The definitive U2 best of...

[theu2fly]

So the past 2 'Best Of' albums haven't necessarily been the best, but they do have the commercial released singles... some don't... but if you were to create one disc of U2's best material, 18 tracks long... what would they be?

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. Out Of Control
3. Tomorrow
4. Bad
5. City Of Blinding Lights
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. Bullet The Blue Sky
8. Miss Sarajevo
9. Staring At The Sun
10. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
11. Kite
12. The Fly
13. MOFO
14. Until The End Of The World
15. New Year's Day
16. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
17. With Or Without You
18. One

 

[POP-ROMANCER]

1. I will follow
2. Out of control
3. New years day
4. Sunday bloody sunday
5. Pride
6. Where the streets have no name
7. With or without you
8. I still haven't found what I'm looking for
9. Desire
10. The fly
11. Until the end of the world
12. One
13. Discotheque
14. Staring at the sun
15. Beautiful day
16. Elevation
17. Vertigo
18. City of blinding lights

 

[ponkine]

That would be absolutely pointless

"THE REST OF THE BEST" ( 2 CD´S ) would be far better

 

[hedgehog]

Hmmm, the running order isn't too good but heres mine...

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. New Years Day
3. The Unforgettable Fire
4. I Will Follow
5. Red Hill Mining Town
6. Desire
7. Kite
8. Gone
9. Love And Peace Or Else
10. The Fly
11. Lemon
12. Please
13. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
14. One
15. Walk On
16. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
17. Stay (faraway, so close)
18. Bad

 

[U2girl]

1. Streets
2. NYD
3. Pride
4. Bad (live version)
5. WOWY
6. I still...
7. AIWIY
8. One
9. UTEOTW (live version)
10. Stay
11. SBS
12. IWF
13. Gone
14. Ground beneath her feet
15. Stateless
16. Kite
17. Sometimes
18. Original of the species

Hidden song: First time

 

[babyman]

1 Beautiful Day
2 Until The End Of the World
3 I Still Haven´t Found What I´m Looking For
4 One
5 Stay
6 Where The Streets have No Name
7 The Unforgettable Fire
8 Original Of The Species
9 Miracle Drug
10 Lemon
11 Please
12 Sunday Bloody Sunday
13 With Or Without You
14 The Fly
15 Pride
16 Gone
17 The Ground Beneath Her Feet
18 All I Want Is You



Ghost Tracks : October
The First Time




But one cd wouldnt be enough, maybe a triple

 

[Miricale_Drug]

18 Tracks:

I can't be bothered to sort them out into an Order so will do them Album by Album. This list has been chossen in the way most best ofs are... the singles.. the well known songs that ain't singles and the bands finest work

1. I Will Follow
2. Out of Control
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. New Years Day
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. Pride
7.Bad
8.Streets
9.Still Havnt' found
10.With or Without You
11.All I Want is You
12. The Fly
13. One
14. Stay
15. Please
16. Staring at the Sun
17. Beauitful Day
18. Vertigo
19. City of Blinding Lights

Hidden Track: Miss Sarajevo

 

[Mr Gloria]

1.I will Follow
2. New Years Day
3.Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. Pride
5. Bad
6. Unforgetable Fire
7. Where the Streets have no Name
8. With or Without You
9. Bullet the Blue Sky
10. I Still Havnt Found What im looking For
11. Running to Stand Still
13. Sweetest Thing
14. Desire
15. All I want is You
16. Angel of Harlem
17. Even Better than the Real Thing
18. Until the End of the World
19.One
20 Mysterious Ways
21.One
22. Lemon
23. Numb
24 Stay
25. Miss Sarejavo
26. Your Blue Room
27.Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss ME Kill Me
28. Discoteque
29. Please
30. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
31. Beautiful Day
32. Stuck in a Moment
33. Peace on Earth
34. Vertigo
35. All Because of You.
36 Sometimes you cant make it on your own.
37. Yahweh
38. Mercy (New Single for Greatest Hits)

 

[gareth brown]

one day people here will learn to count

 

[Miricale_Drug]

Interesting no-one has mentioned anything on october... except the hidden track octobre

 

[scottyT]

someone said Tomorrow.

 

[Nisse]

1. Streets
2. Pride
3. Out Of Control
4. COBL
5. The Electric Co
6. A Sort Of Homecoming
7. Stay
8. Promenade
9. New Year's Day
10. Gone
11. Electrical Storm
12. I Will Follow
13. Bad
14. I Fall Down
15. When I Look At The World
16. Red Hill Mining Town
17. The Unforgettable Fire
18. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

 

[00Kevin]

1.11 O'Clock Tick Tock
2.Another time another place
3.Sunday Bloody Sunday
4.New Years Day
5.The Unforgettable Fire
6.Bad
7.Where the Streets Have no Name
8.With or Without You
9.All I Want is You
10.Even better than the Real Thing
11.The FLy
12.Zooropa
13.Stay
14.Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
15.Mofo
16.Gone
17.Love and Peace or Else
18.Walk On

Bonus track:Mercy

 

[cobl04]

I'm gonna go buy albums as well cause I got school in little over 20 minutes...

BOY
I Will Follow, Out of Control
OCTOBER
Gloria
WAR
Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year's Day
THE UNFROGETTABLE FIRE
Pride (In the Name of Love), Bad
THE JOSHUA TREE
Where The Streets Have No Name, With or Without You, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
RATTLE AND HUM
Desire, All I Want Is You
ACHTUNG BABY
Even Better Than the Real Thing, One, Until the End of the World
POP
Staring at the Sun
ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND
Beautiful Day, Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out of, Elevation
HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB
Vertigo, Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own, City of Blinding Lights
BONUS TRACK
Mercy

That's 23...I'll post back after school and fix it up.

 

[thefly418]

1. With Or Without You
2. One
3. Bad
4. Where The Streets Have No Name
5. New Year's Day
6. Walk On
7. Until The End Of The World
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
10. Running To Stand Still
11. Out Of Control
12. Stay
13. The Electric Co.
14. The Fly
15. Stay
16. Beautiful Day
17. Gloria
18. Pride

this is way too hard.......i'm forced to leave out: city, please, zooropa, aiwiy, still haven't found, iwf, mysterious ways- these extra seven probably make up the rest of my top 25 favorite u2 songs........but picking just 18 really made me think

 

[Hallucination]

IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!

 

[thefly418]

IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!

agreed 100%.........the last few of my top 18 could change within a day so its not permanent and i will never be able to have a steady top u2 list

 

[the tourist]

Pride
Desire
Love And Peace Or Else
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Acrobat
Stay
The Fly
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bad
All I Want Is You
Where The Streets Have No Name
Beautiful Day
I Will Follow
New Year's Day
With Or Without You
Until The End Of The World
Heartland
The Unforgettable Fire
October

 

[Sleep Over Jack]

1.Where The Streets Have No Name
2.Zoo Station
3.New Years Day (single edit)
4.Bullet The Blue Sky
5.Bad
6.Discotheque
7.One
8.Lemon
9.With Or Without You
10.Zooropa
11.Fast Cars
12.Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
13.Love And Peace Or Else
14.Stay
15.The Fly
16.Gone
17.Until The End Of The World
18.All I Want Is You