These are some of the songs U2 have been playing over the PA before the start of the show. Thanks to @u2wanderer for Shazam magic, and U2tour.de. Currently missing from the list, a Grinderman song. Probably “No Pussy Blues”.
Listen to these songs on Spotify.
Enola Gay – OMD
Triangle Walks – Fever Ray
Hooting and Howling – Wild Beasts
Deadbeat Summer – Neon Indian
Friends – Band of Skulls
It Will All End in Tears – The Drums
Ghost Rider – Gavin Friday & Dave Ball (download)
Can You Feel It – The Jacksons
Power to the People – John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band
The Difference Between Us – The Dead Weather
One Day Like this – Elbow
Dog Days are Over – Florence and the Machine
Song from under the floor boards – Magazine
Howlin’ for You – The Black Keys
Little Girl – Danger Mouse
The High Road – Broken Bells
Bloodbuzz Ohio – The National
Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin
Smoke on the Water – Deep Purple
Empire State of Mind – Alicia Keys und Jay-Z
Dig, Lazarus, Dig – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
A Forest – The Cure
Monkey‘s gone to Heaven – Pixies
Lisztomania – Phoenix
Atlas Air – Massive Attack
Supermassive Black Hole – Muse
Killing Me Softly – Fugees
I’m on fire – Bruce Springsteen
Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa – Vampire Weekend
Enjoy the silence – Depeche Mode
Alligator – Tegan and Sara
Here’s last year’s list
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U2 360 intro tape songs playlist
- TV On the radio – Lover’s Day
- TV On the radio – DLZ
- TV On the radio – Golden Age
- The Horrors – I can’t control myself
- M83 – Up
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
- M83 – Highway of Endless Dreams
- M83 – Midnight Souls Still Remain
- MGMT – Time to pretend
- Doves – Winter Hill
- M83 – Graveyard Girl
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
- Empire of the Sun – Walking on a dream
- Hot Chip – Ready for the floor
- M83 – You, appearing
- Bat for Lashes – Daniel
- Interpol – The Heinrich Maneuver
- TV On the Radio – Family Tree
- The Fratellis – Chelsea Dagger
- The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime around midnight
- Kings of Leon – Slow Night, So Long
- Moderat – Les Grandes Marches
- Muse – Starlight
- The Killers – Spaceman
- La Roux – In For The Kill (Skream remix)
- The Gossip – Standing in the way of control
- Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place
- LCD Soundsystem – Time To Get Away
- The Pixies – This monkey’s gone to heaven
- Santogold – Lights Out
- White Lies – Death (Chase & Status Remix)
- David Bowie – Space Oddity
- U2 – Kingdom (excerpt)
We’ve collected as many of the songs that are played before the 360 concerts as we could and made a YouTube playlist of them for you. Missing some? Let us know. (For many of them the record companies have disabled embedding. Watch the full playlist here.) And here’s a (collaborative )Spotify playlist.
Thanks to @u2wanderer, @scatterolight, @rrafmn and @wendelasmit
New on the USA-leg:
Cage the Elephant – Judas
TV on the Radio – Red Dress
M83 – We Own the Sky