"The First Six" - U2
Album Collection
Track Listing:
- "I Will Follow" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:37)
- "Twilight" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:22)
- "An Cat Dubh" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:46)
- "Into the Heart" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:27)
- "Out of Control" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:14)
- "Stories for Boys" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:02)
- "The Ocean" (Studio Version) - U2 (01:35)
- "A Day Without Me" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:13)
- "Another Time, Another Place" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:33)
- "The Electric Co." (Studio Version) - U2 (04:47)
- "Shadows and Tall Trees" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:35)
- "Gloria" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:13)
- "I Fall Down" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:39)
- "I Threw a Brick Through a Window" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:54)
- "Rejoice" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:38)
- "Fire" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:52)
- "Tomorrow" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:39)
- "October" (Studio Version) - U2 (02:21)
- "With a Shout (Jerusalem)" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:03)
- "Stranger in a Strange Land" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:57)
- "Scarlet" (Studio Version) - U2 (02:53)
- "Is That All?" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:02)
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:39)
- "Seconds" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:11)
- "New Year's Day" (Studio Version) - U2 (05:35)
- "Like a Song..." (Studio Version) - U2 (04:47)
- "Drowning Man" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:14)
- "The Refugee" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:41)
- "Two Hearts Beat as One" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:03)
- "Red Light" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:46)
- "Surrender" (Studio Version) - U2 (05:34)
- "40" (Studio Version) - U2 (02:38)
- "Gloria" (Live from Morrison CO, Jun. 5, 1983 - Fade In) - U2 (04:47)
- "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" (Live from Boston, MA, May 6, 1983) - U2 (04:41)
- "I Will Follow" (Live from St. Goarshausen, Aug. 20, 1983 - Edit I)) - U2 (03:48)
- "Party Girl" (Live from Morrison CO, Jun. 5, 1983 - Edit I) - U2 (03:09)
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (Live from St.Goarshausen, Aug. 20, 1983 - Edit I) - U2 (05:18)
- "The Electric Co." (Live from St. Goarshausen, Aug. 20, 1983 - Edit I) - U2 (05:23)
- "New Year's Day" (Live from St. Goarshausen, Aug. 20, 1983) - U2 (04:36)
- "40" (Live from St. Goarshausen, Germany, Aug. 20, 1983 - Edit I) - U2 (03:46)
- "A Sort of Homecoming" (Studio Version) - U2 (05:28)
- "Pride (In the Name of Love)" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:50)
- "Wire" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:19)
- "The Unforgettable Fire" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:55)
- "Promenade" (Studio Version) - U2 (02:35)
- "4th of July" (Studio Version) - U2 (02:17)
- "Bad" (Studio Version) - U2 (06:08)
- "Indian Summer Sky" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:19)
- "Elvis Presley and America" (Studio Version) - U2 (06:23)
- "MLK" (Studio Version) - U2 (02:34)
- "Where the Streets Have No Name" (Studio Version) - U2 (05:37)
- "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:37)
- "With or Without You" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:55)
- "Bullet the Blue Sky" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:31)
- "Running to Stand Still" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:17)
- "Red Hill Mining Town" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:53)
- "In God's Country" (Studio Version) - U2 (02:56)
- "Trip Through Your Wires" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:32)
- "One Tree Hill" (Studio Version) - U2 (05:22)
- "Exit" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:13)
- "Mothers of the Disappeared" (Studio Version) - U2 (05:12)
Background Information
“The First Six” was a box set made by Dischi Records in Italy, distributor of U2’s albums there. There were two different versions produced, one a six 12-inch record set including Boy, October, War, Under a Blood Red Sky, The Unforgettable Fire, and Rattle and Hum. The second box contained the same albums but in cassette format. These were commercially available but in limited numbers. There are suggestions that less than 4000 copies exist. These box sets included the commonly available Italian pressings of each album.
The catalog on these box sets was U2TWO 6 (LP) and UTWO K6 (Cassette).
Inside the box, was also an insert listing the discography of U2 to date (singles and albums) including the release date of “Where the Streets Have No Name” in August 1987. So this box set was produced after that time. The other side of the insert had a text piece about the history of the band titled U2: The Eighties, the 20th Century. That piece was dated September 1987.