 | |
| 3. | "Desire" (recorded at thePoint Depot,Dublin,Ireland, May 1988[77]) | U2 | ||
| 4. | "Exit"/"Gloria" (live atMcNichols Arena,Denver,Colorado, 8 November 1987[76]) | U2 ("Exit"),Van Morrison ("Gloria") | U2 | |
| 5. | "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (rehearsal recorded atHarlem, New York, September 1987[78]) | U2 with The New Voices of Freedom | ||
| 6. | "Freedom for My People" | Adam Gussow and Sterling Magee | Sterling Magee and Adam Gussow | |
| 7. | "Silver and Gold" (live atMcNichols Arena,Denver,Colorado, 8 November 1987[76]) | Bono | U2 | |
| 8. | "Angel of Harlem" (recorded atSun Studio,Memphis, Tennessee, 30 November 1987[79][80]) | U2 | ||
| 9. | "All Along the Watchtower" (live atJustin Herman Plaza,San Francisco,California, 11 November 1987[81]) | Bob Dylan | U2 | |
| 10. | "In God's Country" (live atMcNichols Arena,Denver,Colorado, 8 November 1987[76]) | U2 | ||
| 11. | "When Love Comes to Town" (afternoon rehearsal and evening live performance atTarrant County Convention Center,Fort Worth, Texas, 24 November 1987[82]) | U2 with B. B. King | ||
| 12. | "Heartland" | U2 | ||
| 13. | "Bad"/"Ruby Tuesday"/"Sympathy for the Devil" (live atMcNichols Arena,Denver,Colorado, 8 November 1987[76]) | U2 ("Bad"),Jagger/Richards ("Ruby Tuesday", "Sympathy for the Devil") | U2 | |
| 14. | "Where the Streets Have No Name" (live atSun Devil Stadium,Tempe, Arizona, 20 December 1987[83]) | U2 | ||
| 15. | "MLK" (live atSun Devil Stadium,Tempe, Arizona, 20 December 1987[83]) | U2 | ||
| 16. | "With or Without You" (live atSun Devil Stadium,Tempe, Arizona, 19 December 1987[83]) | U2 | ||
| 17. | "The Star Spangled Banner" (Excerpt) | John Stafford Smith | Jimi Hendrix | |
| 18. | "Bullet the Blue Sky" (live atSun Devil Stadium,Tempe, Arizona, 20 December 1987[83]) | U2 | ||
| 19. | "Running to Stand Still" (live atSun Devil Stadium,Tempe, Arizona, 20 December 1987[83]) | U2 | ||
| 20. | "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (live atMcNichols Arena,Denver,Colorado, 8 November 1987[76]) | U2 | ||
| 21. | "Pride (In the Name of Love)" (live atMcNichols Arena,Denver,Colorado, 8 November 1987[76]) | U2 | ||
| 22. | "All I Want Is You" (Heard over end credits) | U2 |
Guest performers
Additional musicians (field recordings and tapes)
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| AUS [107] | CAN [108] | IRE [109] | NZ [107] | UK [110] | US Hot 100 [111][112] | US Main Rock [111][112] | ||
| 1988 | "Desire" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| "Angel of Harlem" | 18 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 14 | 1 | |
| "God Part II" | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | |
| 1989 | "When Love Comes to Town" | 23 | 41 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 68 | 2 |
| "All I Want Is You" | 2 | 67 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 83 | 13 | |
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