Author Topic: Your favorites of these classic U2 songs (Read 3473 times)

KevShmev · « **on:** December 12, 2017, 06:30:01 PM »

You can vote for up to 5.

I voted for:

Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day
Bad
Where the Streets Have No Name
Bullet the Blue Sky

It felt weird not voting for any of the Achtung Baby tracks, since that is my favorite album by them, but none of those are among my favorites by U2 or even from that record.

JayOctavarium · « **Reply #1 on:** December 12, 2017, 06:35:32 PM »

I know I am not adding anything of value by saying this but...

I hate U2

King Postwhore · « **Reply #2 on:** December 12, 2017, 06:36:18 PM »

I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day
Pride (In the Name of Love)
One

Phoenix87x · « **Reply #3 on:** December 12, 2017, 06:47:29 PM »

I mostly don't like U2. Like for example, I am not down with most of the songs on that list, but here's some that I do love:

New years day
Sunday bloody sunday
Drowning man (my favorite U2 song and one of my favorite songs ever written)
Seconds
Like a song
Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me.

DragonAttack · « **Reply #4 on:** December 12, 2017, 08:21:04 PM »

I have two self made 'best ofs'. All of these tracks are included.

I have a narrowed down, 'made for travelling with the wife' disc, that have all the listed songs, except for 'Bad'.

So....I can't vote for just five.

(one of those great lists that you make, 'the best concert opener ever', would have 'Where The Streets Have No Name' #1 that list for me)

DTA · « **Reply #5 on:** December 13, 2017, 04:25:49 AM »

Streets is definitely the only one off that list that I’m not completely and totally sick of hearing. I love U2 but I’d be okay with them retiring every one of these songs.

MirrorMask · « **Reply #6 on:** December 13, 2017, 04:32:47 AM »

With or Without You and One

Would have voted for All I Want is You if it was in the list.

Zydar · « **Reply #7 on:** December 13, 2017, 04:38:22 AM »

Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Mysterious Ways

ReaperKK · « **Reply #8 on:** December 13, 2017, 05:16:16 AM »

A lot of great songs to pick from, I went with:

Pride
Bad
Bullet In The Blue Sky
Where The Streets Have No Name
One

TAC · « **Reply #9 on:** December 13, 2017, 06:05:59 AM »

I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Bullet the Blue Sky

masterthes · « **Reply #10 on:** December 13, 2017, 12:37:42 PM »

Bad
The three big songs from Joshua Tree
One

Stadler · « **Reply #11 on:** December 13, 2017, 01:03:31 PM »

You missed some of my favorite songs:
All I Want Is You (perhaps Bono's best vocal; and say what you want about the guy socially, personally, but back in the day, he was a vocal POWERHOUSE.
Ultraviolet (Light My Way).
City of Blinding Lights (on tour, that was epic).
Original Of The Species.

The Walrus · « **Reply #12 on:** December 13, 2017, 01:07:45 PM »

Not really a U2 fan but I do really like these songs:

Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day
Pride
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

pg1067 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 13, 2017, 04:27:49 PM »

Sunday Bloody Sunday is one of my favorite early MTV era songs. New Year's Day and the rest of War are pretty good, and I don't know Boy and October very well. Pretty much everything from Joshua Tree to date has been pretentious and generally intolerable.

bosk1 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 13, 2017, 04:32:56 PM »

Ranked:
1. Bullet the Blue Sky
2. New Year's Day
3. Pride
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday
5. Where the Streets Have No Name

6 would have been I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For if I could have one more. Then probably I Will Follow. Probably not hard to tell which era of the band I am more partial to.

Joshua Tree is far and away my favorite album of theirs and would make one of my desert island disks (provided the list was long enough). Then the pre-Joshua Tree albums, in no particular order. Then...eh. I kinda liked Rattle and Achtung, and lost interest after that.

TAC · « **Reply #15 on:** December 13, 2017, 04:43:58 PM »

I don't consider myself into U2 in any way, but those early songs really take me back.

KevShmev · « **Reply #16 on:** December 13, 2017, 05:26:49 PM »

Even though All I Want Is You is my favorite U2 song, as well as one of my favorite songs by anyone ever, I didn't include it here because it doesn't quite have the classic status that these songs here do. All of these songs here are either so big that most people know them (by sound, even if they do not know the names) and/or ones the band have played pretty much non-stop at live concerts.

KevShmev · « **Reply #17 on:** December 13, 2017, 05:34:46 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix87x on December 12, 2017, 06:47:29 PM

Drowning man (my favorite U2 song and one of my favorite songs ever written)

I love that song. Easily one of my favorites from their early years (and they have a lot of great songs from the early years).

Quote from: DragonAttack on December 12, 2017, 08:21:04 PM

(one of those great lists that you make, 'the best concert opener ever', would have 'Where The Streets Have No Name' #1 that list for me)

That list would be impossible to make because a) there are too many songs that are great openers (and too many bands), and b) I fear the voting would basically become a band popularity contest.

Personally, I think Streets works better late in the set rather than first.

