Your Top 5 U2 Songs

New Year's Day
The Electric Co.
Like a Song
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Desire

honorable mention: Three Sunrises, Mysterious Ways, Vertigo

I stopped paying attention pretty early on, but I'm happy for them for the career they've had and glad they're still around. And still just four guys.

 

Bullet the Blue Sky
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
One
Love Is Blindness
Song for Someone

 

Angel of Harlem
One
One Tree Hill
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Where the Streets Have No Name

 

Where The Streets Have No Name
With Or Without You
Red Hill Mining Town
A Sort Of Homecoming
Bad
The Unforgettable Fire
The Electric Co.
An Cat Dubh
I Will Follow
Desire
Silver And Gold
All I Want Is You
Until The End Of The World
One
Magnificent

Five you said?

 

Ohhhhhhh this is tough. If forced to stick to five:

Unforgettable Fire
With or Without You
AllI I Want is You
One
Until the End of the World

I’d love to list a few more to cover later years but I’ll be good.

Oh heck, Walk On, Yahweh, Kite, Magnificent, Zooropa, Stay(Far Away, So Close), Lemon! honorable mentions.

 

I had it on a cassingle!

 

Angel of Harlem
New Years Day
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven’t Found What Looking For
Mysterious Ways

Sucks leaving out Pride, Desire and Blue Sky

 

Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Pride
Where The Streets Have No Name
Zoo Station
Moment Of Surrender

 

The Unforgettable Fire
One Tree Hill
Gloria
Until the End of The World
Stay (So Faraway, So Close)

On another day some of these could be in the list:
One, Bad, New Year's Day, Pride, Running to Stand Still

Not Surprisingly no newer U2 songs. I haven't actually listened to their last two albums thoroughly. I guess I've lost hope for them to create truly great music again.

 

"Boy" is such a raw, melodic album. I think I'll have to take 5 from the debut alone:
Twilight
An Cat Dubh --> Into the Heart (I'm counting it as one since the former gracefully transforms itself into the latter)
Out of Control (Can't choose the previous two without including this track, which also almost seems a part of the previous tunes)
A Day Without Me
Another Time Another Place

This is mostly though because of the album being for me a time in my life. I hear the songs and instantly feel transported back to the mid-80s (when I first heard it), and I can almost see my old friends all standing before me. It feels like home. Their later albums have some great songs, but for one reason or another, they're not "representative" of a time period or of a "feeling" I have when I think back on my life.

Honorable mentions, maybe? Promenade, Bad, I Fall Down, and the entire side 2 of Joshua Tree. Oh well, I'll be ready for a thread of U2's Top Ten or maybe Twenty.

 

Do they have five ‘instrumentals’? Those!

 

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For > timeless and universal
Walk On
Bad live
Spanish Eyes
One

 

"Bullet the Blue Sky"
"Zoo Station"

Honestly have no idea after that!

 

Streets
Running to stand still
Kite
Who’s gonna ride your wild horses
A sort of homecoming

But man that’s tough...I think a top 10 would have been easier

 

So Cruel
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Until The End Of World
Mysterious Ways
One

Yes all five are from the same album.

 

Gloria
New Year's Day
The Unforgettable Fire
Exit
Dirty Day

 

Hold Me, Thrill Me...
I Threw a Brick Through the Window
Until the End of the World
Spanish Eyes
The Troubles

 

Where The Streets Have No Name
One
Stay
Kite
Walk On

 

Pride (In the Name of Love)
The Unforgettable Fire
One Tree Hill
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Angel of Harlem

 

One
New Years Day
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Beautiful Day
Sunday Bloody Sunday

 

MLK
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
In a Little While
Running to Stand Still
If God Will Send His Angels

 

Gloria
Pride
Party Girl
Mysterious Ways
Sunday Bloody Sunday

 

Mysterious Ways
One
New Year's Day
Until the End of the World
Gloria (or Zoo Station? Can't decide).

 

1. New Years Day
2. An Cat Dubh
3. Surrender
4. Gloria
5. Into the Heart

 

Nigh on impossible to do only 5; but these ones had a massive impact on me

Bad. - especially the live version on wide awake in America

The unforgettable fire - what a track that is, unlike anything else they’ve done

With or without you - could pick loads from The Joshua Tree, but this is a classic

One - again, could pick all of achtung baby , but this is a great song all day every day

Moment of Surrender- absolutely the best song they’ve done in the last 10 years