Top 10 U2 Songs-2000's Era

[snutes1]

Here is my list of my favorite U2 songs from ATYCLB to NLOTH.

1. In a little while
2. Magnificent
3. No Line on the horizon
4. When I look at the world
5. Moment of Surrender
6. Unknown Caller
7. New York
8. Original of the species
9. Yahweh
10. Wild Honey


Honorable mention Kite, Walk on, A man and a woman, I'll go crazy and Summer Rain.

 

[trevgreg]

In no particular order, and subject to change at anytime....

1. Beautiful Day
2. Stuck
3. Kite
4. In a Little While
5. When I Look at the World
6. Vertigo
7. Original of the Species
8. No Line on the Horizon
9. Magnificent
10. Breathe

Honorable Mentions: Elevation, Walk On, Wild Honey, Miracle Drug, COBL, One Step Closer, MOS, Unknown Caller

 

[AndWeGetDizzy]

In no particular order, just with MOS definitely at number 1.

1)Moment of Surrender
2)City of Blinding Lights
3)Walk On
4)Beautiful Day
5)One Step Closer
6)Wild Honey
7)Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
8)When I Look At The World
9)No Line On The Horizon
10)Electrical Storm

 

[U2387]

1.)Moment of Surrender
2.)Beautiful Day
3.)No Line On The Horizon
4.)Kite
5.)Magnificent
6.)Electrical Storm
7.)City of Blinding Lights
8.)Sometimes
9.)Breathe
10.)Walk On/In A Little While

Honorable Mention: Elevation, Original, New York, One Step Closer, When I Look At the World, Stuck.

Jeez.....we all bash the 2000's or at least want some more 80s and 90s in the live set lists, but it is still very, very hard.

Though we have seen this exact thread before, we need it a lot to remind us just how good U2 are. I sometimes find myself conceding points to people who bash 00's U2, when what I really should be doing is telling them to listen to some of these songs mentioned here that are less known and don't just judge on Vertigo, Elevation and Boots! If the 80s and 90's are out of this world, the 00's, if they can't match up, are still devastatingly brilliant!

I tried to come up with 10 and only 10 and realized I forgot IALW. When I went back up the list, I thought for a while about each song and if I could live with removing it. Nope.

 

[greenlight7-11]

In no particular order:

In A Little While
Magnificent
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
No Line On The Horizon
Kite
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Cedars Of Lebanon
FEZ-Being Born
Beautiful Day
Miracle Drug

If non-album tracks are allowed, then I would substitute Stateless, The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Electrical Storm for the last three on my list.

 

[powerhour24]

Beautiful Day
Walk On
Electrical Storm
Kite
Magnificent
NLOTH
Moment of Surrender
Sometimes
Original of the Species
Ground Beneath Her Feet

 

[An Cat Gav]

1. The Ground Beneath her feet.
2 Stateless (not sure if thisqualifies but I'll include it anyway.)
3. Magnificent
4. Cedars Of Lebanon
5. Electrical Storm
6. Beautiful Day
7. In A Little While
8 City Of Blinding Lights.
9. Fast Cars
10. FEZ-being born.

NLOTH and MOS were unlucky not to quite make it.

 

[BVS]

MOMENT OF SURRENDER(not only this decade but this one falls into my top ten of all U2)
Kite
In a Little While
No Line on the Horizon
Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own
Mercy(original leak)
Ground Beneath Her Feet
Fast Cars
Crazy Tonight
White as Snow

 

[rivergoat]

2 Stateless (not sure if this qualifies but I'll include it anyway.)

Of course it qualifies - released in 2000.

I can't make one - hell, I'd have to include the NLOTH album in it's entirety, along with Every Breaking Wave (which hasn't even been released) and the Crazy Tonight (as played live), and that's going back just a couple of years... Wedge in there Stateless (heh), IALW, Elevation (so sue me, I still love it), and definitely jam Man and a Woman somewhere near the top, and you'd just be getting me started. While only one ALBUM in that era was great, there are ALOT of gems in there.

