Favorite U2 song or songs

[ylimeU2]

Let's see if I can actually pick one from each album. These change around for me a lot. It really depends on when I'm asked.

Boy: An Cat Dubh
October: Gloria
War: Seconds
Under a Blood Red Sky: Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Unforgettable Fire: A Sort of Homecoming & Bad
Wide Awake in America: Bad
Joshua Tree: Running to Stand Still
Rattle and Hum: All I Want Is You & Hawkmoon 269
Achtung Baby: Acrobat, Until the End of the World & Mysterious Ways
Zooropa: Numb & Dirty Day
Passengers: Your Blue Room
POP: Wake Up Dead Man, Please, & Gone
All That You Can't Leave Behind: Elevation
Best of 80-90: Hallelujah Here She Comes
Best of 90-00: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
7: Summer Rain

 

[Bono's shades]

Boy - I Will Follow
October - Tomorrow
War - New Year's Day
UABRS - Sunday Bloody Sunday
UF - Pride
Wide Awake in America - Bad
JT - With or Without You
Rattle and Hum - All I Want Is You
Achtung Baby - One
Zooropa - Zooropa
Pop - Gone
ATYCLB - In A Little While

Favorite non-album songs: Spanish Eyes, Luminous Times, Night and Day, A Celebration, Where Did It All Go Wrong, Big Girls Are Best

 

[Joshua87]

Boy- Out of Control
October- Gloria or Stanger in a Strange Land
War- Two Hearts Beat as One
UF- Pride
JT- One Tree Hill
RH- Heartland or All I Want is You
AB- EBTTRL or Ultraviolet
Zooropa- Zooropa
Pop- Gone or Please
ALYCLB- When I Look at the World or Kite


and I LOVE Miss Sarajevo

"...then you find that feeling wont just go away."

 

[starsgoblue]

This is too hard!!

Boy: Out of control
October: October
UnderA Blood Red Sky: Sunday Bloody Sunday
UF: Bad
Joshua Tree: W/or W/out you, Red Hill Mining
Rattle & Hum: Angel of Harlem
Achtung Baby: The Fly
Zooropa: Lemon
Pop: Gone, Mofo, If God, Please...all of them!
ATYCLB: In A Little While, Kite, New York

Too hard. It changes almost daily.

 

[Miggy D]

Boy - I Will Follow
October - Tomorrow
War - 40
The Unforgettable Fire - Pride
The Joshua Tree - Way too hard to choose... but Running to Stand Still moves me every time I listen to it.
Rattle and Hum - All I Want Is You
Achtung Baby - My favorite album of theirs...every track is a classic, but Until the End of the World still stands as one of the top 5 tracks they've ever produced.
Zooropa - The First Time, Some Days, Stay
Pop - Please (Single version), Gone, Staring at the Sun (Remixed Best Of version)
ATYCLB - This album (on the whole) has kind of disappointed me over time. Out of all the U2 albums I own, this is the one in which I skip the most tracks. I basically listen to Beautiful Day, Stuck in a Moment, Walk On, Kite, and New York (occasionally). Elevation kind of makes me cringe...("A mole, digging in a hole!"), and Bono seemed to be obsessed with making his voice sound as horrible as possible on most of the tracks (In a Little While, Wild Honey), when clearly he is capable of singing better (take for example, Electrical Storm, which was made after ATYCLB, but has better vocals). But in terms of vocals...I am of the belief that Bono's voice these days sounds better in concert (stronger, clearer, more full-voiced) than it does in the studio. Whenever I watch the Elevation Live DVD, I can't help but think "Gosh damnit, why can't his voice sound this good on the album?"

Wow, what a digression! Sorry about that, folks.

 

[RickFly]

WELCOME! i have been a u2 fan since i was 14 years old,. i am 27 now. my all time favorite song is "one" but i will try and put album by album favs on here. also, i will state my second fav. for achtung baby since i already stated that "one" is my all time fave.


