I love Yahweh, find myself humming along with Walk On (especially the simple little piano notes leading into the ending), think Miracle Drug is a song I need to add to my Best of U2 playlist every time I hear it and yet I always forget, enjoy Stuck in a Moment when I am mellow, and generally really like ATYCLB up to its unfortunate cliff (I can never decide if that cliff is after In A Little While or Peace on Earth...sometimes I need to hear Bono pissed off at the world, and POE satisfies). I could live without Crumbs, All Because of You, and a few others, but that is going to be with most albums.
Different? Sure. Not an essential song(s) because they came out at a different time in life when music wasn't the soundtrack of my emerging life? Sure...I find it rare that a new song moves me like the songs that guided me through adolescence into adulthood. But I think placing the "average" tag on very good songs that came at a different time but were very well received by the general public is just opinion, and likely influenced, again, by the "time and place" factor. ATYCLB, for me, did enter my world at a transformative time and shares some of the power of the songs of adolescence (Joshua Tree, etc) or the soundtrack of my college years (Achtung Baby, Zooropa). But I can see where it didn't hit the average U2 fan in that pocket.