somber U2 songs

[pwmartin]

Music often affects our moods and memories.

Which U2 song--off any album--puts you in the most somber mood?

Why do you think that is?

 

[LMP]

The Playboy Mansion cuz it has that soothing riff, and I just relax and just reminisce about the day thatz passed b4 me

 

[ZeroDude]

One, spark up and look depressed yea, it's great

 

[pwmartin]

For me it'd either be Stay or New Year's Day.

The minor key in New Year's Day and the drubbing baseline gets me thinking about rainy, cold nights in winter.

 

[beau2ifulday]

In A Little While

 

[Catman]

I don't know about "somber," but "The Ocean" takes me to a really reflective, almost surreal, existential plane

 

[kakvox]

October.

 

[lmixristhebest]

Love is Blindness, for sure. And Deep in the Heart, "You can't return to the place you never left". That line always moves me.

 

[Axver]

One Tree Hill sometimes puts me in a sombre mood. Indeed, it puts me in a lot of moods. It's the only song that regularly brings me to tears.

 

[GibsonGirl]

The album version of Exit. It's terribly depressing. But in a good way. It often moves me to tears, it's that dark.

 

[lmjhitman]

So Cruel, definitely

 

[elffriend]

October.

And Mothers of the Disappeared

 

[Aardvark747]

Your Blue Room

 

[blueroomgirl]

love is blindness

 

[2861U2]

Into The Heart, The Ocean, and So Cruel

 

[phanan]

Mothers Of The Disappeared

 

[purpleblackeye]

So Cruel - one of Bono's best lyrics. this is a song to play for your ex-girlfriends and during bad break ups

 

[Ellay]

Dirty Day, Some days are better than others, actually most of Zooropa!!

 

[macfisto]

Acrobat: so don't let the bastards grind you down!

but technically wouldn't until the end of the world do it for everyone?

 

[ur i's make a O]

An Cat Dubh's shift to Into the Heart

Sombre then unbelievably upifting

 

[Catman]

^^^ best.username.evar.

 

[U2girl]

I don't know...Love is blindness, maybe.

Lately, the lyrics in One step closer creep me out...try listening to that one right after sunset.

 

[Aardvark747]

Mothers Of The Disappeared

Definately

 

[Windmilllane]

Somber:
Elvis Presley and America
Mothers of the Disappeared

Uplifting:
Walk On
A Sort of Homecoming

Sad, but Beautiful:
One
Running to Stand Still

Feel Good Inside:
Beautiful Day
Vertigo

Feeling Dirty/Nasty:
Discoteque
Even Better than the Real Thing
Salome

Can't think of any more emotions

 

[U2utah2U]

Wow, I can't believe 'Stateless' hasn't been mentioned. This really puts me in a somber mood. Others:

Hands that Built America
Miss Sarajevo
Corpse...okay, most of the stuff on Passengers...
If God Will Send His Angels

I think the two albums that are the most chill are Passengers and Zooropa. I used to listen to those back to back all the time.

But, Stateless puts me in a somber mood and Corpse is just haunting.

 

[sixten]

If You Wear That Velvet Dress, solely based on the dreary vibe of it all. Severely.

 

[onegin22]

heartland

 

[Sleep Over Jack]

Wake Up Dead Man...sounds like someone is walking in the ashes and wastes of a post-nuclear world.