Boy-Out of Control
October- Scarlet
War- New Years Day
Under a blood red sky - Sunday bloody Sunday
UF- Its a tie between Pride and Bad
Wide Awake - A Sort of Homecoming
JT - One Tree Hill
RH- Heartland
Actung- Acrobat (all time fav album so besides one , my other fav changes often)l
Zooropa- Stay
Pop- wake Up Dead Man, please (single version)
ATYCLB- tie between Walk On and Kite

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

Boy - I Will Follow
Gloria - Gloria
War - New Year's Day
Under A Blood Red Sky - The Electric Co.
The Unforgettable Fire - Pride
The Joshua Tree - Where The Streets Have No Name
Rattle And Hum - Hawkmoon 269 / Angel Of Harlem
Achtung Baby - The Fly
Zooropa - The Wanderer
Passengers - Your Blue Room
Pop - Last Night on Earth / Gone
All That You Can't Leave Behind - Kite


HM: Until The End Of The World, Like A Song, Sunday Bloody Sunday, HMTMKMKM, One, Desire, I Still Haven't Found..., Stuck In A Moment, Bad, Love Resuce Me, Surrender, The Electric Co, Stay...... I could go on and on and on and on....

 

[ultraviolet7]

1. Boy - I Will Follow/The Ocean
2. October - Gloria
3. War - New Year's Day
4. Under A Blood Red Sky - Sunday Bloody Sunday
5. The Unforgettable Fire - Bad/The Unforgettable Fire
6. The Joshua Tree - Streets
7. Rattle & Hum - Bullet The Blue Sky/Silver & Gold/All I Want Is You
8. Achtung Baby - The Whole Album! The Fly/Ultraviolet if I really gotta choose
9. Zooropa - Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car/Numb/Stay
10. Original Soundtracks - Miss Sarajevo/Theme from Let's Go Native/Slug
11. Pop - Again the whole album LOL - OK Gone/Mofo/Miami
12. ATYCLB - Elevation/Kite
13. Best of 1990-2000 (B disc) - Electrical Storm/Dirty Day/LWSH/Salome

 

[drivemytrabant]

Boy: A day without me
October: Tomorrow
War: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Under a Blood Red Sky: Gloria and Party Girl
The Unforgettable Fire: Wire
Wide Awake in America: Bad
Joshua Tree: Bullet
Rattle and Hum: God Pt 2
Achtung Baby: Acrobat and UTEOTW
Zooropa: Dirty Day (even though I like the Junk Day mix better)
Passengers: Your Blue Room, Slug
POP:Gone
All That You Can't Leave Behind: Kite

 

[Cutters10C]

Boy-I Will Follow, Out of Control
October-Gloria
War-Sunday Bloody Sunday
UF-Bad
JT-With or Without You, RTSS, Red Hill
Rattle and Hum-Hawkmoon and All I Want is You
Achtung Baby-One, UTEOTW, The Fly
Zooropa-Stay and The First Time
Passengers-Your Blue Room
Pop-Do You Feel Loved, Gone
ATYCLB-New York, Kite, BD, Walk On
New Album-Miracle Drug!!!!!! (so far...)

 

[discothequeLP]

Boy- Stories for Boys, Out of Control, I Will Follow (11 O' Clock Tick Tock)
October- Gloria
War- Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year's Day, 40, Like a Song, Drowning Man, Refugee, Seconds, Surrender
The Unforgettable Fire- Bad, ASOH, TUF, MLK
Joshua Tree- everything! (especially One Tree Hill, Streets, MOTD)
AB- The Fly, Mysterious Ways, Ultraviolet, EBTTRT, Zoo Station,
Zooropa- The whole thing!!!
Pop- The whole thing besides Playboy Mansion and Mofo
ATYLCB- Kite, IALW, New York
HTDAAB- Native Son, Vertigo, ABOY, Miracle Drug, SYCMIOYO, FMJ, and of course, Love and Peace or Else!!!

 

[Tomaz]

My list

Boy - A Day Without Me
October - October
War - Two Hearts Beat as One
UABRS - Sunday Bloody Sunday (that version of that song was the reason why I got into U2!)
UF - UF
WAIA - Bad
JT - One Tree Hill and WOWY
R&H - Hawkmoon 269 and Silver and Gold
AB - Acrobat and So Cruel
Zooropa - Zooropa
Pop - Wake Up Dead Man
AYCLB - In a Little While (all the rest is pretty much crap, sorry...)

