Top 15 U2 songs of all time

[Harry Vest]

1. Bad
2. Tomorrow
3. Please
4. Gone
5. Exit
6. Bullet the Blue Sky
7. Running to Stand Still
8. Out of Control
9. Wake Up Dead Man
10. The Unforgettable Fire
11. I Threw a Brick Through a Window
12. New Years Day
13. Every Breaking Wave (not the album version but rather what it will become live)
14. Drowning Man
15. Love is Blindness

 

[An Cat Gav]

1.Bad (WAIA)
2.The Fly
3.Where The Streets have No Name
4.One Tree Hill
5.The Unforgettable Fire
6.All I Want Is You
7.Stay (Far Away So Close)
8.Zooropa
9.Tomorrow
10. An Cat Dubh
11.Even Better Than The Real Thing
12.Promenade
13. Until The End of The World
14. Red Hill Mining Town

If we can count covers then Night and Day would get my number 15 slot and if not it would go to Mofo.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Singles:

1. One
2. With Or Without You
3. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday
5. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
6. Even Better Than The Real Thing
7. All I Want Is You
8. Mysterious Ways
9. I Will Follow
10. Discotheque
11. Beautiful Day
12. Stuck In A Moment
13. Lemon
14. Where The Streets Have No Name
15. The Unforgettable Fire

Honorable Mention: New Years Day, Desire, Angel Of Harlem, The Fly, Stay (Faraway, So Close), Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, Walk On and The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)

Album Tracks:

1. Bad (Wide Awake In America Version)
2. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
3. Love Is Blindness
4. Until The End Of The World
5. Running To Stand Still
6. Bullet The Blue Sky
7. Red Hill Mining Town
8. Exit
9. Yahweh
10. Moment Of Surrender
11. Raised By Wolves
12. This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now
13. Do You Feel Loved
14. Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
15. Zoo Station

 

[Bluer White]

Album tracks, roughly chronological

New Year's Day
The Unforgettable Fire
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
With Or Without You
Running To Stand Still
Red Hill Mining Town
Angel Of Harlem
One
Mysterious Ways
Love Is Blindness
Gone
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Miracle Drug
Moment of Surrender

 

[BigMacPhisto]

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. The Fly
3. Walk On
4. Beautiful Day
5. A Sort of Homecoming
6. Until The End of the World
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. New Year's Day
10. With or Without You
11. City of Blinding Lights
12. Discotheque
13. Lemon
14. Bad
15. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of

 

[CosmoKramer]

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. The Fly
3. Walk On
4. Beautiful Day
5. A Sort of Homecoming
6. Until The End of the World
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. New Year's Day
10. With or Without You
11. City of Blinding Lights
12. Discotheque
13. Lemon
14. Bad
15. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of

No R&H?

Nice list, I like/love every song but Lemon. I just never could get into the who falsetto thing....I really don't enjoy it!


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[LPU2]

1. The Fly
2. One
3. A Sort of Homecoming
4. Your Blue Room
5. Still Haven't Found
6. The Unforgettable Fire
7. Stay
8. WOWY
9. Angel of Harlem
10. Lady with the Spinning Head
11. New Year's Day
12. Bad
13. I Will Follow
14. Running to Stand Still
15. The Troubles

Honorable Mention: Walk to the Water

 

[Musikwala]

Top 15 eh? God, that's a difficult task!!

Hmmm let's see...

An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
The Electric Co.
October
New Year's Day
A Sort Of

Fuck it! It's too difficult.

 

[LemonMelon]

^ I liked where you were going with that list though.

 

[Musikwala]

Haha maybe I should give it a try at some point.

 

[Aardvark747]

1. Heartland
2. Lemon
3. Mofo
4. One
5. Kite
6. Streets
7. Stay
8. Acrobat
9. Miss Sarajevo
10. EBW
11. Zooropa
12. UTEOTW
13. Love Is Blindness
14. HMTMKMKM
15. Electrical Storm

Right now. Though the top 8 are pretty much always in that order.

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

Very difficult......

My Top 20 studio songs in no order: (the order is changing all the time....)

