Your U2 Cds order

[pepokiss]

this thread is for everyone (everyone... everyone) to post the order in which you got/bought/recieved your U2 albums...


01 - Pop
02 - Achtung Baby
03 - War
--------Popmart SHOW-------
04 - The Joshua Tree
05 - Rattle & Hum
06 - Under A Blood Red Sky*
07 - Boy or The Unforgettable Fire*
08 - Boy or The Unforgettable Fire*
09 - The Best Of 1980 - 1990
10 - All That You Can't Live Behind
11 - Zooropa
12 - Wide Awake In America
13 - Best Of 1990-2000
14 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb


NO OCTOBER or PASSANGERS for me... still

the * ones I'm not really sure of the order

 

[gareth brown]

get October. now.

1. All That You Can't Leave Behind
2. Best of 80-90
3. Joshua Tree/Achtung Baby/Zooropa [my Dad already had these and lent them to me long term ]
4. October / War - (same time for a birthday)
5. Boy/Under a Blood Red Sky [double pack]/Unforgettable Fire (all three at same time, also bought ZOO TV vhs that day...good 'spree')
6. Rattle and Hum
7. Pop
8. Wide Awake...
9. Best of 90-00
10. How to...

had it been different, I may not have liked them quite as much!!

 

[Axver]

1. Best Of 1980-1990
2. All That You Can't Leave Behind
3. Best Of 1990-2000
4. The Joshua Tree
5. Achtung Baby
6. Rattle And Hum
7. October and War
8. Boy and The Unforgettable Fire
9. Zooropa (this was actually Pop but I was given Zooropa by mistake - long story)
10. Pop (went back, fixed up the Zooropa thing, got Pop)
11. Under A Blood Red Sky (this may have been before Zooropa and Pop but I don't think so)
12. Wide Awake In America
13. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
14. ... and then I finally got around to ordering Passengers and the Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack (I couldn't find either on the Gold Coast so I just ordered them in cheap from Amazon with a few singles too)

 

[Irishteen]

1. All That you Can't Leave behind
2. Best of 90/00
3. How To Dismantle A Atomic Bomb
4. Best of 80/90
5. Rattle and Hum
6. Boy
7. The Joshua Tree
8. The Unforgettable Fire
9. Pop
10. Achtung baby
11. Zooropa
12. Passangers

 

[The OOTS]

War
UF
Under A Blood Red Sky
Wide Awake in America
Boy
October
JT
RH
AB
Zooropa
Pop
ATYCLB
HTDAAB

 

[Popmartijn]

I can't remember back that far.

I more or less know this:
- Rattle And Hum (September 1991)
- Achtung Baby
- October (and the bootleg of the Paradise concert of 6 March 1981)
- yadda yadda yadda
- Boy (Christmas 1992, but I already had it taped from a library copy right after getting Rattle And Hum)

And the rest in order of their release, thus:
- Zooropa
- Passengers
- Pop
- The Best Of 1980-1990
- All That You Can't Leave Behind
- The Best Of 1990-2000
- How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

 

[Tarvark]

Mine was a rather odd order of purchuse.

1. JT -Together
2. AB -Together

3. Wide Awake in America-Together
4. ATYCLB-Together

5. War
6. UF
7. Boy

8. Pop -Together
9. Zooropa -Together

10. October -Together
11. Passengers -Together

12. The Bomb

 

[00Kevin]

1.Joshua Tree
2.War
3.Boy
4.Achtung Baby
5.How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
6.The Unforgettable Fire
7.Zooropa
8.October
9.All That You Can't Leave Behind
10.Rattle and Hum
11.Pop

(i'm not counting best ofs, live, or bootlegs)

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

well, first i bought achtung baby, then zooropa on tape. but then, i moved onto cds. i'm boring. i bought them in order, boy through zooropa. pop hadn't been released yet. i didn't buy passengers until 98 or 99 cuz i didn't even know it existed until i started going online!

if you think about it, how would i have? passengers isn't usually with U2 in the cd sections (at least not in shops here), and most stores here don't carry it anyway. plus, i wasn't into reading music mags back then. also, my copy of the rolling stone encyclopedia or whatever that came out in 1995 said U2 were working on "an album of mostly instrumentals, and a rock and roll album." i didn't know the mostly instrumentals album = passengers until later, since they didn't say it would be under a different name. but anyway...

so i guess excluding passengers, everything else i've bought in order. i like to do that with bands, buy and listen to everything in chronological order. it gives me a better idea of how the band's progressed over the years. you don't read a book all out of order, so i try not to listen to the chapters of an artist all out of order either.

