Earnie Shavers
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Yes, nothing is underrated in here, but out there, outside of U2 fandom, or even U2 gig attendance, it's going to pretty much be any of those second tier songs - ones that weren't a single, and thus not well known publicly - but U2 fans adore (for good reason) and consider as good or better than whatever other big, first tier songs that came from the same album. Anything like One Tree Hill, or Until the End of the World etc etc.
So, to kind of look at it that way - I think maybe I'd vote for Stay? It was a single, was 'given' to the larger public, yet didn't crossover in any way remotely close to the way many others have. I think that no matter where people in here rank it as a favourite, most would still acknowledge that it is absolutely one of their single best songs, yet 'out there' it wouldn't have 1/1000th the recognition or reputation of a With or Without You or One or two dozen others. So of course a never released deep track from a lesser selling album will be underrated, but for one of their best ever songs, released as a single during their peak period of popularity, Stay has gone mostly under the radar to a sort of criminal level. I mean, it deserves to be rated alongside the One's and With or Without You's, and it had every chance to be, but it's not - therefore, underrated.
So, to kind of look at it that way - I think maybe I'd vote for Stay? It was a single, was 'given' to the larger public, yet didn't crossover in any way remotely close to the way many others have. I think that no matter where people in here rank it as a favourite, most would still acknowledge that it is absolutely one of their single best songs, yet 'out there' it wouldn't have 1/1000th the recognition or reputation of a With or Without You or One or two dozen others. So of course a never released deep track from a lesser selling album will be underrated, but for one of their best ever songs, released as a single during their peak period of popularity, Stay has gone mostly under the radar to a sort of criminal level. I mean, it deserves to be rated alongside the One's and With or Without You's, and it had every chance to be, but it's not - therefore, underrated.