1. The Troubles
2. Iris
3. With a shout
4. The Electric Co
5. Levitate
6. Kite
7. Please (single version)
8. Mofo
9. Heartland
10. Zooropa
11. One Tree Hill
12. The Unforgettable Fire
13. Street Mission
14. Like a song...
15. Acrobat
16. New Year's day
17. Another Time, Another Place
18. The Fly
19. One
20. Mercy (studio version)

My top 20 Live songs in no order (this is pretty much set in stones forever)

1. 11 o'clock tick tock
2. Out of control
3. The Electric Co
4. Gloria
5. Kite
6. Please
7. Mofo
8. Gone
9. Discotheque (Vertigo version)
10. God Part 2
11. Bad
12. Bullet the blue sky
13. Where the streets have no name
14. Exit
15. New Year's day
15. Sunday bloody Sunday (R&H version, not later)
16. The Fly
17. Until the End of the World
18. Mysterious Ways (Zoo Version)
19. Night and Day (the only live known version kills everything they've ever done)
20. Zoo Station (Zoo version)

 

[Axver]

^ I liked where you were going with that list though.

Yeah no kidding.

 

[theFly51]

1. The Fly
2. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
3. Last Night On Earth
4. Dirty Day
5. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
6. All I Want is You
7. Zooropa
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Another Time Another Place
10. This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now
11. Elevation
12. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
13. God Pt. 2
14. Surrender
15. Some Days Are Better Than Others

 

[Bad Exit]

Ok... so... 25 lists later, here are some results.


Giving 1 point to each song regardless of order (and 0.5 to those who submitted 2 different lists), these are -so far- the 15 most loved songs:

1. New Year's Day (15)
2. Where the Streets Have No Name (14)
2. Bad (14)
4. The Unforgettable Fire (13)
5. The Fly (11)
6. With or Without You (9.5)
6. Zooropa (9.5)
8. One (9)
8. Stay (9)
8. Until The End of the World (9)
11. All I Want Is You (7.5)
11. One Tree Hill (7.5)
11. Running to Stand Still (7.5)
14. A Sort of Homecoming (7)
14. Please (7)

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Now... let's complicate it a little bit.
Let's give 15 points to the top song in each list, 14 to the second and so on.
In the lists that were in no particular order, let's give all the songs an average of their points; i.e. each set has 120 points (15+14+13+...), if all 15 songs are in no order, then 120/15 is 8 points to each song.
With this criteria, then these are the 15 most loved songs so far:

1. Where the Streets Have no Name (154)
2. Bad (151)
3. New Year's Day (117)
4. The Fly (104
5. The Unforgettable Fire (98)
5. With or Without You (98)
7. Zooropa (92)
7. One (92)
9. A Sort of Homecoming (80)
10. Stay (76)
11. Running to Stand Still (68)
12. All I Want Is You (63)
13. Until The End Of The World (62)
14. Lemon (56)
14. I still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (56)

Sorry for any mistakes I may have had.

 

[cobl04]

I do find it interesting how much opinion here has dipped of One in recent times. When I started posting it was always the equal of Streets, sometimes even higher, in the endless polls and things we did.

 

[LPU2]

I do find it interesting how much opinion here has dipped of One in recent times. When I started posting it was always the equal of Streets, sometimes even higher, in the endless polls and things we did.

One is one of maybe 6 to 8 songs (by any artist) that I simply never tire of hearing. Streets is weird. I really never liked the song on the record. Still don't. As a recording I wouldn't even put it among my top 30 U2 songs. But live it's the best song they've ever done.

 

[PhilsFan]

1. Please
2. Until the End of the World
3. Bad
4. One Tree Hill
5. Zooropa
6. Love Is Blindness
7. Gone
8. Where the Streets Have No Name
9. The Fly
10. Stay
11. The Unforgettable Fire
12. New Year's Day
13. All I Want Is You
14. The Troubles
15. Ultraviolet

 

[Bad Exit]

After Philsfan list:

1 point per song:

New Year's Day 16
Bad 15
Where The Streets Have No Name 15
The Unforgettable Fire 14
The Fly 12
Zooropa 10.5
Stay 10
Until The End Of The World 10
With Or Without You 9.5
One 9
All I want is you 8.5
One Tree Hill 8.5
Please 8
Running To Stand Still 7.5
Love is Blindness 7.5

