Your top 183 U2 songs ranked in order!

[STING2]

1. Where the Streets Have No Name
2. New Years Day
3. Pride (In the Name Of Love)
4. With Or With Out You
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. Heartland
7. Whose Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
8. A Sort Of Homecoming
9. Ultra Violet
10. Acrobat
11. One
12. Kite
13. Walk On
14. Tomorrow
15. Like A Song
16. Drowning Man
17. I Will Follow
18. Bad
19. All I Want Is You
20. Sunday Bloody Sunday
21. Until The End Of The World
22. When I Look At The World
23. Exit
24. Beautiful Day
25. Stay
26. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
27. So Cruel
28. Running To Stand Still
29. Love Is Blindless
30. Out Of Control
31. One Tree Hill
32. Gone
33. Red Hill Mining Town
34. Wire
35. In Gods Country
36. The Fly
37. New York
38. Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
39. Elevation
40. Please
41. God Part II
42. Twilight
43. Seconds
44. Love Comes Tumbling
45. Stories For Boys
46. Gloria
47. A Celebration
48. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
49. Fire
50. Walk To The Water
51. Summer Rain
52. Always
53. Elvis Presley and America
54. Mothers Of The Disappeared
55. If You Where That Velvet Dress
56. Miss Sarajevo
57. Zooropa
58. Spanish Eyes
59. Lady With The Spinning Head
60. The Electric CO.
61. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
62. Electrical Storm
63. Do You Feel Loved
64. Discotheque
65. The First Time
66. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
67. Two Hearts Beat As One
68. Rejoice
69. Promanade
70. Wild Honey
71. If God Would Send His Angels
72. Staring At The Son
73. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
74. Mysterious Ways
75. The Hands That Built America
76. Desire
77. Van Diemans Land
78. Bullet The Blue Sky
79. Treasure(What Ever Happened To Pete The Chop)
80. Hawkmoon 269
81. The Lady With The Spinning Head
82. Be There
83. Even Better Than The Real Thing
84. A Day Without Me
85. Another Time, Another Place
86. MOFO
87. The Wanderer
88. I Fall Down
89. Indian Summer Sky
90. Where Did It All Go Wrong
91. Salome
92. Zoo Station
93. Angel Of Harlem
94. When Love Comes To Town
95. Shadows And Tall Trees
96. Hallelujah, Here She Comes
97. Luminous Times
98. The Three Sunrises
99. Lemon
100. Into The Heart
101. Deep In The Heart
102. Silver And Gold
103. The Sweetest Thing
104. Peace On Earth
105. Playboy Mansion
106. In A Little While
107. Last Night On Earth
108. Babyface
109. 40
110. October
111. MLK
112. With A Shout
113. Dirty Day
114. An Cat Dubh
115. Holy Joe
116. Some Days Are Better Than Others
117. Stateless
118. Boy-Girl
119. Surrender
120. Red Light
121. I Threw A Brick Threw A Window
122. Slow Dancing
123. Is That All
124. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crash Car
125. Grace
126. Endless Deep
127. Boomerang 1
128. Boomerang 2
129. Love Rescue Me
130. Big Girls Are Best
131. Silver Lining
132. A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
133. The Ocean
134. Race Against Time
135. Trip Through Your Wires
136. Wake Up Deadman
137. Miami
138. The Refugee
139. Touch
140. Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad
141. North And South Of The River
142. Stranger In A Strange Land
143. Scarlet
144. Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk Korova
145. Race Against Time
146. Things To Make And Do
147. My Wild Irish Rose
148. Basstrap
149. Your Blue Room
150. She's A Mystery To Me
151. The Fool
152. Jack In The Box
153. Another Day
154. The Speed Of Life
155. Cartoon World
156. The Dream Is Over
157. The Cry
158. Trever
159. Womenfish
160. Numb
161. J. Swallow
162. Pete The Chop
163. Street Missions
164. The Magic Carpet
165. Inside-Out
166. The Kings New Clothes
167. False Prophet
168. Lucille
169. In Your Hand
170. Father Is An Elephant
171. 4th Of July
172. Slug
173. Always Now Forever
174. Beach Sequence
175. United Colors
176. A Different Kind Of Blue
177. Elvis Ate America
178. Theme From Lets Go Native
179. Plot 180
180. One Minute Warning
181. ITO Okashi
182. Corpse (These Chains Are Way To Long)
183. The From The Swan

 

[Sicy]

This is gonna take some time

 

[oliveu2cm]

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

OMC....


Great list!

 

[celia]

lol Good list, I think I'll try and do that...

 

[ouizy]

holy shit - I thought this was going to be a joke.

 

[celia]

haha Ive given up already!

 

[HelloAngel]

Oh my word.

