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bobsaget77

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Many argue that SOI is their best since Pop. I think a ranking is needed......

1 North and South of the River
2 Please
3 Discotheque
4 Mofo
5 Gone
6 Staring At The Sun
7 Last Night On Earth
8 If God Will Send His Angels
9 Do You Feel Loved
10 Miami
11 Velvet Dress
12 Wake Up Deadman
13 Playboy Mansion




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1. Mofo
2. North and South of the River
3. Please
4. Gone
5. Miami (This one gets a lot of hate, but I love it. Especially live)
6. Do You Feel Loved
7. If God Will Send His Angels
8. Wake Up Deadman (Larry rules)
9. Last Night On Earth (Always seemed slightly unfinished / clunky)
10. Discotheque (Although the live Vertigo Tour version would rank way higher, if they hadn't abandoned it so quickly)
11. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
12. Staring At The Sun
13. Playboy Mansion

12 and 13 I cannot stand. Have never been able to fathom how something as boring and trite as SATS became a single. It plodded along and bored me to tears live as well (rare for a u2 song).

This is the album in their career where I felt U2 somehow started losing the ability to identify their strongest material. SATS as a single, and "North and South" relegated to B-side?! In what universe?!!

Playboy Mansion is probably their worst song ever, only reason it falls below "Staring".
 
Discotheque
Gone
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Miami (the live version will blow your earballs away)
Last Night on Earth
Do You Feel Loved
Mofo
Please
Playboy Mansion
Staring at the Sun
If God Will Send His Angels
Wake Up Dead Man

Really, I love them all to some degree and don't skip any. The single version of Please is the tits. Same with North and South of the River.

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For starters, I think SOI is their best work since Achtung Baby.


Here is my Pop ranking:

1- Gone
2- Mofo
3- Please
4- God
5- Disco
6- Velvet
7- Earth
8- Deadman
9- Loved
10- Sun
11- Playboy
12- Miami
 
One of my least favorites. I used to call it their worst but I listened recently and remembered there are some things I like here (and that ATYCLB is almost entirely garbage).

1. Mofo
2. Wake Up Dead Man
3. Gone
4. Last Night on Earth
5. Staring at the Sun
6. Please
7. If God Will Send His Angels
8. Do You Feel Loved
9. Discotheque
10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
11. Miami
12. The Playboy Mansion
 
1. Please
2. Gone
3. Discotheque
4. Do You Feel Loved
5. Last Night on Earth
6. Wake Up Dead Man
7. If God Will Send His Angels
8. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
9. Mofo
10. Staring at the Sun
11. The Playboy Mansion
12. Miami
 
1-Do You Feel Loved
2-Discotheque
3-Staring At The Sun
4-Playboy Mansion
4a-North and South of the River
5-Last Night on Earth
6-Please(strings version would be #4)
7-If God Will Send His Angels(single version would be #5)




8-Gone
9-Velvet Dress (speak up Bono)


10-Mofo (mother suckin, rockin roll..ugh)






11-WUDM (cause you fell asleep listening to this)
12-Miami (U2 wrote Miami...they really did)








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Exceptional U2 Listening
1. Gone
2. Last Night on Earth
3. Please
4. Do You Feel Loved
5. Mofo

Good U2 Listening
(I'm Not Your Baby)
6. Wake Up Dead Man
(North and South of the River)
(Holy Joe)
7. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

Average U2 Listening
8. Discotheque
9. Staring at the Sun

Poor U2 Listening
10. If God Will Send His Angels

Utterly Dreadful U2 Listening
11. Playboy Mansion
12. Miami
 
Gone
Last Night on Earth
Staring at the Sun
Do You Feel Loved
Discothèque
Please
Mofo
If God Will Send His Angels
Miami
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Wake Up Dead Man
The Playboy Mansion
 

Great

Gone
If God Will Send His Angels- perhaps in the handful of their most underrated songs
Staring At The Sun

Good
Mofo
Discotheque
The Playboy Mansion
If You Wear That Velvet Dress

Average
Do You Feel Loved
Please
Last Night On Earth

Poor
Wake Up Dead Man
Miami
 
Mofo
Do You Feel Loved - why wouldn't/couldn't they do this on POPMart?
Gone
Discotheque
Last Night
Staring
Velvet
Playboy
Angels
Please
Dead Man
Miami- worst U2 song ever

Love POP but it should have been the first 7 tracks plus North/South. Tracks 8-12 are duds.
 
