If You Could ony listen to 15 U2 songs...

[I'm Ready]

for the rest of your life what would they be

mine are

1.out of control
2.gloria
3.sunday bloody sunday
4.like a song
5.unforgettable fire
6.where the streets have no name
7.in gods country
8.all i want is you
9.until end of the world
10.the fly
11.acrobat
12.zooropa
13.wake up dead man
14.walk on
15.sometimes you cant make it on your own

not completely a greatest hit collection but it does span the career pretty well

 

[Nisse]

1. 4th of July
2. Promenade
3. Red Hill Mining Town
4. Surrender
5. An Cat Dubh
6. Into The Heart
7. Gone
8. Ultra Violet
9. Until The End Of The World
10. I Fall Down
11. Heartland
12. Like A Song
13. Some Days Are Better Than Others
14. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
15. The Unforgettable Fire

 

[MacPhistoPT]

my 15 favourite U2 songs:

1. Where the streets have no name
2. Bad
3. The Fly
4. Until the end of the world
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. Stay (faraway, so close)
7. Walk On
8. Kite
9. Heartland
10. Gloria
11. Out of control
12. Yahweh
13. A sort of homecoming
14. One Tree Hill
15. Hawkmoon 269

 

[MsMofoGone]

1. New Year's Day
2. Mofo and Gone (TIE)
3. Drowning Man
4. Walk On
5. Lemon
6. With Or Without You
7. Rejoice
8. Acrobat
9. The Unforgettable Fire
10. Please
11. A Sort Of Homecoming
12. Heartland
13. Red Hill Mining Town
14. Your Blue Room
15. A Man And A Woman

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

The Electric Co.
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Pride
Bad
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Hawkmoon 269
Angel Of Harlem
The Fly
Until The End Of The World
Gone
Please
Beautiful Day
Vertigo
City Of Blinding Lights

 

[AtomicBono]

1. 4th of July

That's an interesting choice...

1. One
2. Where the Streets Have No Name
3. Discotheque/Do You Feel Loved/Mofo (it's all one song!!)
4. The Fly
5. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
6. Mercy
7. Bad
8. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
9. Until the End of the World
10. Gone
11. New Year's Day
12. Original of the Species
13. With or Without You
14. Beautiful Day
15. Ultraviolet/Acrobat/Love is Blindness (it's all one song, I tell ya!)

Those are my top songs sort of...I tried to represent each era of U2.

I think I could live on those songs alone if I really had to.

 

[Jack In The Box]

these aren't the best, are my favorites

Gone
Acrobat
Wire
Exit
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Lemon
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Love Is Blindness
Until The End Of The World
Mofo
Please
The Fly
Stay
New Year's Day
Tomorrow

 

[2861U2]

Until The End Of The World
New Years Day
Miracle Drug
I Will Follow
One
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Your Blue Room
A Celebration
Gone
Discotheque
Staring At The Sun
Elevation
Always
Lemon
Crumbs From Your Table

 

[Nate Dogg]

I don't know how you could leave ONE off of that list...

here's mine...today..


1-One
2-Until The End Of The World
3-Bad
4-Where The Streets Have No Name
5-The Fly
6-Kite
7-Running To Stand Still
8-City Of Blinding Lights
9-Stateless
10-A Sort Of Homecoming
11-Stay [Faraway, So Close]
12-With Or Without You
13-Please
14-In God’s Country
15-Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

 

[the tourist]

I Will Follow
New Year's Day
Pride
The Unforgettable Fire
Bad
Where The Streets Have No Name
With Or Without You
Heartland
All I Want Is You
The Fly
Acrobat
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Last Night On Earth
Beautiful Day
Love And Peace Or Else

 

[thefly418]

1. With or Without You
2. Bad
3. One
4. Streets
5. New Year's Day
6. Until the End of the World
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
8. The Electric Co.
9. The Fly
10. Out of Control
11. Beautiful Day
12. I Will Follow
13. Running to Stand Still
14. Pride
15. Gloria

very difficult to pick only 15 songs, but i tried to pick my favorites

 

[miss becky]

Logically, if you could only pick 15 songs to hear for the rest of your life, you should try to pick songs that represent their entire career. But I couldn't do that. So here are my 15 favorites.

1. All I Want Is You
2. Acrobat
3. New Year's Day
4. Gone
5. City of Blinding Lights
6. One
7. Where the Streets Have No Name
8. Spanish Eyes
9. The Fly
10. So Cruel
11. Lemon
12. God Part II
13. A Sort of Homecoming
14. The Sweetest Thing (B-side version)
15. Until the End of the World

 

[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. 11 O'clock Tick Tock
11. Gloria
12. God Part II
13. Spanish Eyes
14. Luminous Times
15. Crumbs From Your Table

 

[Swan269]

I agree with others in that this changes every 3 months or so but

1. Mercy
2. Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
3. Stay
4. Hands that Built America
5. Running to Stand Still
6. Kite
7. Levitate
8. Walk On
9. Whose Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
10. Crumbs From Your Table
11. Twilight
12. I Fall Down
13. Bad
14. Silver and Gold
15. Please

 

[jacobus]

01 Acrobat
02 The Fly
03 Until the End Of The World
04 MoFo
05 Love Is Blindness
06 God Part II
07 Pride
08 One Tree Hill
09 Running To Stand still
10 Stay
11 Yahweh (altern. version)
12 So Cruel
13 Lemon
14 New Years Day
15 Wire

 

[U2girl]

No order but these would be essential for me:

So cruel
One
Until the end of the world
WOWY
Running to stand still
All I want is you
Stay
Sometimes
Original
Bad
Pride
One tree hill
Kite
Stuck
Heartland

 

[Carmelu2fan]

Pride
Running to Stand Still
Mysterious Ways
Until the End of the World
New Years Day
The Fly
With or without You
Sometimes You Can't Make it
Bullet the Blue Sky
Beautiful Day
One
Even Better Than
Still haven't Found
Desire
Mofo

 

[KiteKate]

Beautiful Day
Pride
The Fly
Kite
SYCMIOYO
Bullet the Blue Sky
Staring at the Sun
With or Without You
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bad
Wire
Discotheque
Until the End of the World
One

 

[discothequeLP]

The Fly (Elevation Tour)
Mysterious Ways (Elevation)
Bad/Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Elevation)
City of Blinding Lights (live)
Mercy
Please
With or Without You (Vertigo Tour, Chicago IV)
Beautiful Day (Live 8)
An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
New Year's Day
One Tree Hill
Lemon
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
The Unforgettable Fire


honorable mention = Gone, Shadows & Tall Trees (demo), Another Day