Your Top 5 U2 Songs

Top 5 U2 songs in no particular order:
Bad (especially the live version)
Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World
Where the Streets Have No Name
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a tie for 5th place between Kite, Magnificent, and A Sort of Homecoming.

 

1. "One Tree Hill" - still my favorite, and would be my pick if I could only have one song
2. "An Cat Dubh" - an awesome, atmospheric tune from the early "post-punk" era of the band with or without "Into the Heart" tacked on
3. "Beautiful Day" - an excellent single that gave U2 renewed life in the 2000s, and prompted me to purchase All That You Can't Leave Behind
4. "Sweetest Thing" - originally a B-side that became a hit ~10 years later when remixed and re-released as a single; ftr, I like both versions
5. "One" - this may well be U2's signature song, and inspired a great cover by Johnny Cash, even though I left it off my top 10 list a few years ago:
Top 10 U2 songs

 

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. In God's Country
3. I Will Follow
4. Bullet The Blue Sky
5. New Year's Day

 

If I could only listen to 5 U2 songs from here on out I would choose...

Twilight
Gloria
New Year's Day (U.S. remix)
Where The Streets Have No Name (Live Slane Castle)
Mercy (original outtake version)

 

In the 80s when I was in high school they were one of my favorite bands but unfortunately they've done very little since Achtung Baby (which I still think is their best album) that I've enjoyed, so my list, in alphabetical order is:
All I Want Is You
Angel Of Harlem
Bad (live version from Wide Awake In America)
Gloria
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

 

The Unforgettable Fire
One
Every Breaking Wave
Kite
One Tree Hill

 

One
Where The Streets Have No Name
Mofo
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
I Will Follow

 

One
Bad (especially the live version)
Where The Streets Have No Name
With Or Without You
Running to Stand Still

Many others I could've named some not typically mentioned like Elvis Presley and America and Promenade. Nice to see some love for this great band. Its interesting U2 were huge and actually cool for a long time but have a lot of haters today. When exactly did so many people get collectively sick of them (or more specifically, sick of Bono)?

 

New Years Day
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
One
Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Running To Stand Still

 

I never get tired of listening to these five songs:
The Three Sunrises
In God's Country
Bullet The Blue Sky
Last Night On Earth
Elevation (from the live 2001 Elevation dvd)

My next five would be:
An Cat Dubh (from the Red Rocks DVD)
I Threw A Brick Through A Window (from the Red Rocks DVD)
Surrender (from the Red Rocks DVD)
Bad (from the Wide Awake In America EP)
A Sort Of Homecoming (from the Wide Awake In America EP)

And so many other great songs outside of the Top Ten!

 

Please keep voting, but it's...

Tally Time!

Top Five:

1. Bad (24)
2. New Years Day (18)
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday (17)
4. I Will Follow (16)
5. Where the Streets Have No Name (15)

The remaining top twenty:

6. (tie) One (14)
Gloria (14)
8. Until the End of the World (12)
9. The Unforgettable Fire (11)
10. Acrobat (10)
11. (tie) All I Want is You (9)
A Sort of Homecoming (9)
The Fly (9)
14. (tie) With or Without You (8)
Pride (In the Name of Love) (8)
16. (tie) Red Hill Mining Town (7)
Zooropa (7)
Desire (7)
In God's Country (7)
The Electric Co. (7)
Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (7)

Trivia!

Votes by Album:

Boy - 9%
October - 5%
War - 12%
The Unforgettable Fire - 13%
The Joshua Tree - 16%
Rattle and Hum - 6%
Achtung Baby - 16%
Zooropa - 5%
Pop - 4%
All That You Can't Leave Behind - 4%
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb- 2%
No Line on the Horizon - 2%
Songs of Innocence - 1%
Songs of Experience - 1%
Other - 3%

Votes by Decade:

1980s (61%)
1990s (28%)
2000s (8%)
2010s (2%)

No votes for their top 40 hit "Even Better Than the Real Thing"

 

The Fly
Stay (Faraway, So Close)
The Wanderer
Even Better Than The Real Thing
The Unforgettable Fire

 

New Year's Day
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
One
With Or Without You
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (the recording of this is just fantastic, the way all music should sound)

 

don't want to look into the whole thread but there was 90% a vote for ebttrt

 

Just count me in for everything on the Red Rocks album. Their finest hour, IMO.

 

"BAD"
"The Sweetest Thing"
"In a Little While"
"Until The End of the World"
"Pride"

 

Van Diemen's Land
A Sort Of Homecoming
In God's Country
An Cat Dubh
Drowning Man

 

Bad
One
With or without you
Until the end or the world
Where the streets have no name

 

Exit
A Celebration
Tomorrow
Bad
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of

 

Wish they would acknowledge A Celebration. At least it’s on the deluxe October.

 

Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year’s Day
Pride (In the Name of Love)
One
Beautiful Day

 

In alphabetical order...

Gloria
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Two Hearts Beat As One
When Love Comes to Town

 

Twilight
An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
I Fall Down
Gloria
I Will Follow

 

Bad
The Unforgettable Fire
New Year’s Day (War is their best album, IMO)
One
An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart (their first album sounds like one long song to me and I like it all equally)

 

More or less in descending order:

The Fly
Where The Streets Have No Name
Desire
Gone
Lemon

Runner ups:
Bullet The Blue Sky
Until The End Of The World
Surrender
No Line On The Horizon
Do You Feel Loved?