IMO.

 

[An Cat Gav]

Of course it qualifies - released in 2000.

I can't make one - hell, I'd have to include the NLOTH album in it's entirety, along with Every Breaking Wave (which hasn't even been released) and the Crazy Tonight (as played live), and that's going back just a couple of years... Wedge in there Stateless (heh), IALW, Elevation (so sue me, I still love it), and definitely jam Man and a Woman somewhere near the top, and you'd just be getting me started. While only one ALBUM in that era was great, there are ALOT of gems in there.

IMO.

It was just because the original poster said your choices had to be from ATYCLB to NLOTH and Stateless is from before ATYCLB. But yeah it would be impossible for me to make a 2000s list without it. I agree with you on A Man and A Woman, a much under rated track.

 

[Tyagu_Anaykus]

1-Vertigo
2-No Line on the Horizon 2
3-No Line on the Horizon
4-Moment of Surrender
5-Electrical Storm
6-Walk On
7-Magnificient
8-Cedars of Lebanon
9-Mercy
10-Boy Falls from the Sky

i think that's it.

 

[Casamares]

1. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
2. Kite
3. Moment Of Surrender
4. Stuck In A Moment
5. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
6. Walk On
7. Magnificent
8. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
9. City Of Blinding Lights
10. Unknown Caller

 

[Just_Boy]

1. Walk On
2. Moment Of Surrender
3. Original of the Species
4. Beautiful Day
5. Vertigo
6. City of Blinding Lights
7. Miracle Drug
8. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
9. Cedars Of Lebanon
10. Elevation

 

[zoopop]

1. Moment Of Surrender (Best song this decade)
2. No Line On The Horizon
3. Magnificent
4. Kite
5. Beautiful Day
6. Electrical Storm
7. Original Of The Species
8. City of Blinding Lights
9. Stuck In A Moment (Takes alot of heat but its a great lyric & was performed so well during the Elevation tour)
10. Vertigo

Honorable Mention
-WAS, Breathe, IALW

 

[Galeongirl]

1. NLOTH2


*miles below it*
2. Electrical Storm
3. Fez - Being Born
4. Moment of Surrender
5. I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (Live remix)
6. City of Blinding Lights
7. Mercy
8. When I Look at the World
9. Beautiful Day
10. Miracle Drug

I guess... man this was pretty hard. Top 5 is pretty solid, the rest may vary.

 

[God Part III]

1. Moment of Surrender (preferably Wide Awake in Europe version)
2. Magnificent
3. Beautiful Day
4. No Line On The Horizon
5. Walk On
6. Electrical Storm
7. Vertigo
8. In A Little While
9. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
10. Unknown Caller

I like lists

Put Boy Falls From the Sky just beneath Electrical Storm if that counts.

 

[snutes1]

You can include TGBHF and Stateless. I forgot they were this decade and the "Feet" definately belongs in any top 10 list .

Good to see some votes for In a little while and When I look at the world. NLOTH 2 is also a worthy pick. I love it 2.

 

[Tacvbo]

1.Electrical Storm
2.Breathe
3.No Line on the Horizon
4.City of Blinding Lights
5.North Star
6.Unknown Caller
7.Window in the Skies
8.Mercy
9.Wild Honey
10.New York

 

[snutes1]

Results After Tacvbo:

Beautiful Day 10
IALW 7
Walk on 7
Kite 7
Stuck 5
When I look.. 4
Wild Honey 3
New York 2
Elevation 1

COBL 8
Sometimes 5
OOTS 5
Vertigo 5
MD 3
Yahweh 1
One Step... 1


MOS 11
NLOTH 11
Magnificent 10
UCaller 4
Cedars 4
Fez 3
Breathe 3
Crazy 3
White as snow 1


Electrical Storm 10
Merch 4
TGBHF 4
NLOTH 2 2
Fast Cars 2
Stateless 1
Boy Falls from sky 1
Crazy (live) 1
North Star 1
Windows....... 1


No top 10 fro GRACE, POE, LAPOE, A man and a woman , CRUMBS, All because of you, BOOTS or STAND UP COMEDY.

