5 star classics on the albums

[allbecauseofu2]

i recently rated all the u2 albums on my media player. i can select 1-5 stars for each of the songs. i thought i would share how many songs on each album got 5 stars. and what songs they were.

NLOTH : 0
HTDAAB: 1 (vertigo)
ATYCLB: 2 (BD and WO)
POP: 1 (disco)
ZOO: 1 (the wanderer)
AB; 5 (fly,UTEOTW,one,acrobat,MW)
RAHdesire,AIWIY)
JT: 3 (wowy,streets,ISHFWILF)
TUF: (pride,bad)
WAR: 3 (SBS,40,NYD)
OCT: 0
BOY: 1 (IWF)

 

[Rob33]

whatttttttttttt....there's something wrong there

 

[last unicorn]

Um, that can't be right. NLOTH 0?

I disagree with most of the other ratings, too.

 

[God Part III]

NLOTH has 9 in my opinion

 

[Axver]

i recently rated all the u2 albums on my media player. i can select 1-5 stars for each of the songs. i thought i would share how many songs on each album got 5 stars. and what songs they were.

NLOTH : 0
HTDAAB: 1 (vertigo)
ATYCLB: 2 (BD and WO)
POP: 1 (disco)
ZOO: 1 (the wanderer)
AB; 5 (fly,UTEOTW,one,acrobat,MW)
RAHdesire,AIWIY)
JT: 3 (wowy,streets,ISHFWILF)
TUF: (pride,bad)
WAR: 3 (SBS,40,NYD)
OCT: 0
BOY: 1 (IWF)

This is the most generic, middle-of-the-road taste I have seen on these forums. Did you just buy U2:18 or something?

 

[ozeeko]

Boy - I Will Follow, An Cat Dubh, A Day Without Me - 3
October - Gloria, October - 2
War - Sunday Bloody Sunday, Seconds, New Years Day, Two Hearts - 4
UF - ASOH, Pride, Wire, UF, 4th of july (i know, but i love it), Bad - 6
JT - First half the album, then RHMT, One Tree Hill, Mothers - 8
RandH - Desire, Hawkmoon, Angel of harlem, Heartland, All i want is you - 5
AB - Zoo Station, Even Better, One, UTEOTW, So Cruel, Mysterious ways, LIB - 7
Zooropa - Zooropa, Lemon, Stay, Daddy's, Some Days, First Time, Wanderer - 7
POP - Disco, Do you feel loved, Mofo, Gone, If you wear, Please, WUDM - 7
ATYCLB - Beautiful Day, In A Little While, Grace - 3
HTDAAB - Fast Cars - 1
NLOTH - Magnificent, MOS, WAS, COL - 4

 

[AtomicBono]

This is the most generic, middle-of-the-road taste I have seen on these forums. Did you just buy U2:18 or something?

LOL pwned

yeah, uh, I give like every U2 song five stars. No joke. I'm a blind sheep like that.

 

[Lemonfix]

NLOTH - NLOTH, MOS, wAS, Breathe (4)
HTDAAB - None/Fast Cars if it counts (0/1)
ATYCLB - BD (1)
POP - Disco, DYFL, Mofo, Velvet Dress, Please (4)
Zooropa - Zooropa, Stay, First Time, Dirty Day (4)
AB - One, UTEOTw, Mw, UV, Acrobat, LIB (6)
R&H - Desire, Heartland, AIwIY (3)
JT - Streets, wowy, RTSS, