What U2 albums in your opinion constitute Tier One: the cream of the crop?

[Bono's shades]

My vote would be JT, AB, UF and War - or just JT and AB if I'm in a nit-picking mood.

 

[XHendrix24]

JT, Zooropa, and AB. With UF coming in at the very top of the second tier.

 

[JCOSTER]

Joshua Tree
Achtung Baby
POP
UF

 

[Utoo]

Zoots, what's up with your choices for the poll?? You totally dissed War! One choice!


Other (in no particular order):
First Tier: War, JT, AB
Second Tier: UF, Zooropa Pop, ATYCLB
Third Tier: the rest

...with UF & ATYCLB veeeery close to First Tier.

 

[J_NP]

Also with Rattle and Hum

So I stay with this one :

-Rattle and Hum
-Pop
-Bomb

The trio of Injusticed or Underrated

 

[xaviMF22]

JT ...AB.....

followed by zooropa, pop, and atyclb

 

[1stepcloser]

Other - JT, AB and Zooropa

UF is close but is let down by its weak second half (apart from bad, of course).

 

[u2trinity]

AB , Boy , JT .
Sometimes JT takes the lead !

 

[Zoots]

Zoots, what's up with your choices for the poll?? You totally dissed War! One choice!

Yeah I know. But see, if I tried to satisfy everybody there would be too many choices to put in a poll. In fact the math nerd in me says there'll be 12! (12 factorial) number of choices for 12 albums. I could be wrong though, my math is a little rusty.

But yeah, I wish I'd added choices for all the other albums with JT & AB.

 

[mads]

JT, AB, and UF

 

[coolian2]

JT, AB, ATYCLB and if you want to argue it, War - the three/four big albums of the three/four 'periods'.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

There'll be one day sometime where I kick off at anyone liking Pop, never mind considering it to be a classic. Until then I'll restrain myself, count to ten, and remember that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. \

 

[phillyfan26]

JT
AB
Boy

 

[Canadiens1131]

All the possible combinations except the logical one - JT+AB. The high points of twin decades.

 

[dazzlingamy]

well for one, two many choices with Joshua Tree, people need to get OVER this album! Shittest album of the lot (besides October)

I put a vote in for AB/Pop/Zooropa. The best time of u2's writing career, the 90's. SIGH.

But i love ATYCLB as well,

i know im a minority

 

[DirtDryBoneSand]

UF, JT, RH all the way. The segway of UF to JT is amazing IMHO.

 

[LyricalDrug]

Top Tier:

Joshua Tree
Zooropa
Achtung Baby
Unforgettable Fire
ATYCLB

 

[Salome]

Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree and All that you can't leave behind

 

[Irishteen]

TUF, AB and ATYCLB

JT is overrated