 

[financeguy]

i didn't buy passengers until 98 or 99 cuz i didn't even know it existed until i started going online!

I didn't buy Passengers until 99 either, although I knew it existed - Miss Sarajevo was heavily played on the radio in Ireland in the run up to Christmas 95, plus I read a fairly positive review in Q magazine on the release of the album. The reason I waited so long before buying in it was that I wasn't really interested in that type of music back then (although I am now).

 

[2861U2]

1) ATYCLB (birthday)
2) The Joshua Tree & Unforgettable Fire (bought at same time)
3) Best Of 90-2000
4) Achtung Baby & Best Of 80-90 (birthday)
5) Pop & Rattle and Hum (Christmas)
6) Zooropa, War, UABRS (next Christmas)
7) U2 7
8) Boy
9) October
10) Wide Awake In America
11) HTDAAB

 

[U2Man]

Zooropa
Achtung Baby
Joshua Tree
Rattle and Hum
Unforgettable Fire
War
October
Passengers
Boy
POP
Best of 80/90
Million Dollar Hotel
ATYCLB
Best of 90/00
HTDAAB

....As far as I remember, but I really had a hard time recalling this....

 

[Nisse]

1. Boy
2. Pop
3. Under A Blood Red Sky
4. October
5. Wide Awake In America
6. Tuf/War/JT/AB
7. Zooropa
8. Passengers
9. Best of 1980-1990&b-sides
10.All that blabla
11. bomb
not to sure about the middle..

 

[nonamestreet]

1 Zooropa
2 Achtung Baby
3 Best of 80-90
4 ATYCLB
5 POP
6 Joshua Tree
7 War
8 UF
9 Boy
10 Rattle & Hum
11 Wide Awake
12 Under a Blood Red Sky
13 October
14 Passengers
15 Best of 90-00
16 HTDAAB

 

[Boozyuzi]

1982 - I bought Boy & October. Since then I have bought every album on the day it was released apart from the 2 best of's which I picked up later in the sales. I feel ashamed to admit that.

 

[namkcuR]

1.JT and UABRS(on cassette)(brother already owned them)
2.The Best Of 1980-1990
3.Achtung Baby
4.Pop
5.War
6.October and The Unforgettable Fire
7.Boy
8.Rattle And Hum
9.Zooropa
10.Wide Awake In America
11.JT and UABRS(on CD)
12.Passengers
13.All That You Can't Leave Behind
14.The Best Of 1990-2000
15.How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

I'm really glad I got the whole back catalog before the new records, before U2 got 'in' again. I feel like it enabled me to have a deeper love for the music, in that I didn't discover U2 just because Beautiful Day was played a million-and-one times.

 

[MacPhistoPT]

1. Best of 80-90
2. Best Of 90-00
3. All that you can't leave behind
4. The Joshua Tree
5. How to dismantle an atomic bomb
6. Achtung Baby
7. War
8. Zooropa
9. Pop
10. Boy
11. October
12. The Unforgettable Fire
13. Rattle&Hum
14. Passengers
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[{paintedroses}]

1 ATYCLB
2 Joshua Tree
3 Achtung Baby
4 Under A Blood Red Sky
5= Boy
5= October
5= War
8 Wide Awake In America
9 Zooropa
10 Rattle and Hum
11 Pop
12 Passengers
13 Best of 90-00
14 Best of 80-90
15 HTDAAB


Why didn't I buy Pop sooner???

 

[Blue Room]

WAR
Under A Blood Red Sky
Boy/October (same time)
Unforgettable Fire (first day it was released)
Joshua Tree (was in line at midnight at the local store first day)
Rattle And Hum (obtained an advanced copy 2 weeks prior to release)
Achtung Baby (see Rattle And Hum)
Zooropa (see JT and R N H)
POP (see JT, RNH and Zooropa)
Best Of 1980 - 1990
ATYCLB
Best Of 1991 - 2000
HTDAAB


EDIT: just realized the thread said CD's!! My order is order of purchasing the albums, not CD's. Sorry...... My first U2 CD was Joshua Tree and the With Or Without You CD single at the same time.

