Parisienne Night

Paris, France
07/04/87

Disc 1:
1. With Or Without You (instrumental)
2. Electric Co.
3. Mothers Of The Disappeared
4 Unreleased Song
5. Mothers Of The Disappeared
6. Unreleased Song
7. One Tree Hill (instrumental)
8. Lucille
9. C'Mon Everybody
10. I Will Follow
11. MLK
12. The Unforgettable Fire
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday
14. Exit
15. In God's Country
16. Electric Co.
17. Help
18. Bad

(70:05)

Disc 2:
1. October
2. New Year's Day
3. Pride
4. Bullet The Blue Sky
5. Running To Stand Still
6. With Or Without You
7. Party Girl
8. 40
9. She's Gonna Blow Your House Down
10. She's Gonna Blow Your House Down
11. She's Gonna Blow Your House Down
12. Unknown song
13. Unknown song
14. She's Gonna Blow Your House Down

(72:16)

SOUND QUALITY:
Disc 1 (1 - 7): Good audience
Disc 1 (8): Very good soundboard (television broadcast)
Disc 1 (10 - 13): Very good audience
Disc 1 (9, 14 - 18), Disc 2 (1 - 8): Good soundboard
Disc 2 (9 - 14): Good Soundboard

SOURCE:
Disc 1 (1 - 7): 04/25/87.  San Francisco, California. Cow Palace.Sound Check
Disc 1 (8): 07/10/87.  Rotterdam, Holland. Feyenoord Stadium.Television interview.
Disc 1 (10): 07/10/87.  Rotterdam, Holland. Feyenoord Stadium.
Disc 1 (9, 14 - 18), Disc 2 (1 - 8): 07/04/87.  Paris, France. Hippodrome de Vincennes.
Disc 2 (9-14): unknown date, 1987. Long Island, New York. Recording Studio.

This is a fantastic bootleg.  For some reason, the various material seems to have been thrown together somewhat haphazardly, with the centerpiece of the bootleg, a soundboard recording of the 04 July 1987 concert in Paris, France, sandwiched between some non-concert material.

The soundcheck from San Francisco is already available on numerous commercial bootlegs.

The Paris portion is comprised largely of  soundboard material.  However, three songs are audience recordings and one is taken from a completely different concert. The sound quality of this section isn't the greatest soundboard you've ever heard, but it's much better than the audience recordings of this show that are currently available -- "Tear Gas" for example.

The highlight of this bootleg may well be the inclusion of what amounts to the 1987 version of "The Working Tapes".  U2 spent a day in the studio while in New York on the Joshua Tree tour. I'm not certain of the exact date, but I believe it was during the fall leg of the tour.  Much of the time is spent practicing "She's Gonna Blow Your House Down", a folksy sounding rock tune that is quite unlike anything I have ever heard U2 play.  Bono can be
heard speaking with another man, I'm not sure who he is, throughout much of the recording.  Edge also offers some input from time to time.  It is fascinating to hear Bono talk his way through the development of these songs -- even if they weren't ever released.  The last track consists of Bono and the unknown man listening to a previously recorded version of "She's Gonna Blow Your House Down" and critiquing it.

Review taken from Justin M. Cook's webpage.