Looking back, it feels like some U2 songs belong together as they were played one after another. For instance, on their debut An Cat Dubh precedes Into the Heart. Other examples include The Electric Co. and I Threw a Brick Through a Window which precedes I Fall Down and A Day Without Me respectively. However, some of those songs weren’t around when they toured the Boy album. So, which song followed The Electric Co. and which one preceded A Day Without Me?
Well, the excitement of the The Electric Co. was usually followed by an instrumental song, a b-side actually, called: Things to Make and Do. Although I didn’t witness them playing this song live, I can’t imagine the crowd going wil with enthusiasm for this one. In hindsight the band probably weren’t that proud about it either as it didn’t appear on the second disc of The Best of 1980-1990. Only their next album provided their final sequence Electric Co. followed by I Fall Down. The latter title was sometimes not very far removed from the truth. As Bono climbed into something high during Edge’s guitar solo and could return to the stage just in time.
The October-album provided I Threw a Brick Through a Window whose end was a drum segue that launched A Day Without Me. During the Boy tour this song isn’t played in pairs with another song. During the last, American, leg of the tour it is played as an encore.