Well, if I don't get to organize my own list.. mad props to you Sting2!

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

i'm trying to figure out what the 183 songs are. if you add up all their songs from every album and ep, it's 198, i believe.

 

[Red Ships of Scalla-Festa]

he included salome outtakes.

 

[anitram]

Maybe if I sat here for 4 years....

 

[adamswildhoney]

wow!! glad to see that you could do that, but see the task at hand would be IMPOSSIBLE for me to even try to tackle!!!

 

[tiny dancer]

Where do I start?

 

[STING2]

Tiny Dancer,

"Where do I start?" Start with your top 10. Then build gradually from there.

Red Ships of Scalla-Festa,

"he included salome outtakes."

I did?

KhanadaRhodes,

"if you add up all their songs from every album and ep, it's 198, i believe."

Really? That would mean I'm missing 15 songs? I've got everything from the albums, EPs and singles, I think.

If anyone knows any songs that I missed, please list them here.

 

[cujo]

I think Race Against Time should have been two or maybe three spots higher.

Shame shame

Nevermind, it appears twice.

You're back in the good books

 

[speedracer]

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. Walk On
3. Bad
4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. With Or Without You
6. Heartland
7. Pride
8. The Fly
9. Mysterious Ways
10. A Sort Of Homecoming
11. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
12. Kite
13. Van Diemen's Land
14. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
15. So Cruel
16. All I Want Is You
17. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
18. Love Is Blindness
19. Gloria
20. New Year's Day
21. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
22. Angel Of Harlem
23. I Will Follow
24. Numb
25. Beautiful Day
26. One
27. Love Rescue Me
28. The Sweetest Thing
29. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
30. All Along The Watchtower
31. Two Hearts Beat As One
32. Red Hill Mining Town
33. Zoo Station
34. Spanish Eyes
35. One Tree Hill
36. If God Will Send His Angels
37. Love Comes Tumbling
38. Staring At The Sun
39. Mothers Of The Disappeared
40. 40
41. Rejoice
42. Out Of Control.
43. Twilight
44. Desire
45. Like A Song
46. When I Look At The World
47. An Cat Dubh
48. Ultraviolet
49. Sunday Bloody Sunday
50. Running To Stand Still
51. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
52. Lemon
53. The Wanderer
54. Hawkmoon 269
55. Seconds
56. Miss Sarajevo
57. Shadows And Tall Trees
58. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
59. Promenade
60. Exit
61. Until The End Of The World
62. Wild Honey
63. Everlasting Love
64. In God's Country
65. When Love Comes To Town
66. MLK
67. With A Shout
68. The Electric Co.
69. Babyface
70. Mofo
71. Elevation
72. Discotheque
73. Acrobat
74. In A Little While
75. Silver And Gold
76. Wire
77. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
78. A Day Without Me
79. The Three Sunrises
80. Trip Through Your Wires
81. October
82. Into The Heart
83. Even Better Than The Real Thing
84. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
85. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
86. The Playboy Mansion
87. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
88. Indian Summer Sky
89. The Ocean
90. I Fall Down
91. Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
92. Another Time Another Place
93. Summer Rain
94. Trash Trampoline And The Party Girl
95. Last Night On Earth
96. Bullet The Blue Sky
97. Drowning Man
98. With A Shout
99. New York
100. Electrical Storm
101. Zooropa
102. Gone
103. The Hands That Built America
104. Elvis Presley And America
105. Fire
106. Peace On Earth
107. Tomorrow
108. The Refugee
109. Grace
110. The First Time
111. Red Light
112. Surrender
113. 4th Of July
114. Scarlet
115. Helter Skelter
116. Stranger
117. Is That All?
118. Miami
119. Satellite Of Love
120. Dancing Barefoot
121. Night And Day
122. North And South Of The River
123. Can't Help Falling In Love
124. I've Got You Under My Skin
125. Paint It Black
126. Your Blue Room
127. Dirty Day
128. Slow Dancing
129. Lady With The Spinning Head
130. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
131. Salome
132. Unchained Melody
133. Three Sunrises
134. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
135. A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
136. Walk To The Water
137. Endless Deep
138. Bass Trap
139. God Part II
140. Hallelujah Here She Comes

...and sadly, I haven't listened to all 183 U2 songs. I'm working on it though.

 

[STING2]

cujo,

"I think Race Against Time should have been two or maybe three spots higher."

"Shame shame"

"Nevermind, it appears twice."

"You're back in the good books"

Thanks for pointing that out. If you see any other errors or songs that are not listed, please tell me. Ummm, the top 182 U2 songs ranked in order. I would probably keep it at #145 though.

 

[STING2]

Nice list Speedracer. You need Passengers and the 1978/1979 demo songs and "Race Against Time".

 

[jick]

Hmmm ...

