Bono: Perhaps The GREATEST U2 Song

[Chewystick69]

Anyone else hear the Rolling Stone interview where Bono says that Stay (Faraway, So Close!) is "perhaps the greatest u2 song."?

He continues that it is the "most extraordinary contour of a melody" and that the "lyric never misses."

I really really like the song also. It is my favorite on Zooropa.

So I was thinking what my favorite U2 song was. After much debate, I tries to come up with a top 10 list. However, i had to make it a top 15 list. It was easy to come up with my number one (for personal reasons). The others were difficult.

Anyone else care to share their top 15?

P.S. I'm in my late 30's, so that is why most of my favorites are from the 1980's.

P.S.S This list probably changes from year to year

1. Bad
2. With Or Without You
3. All I Want Is You
4. One Tree Hill
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. Where The Streets Have No Name
7. One
8. Out Of Control
9. Gloria
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday
11. A Sort Of Homecoming
12. Running To Stand Still
13. So Cruel
14. Kite
15. Gone So Cruel

 

[BrownEyedBoy]

No. It's "One."

 

[XHendrix24]

No. It's "One."

No. It's not.

 

[Boberts]

1. Bad
2. One Tree Hill
3.Running to Stand Still
4. Mofo
5. Angel of Harlem
6. Where The Streets Have No Name
7. One
8. Out Of Control
9. ISHFWILF
10. Acrobat
11. BTBS (live versions)
12. Running To Stand Still
13. Mysterious Ways
14. WOWY
15. Cry/Electric Co (live)

 

[JCOSTER]

Hey Me too, I got the big one this summer!

Mine are:

Bad
Wire
New Years Day
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Electric Co.
Electrial Storm
Kite
Out of Control
A Sort of Homecoming
A Man & A Woman
Miracle Drug
SYCMIOYO
Velvet Dress
All I want is You

 

[Axver]

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. Bad
3. The Unforgettable Fire
4. One Tree Hill
5. City Of Blinding Lights
6. Heartland
7. New Year's Day
8. Acrobat
9. Gone
10. Wild Irish Rose
11. Slug
12. Spanish Eyes
13. God Part II
14. Gloria
15. The Electric Co.

If 11 O'clock Tick Tock's studio version were even remotely as good as the live version, it'd be in the top five.

No. It's "One."

One is one of U2's worst songs, a bland shadow of WOWY.

 

[zoopop]

1. Bad
2. UF
3. Streets
4. WOWY (Greatest U2 song, just everything about it)
5. One
6. Mofo
7. Stay
8. Sort of A Homecoming
9. COBL
10.Please

 

[Chewystick69]

So far bad is either #1 or #2. Great lists though.

JCOSTER put A Man & A Woman on his/her list. That was brave. But I love that song also.

AXVER. What is slug? From Passengers?

BOBERTS. I think your list closely resembles mine. Good list.

 

[LMP]

1 // The Fly
2 // I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3 // Where the Streets Have No Name
4 // Bad
5 // One
6 // Pride (In the Name of Love)
7 // City of Blinding Lights
8 // Mofo
9 // Until the End of the World
10 // Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
11 // Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
12 // With or Without You
13 // Beautiful Day
14 // All I Want is You
15 // Running to Stand Still

 

[Axver]

AXVER. What is slug? From Passengers?

Yep, second track on the album.

 

[IanIinTheSky]

1- Elevation
2- Zoo Station
3-Where the Streets Have No Name
4-Sunday Bloody Sunday
5-Discotechque
6-The Fly
7-Bad
8- I Will Follow
9-New Years Day
10-Vertigo
11-Mofo
12-With or Without You
13-Desire
14-Pride
15-Mothers Of The Disappeared

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i usually hate threads like these but i'm bored so what the hell.

1. gone
2. until the end of the world
3. out of control
4. please
5. a sort of homecoming
6. an cat dubh/into the heart
7. twilight
8. who's gonna ride your wild horses
9. bad
10. hold me thrill me kiss me kill me
11. city of blinding lights
12. running to stand still
13. wire
14. bad
15. new york

 

[ultravioletluvv]

1. Streets
2. Ultraviolet
3. Until the End of the World
4. Walk On
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. Red Hill Mining Town
7. Spanish Eyes
8. Electrical Storm
9. Bad
10. Stay
11. Kite
12. The Fly
13. Heartland
14. One
15. City of Blinding Lights

 

[theu2fly]

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. Gloria
3. Out Of Control
4. Wire
5. Like A Song...
6. New Year's Day
7. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
8. Zoo Station
9. Until The End Of The World
10. When I Look At The World
11. Gone
12. City Of Blinding Lights
13. 40

I kinda tend to steer from the mainstream singles, they are good to listen to but sometimes not...

 

[Sting]

Wow. finally a list without BAD. Its a GOOD song... but its not THAT Good... I'd say its kinda Bad... Bad that is... but its good... not bad... but good! But definately not the best! But thats not to say its bad either! Its pretty damn good!