Quote from: Stadler on December 13, 2017, 01:03:31 PM

You missed some of my favorite songs:
All I Want Is You (perhaps Bono's best vocal; and say what you want about the guy socially, personally, but back in the day, he was a vocal POWERHOUSE.
Ultraviolet (Light My Way).

As stated above, All I Want Is You is my favorite U2 song, and Ultraviolet would be top 5.

erwinrafael · « **Reply #18 on:** December 13, 2017, 06:44:12 PM »

Awww...All I Want Is You was the first song that came to mind.

TAC · « **Reply #19 on:** December 13, 2017, 06:48:13 PM »

I had to youtube All I Want Is You. I didn't recognize the title, and after hearing it, I still don't recognize it.

ytserush · « **Reply #20 on:** December 13, 2017, 07:09:33 PM »

Way too limiting.

erwinrafael · « **Reply #21 on:** December 13, 2017, 07:19:28 PM »

Quote from: TAC on December 13, 2017, 06:48:13 PM

I had to youtube All I Want Is You. I didn't recognize the title, and after hearing it, I still don't recognize it.

That song charted well in Europe but did not chart well in North America. It gained some airplay in the US many years later only when it was included the soundtrack of the movie Reality Bites.

KevShmev · « **Reply #22 on:** December 13, 2017, 07:30:43 PM »

It didn't chart well on the pop charts, no, but MTV played the living daylights out of All I Want Is You the latter half of 1989.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #23 on:** December 13, 2017, 07:40:35 PM »

Quote from: KevShmev on December 13, 2017, 07:30:43 PM

It didn't chart well on the pop charts, no, but MTV played the living daylights out of All I Want Is You the latter half of 1989.

They sure did.

TAC · « **Reply #24 on:** December 13, 2017, 07:41:42 PM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on December 13, 2017, 07:40:35 PM

Quote from: KevShmev on December 13, 2017, 07:30:43 PM
It didn't chart well on the pop charts, no, but MTV played the living daylights out of All I Want Is You the latter half of 1989.

They sure did.

I don't remember it.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #25 on:** December 13, 2017, 07:45:51 PM »

Knowing you Tim you just turn the channel.

TAC · « **Reply #26 on:** December 13, 2017, 07:56:56 PM »

Well, I certainly heard enough U2 over the years. You really couldn't avoid them.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #27 on:** December 13, 2017, 07:58:26 PM »

No doubt.

KevShmev · « **Reply #28 on:** December 13, 2017, 09:16:34 PM »

I wasn't even that wild about With or Without You when it was released. The only songs I knew by them prior were Pride, New Year's Day and the live version of Sunday Bloody Sunday from Red Rocks (thanks to all of the videos getting played on MTV), so when WOWY came out, it was like, oh, a wussbag song by that band that had a few good songs a few years ago.

Not until Where the Streets Have No Name was released as the 3rd single was I really sold on the band. That was when my brother bought the cassette of TJT, which he played a lot when I was around and I liked most of it.

Seeing the Rattle and Hum movie in the theater with him a year later made me a fan for life.

Setlist Scotty · « **Reply #29 on:** December 13, 2017, 09:49:43 PM »

Too many missing from that list for me to really pick from. Of that list, I went with Bad, Bullet the Blue Sky and Vertigo.

But there's so many others that I would rate much higher than that list - specifically the title track from Unforgettable Fire, Wire, Until the End of the World, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, Electrical Storm, several off the much-maligned Pop album, Magnificent and Fez/Being Born.

bosk1 · « **Reply #30 on:** December 14, 2017, 08:04:20 AM »

Quote from: KevShmev on December 13, 2017, 09:16:34 PM

I wasn't even that wild about With or Without You when it was released. The only songs I knew by them prior were Pride, New Year's Day and the live version of Sunday Bloody Sunday from Red Rocks (thanks to all of the videos getting played on MTV), so when WOWY came out, it was like, oh, a wussbag song by that band that had a few good songs a few years ago.

Not until Where the Streets Have No Name was released as the 3rd single was I really sold on the band.

Similar story here, Kev. The only difference for me is, as I said above, I pretty much lost interest after Achtung (even though I still love the earlier stuff).

splent · « **Reply #31 on:** December 14, 2017, 08:05:52 AM »

I Will Follow, but my personal favorite isn't on there (Sweetest Thing)

WildRanger · « **Reply #32 on:** August 16, 2021, 03:35:03 AM »

I don't care for U2 that much but I dig these songs:

1. New Year's Day
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday
3. With or Without You
4. Bad
5. Where the Streets Have No Name

Honorable mention: Beautiful Day

Nachtmerrie · « **Reply #33 on:** August 16, 2021, 04:53:26 AM »

For me U2 is all about their earlier albums until Achtung Baby.

I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day
Pride
Bad

My favorite is missing: The Unforgettable Fire

wolfking · « **Reply #34 on:** August 16, 2021, 05:04:02 AM »

You know one of my favs from U2 that is seriously underrated? Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me. Great song.

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