 

[Bedshaped]

Magnificent
Miracle Drug
Electrical Storm
New York
Mercy
Beautiful Day
I'll Go Crazy if I don't Go Crazy Tonight Live version
Window in the Skies
City of Blinding Lights
Origin of the Species

 

[Screwtape2]

Fez-Being Born is the best U2 song of the 2000's in my opinion. Here is the top ten in no order.

Boy Falls From The Sky
Cedars of Lebanon
City of Blinding Lights
Electrical Storm
Fez-Being Born
Mercy (original)
Moment of Surrender
No Line On The Horizon
Stateless
The Ground Beneath Her Feet

 

[medley]

No top 10 fro GRACE, POE, LAPOE, A man and a woman , CRUMBS, All because of you, BOOTS or STAND UP COMEDY.

Really? Well, here is mine then:

1/ MOS
2/ Vertigo
3/ WITS
4/ Beautiful Day
5/ Unknown Caller
6/ OOTS
7/ SYCMIOYO
8/ GOYB
9/ LAPOE
10/ ABOY

 

[Tom in Boston]

1. Window in the Skies
2. Beautiful Day
3. Wild Honey
4. Walk On
5. Magnificent
6. Moment of Surrender
7. No Line on the Horizon
8. Love and Peace
9. Elevation
10. All Because of You

Changes regularly. Tough decade, though. This wasn't easy.

 

[Popmartijn]

In no particular order:

1. Beautiful Day
2. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
3. No Line On The Horizon
4. One Step Closer
5. Summer Rain
6. In A Little While
7. All Because Of You
8. Stateless
9. Cedars Of Lebanon
10. Grace

Much of this can change tomorrow. Quite a good decade.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

1. Beautiful Day
2. City of Blinding Lights
3. Moment of Surrender
4. Vertigo
5. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
6. In A Little While
7. All Because of You
8. Always
9. Magnificent
10. I'll Go Crazy if i Don't Go Crazy Tonight

HM: Elevation; Walk On; a few others that I'm too lazy to think of atm.

Funny, because NLOTH charts 3 times, so as far as top songs go in my opinion it equally contributed to the decade as much as the other albums.

 

[mr.edge]

top 10

1. Beautiful Day
2. Electrical Storm
3. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
4. Walk on
5. Kite
6. Breathe
7. Magnificent
8. In A Little While
9. New york
10.Miracle drug

 

[Inner El Guapo]

1 Mercy (2004)
2 Fez-BB
3 No Line on the Horizon
4 Smile
5 Magnificent
6 Native Son
7 Unknown Caller
8 Moment of Surrender
9 Kite
10 Stateless

hon mention
11 Xanax and Wine
12 COBL
13 Beautiful Day
14 All Because of You (Alt)
15 Walk On

Hasty placement...that's what it feels like at the moment.

 

[Acrobat51829]

No particular order:

The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Beautiful Day
Walk On (single version)
Vertigo
City of Blinding Lights
No Line on the Horizon
Moment of Surrender
Fez-Being Born
Breathe
Electrical Storm

 

[TheEdge25]

1-Moment of Surrender
2-City of Blinding Lights
3-Crumbs From Your Table
4-Beautiful Day
5-I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
6-In A Little While
7-Vertigo
8-No Line On The Horizon II
9-Kite
10-New York

 

[ImOuttaControl]

It is pretty interesting to me to see the amount of love for IALW and how many people on the forum think it falls into the category of "10 best of the 2000's."

I've always loved the song and think that it could have been a massive hit if it were released as a single. I'm a teacher and it's one of the few U2 songs that my students(ages 13-18) actually tell me to put on when they're working. My parents (in their late 50's) like the song. My girlfriend who basically only listens to crummy pop and "hates U2" loves IALW. It just seems like a pop song that has universal appeal. The guitar line, the lyrics, the rhythm, the rhaspy vocals just seem to work perfectly together.