Other songs to be mentioned:
- Lady with..
- One shot of happy..
- I can't help falling in love with you (live as well as the remix on the stay single)
- Spanish eyes

 

[Jarvio]

Boy - The Electric Co.
October - I Fall Down
War - New Year's Day
The Unforgettable Fire - The Unforgettable Fire
The Joshua Tree - Red Hill Mining Town
Rattle And Hum - Angel Of Harlem
Achtung Baby - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Zooropa - Stay (Far Away, So Close!)
Pop - If God Will Send His Angels
All That You Can't Leave Behind - When I Look At The World

 

[Tomer]

Boy - Out of control
October - Gloria
War - Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Unforgettable Fire - The Unforgettable Fire
The Joshua Tree - Bullet the blue sky
Rattle And Hum - God part 2
Achtung Baby - cant pick one form this one, all good, very good
Zooropa - Zooropa
Pop - Please
All That You Can't Leave Behind - Beautiful day
HTDAAB - track 6

 

[Nate Dogg]

Boy-Out Of Control
October-October
War-Like A Song
Unforgettable Fire-Bad
Joshua Tree-Streets
Rattle and Hum-All I Want Is You
Achtung Baby-One
Zooropa-Stay
Pop-Please
ATYCLB-Kite
others-Salome, Electrical Storm, Two Shots Of Happy...,

 

[LMP]

Boy - Out of Control/A Day Without Me
October - October/Fire
War - Sunday Bloody Sunday/Seconds
Unforgettable Fire - Bad/Pride
Joshua Tree - *Everything*
Rattle and Hum - Heartland/ISHWILF [Live]
Achtung Baby - The Fly/Even Better than the Real Thing/Mysterious Ways
Zooropa - Zooropa/Lemon/Stay
Pop - Discotheque/Gone/Playboy Mansion
ATYCLB - Beautiful Day/Walk On/Kite
Best Ofs - Sweetest Thing/Electrical Storm
Honorable Mention - HMTMKMKM/Miss Sarajevo/Your Blue Room/VERTIGO BABY YEAH! /Elevation [Tomb Raider Mix]

 

[AquariumDrinker]

Boy - I Will Follow
October - I Fall Down
War - tie: Surrender & New Year's Day
Unforgettable Fire - Bad
Joshua Tree - tie: WOWY & One Tree Hill
Rattle & Hum - All I Want Is You
Achtung - One
Zooropa - Dirty Day
Pop - Wake Up Dead Man
ATYCLB - In A Little While

Subject to change without notice

 

[starsgoblue]

This is too hard!!

Boy: Out of control
October: October
UnderA Blood Red Sky: Sunday Bloody Sunday
UF: Bad
Joshua Tree: W/or W/out you, Red Hill Mining
Rattle & Hum: Angel of Harlem
Achtung Baby: The Fly
Zooropa: Lemon
Pop: Gone, Mofo, If God, Please...all of them!
ATYCLB: In A Little While, Kite, New York

Too hard. It changes almost daily.

My list is already different after a week's time...

*I'm getting a vision from the movie Office Space, but I'm substituting U2 into the quote--"I celebrate the entire U2 catalouge...you just can't get better for your buck! *

 

[thereisnospoon9]

Boy - Out of Control
October - Gloria
War - Sunday Bloody Sunday
UF - Bad
Joshua Tree - All except BTBS
Rattle & Hum - All I Want Is You
Achtung Baby - Mysterious Ways/One
Zooropa - Stay
Passengers - Blue Room
Pop - Last night on earth
ATYCLB - Walk On (tho i prefer the single version)

also enjoy Hold Me Thrill me Kiss Me Kill Me, hands that built america, the entire Please single (live), WGRYWH temple bar remix, Everlasting Love, and of course, vertigo

 

[AtomicBono]

Three's a good number...

Boy: I Will Follow, Twilight, Stories for Boys
October: Gloria, Tomorrow, October
War: Sunday Bloody Sunday, Like a Song..., Drowning Man
The Unforgettable Fire: Wire, Bad, Indian Summer Sky
The Joshua Tree: Where the Streets Have No Name, With or Without You, Exit
Rattle & Hum: Desire, Heartland, God Part II
Achtung Baby: One, Until the End of the World, The Fly
Zooropa: Zooropa, Stay, Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Pop: Discotheque, Gone, Please
All That You Can't Leave Behind - New York, Beautiful Day, Wild Honey
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: Vertigo, Miracle Drug, Love and Peace or Else

Others: The Ground Beneath Her Feet, HMTMKMKM, Electrical Storm, Always, Party Girl (I have a serious confession to make - I don't have UABRS I know that means I'm a bad person...I'll get it someday I swear!)

 

[Like someone to blame]

I call these my "essential" U2 Songs (note: not all inclusive...we'd be here all day!)

