your very First U2 Song

[Bonny]

it's interesting to know, what song make you U2 fan... all because of what that started...
mine was 'elevetion'
*sorry if that thread was before*

 

[Aardvark747]

Let go......Discotheque

 

[the tourist]

Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, Pride, and New Year's Day.

 

[miss becky]

Zoo Station. But really, all of Achtung Baby.

 

[2861U2]

Beautiful Day, no doubt

 

[If you shout...]

Yeah, this thread has been up before...but what the fuck?

"Bad" and "Discotheque," in the strangest tandem of them all, worked their combined magic to lure me in. They still haven't let me go...

 

[neutral]

In God's Country for me. JT was my first album and something about that song in particular got to me.

 

[Zoots]

One of the first videos of Achtung, Even Better Than The Real Thing... I think.

S U P E R B A D

 

[RademR]

One

 

[rastacruz]

first I saw live was 11 O'clock Tick Tock

 

[tiny dancer]

New Year's Day.

 

[indra]

It was either New Year's Day or Sunday Bloody Sunday. Don't remember which now.

 

[The OOTS]

Pride...way back in 1984.

 

[dandy]

bad, 1984

 

[KieraAnne]

One and Love is Blindness

 

[mads]

with or without you

still my favorite song.

 

[dazzledbylight]

it was actually a a concert review of u2 [in New York Rocker mag} during the ??Battle of Britain Tour in mid-something 1980 that drew my atention...to U2.

"....ambitionious band, connects with audience, anthemic songs.." THEN I heard IWF/OOC, and I was reallly impressed !!

THEN an interview with them in the same mag done the next day {after that concert} but not printed up till May 81, that they further expanded on their performance & song/music philosphies/ themes as a band etc really, REALLY impressed me!!!

I kept following/buying the records [yeah, original vinyl] and hearing & seeing ever increasinng good/great stuff. Certainly JT was their full 'breakout' record {but thinking back...WAR also come close}.

So I've been there most of the time in these past 24 1/2 years{a live glimpse of them in soundcheck/rehearsal in '83, then seeing their full shows from '84 onward}

OK this was a long answer....- but my introduction to them was 'complex' with 'layers' of info adding into their attraction as a recording/performing band for me!

I'd already been a serious-super fan of serveral other bands previous to U2 that become as Super famous as U2 would eventually...so u2 had the "tough competition" of my previous R&R recorded and Live! experiences to measure up to.

 

[WinnieThePoo]

the song was Hold Me , Thrill Me , Kiss Me Kill Me
i actually saw a video first
album , joshua Tree
and video gig zoo tv

 

[R8drgurl]

New Year's Day was released when I was in high school and I've loved them ever since!

 

[discothequeLP]

Streets. . . i got started off right

 

[XHendrix24]

Streets. . . i got started off right

 

[david]

In 1989 when I was around 12 years old my aunt left her Rattle and Hum cassette at our house and the version of Pride off that album got me into U2. Though I did kind of forget about the band until The Fly premiered on MTV one night in the fall of 1991. I remember seeing the premiere and saying to myself "oh, wow, it's that band!"

 

[Cutters10C]

Wow, exactly the same as WinniethePoo, saw the Hold Me, Thrill Me video, went out and bought the Joshua Tree, rented Zoo TV video, the rest is history!!

 

[forty]

Let go......Discotheque

Me, too! Although, to be fair, I had heard a few of the staple U2 songs on the radio beforehand. It's just that Discotheque forced me to investigate.

 

[U2jer]

More or less all of Rattle and Hum; my dad loves the live version of ISHFWILF and had the cassette (early 1990s) on heavy rotation in the car, needless to say I became addicted

 

[Bonny]

acctually, that all started for me all because my boyfriend's father, who was great U2 fan, and first album I heard was POP (and especially Discoteque ), but video on 'elevation' made me down for the count...

 

[saltwaterkiss26]

Walk On...

 

[ZeroDude]

The Sweetest Thing in 98

 

[BassTrap82]

Very first song : Zooropa
I was 11/12 , something like that

 

[Mullen4Prez]

Beautiful Day,