Which is the better guitar solo?

[MrBrau1]

Go listen to "All I Want Is You."

Then listen to "The Fly."

Edge at his best.

One is the emotional peak of the song.

The other is more detached, but a perfect flow of notes and controlled mayhem and noise.

Which gets more push out of your pull?

 

[namkcuR]

Are you going to tell us your opinion?

 

[Zoots]

The dizzy solo of The Fly of course!!! I appreciate AIWIY more for the orchestra ending and the beautiful verse lyrics!

 

[MrBrau1]

right now i'm digging AIWIY.

But I'm enjoying listening to both tunes over, and over and ...

It might change next week.

 

[theu2fly]

Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day (the crowd waits for this, delivers perfect)
Miracle Drug (it's power)
Bullet The Blue Sky (particularly the Elevation version, which had a very extensive, heavy and passionate solo, simply amazing)

 

[namkcuR]

Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day (the crowd waits for this, delivers perfect)
Miracle Drug (it's power)
Bullet The Blue Sky (particularly the Elevation version, which had a very extensive, heavy and passionate solo, simply amazing)

I think you were just supposed to choose between AIWIY and The Fly...

 

[bathiu]

I'm not able to decide...

 

[MacPhistoPT]

The Fly... it's just perfect with that rising to the last chorus

 

[Irishteen]

The Fly of course

 

[Aygo]

I voted The Fly, but IMO Edge's best solo is on All Because Of You, with no doubt!

 

[annie_vox]

The Fly! The perfect caos that can create a masterpiece!

 

[miss becky]

All I Want Is You. Best. Solo. Ever. The sheer emotion of it never fails to get me. I love to crank it up, sit right in front of the speakers, and close my eyes, and just let the music wash over me.

 

[SiW87]

Easy. The Fly. No other song like it, sick how good the solo is, the chaos, the distortion, everything - one hell of a great song.

 

[babyman]

the fly has edge's best ever solo................no other U2 song solo compares with it

 

[Pero]

The Fly rocks me every time
All i want is you is sensual.

THE FLYYYYY

 

[#1bonofan]

The FLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sting]

Draw. I get both of them. Although I think their are some better solo's or ones worth talking about that haven't been mentioned. The Live "Bullet the blue Sky" Solo kicks ass when Adam starts playing a different chord(note) underneath... it gets so much more rocking...

 

[#1bonofan]

The intro to WTSHNN pretty much kicks ass

 

[GibsonGirl]

I don't know why people are bringing other songs into the equation, but oh well. Voted for The Fly! The solo in that song made me fall in love with AB.

 

[Sting]

The intro to WTSHNN pretty much kicks ass

it does, its not really a guitar solo though.

 

[gareth brown]

The Fly - Boston 2001.

 

[1stepcloser]

The Fly. Quite easily, man that song rocks.

 

[JMScoopy]

I voted The Fly, but IMO Edge's best solo is on All Because Of You, with no doubt!

Have you heard The Fool or Street Mission?


The Fly solo is technically better than AIWIY (from a guitar players perspective)

 

[Zoots]

Street Mission solo ABOY is nothing compared to that one! Seriously!

 

[Aygo]

Have you heard The Fool or Street Mission?


The Fly solo is technically better than AIWIY (from a guitar players perspective)

Yes, I have already heard them.
I'm not saying The Fly or AIWIY don't have great solos (I think they're on the greatest ones too and most expressive).
I know too that technically they're more difficult to produce (that thing about being 'better' is very relative, let me tell you), but the ABOY solo is the happiest one IMO. When I heard it for the 1st time I could never stop, and that never happened with any other one...

 

[VertigoGal]

haven't decided yet, but I'm actually leaning towards AIWIY. one of the best examples of guitar playing that expresses an emotion, imo.

 

[chickadee]

The Fly, even though I love AIWIY - but The Fly's my fave guitar solo EVER in the world. Seriously. It just does it for me on sooo many levels. I think that's why I fell for Edge, y'know.

 

[chickadee]

Actually while we're at it, emotions via the guitar, I'd go for LIB first. Heartbreaking.

 

[AtomicBono]

Street Mission solo ABOY is nothing compared to that one! Seriously!

Yeah the Street Mission solo is better, but ABOY is more rockin', even though it's much shorter. I dunno. I love 'em both.

As for this poll, The Fly, definitely. Possibly Edge's best solo ever. I may have to learn it 'cause I think I'm gonna try and convince my band to learn how to play The Fly because we're just starting out and The Fly's not too difficult rhythm-wise, is it? (I've been playing guitar for a few years but I'm the only one with experience at anything in my band).

 

[Zoots]

Good for you, AB! I hope you guys crack The Fly!