Top 25 Favorite U2 Songs

[TheEdge25]

Bored tonight and wanted to do a list like this. Let me know what you guys think:

25 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
24 - Even Better Than The Real Thing/The Fly
23 - Kite (Live) - (Window in the Skies Single)
22 - Fez - Being Born
21 - Original of the Species
20 - Bad
19 - Discotheque
18 - Mofo
17 - The Unforgettable Fire
16 - Moment of Surrender
15 - Vertigo/Until the End of the World
14 - Last Night On Earth
13 - Angel of Harlem - (U2 Go Home: Live From Slane Castle)
12 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
11 - City of Blinding Lights
10 - All I Want Is You
9 - One
8 - Hawkmoon 269
7 - Mysterious Ways
6 - Beautiful Day
5 - Running To Stand Still
4 - With or Without You
3 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - (Hasta La Vista, Baby!)
2 - Ultra Violet (Light My Way) - (U2 360 At The Rose Bowl)
1 - Where The Streets Have No Name

 

[Casamares]

Ho, ho, ho... It had to be difficult to line up it all Congratulations
I'll try to do it, but I suppose, it will be a very hard work

 

[purpleoscar]

Bored tonight and wanted to do a list like this. Let me know what you guys think:

25 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
24 - Even Better Than The Real Thing/The Fly
23 - Kite (Live) - (Window in the Skies Single)
22 - Fez - Being Born
21 - Original of the Species
20 - Bad
19 - Discotheque
18 - Mofo
17 - The Unforgettable Fire
16 - Moment of Surrender
15 - Vertigo/Until the End of the World
14 - Last Night On Earth
13 - Angel of Harlem - (U2 Go Home: Live From Slane Castle)
12 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
11 - City of Blinding Lights
10 - All I Want Is You
9 - One
8 - Hawkmoon 269
7 - Mysterious Ways
6 - Beautiful Day
5 - Running To Stand Still
4 - With or Without You
3 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - (Hasta La Vista, Baby!)
2 - Ultra Violet (Light My Way) - (U2 360 At The Rose Bowl)
1 - Where The Streets Have No Name

Looks like there's more than 25 . I can see how hard it is to cram so many great songs into 25. I'm going to avoid this because I love about 80 - 100 songs. I'll never be able to finish the list.

The best I can say is that the top 25 U2 songs are the top 25 I want to listen to at this moment.

 

[zooropop40]

Ok... here goes.

Not in any particular order, just my top 25

1. Until the end of the world
2. Love is Blindness
3. Where the streets have no name
4. The Fly
5. Zooropa
6. Lemon
7. Your Blue room
8. Electrical Storm
9. Mothers of the dissapeared
10. Mysterious Ways
11. Gone (new mix version)
12. Ultraviolet
13. Acrobat
14. Whos gonna ride your wild horses
15. Please (single version)
16. Even Better than the real thing
17. Red hill mining town
18. In Gods Country
19. Zoo station
20. One tree hill
21. So Cruel
22. Magnificent
23. Kite
24. Wake up dead man
25. The unforgettable Fire

 

[Casamares]

My list could look like this:

1. Sometimes you can't make it on your own
2. Wave of sorrow
3. Tomorrow
4. Where the streets have no name
5. With or without you
6. I still haven't found what I'm looking for
7. Pride
8. City of blinding lights
9. Gloria
10. I will follow
11. One
12. Acrobat
13. Numb
14. Van Diemen's land
15. Magnificent
16. I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight
17. Elevation
18. Desire
19. October
20. Sunday bloody sunday
21. Vertigo
22. Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me
23. Until the end of the world
24. Stuck in a moment
25. New Year's day

TOP 3 is TOP 3, next ones - hard to line up.

 

[lauramullen]

Ok, here is mine. Numbers 4-25 are in no particular order.

1. Ultraviolet
2. Streets
3. Bad
4. Until The End Of The World
5. Drowning Man
6. Electrical Storm
7. The Fly
8. An Cat Dubh
9. City Of Blinding Lights
10. Mofo
11. Red Hill Mining Town
12. Spanish Eyes
13. Beautiful Day
14. Miss Sarajevo
15. With or Without You
16. So Cruel
17. All I Want Is You
18. Magnificent
19. Moment Of Surrender
20. Discotheque
21. Surrender
22. The Unforgettable Fire
23. Kite
24. In God's Country
25. A Sort Of Homeoming

 

[xtrmx]

With them alternating (well only once) your 2nd and 3rd on your list live, it should be hard for you when you see them live


1. Bad
2. Ultraviolet
3. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
4. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
5. Gone
6. Promenade
7. Discotheque
8. Lady With the Spinning Head
9. With or Without You
10. All I Want Is You
11. Original Of the Species
12. Lemon
13. Heartland
14. The Fly
15. The Unforgettable Fire
16. Pride
17. Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World
18. So Cruel
19. Fez-Being Born
20. Miracle Drug
21. Magnificent
22. Rejoice
23. With a Shout
24. Last Night on Earth
25. Where the Streets Have No Name

I've made this list so many times and number 6-25 always change. 1-5 is rock solid though.

 

[greenlight7-11]

Numbers 1-5 ranked, the rest is in no order...

1. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
2. Gone
3. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
4. Where The Streets Have No Name
5. Your Blue Room
6. Heartland
7. Do You Feel Loved
8. No Line On The Horizon
9. Pride
10. I Will Follow
11. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
12. With Or Without You
13. Kite
14. The Fly
15. Bad
16. Angel Of Harlem
17. So Cruel
18. All I Want Is You
19. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
20. Until The End of The World
21. Magnificent
22. Sunday Bloody Sunday
23. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
24. In A Little While
25. Lady With The Spinning Head

 

[Airseven]

1 - Bad
2 - Running To Stand Still
3 - With Or Without You
4 - 40
5 - The Fly
6 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
7 - Zooropa
8 - Beautiful Day
9 - Heartland
10 - Moment Of Surrender
11 - Promenade
12 - Bullet The Blue Sky
13 - Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
14 - Drowning Man
15 - Seconds
16 - Van Diemen's Land
17 - October
18 - In A Little While
19 - Acrobat
20 - Cedars Of Lebanon
21 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
22 - Two Hearts Beat As One
23 - When Love Comes To Town
24 - The Sweetest Thing
25 - Crumbs From Your Table

 

[Axver]

Studio only:

Perfect U2 Listening
1. A Sort Of Homecoming
2. One Tree Hill (would be #1 on the basis of 26 December 1989, Dublin)
3. Heartland
4. The Unforgettable Fire

Very, Very Fine U2 Listening
5. New Year's Day
6. Treasure
7. Gone
8. Bad
9. Wild Irish Rose
10. Spanish Eyes
11. Gloria
12. Acrobat
13. Zooropa

Very Fine U2 Listening
14. Love Is Blindness
15. The Electric Co.
16. Twilight
17. Bass Trap
18. The Fly
19. Beach Sequence
20. Rejoice
21. Love Comes Tumbling
22. One Minute Warning
23. The Three Sunrises
24. Boomerang II
25. Exit

Or something like that. If live stuff was included, there is no question that 11 O'clock Tick Tock, Hawkmoon 269, and Bad would be in Perfect U2 Listening.

 

[BGD75]

That is pretty tough. For me it is very hard to make a definite top 25. I would have to say 1-5 are more or less set, the rest... was hard to assign a specific number - those rotate depending on my mood

25. A sort of Homecoming
24. Desire
23. Hawkmoon 269
22. So Cruel
21. Beautiful Day
20. Gone
19. Until the end of the world
18. BUllet the blue sky
17. Sunday Bloody Sunday
16. Kite
15. The Unforgettable Fire
14. Magnificent
13. Stay
12. Walk on
11. With or without you
10. Hold me, thrill me....
9. One
8. Bad
7. Streets
6. New Year's Day
5. The Fly
4. Ultraviolet
3. Running to Stand still
2. Moment of Surrender
1. Acrobat

 

[dyami]

the first ones are easy and the rest is no logical follow up, just what i like the most depending on the mood as well

1. A sort of homecoming
2. BAD
3. Kite
4. where the streets have no name
5. original of the species
6.moment of surrender
7. 40
8. stay
9. love is blindness
10. angel of harlem
11. with or without you
12. One
13. gloria
14. all i want is you
15. van diemens land
16. glastonbury
17. every breaking wave
18. until the end of the world
19. two hearts beats as one
20. unknown caller
21. desire
22.miss sarajevo
23. stuck in a moment
24. elevation
25. crazy

 

[An Cat Gav]

NOT AS HARD AS I THOUGHT, MY LIST HASN'T CHANGED MUCH IN YEARS.

1. the fly
2. bad (live WAIA)
3 Streets
4 The Unforgettable Fire
5 One Tree Hill
6 An Cat Dubh (obviously)
7 Tomorrow
8 Zooropa
9 Your Blue Room
10 Even Better Than The Real Thing
11 your Blue Room
12 Stay
13 Red Hill Mining Town
14 Night and Day
15 All I Want Is You
16 A Celebration
17 A Sort Of Homecoming
18 The Wanderer
19 Until The End f The World
20 Love is Blindness
21 Mofo
22 Electrical Storm
23 TGBHF
24 Lemon (perfecto)
25 Magnificent

 

[An Cat Gav]

your blue room is great but doesn't deserve to be in my list, i swap one of them for Miss Sarajevo.

 

[Salome]

01. Moment of Surrender
02. A Sort Of Homecoming
03. I Still haven't found what I'm looking at
04. Where the streets have no name
05. Stuck in a moment you can't get out of
06. Lemon
07. All I want is You
08. The Fly
09. Beautiful Day
10. The Unforgettable Fire
11. With or Without You
12. One Tree Hill
13. Heartland
14. New Year's Day
15. Pride
16. Luminous Times
17. Rejoice
18. Bad
19. The Wanderer
20. Sunday Bloody Sunday
21. Gloria
22. Love comes tumbling
23. Peace on Earth
24. Promenade
25. I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight

 

[mikal]

1. The Fly
2. Bad
3. Where The Streets Have No Name
4. Until The End Of The World
5. Lemon
6. New Year's Day
7. The Unforgettable Fire
8. No Line On The Horizon
9. Discotheque
10. Fez - Being Born
11. With Or Without You
12. Zooropa
13. Mofo
14. Your Blue Room
15. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
16. Zoo Station
17. Moment Of Surrender
18. Love Comes Tumbling
19. Drowning Man
20. When I Look At The World
21. City Of Blinding Lights
22. Unknown Caller
23. Running To Stand Still
24. Hawkmoon 269
25. Gone

 

[the tourist]

01. With Or Without You
02. New Year's Day
03. Where The Streets Have No Name
04. The Unforgettable Fire
05. Bad
06. All I Want Is You
07. Heartland
08. Pride
09. Like A Song
10. A Sort Of Homecoming
11. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
12. Wake Up Dead Man
13. Zooropa
14. Ultraviolet
15. Spanish Eyes
16. Acrobat
17. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
18. No Line On The Horizon II
19. Until The End Of The World
20. Another Time Another Place
21. Fez-Being Born
22. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?
23. One Tree Hill
24. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
25. Promenade