Interference's Top 209 U2 Songs, The Results Thread!

[bono_212]

I do believe that it has the worst set of lyrics ever written in the entire annals of rock music. Nobody, and I mean nobody should ever be paid for writing offal, banal, abhorrent, appalling, harrowing, ignominious, deplorable, afflictive, lamentable, lugubrious, calamitous, atrocious, repulsive, loathsome, execrable, deficient, dotterel, imbecilic, inane, insensate, ludicrous, obtuse, puerile, malapropos, incongruous, cretinous, gauche, platitudinous, vacuous, inept, and just-plain-dumb set of lyrics.

IT'S TOO LONG TO ADD TO MY SIG!!!

 

[Irishteen]

0. (-) Where The Streets Have No Name - -2935.2

"One of their worst! "

"Easily the worst U2 song of all time."

"I can't deny that it's the worst U2 has ever done, and that's saying a lot"

 

[Axver]

(153) Flower Child 0
(166) Boomerang I 0
(176) Sixty Seconds in Kingdom Come 0

I think this is tragic.

 

[zooropop40]

Let me just put it out there: I like beautiful Ghost- its like enya, sigur ros, and U2 mixed together .... no seriously, Its relaxing.

 

[Irishteen]

I think this is tragic.

And the fact that everyone hates Passengers isn't?

 

[bono_212]

I think this is tragic.

I must admit that I am partially at fault here, I meant to have those last two on my list.

 

[Axver]

And the fact that everyone hates Passengers isn't?

No, that's just banally predictable.

 

[FitzChivalry]

It's just silly how high these NLOTH songs are placing. But that's to be expected, I guess, on a U2 fan forum with a new U2 album having recently come out. But Unknown Caller one of the 25 best songs U2 has ever written? No. Just...no.

QFT!

 

[zooropop40]

beach sequence, miss sarajevo, slug, and your blue room were in my top 50. I love passengers.

 

[Irishteen]

No, that's just banally predictable.

At least we finally realised Streets sucks, and the original Twilight is where it is at

 

[Axver]

I must admit that I am partially at fault here, I meant to have those last two on my list.

The two UF b-sides would've been in the 50s or 60s for me. And Flower Child would've been in the top 100 somewhere.

Plus, come on, Flower Child! How can nobody vote for it? It's been U2's anthem since the Kunstmuseum!

 

[Irishteen]

United Colours made my top 50 list (I think)

 

[Axver]

Beach Sequence made my top 15.

 

[zooropop40]

ok so I think Irishteen needs a

Thanks for putting this all together. It was fun!

 

[Irishteen]

Beach Sequence made my top 15.

That song got 2 votes, United Colours only got one, therefore I have better music taste than you, it's simply Indie economics

 

[bono_212]

The two UF b-sides would've been in the 50s or 60s for me. And Flower Child would've been in the top 100 somewhere.

Plus, come on, Flower Child! How can nobody vote for it? It's been U2's anthem since the Kunstmuseum!

I realize in retrospect that I didn't let myself use as many TUF songs as I wanted to. These days I like everything about that era more than anything else U2 has to offer. It's a phase I go through every now and then.

 

[Irishteen]

ok so I think Irishteen needs a

Thanks for putting this all together. It was fun!

Merci Beaucoup

 

[Axver]

ok so I think Irishteen needs a

Thanks for putting this all together. It was fun!

Yes, quite an effort.

I realize in retrospect that I didn't let myself use as many TUF songs as I wanted to. These days I like everything about that era more than anything else U2 has to offer. It's a phase I go through every now and then.

A fifth of my top fifty came from UF. ASOH, Pride, Wire, UF, Bad, ISS, The Three Sunrises, Love Comes Tumbling, Bass Trap, Boomerang II. Promenade would've made it too had there not been three NLOTH entrants to my top fifty.

 

[Irishteen]

And now that this is all over I actually have to spend the next week studying...le sigh

 

[FitzChivalry]

Thanks Irishteen, for doing this.

 

[theedgeu2]

What an awesome thread! Thank you once again for putting it together!

 

[cjboog]

1. (1) Twilight (Original Version) - 2582.4

Is this a joke?

I must be missing something...

 

[LemonMelon]

Is this a joke?

I must be missing something...

Yes to both.

 

[believer75]

There's been a lot of love lately for The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Electrical Storm, Zooropa, Lady With the Spinning Head and Window in the Skies among interferencers....the results reflect this as well.

 

[Moser]

This list sucks.

Big Girls Are Best should lie at number 1, followed by all songs of POP. I'm ashamed to smoke the blue crack.

 

[rock888nwo]

thanks irishteen...that was great...im really happy the NLOTH songs placed so high

 

[zooropop40]

There's been a lot of love lately for The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Electrical Storm, Zooropa, Lady With the Spinning Head and Window in the Skies

and for good reason! The Ground BHF, Electrical storm, Zooropa, and LWTSH are some of the coolest sounding melodic and just "pure U2" songs out there. If I was to think in my head what I thought of when someone brings up U2 I would probably think of one of these songs in my mind (or at least 90's U2, which in my mind defines U2) ZOO TV for me defines U2.

 

[thefly418]

thanks irishteen...that was great...im really happy the NLOTH songs placed so high

Agreed. I understand the album just came out and, generally speaking, the reviews of the songs on the albums are reactionary and people get very excited. However, i have been listening to this album nonstop since it came out March 3 and i can officially say now that i really love the album and the songs. They aren't getting old at all. There are no One Step Closers or Wild Honeys on the album, and some songs, like Breathe, Magnificent, MOS, UC, NLOTH, are very very good imo.

 

[Scorpionac]

Shadows and Tall Trees worse than THTBA?

The Ocean worse than Drunk Chicken, and um Mission Impossible?

Another Time, Another Place worse than Wild Honey?

Interference - disappointment all around.

 

[Mango]

Dang it people!

Electric Co - way too low
Out of Control - way too low
Kite - way, way too low (my #1)
Acrobat - should be top 5
Magnificent - way too high