Belfast 1981 / Dortmund 1984 (DVD)
Boy Belfast, Northern Ireland
23 January 1981
Unforgettable Fire Dortmund, Germany
21 November 1984
(120:27)

January 23, 1981.  Belfast, Northern Ireland.  Queen's University.  McMordie Hall.
Intro
The Ocean
11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Cry/The Electric Co.
Out of Control
November 21, 1984.  Dortmund, Germany.  Westfalenhalle.
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Cry/The Electric Co.
MLK
Bad
October
New Year's Day
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Gloria
40
Unknown Date.  New York, New York.  Late Show With David Letterman.
Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Art Garfunkel)
Unknown Date.  New York, New York.  Late Show With David Letterman.
Unknown Song (Squeeze)
Unknown Date.  Los Angeles, California.  The Tonight Show.
Into Your Arms (The Lemonheads)
The Great Big No (The Lemonheads)
November 9, 1993.  New York, New York.  Late Show With David Letterman.
Feed the Fire (BoDeans)
Unknown Date.  Los Angeles, California.  The Tonight Show.
Unknown Song (John Hiatt)
 

NOTE:
Belfast '81: Pretty incredible footage of a few songs from one of U2's earliest televised performances.  Multiple camera angles are edited together, with views from in front of the stage, the back of the stage, and the sides of the stage.  About the only blemish on the video are extremely brief lines that appear on screen every once in a while -- they are reminiscent of the lines that appear on motion picture reels.  The soundboard audio is near flawless.  Titles are displayed at the bottom of the screen at the beginning of each song.  Track divisions occur in the middle of songs, so I have not bothered to list them above.

Try not to laugh too hard as you watch Bono prance around the stage wearing something just short of a Seinfeldesque puffy shirt, sporting a headband, and displaying a very noticeable gap between his front teeth.

Dortmund '84: Footage from German TV broadcast.  This DVD features a higher quality recording than my other DVD of this concert (U2 Rockpalast 81/Poprock 84).  Check out the screen captures for comparison.  The VHS tape used to create the Dortmund portion of this DVD appears to be a mid-generation cassette (3rd or 4th maybe?), whereas the VHS tape used to create "U2 Rockpalast 81/Poprock 84" was likely a higher generation.  The audio on this recording is very nice.  Track divisions occur in the middle of songs, so I have not bothered to list them above.

Rest of DVD: The rest of the DVD features pro-shot (broadcast) footage of various bands performing on the two major U.S. late night comedy shows, The Late Show With David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.  The footage appears to be from mid-generation VHS tapes.  Picture quality is decent (Garfunkel) to good, while audio quality is good to very good.  The last 35 minutes of the DVD are nothing but snow/static.  To be honest, I have no idea why the person who put this DVD together included all of this junk at the end of the U2 footage.
 

SCREEN CAPTURES

Belfast 1981

Dortmund 1984