Shuttlecock XXII: Summer of Laz

[lazarus]

I don’t think anything after Pop would be in my Top 10 either, but nor would anything before TUF.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Kite
The Troubles
City of Blinding Lights
Moment of Surrender
The Little Things That Give You Away
Beautiful Day
Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
Invisible
Xanax and Wine
The Blackout

 

[cobl04]

Kite would be in my top 10. No others though.

 

[Axver]

I don’t think anything after Pop would be in my Top 10 either, but nor would anything before TUF.

Funnily enough, despite the fact I now probably rate Boy above UF as my favourite U2 album, this is almost true for me too. New Year's Day is the one pre-UF certainty.

11 O'clock Tick Tock is there if live versions count. Treasure sometimes snags ninth or tenth. I think I usually end up placing Gloria, Twilight, and The Electric Co. in the 11th to 15th range.

 

[the tourist]

I don’t think anything after Pop would be in my Top 10 either, but nor would anything before TUF.

I have two from before TUF in my top 10: New Year’s Day and Like A Song.

 

[cobl04]

Electric Co., New Year's Day and Drowning Man would have claims, not sure if any would make it in though. Might have to give it a whirl soon.

 

[Taylor Swift]

The Songs of Experience album didn't have nearly enough anti-Republican lyrics!

I still thought it was good, though! I love The Showman (their catchiest song in ages!)

Love you guys. Kill the patriarchy

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

The fuck?

 

[cobl04]

She's back! In pog form.

 

[BoMac]

So for the Record Store Day on Black Friday, U2 is releasing a 12” featuring a new mix of Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill with Gavin Friday and Régine from Arcade Fire.

There will also be a newly remastered version of the HMTMKMKM that appeared on the 1990-2000 Best Of.

 

[Kieran McConville]

There has been more good conversation here in the past 24 hours, than in the forum that is actually dedicated for this type of conversation over the past 24 months!

Determining a top 10 for this century is challenging. Mine would likely be NLOTH heavy, with one-off appearances from other albums. Moment of Surrender is in my overall top ten, such is my adoration for it.

For years I've been in the habit of saying - mainly to myself - that Moment of Surrender was The Last Great U2 Song, although I do not think that NLOTH is a great or even very good album. Mostly its aesthetic is more appealing than other 2000s work, but it's too half-arsed and compromised... except for Moment of Surrender.

Still inclined that way.

 

[Kieran McConville]

If we're reaching for possible Top Tens pre-The Unforgettable Fire, I have a massive amount of time for Surrender. I'd rate it over New Years Day, easily. Better than Drowning Man? Maybe not, but something about it connects more, for me.

Would it actually make a top ten of all time, probably not. I think very little outside of the decade bracketed by The Unforgettable Fire, and Passengers, would have a shot. But it's got a better chance than any other early song, for me.

 

[cobl04]

I’m pretty sure this is my top five. Hasn’t really changed in a decade.

Running to Stand Still
Where the Streets Have No Name
With or Without You
Until the End of the World
Bad

 

[Kieran McConville]

They never do change much, after a while. Except when they do (only two of the songs in this list could be called fixtures)

Until The End of The World
Lemon
One Tree Hill/Streets
Bad
So Cruel

 

[the tourist]

My top 10 include the following:

New Year’s Day
Like A Song
A Sort Of Homecoming
Pride
The Unforgettable Fire
Bad
With Or Without You
Heartland
All I Want Is You
Acrobat

 

[lazarus]

Funnily enough, despite the fact I now probably rate Boy above UF as my favourite U2 album, this is almost true for me too. New Year's Day is the one pre-UF certainty.

11 O'clock Tick Tock is there if live versions count. Treasure sometimes snags ninth or tenth. I think I usually end up placing Gloria, Twilight, and The Electric Co. in the 11th to 15th range.

I’m legitimately surprised as I thought half your 10 would be from the first 3 albums.

I’m pretty sure this is my top five. Hasn’t really changed in a decade.

Running to Stand Still
Where the Streets Have No Name
With or Without You
Until the End of the World
Bad

Who said anything about a Top 5?

You people don’t know how to spell or count.

 

[DaveC]

from pre-UF songs:

i will follow
gloria
sunday bloody sunday
an cat dubh/into the heart
new year's day
out of control
drowning man
tomorrow
october
surrender
fire
shadows and tall trees
40

seems like a classic album to me.

 

[LemonMelon]

1. I Will Follow
2. Twilight
3. An Cat Dubh
4. Into the Heart
5. Out of Control
6. Stories for Boys
7. The Ocean
8. A Day Without Me
9. Another Time, Another Place
10. The Electric Co.
11. Shadows and Tall Trees

Seems like a classic album to me

 

[the tourist]

If I were making a 12 song album from pre-Unforgettable Fire songs, it’d go something like this:

1. Gloria
2. I Will Follow
3. New Year’s Day
4. Like A Song
5. Rejoice
6. Out Of Control
7. Tomorrow
8. Drowning Man
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
11. Surrender
12. October

 

[Axver]

1. I Will Follow
2. Twilight
3. An Cat Dubh
4. Into the Heart
5. Out of Control
6. Stories for Boys
7. The Ocean
8. A Day Without Me
9. Another Time, Another Place
10. The Electric Co.
11. Shadows and Tall Trees

Seems like a classic album to me

LM wins this round.

 

[kabigon]

https://youtu.be/1waHf5g0WY4

 

[DaveC]

minor spoiler for the new season of big mouth (netflix show):

Spoiler

in the finale, maury is asked if he still has "that laser dick" to cut a lock, so he grabs his bag of dicks and pulls out a can-opener dick, a cool ranch dick, and then a "dick that looks like u2's the edge" before grabbing the laser dick:

Spoiler

i was thisclose to making an avatar out of that but thought better of it while i was cropping the image

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

minor spoiler for the new season of big mouth (netflix show):

Spoiler

in the finale, maury is asked if he still has "that laser dick" to cut a lock, so he grabs his bag of dicks and pulls out a can-opener dick, a cool ranch dick, and then a "dick that looks like u2's the edge" before grabbing the laser dick:

Spoiler

i was thisclose to making an avatar out of that but thought better of it while i was cropping the image [emoji38]

[emoji813]

 

[Hewson]

minor spoiler for the new season of big mouth (netflix show):

Spoiler

in the finale, maury is asked if he still has "that laser dick" to cut a lock, so he grabs his bag of dicks and pulls out a can-opener dick, a cool ranch dick, and then a "dick that looks like u2's the edge" before grabbing the laser dick:

Spoiler

i was thisclose to making an avatar out of that but thought better of it while i was cropping the image

It's not The Edge...its his brother.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Here she comes
Lady luck again
Figure of eight
Six and nine again
Myyyyy
Myyyyyy
My dick that looks like U2's Edge

 

[Mack_Again]

minor spoiler for the new season of big mouth (netflix show):

Spoiler

in the finale, maury is asked if he still has "that laser dick" to cut a lock, so he grabs his bag of dicks and pulls out a can-opener dick, a cool ranch dick, and then a "dick that looks like u2's the edge" before grabbing the laser dick:

Spoiler

i was thisclose to making an avatar out of that but thought better of it while i was cropping the image

Edge's Les Paul Custom has black pick guard instead of white so that's inaccurate

 

[Diemen]

Edge's Les Paul Custom has black pick guard instead of white so that's inaccurate

 

[david]

So a show will be filmed and that’s why SOI songs have been dropped..

 

[brooklynmike]

Looks like another super rare song may have been rehearsed yesterday.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Looks like another super rare song may have been rehearsed yesterday.

They better not be fucking with me...