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Graded ranking

Bad 15 164
Where The Streets Have No Name 15 162
New Year's Day 16 121
The Fly 12 111
The Unforgettable Fire 14 103
Zooropa 10.5 103
With Or Without You 9.5 98
One 9 92
Stay 10 82
A Sort Of Homecoming 7 80
Until The End Of The World 10 76
Running To Stand Still 7.5 68
All I want is you 8.5 66
One Tree Hill 8.5 63
Please 8 62

 

[prbiker15]

Current favorite 15, chronological order:

New Year's Day
A Sort of Homecoming
The Unforgettable Fire
Where the Streets Have No Name
With or Without You
One Tree Hill
All I Want is You
Until the End of the World
The Fly
Ultraviolet
Acrobat
Stay
Gone
When I Look at the World
City of Blinding Lights

 

[Afliktor]

15 is a stupid number so i'm doing 25

I Will Follow
11 O'Clock Tick Tock (Under A Blood Red Sky)
New Year's Day
Drowning Man
A Sort Of Homecoming
Bad (Wide Awake In America)
Where The Streets Have No Name
With Or Without You
Exit
Bullet The Blue Sky (Live 1993)
The Fly
Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Acrobat
Your Blue Room
Zooropa
Discotheque
Do You Feel Loved
Mofo
Gone
Please (Popheart Live)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Beautiful Day
Cedars of Lebanon
Iris (Hold Me Close)
The Crystal Ballroom

listen to that and tell me that's not the greatest band in the world.

 

[Snowlock]

1. Beautiful Day
2. WOWY
3. Streets
4. Zoo Station
5. WGRYWH
6. Ultraviolet
7. All I Want is You
8. One Tree Hill
9. The Unfortgettable Fire
10. Electrical Storm (Band Version)
11. Disappearing Act
12. NLOTH 2
13. Every Breaking Wave
14. Please
15. One Tree Hill

 

[BigMacPhisto]

No R&H?

That was easily my least favorite U2 record up until recently when they popped a squat on iTunes. For what it's worth, "All I Want Is You" barely missed out on my above list and "Desire" and "Angel of Harlem" would probably be in the Top 30.

"Heartland" is the only other song on the record that I quite like. The gospel "Still Haven't Found" is the only live cut I have a use for.

 

[Fenderbendr]

1. Where the Streets Have no name2. ISHFWILF
3. A Sort of Homecoming
4. Out of Control
5. Two Hearts Beat as One
6. Gloria
7. Ultraviolet
8. Discothèque
9. A Day Without Me
10. WOWY
11. The Troubles
12. New Years Day
13. The Electric Co.
14. The Unforgettable Fire
15. Pride

 

[LemonMelon]

That was easily my least favorite U2 record up until recently when they popped a squat on iTunes. For what it's worth, "All I Want Is You" barely missed out on my above list and "Desire" and "Angel of Harlem" would probably be in the Top 30.

"Heartland" is the only other song on the record that I quite like. The gospel "Still Haven't Found" is the only live cut I have a use for.

No love for Hawkmoon? That one made my list, albeit not higher than AIWIY, the real gem of the album.

 

[nbelcik]

Holy shit this was hard. My initial list of top-tier U2 songs had about 50 songs in it. This is in chronological order.

1. New Year's Day
2. A Sort of Homecoming
3. Bad
4. Where the Streets Have No Name
5. With or Without You
6. One
7. Until the End of the World
8. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
9. Zooropa
10. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
11. Your Blue Room
12. Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
13. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
14. Invisible
15. The Crystal Ballroom


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[BigMacPhisto]

You have great taste in U2, except you let your cat hop onto the keyboard and type your final two selections. We all know that true fans would never choose songs from The Shit Era (2013-present).

 

[BigMacPhisto]

No love for Hawkmoon? That one made my list, albeit not higher than AIWIY, the real gem of the album.

I like the chorus, but the rest is just so hum-drum and U2 trying to be something they're not..."Love Rescue Me" is a million times worse though when it comes to them attempting that rootsy sound.

 

[nbelcik]

You have great taste in U2, except you let your cat hop onto the keyboard and type your final two selections. We all know that true fans would never choose songs from The Shit Era (2013-present).

I thought people would call out me picking SYCMIOYO and SIAYCGOO. Oh well, I guess I'm not a true fan™


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[bobsaget77]

I like the chorus, but the rest is just so hum-drum and U2 trying to be something they're not..."Love Rescue Me" is a million times worse though when it comes to them attempting that rootsy sound.

Nope. Both great songs.


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