Exceptional U2 Listening
1. Gone
2. Last Night on Earth
3. Please
4. Do You Feel Loved
5. Mofo

Good U2 Listening
(I'm Not Your Baby)
6. Wake Up Dead Man
(North and South of the River)
(Holy Joe)
7. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

Average U2 Listening
8. Discotheque
9. Staring at the Sun

Poor U2 Listening
10. If God Will Send His Angels

Utterly Dreadful U2 Listening
11. Playboy Mansion
12. Miami

Sunshine coming out of my arse listening:
Gone
Discotheque
Mofo

Shit eating grin listening:
Please
Wake up dead man
Last night on earth

Tasty biscuit listening:
Staring at the sun
Velvet dress
Do you feel loved
Miami

Picking nose and eating it listening:
Playboy Mansion
Angels
 
Great
North and South
Do You Feel Loved
Gone
Please

Good
Last Night on Earth
Mofo
Staring At the Sun
Discotheque

Meh
If God Will Send His Angles
If You Wear That Velvet Dress

Ass
Miami
Playboy
Wake Up Deadman
 
Great

1. Discotheque
2. Gone
3. Do You Feel Loved
4. If God Will Send His Angels
(North And South Of The River)

Pretty Good:

5. Mofo
6. Staring At The Sun
(I'm Not Your Baby)

Decent:

7. Last Night On Earth
8. The Playboy Mansion

Pointless:

(Holy Joe)
9. Wake Up Dead Man
10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
11. Please
12. Miami
 
Great:

Gone
Wake Up Dead Man
Please
Discothèque

Good:

Last Night on Earth
Mofo
Staring at the Sun
Do You Feel Loved
If God Will Send His Angels

Ok:

If You Wear That Velvet Dress

Meh:

The Playboy Mansion

Why Jesus Why:

Miami
 
Great:
Discotheque
Do You Feel Loved
Mofo
If God Will Send His Angels
Staring At The Sun
Last Night On Earth
Gone
Miami
The Playboy Mansion
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Please
Wake Up Dead Man

Very Good:
-

Good:
-

Average:
-

Poor:
-

No. I'm not kidding.
 
Great

Mofo
Wake Up Dead Man
Gone


Very Good

Do You Feel Loved
Please
Discotheque

Good

IYWTVD
Miami
Staring At The Sun
Playboy Mansion

Sub-par

Last Night On Earth
If God Will Send His Angels
 
Masterpieces

Mofo
Gone
Please

Great

Discotheque
If you wear that velvet dress
Wake up dead man

Good

Do you feel loved
Starring at the sun
Last night on earth
Miami

No-more-than-average

If God will send his angels
Playboy mansion

Great album, in my top 5
 
Great

1. Discotheque
2. Gone
3. Do You Feel Loved
4. If God Will Send His Angels
(North And South Of The River)

Pretty Good:

5. Mofo
6. Staring At The Sun
(I'm Not Your Baby)

Decent:

7. Last Night On Earth
8. The Playboy Mansion

Pointless:

(Holy Joe)
9. Wake Up Dead Man
10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
11. Please
12. Miami


Interesting.


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F***ing great
Do You Feel Loved
Discotheque
Gone
MOFO
Staring At The Sun

Great
Wake Up Dead Man
If God Will Send His Angels
Last Night On Earth

Good
Please
If You Wear That Velvet Dress

Average
Miami
Playboy Mansion
 
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Mofo
Please
Discotheque
Do You Feel Loved
Wake Up Dead Man
Miami
Gone
Playboy Mansion
Staring At The Sun
Last Night On Earth
If God Will Send His Angels
 
My favourite album!

1. Please
2. If God Will Send His Angels
3. Gone
4. Do You Feel Loved
5. Discotheque
6. Wake Up Dead Man
7. Mofo
8. Staring at the Sun
9. Last Night on Earth
10. Miami
11. The Playboy Mansion
12. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

but ranking changes. Please will always be my favourite though
 
I love every song on this album, with the exception of SATS, which I merely like. Probably because it's the most "normal" thing on there.

I also love North And South..., Holy Joe, and I'm Not Your Baby.

The Playboy Mansion, which many people are down on, has such a great groove, even if the lyrics are tacky/dated. Plus that celestial outro. It's up near the top for me.

Ranking would be rather arbitrary because this is such a wealth of riches. Songs Of Innocence has some great stuff but then you put this on and see how they were really going for it back then, and Bono's lyrics writing has arguably never been better. Even something like Miami is an impressionistic, vivid snapshot that's more refreshing than the 2000s era bromides he's had so much trouble shaking.
 
This ain't easy to rank, as like Achtung it can fluctuate massively for me.

I know when I find an album to be cracking, as even though I may be thinking of just one song, I actually want to listen to the whole damn thing. This one was a pearler that I keep on going back to

Exceptional

1. Discotheque 10

2. Please 10


Excellent

3. Do You Feel Loved? 9

4. Miami 8.5

5. Mofo 8.5

6. Last Night On Earth 8

7. If You Wear that Velvet Dress 8

8. If God Will Send His Angels 8


Very Good

9. Wake Up Dead Man 7.5

10. Staring at the Sun 7

11. Gone 7


Good

12. Playboy Mansion 6




Sent from a barge floating through the docks of Dublin
 
Great:
01. MOFO

Good:
02. Discotheque
03. Please
04. Wake Up Dead Man
05. Miami
06. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

Ok:
07. Do You Feel Loved
08. Gone
09. Last Night on Earth
10. Staring at the Sun

Pretty bad:
11. The Playboy Mansion
12. If God Will Send His Angels
 
Gone
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Mofo
Wake Up Dead Man
Do You Feel Loved
Staring At The Sun
Please
Last Night On Earth
Discotheque
If God Will Send His Angels
The Playboy Mansion
Miami
 
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