Out of 183 songs, I wonder how many have guitar solos? Perhaps a dozen? Maybe even less.

Cheers,

J
The King Of POP

 

[speedracer]

Re: Hmmm ...

Out of 183 songs, I wonder how many have guitar solos? Perhaps a dozen? Maybe even less.

Cheers,

J
The King Of POP

By "guitar solo" I'll assume that you mean a guitar lick that (1) is not accompanied by another melodic part, (2) happens during the middle of a song and (3) is not simply a reprise of an opening guitar lick.

Off the top of my head...(I'm only including studio versions; many live versions have an improvised instrumental break in them)

Pride
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
In God's Country
All I Want Is You
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Until The End Of The World
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
Beautiful Day
Walk On
Kite
When I Look At The World (yes, that really is a guitar playing in the break, not a synthesizer)

I might be missing some from Boy and October because I haven't listened to those albums much lately.

 

[MrBrau1]

Guitar Solos-

Some Days Are Better
Acrobat
Trip Thru Your Wire
Like A Song
NYD
Holy Joe
SBS
Salome
Electrical Storm

The list goes on.

 

[alia612]

Apologies for this being a bit off topic, but... where do you hear the 78/79 demo songs? I've looked all over the internet...

 

[STING2]

I've got a couple of bootlegs of the 78/79 demos. I found one in a shop at University a few years back. Then a friend from Italy sent me a more extensive one she had found in a shop where she lives in the bootleg section. Also, an early U2 concert from January 1980 nearly a year before Boy was released, had a lot of the old 70s U2 songs.

I say your best bet is to go to some U2 websites that specialize in concert bootlegs. One of them is bound to have the 78/79 demo's. It would probably be something you would have to trade for or purchase though. I'm not sure how many are MP3s that you can listen to just though the internet.

 

[jick]

Re: Re: Hmmm ...

By "guitar solo" I'll assume that you mean a guitar lick that (1) is not accompanied by another melodic part, (2) happens during the middle of a song and (3) is not simply a reprise of an opening guitar lick.

Off the top of my head...(I'm only including studio versions; many live versions have an improvised instrumental break in them)

Pride
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
In God's Country
All I Want Is You
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Until The End Of The World
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
Beautiful Day
Walk On
Kite
When I Look At The World (yes, that really is a guitar playing in the break, not a synthesizer)

I might be missing some from Boy and October because I haven't listened to those albums much lately.

I don't hear any guitar solo on Beautiful Day or All I Want Is You. I think Bullet The Blue Sky has a guitar solo. And even the few guitar solos Edge has --- he only has very few repetetive notes (Pride) or very few bars (Kite). But Walk On has a nifty guitar-hero like solo, not to mention the live versions of One Tree Hill (Dublin `89), Bullet The Blue Sky (just about every tour).

Cheers,

J
The King Of POP

 

[MrBrau1]

Um, you've never heard a guitar solo in AIWIY? Probably the longest one Edge ever played, 2 minutes or so, also one of the best guitar solos ever.

And if Kite's solo is to short to be called a solo, how long should he play until it is considered a solo?

 

[jick]

Um, you've never heard a guitar solo in AIWIY? Probably the longest one Edge ever played, 2 minutes or so, also one of the best guitar solos ever.

And if Kite's solo is to short to be called a solo, how long should he play until it is considered a solo?

Yikes! I actually meant I Still Haven't Found, not All I Want Is You!

Cheers,

J
The King Of POP

 

[speedracer]

Yikes! I actually meant I Still Haven't Found, not All I Want Is You!

Cheers,

J
The King Of POP

Between the second and third verses there's an acoustic guitar strumming (maybe not what people mean by "guitar solo") and a quick snippet of electric guitar.

 

[speedracer]

Re: Re: Re: Hmmm ...

I don't hear any guitar solo on Beautiful Day or All I Want Is You. I think Bullet The Blue Sky has a guitar solo. And even the few guitar solos Edge has --- he only has very few repetetive notes (Pride) or very few bars (Kite). But Walk On has a nifty guitar-hero like solo, not to mention the live versions of One Tree Hill (Dublin `89), Bullet The Blue Sky (just about every tour).

Cheers,

J
The King Of POP

Between the second chorus and the bridge (before "see the world in green and blue") there's a really high-pitched track. That's a guitar being pushed up 2 octaves by a guitar processor.

 

[gav6519]

NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE RIVER AT 141!!!!!!!

thats one of the best u2 songs out there, bono and christy moore's lyrics are unbelievable!!!!!!

maybe its cause i can see the river from my house.


"i dont need you to surrender"

 

[STING2]

I love nearly all of U2s songs, and yes I do love "North And South of The River". Its a beautiful song. Making this list was very difficult.