BOY-Stories For Boys & Out of Control

OCTOBER- Tomorrow & I Threw A Brick...Window

WAR- Sunday Bloody Sunday & Surrender

UF-Wire & Sort of Homecoming

JT-Red Hill Mining Town & In God's Country

R&H- Hawkmoon 269, Heartland, and God Part II

AB- Acrobat & Love Is Blindness

Zooropa-Zooropa & Dirty Day

Pop- Last Night On Earth & Please

ATYCLB- Walk On & Kite

Other non-album essentials- Spanish Eyes, Electrical Storm, Treasure (Pete The Chop), Stateless (Million Dollar Hotel Soundtrack) live version of BAD from Wide Awake In America, A Celebration

 

[Tranquilfire]

I'm a newbie to the forum, but certainly no newbie to U2! Here's some of my favorites:

Boy: I Will Follow, Shadows and Tall Trees
October: Gloria, Scarlet, Is That All?
War: Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year's Day, Drowning Man, 40
The Unforgettable Fire: A Sort of Homecoming, Pride (In the Name of Love), Elvis Presley and America
The Joshua Tree: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Bullet the Blue Sky, Running to Stand Still, In God's Country
Rattle and Hum: Hawkmoon 269, Heartland, All I Want Is You
Achtung Baby: The Fly, Mysterious Ways, Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around the World, Acrobat, Love is Blindness
Zooropa: Zooropa, Lemon, Stay (Faraway, So Close!), Some Days Are Better Than Others
Pop: Discotheque, Do You Feel Loved?, Last Night on Earth, Gone, Miami, If You Wear That Velvet Dress
All That You Can't Leave Behind: Beautiful Day, Elevation, Kite, When I Look At the World, New York

Others: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me, Party Girl, A Celebration, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Electrical Storm, Always Forever, Stateless, One (Live), Always, Lady With the Spinning Head, Big Girls Are Best, Don't Take Your Guns to Town, Please (Single Version), Dreaming with Tears in My Eyes (Bono), Children of the Revolution (Bono), North and South of the River, Beach Sequence (Passengers), The Sweetest Thing (Old Version), Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)

Whew, that was exhausting. There's just too much good stuff, and I can't think of one song that I don't really like.

 

[Padj]

Boy: Out of Control, A Day Without Me
October: Rejoice, Tomorrow
War: Drowning Man, SBS
UABRS: Party Girl, 11 o'clock
UF: UF, Pride, Wire, Bad
Joshua Tree: Where The Streets, Bullet the Blue Sky
R&H: All I Want is You, Desire
AB: One, Fly, Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World
Zooropa: Lemon, Stay, Some days Are Better Than Others, Numb
Pop: Please, Gone
ATYCLB: Kite, Peace on Earth, Walk on

Others: Your Blue Room, Goldeneye, North And South of the River, Summer Rain, If God Will Send His Angels, Big Girls Are Best, Sweetest Thing, Vertigo!

 

[Sonic]

Boy: I Will Follow, An Cat Dubh, Stories For Boys
October: Gloria, Fire, October
War: Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year's Day, Like A Song
Unforgettable Fire: Pride, Bad, MLK
Joshua Tree: I Still Haven't Found What I am Looking For, With Or Without You, Exit
Rattle And Hum: Desire, Van Diemens Land, All I Want Is You
Achtung Baby: One, The Fly, Acrobat
Zooropa: Numb, Lemon, Stay
Pop: Mofo, Staring At The Sun, Please
All That You Can't Leave Behind: Elevation, Wild Honey, When I Look At The World

 

[maxpouliot]

Boy: Shadows And Tall Trees
October: October
War: Drowning Man
UF: Bad
JT: Running To Stand Still
R&H: Heartland
AB: One
Zooropa: Dirty Day
Pop: Please
ATYCLB: Kite Or In A little While

 

[Shygirl]

I guess I would have to say one of my favorite albums of all time is UF. Everytime I listen to it is like the first time I heard it.

Probably one of the songs that I am absolutely in love with is All I Want is You... Just beautiful!

 

[youtwohearts]

I would love the Edge to answer in this thread.

 

[Padj]

I would love the Edge to answer in this thread.

Yes it would be great!

 

[flameandthefire]

Hi and welcome to the board!

New Year's Day is the best song (and the video) of U2. There's not a question about it.

 

[Edgette]

Boy - A Day Without Me/Shadows And Tall Trees

October - Tomorrow/Threw A Brick Through A Window

War - Seconds/New Year's Day

Unforgettable Fire - Sort Of Homecoming/Wire

Joshua Tree - In God's Country/Running To Stand Still

R&H - God Part II/Van Dieman's Land

Achtung Baby - The Fly/Love Is Blindness

Zooropa - Numb/Stay/Dirty Day

POP - Can I just say the whole album?

ATYCLB - In A Little While/Stuck