Where Does U2 Place In Your Top 5

[U2isthebest]

Bands only

1. U2
2. The Beatles
3. Coldplay
4. The Rolling Stones
5. The Doors


also, in no order, The Who, Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, Keane, Snow Patrol, Oasis, The Beach Boys, Chicago, Fleetwood Mac, Bon Jovi, REM, Goo Goo Dolls, The Killers, No Doubt, The Police, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Verve, Weezer, etc.

 

[edurban]

Hum..... U2 are not even number one, they are above, in a special spot, no need to put them in any chart.
Then Radiohead and Muse at the same spot I'd say above all the rest in no particular order, depending on the mood and on the album.

Am obsessing on Pink Floyd at the moment, for example

 

[65980]

Kind of hard for me to compare U2 to, say, The Beatles, as they're from such different eras. If I at least break it down to pre- and post-punk, I might rate the post-punkers like this:

1. U2
2. The Stone Roses
3. Prince
4. R.E.M.
5. Sinead O'Connor / The Police / Arrested Development & Speech / Juliana Hatfield / Counting Crows

But I think the majority of artists whose career work I enjoy (as opposed to a great album here or there) are older artists, like The Beatles, Dylan, Bob Marley, Joni Mitchell, and more...

 

[2861U2]

U2 has fallen a bit on my list over the last year or so. It used to be number one.

1) Jars Of Clay
2) Michael W. Smith
3) U2
4) Sugarland
5) Relient K

 

[Bug]

Smiffs/Morrissey
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
U2
Modest Mouse
Magazine

3 is a nice number I don't think Bono will be whomping my Norwegian skull with a crowbar for this list any time soon.
I've a better chance of Marc Bolan and Freddie Mercury haunting me for leaving them out of the 5.

 

[VonBono]

U2
Nine Inch Nails
Tool
Rage Against the Machine
Metallica

Will also always love Beatles, Zep, Floyd & Hendrix...

 

[intedomine]

U2
Travis
Oasis
Beatles
Stone Roses

 

[If you shout...]

Not my number one, but close enough, considering the company...

1) The Beatles

2) U2

3) The Velvet Underground

4) Talking Heads

5) The Hold Steady

Probably a bit of a stretch, on that last one, but it's all good. Like with The Velvets, they benefit from (unlike somebody like Springsteen) not having enough albums to have hit a dry spell or recorded a miserable stinker.

 

[discothequeLP]

U2
Oasis
The Killers
Arctic Monkeys
Muse

 

[AtomicBono]

I don't necessarily think U2 is the greatest or most important band of all time, but they're certainly my #1.

My other four would be...Radiohead, Bloc Party, The Fall of Troy, Muse

 

[bonocrazy88]

#1, U2!

Never changes. The other 4 change throughout the years, moods, etc.

My #2 now is Modest Mouse

 

[vertpomme]

No particular order:

U2
Nine Inch Nails
Oasis
Tori Amos
Thomas Dolby (yes, that's right )
The Beatles

Honorable Mentions:
Counting Crows
Coldplay
Saul Williams
TV on the Radio
Explosions In The Sky

 

[*browneyedgirl*]

U2 would definitely be my first, 2-5 I'm not sure. I hope I will come back and list the rest.

 

[Pop Artist]

My pantheon:

1. U2
2. Radiohead
3. R.E.M.
4. Pearl Jam

So many other bands I love, but somehow I haven't been able to pick one above the others to round out a top 5. But the above is what I call the Holy Trinity, except that there's four.

 

[poptart_61]

1 U2
2 INXS
3 Evermore
4 No Doubt
=5 Coldplay/Bon Jovi

3-5 will probably change but U2 and INXS will not.

 

[discothequeLP]

i'm surprised that so many people here have a horrible taste in music

 

[The Sad Punk]

i'm surprised that so many people here have a horrible taste in music

Okay!

 

[Zoots]

1. U2
2. REM
3. The Beatles
4. Pearl Jam
5. Radiohead

Tori Amos cracks that top 5 very often!

 

[Cin]

1) U2
2) Don't care
3) Don't care
4) Don't care
5) Don't care

I totally agree

 

[kingofsorrow]

u2
the cure
utada hikaru
depeche mode
nine inch nails/metallica/concrete blonde??????/changes with my mood.

 

[Saracene]

For me it is:

1. U2
2. PJ Harvey
3. Muse
4. Nick Cave & Bad Seeds
5. Pink Floyd

U2 for me are in their own class though. Like Salome said, it's the whole package - music, live shows, imagery, personalities, the long and distinguished history, etc.

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

1. U2
2. The Cure (very close 2nd)
3. Soundgarden / Chris Cornell
4. Muse
5. REM / Depeche Mode
6. System of a down
7. Nirvana
8 Alice in chains
9. Placebo
10. Red Hot

I don't like Coldplay by the way...

 

[Tizer]

U2
Springsteen
James
Nickel Creek
Tom Mcrae

 

[phommel]

1. Radiohead
2. U2
3. Bruce Springsteen
4. Pearl Jam
5. The Beatles


6. REM
7. Counting Crows
8. Muse
9. The Editors
10. Rowwen Heze

 

[Gonna Run 2 U]

I forgot to put my list in my first post.

1) U2
2) Stone Temple Pilots
3) Bruce Springsteen
4) Alice In Chains
5) Pearl Jam and The Police tied

 

[Liesje]

U2 is always at the top for me. The other positions fluctuate. U2 is really one of very few bands/artists where I like pretty much all the songs and albums (to varying degrees). Everyone else is on a song-by-song basis (The Killers, Muse, David Gray, Eva Cassidy, the Indigo Girls, The Cure, The Who, Springsteen, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Audioslave, Bloc Party, Depeche Mode, Alphaville, Lokua Kanza.....)

 

[popacrobat]

U2
Kanye West
Radiohead
The Killers
Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

[BEVERLY56]

1. U2
2. Eric Clapton
3. The Beatles
4. Everybody Else

 

[powerhour24]

1. U2
2. The Cure (very close 2nd)
3. Soundgarden / Chris Cornell
4. Muse
5. REM / Depeche Mode
6. System of a down
7. Nirvana
8 Alice in chains
9. Placebo
10. Red Hot

I don't like Coldplay by the way...

Its OK, although I don't think I'd agree with much of your list you have Chris Cornell up so high so you win the thread in my book.

 

[GibsonGirl]

1. Pink Floyd
2. Radiohead

Slots 3-10 would probably include (in no particular order) The Beatles, Queen, Neil Young, Echo And The Bunnymen, Joy Division, Sigur Rós, The Arcade Fire and U2.