 

[Windmilllane]

Okay, here is mine at the moment:

1. Where the Streets Have No Name
2. Pride
3. One
4. Beautiful Day
5. With or Without You
6. Vertigo
7. The Fly
8. Mysterious Ways
9. Original of the Species
10. The Unforgettable Fire
11. Gone
12. Love and Peace or Else
13. Until the End of the World
14. Like a Song
15. Heartland

 

[Chewystick69]

Wow!! Like a Song made the last 2 lists. Thats Great!! I Love that song too.

 

[Sting]

Like A Song is fookin amazing. Its a DAMN shame they don't play it live... they only did it once. I would love to hear it live...

 

[2861U2]

My 15 favorite:
1) Until The End Of The World
2) Elevation
3) Miracle Drug
4) Beautiful Day
5) Always
6) New Years Day
7) Levitate
8) With Or Without You
9) I Will Follow
10) Gone
11) Love Is Blindness
12) Crumbs From Your Table
13) Bad
14) Promenade
15) Numb


U2's 15 greatest songs, IMO:
1) With Or Without You
2) One
3) New Years Day
4) Bad
5) Until The End Of The World
6) Beautiful Day
7) Where The Streets Have No Name
8) Gone
9) Miracle Drug
10) The Fly
11) City Of Blinding Lights
12) Running To Stand Still
13) Kite
14) 40
15) Sunday Bloody Sunday

 

[Aygo]

One is one of U2's worst songs, a bland shadow of WOWY. [/B]

No it isn't... "One" is a great song, it has nothing to do with WOWY.

Ok, my top15 for today

1. Yahweh
2. Walk on
3. One
4. Zoo station
5. I will follow
6. City of blinding lights
7. Wake up dead man
8. Running to stand still
9. Levitate
10. Salome
11. Discotheque
12. The fly
13. Scarlet
14. Grace
15. All because of you

 

[popacrobat]

1. where the streets have no name
2. with or without you
3. until the end of the world
4. beautiful day
5. new years day
6. the fly
7. sometimes you can't make it on your own
8. zooropa
9. discotheque
10. city of blinding lights
11. stay
12. walk on
13. last night on earth
14. lemon
15. vertigo

 

[u2granny]

1. One Tree Hill
2. So Cruel
3. Mother's of the Disappeared
4. Stay
5. Hawkmoon 269
6. Tomorrow
7. Out of Control
8. All I Want is You
9. Mofo
10. I Will Follow

Ten was difficult enough.
This changes weekly.

 

[SleepyDeadMan]

1 All I Want Is You
2 Acrobat
3 Streets
4 Gone
5 Lemon
6 One
7 With or Without You
8 Beautiful Day
9 Sunday Bloody Sunday
10 A Sort of Homecoming
11 Ultraviolet
12 Kite
13 Mofo
14 Miracle Drug
15 Please (single version)
16 The Electric Co.
17 Wake Up Dead Man
18 Red Hill Mining Town
19 Bad
20 Pride (In The Name Of Love)

There were too many great songs out of my top 15, so I did top 20 There are so many others to list, but im going to bed.

EDIT: 21 The Fly

 

[ozeeko]

Me fave:

1) Running To Stand Still
2) Lemon
3) Bad
4) Mysterious Ways
5) An Cat Dubh
6) Spanish Eyes
7) Walk To The Water
8) Desire
9) Sunday Bloody Sunday
10) Wake Up Dead Man

 

[Azor]

Where's Mercy???

1.- Beautiful Day
2.- Mercy
3.- Where the streets have no name
4.- Pride
5.- Stay
6.- The Unforgettable Fire
7.- Bad
8.- Ultra Violet
9.- City of Blinding Lights
10.- Walk On
11.- Gone
12.- Until the end of the world
13.- Electrical Storm

 

[Canadiens1131]

WOWY.

 

[catlhere]

Where The Streets Have No Name.

close topiX/10

 

[Jack In The Box]

Gone
Wire
Streets
Tomorrow
Sometimes You Can't blah blah blah
Acrobat
Love is Blindness (live)
Stay
Mofo
The Fly
Until the End of the World
Please
Like a song
New Year's Day
Out of Control

maybe not the greatest but indeed the best 15 U2 songs (IMO)

 

[-macphisto-]

1- Scarlet
2- Rejoice
3- like a song
4- WTSHNN
5- Zooropa
6- LAst Night on Earth
7- Acrobat
8- Another Time another Place
9- Yahweh
10-Stranger in a strange place
11- Promenade
12- Seconds
13-Wire
14-zoo station
15- Twilight

 

[bono_212]

1) The Unforgettable Fire
2) Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
3) Please
4) So Cruel
5) Where the Streets Have No Name
6) City of Blinding Lights
7) Dirty Day
8) With Or Without You
9) Zooropa
10) Elvis Presley and America
11) Stuck in a moment
12) "40"
13) Hawkmoon 269
14) Running to Stand Still
15) Promenade

wow my list is weird....(and also becoming a cd right at this moment...geez this is like the fifth cd I've made this year with UF on it)