 

[drt4]

1: Joshua Tree on casette
1.5: Rattle and Hum, but I returned it! Didn't want live songs!
2: Joshua Tree on CD!
3: AB, UF, and War together
4: UABRS
5: Zooropa and Rattle and Hum
6: Boy
7: October
8: Pop
9: ATYCLB
10: HTDAAB

 

[U2DMfan]

Joshua Tree 1987 or 88
Rattle and Hum 1988

Achtung to present-the day it hit the shelves.

Probably got Boy, October, War, and UF in '92.

 

[LuvandPeace1980]

Achtung Baby&Zooropa
The Joshua Tree
Rattle and Hum
The Unforgettable Fire
Pop
War
All That You CLB
October
Boy
How To DsimantleAAB

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

1. UABRS
2. UF
3. War
4. WAIA
6. October
7. Joshua Tree
8. Boy
9. Rattle and Hum
10. Acthung Baby
11. Zooropa
12. Passengers
13. Pop
14. ATYCLB
15. HTAAB

Hows that for a bizarre/random beginning?

 

[thrillme]

1. U2 best of 1980-90.
2. War (first U2 album I bought on my own)
3. October
4. Joshua Tree
5. All that you can't leave behind.
6. Under a blood Red Sky, Achtung Baby, Rattle and Hum.
7. Boy, Unforgettable Fire, Zooropa.
8. Pop
9. Best of 1990-2000
9. Wide Awake in America
10. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

And only Atomic Bomb was listened to with having heard/read reviews/opinions of it.

I got to listen to their other albums with little, or no outside opinions influencing each album. I did see a VH1 documentary about U2, their career, but I didn't really hear or read anything else, save Achtung Baby.

I did have one person in a chatroom highly recommend Achtung Baby.

 

[tommycharles]

Erm the whole U2 thing went off for me when I bought Go Home! after having a Best Buy certificate and being determined to buy something by a band I didn't have anything of.

So after that...I was hooked. The order of the albums, then:

1. Bomb
2. Best of 90-00
3. Achtung Baby
4. All That You Can't...
5. Pop
6. Best of 80-90
7. Rattle and Hum

Oh, and somewhere along the way I found Boy and War in our garage...

So that's my collection thus far.

 

[Jack In The Box]

I don't remember very well, was something like this:

1. ATYCLB
2. The best of 1980-1990
3. Pop
4. The Joshua Tree
5. Achtung Baby/War/Boy
6. Zooropa
7. Rattle and Hum
8. The Unforgettable Fire/Wide Awake in America/UABRS
9. October
10. The Best of 1990-2000
11. HTDAAB

 

[the tourist]

Best of 1980-1990 w/ B-sides
October
War
The Unforgettable Fire
Under A Blood Red Sky
Rattle & Hum
Pop
Zooropa
Achtung Baby
Wide Awake In America
Boy
The Joshua Tree
The Passengers
All That You Can't Leave Behind
The Best of 1990-2000 w/ B-sides
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

 

[bono_man2002]

All That You Can't Leave Behind
Best Of 80-90
Best Of 90-00
The Joshua Tree
Unforgetable Fire
Pop
Zooropa
Achtung Baby
Boy ->October -> War (Together)
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Rattle And Hum

 

[Ellay]

Achtung Baby
Zooropa
Joshua Tree
Pop
Rattle and Hum
= Unforgettable Fire
= War
Passengers
Best of 80-90
ATYCLB
War
October
Best of 90-00
Bomb

 

[Aardvark747]

1)Achtung Baby
2)Pop
3)Joshua Tree
4)War
5)Best Of 1980-1990
6)The Unforgettable Fire
7)Zooropa
8)Boy
9)Rattle And Hum
10)Under A Blood Red Sky
11)October
12)Wide Awake In America
13)Passengers
14)ATYCLB
15)Best Of 1990-2000
16)HTDAAB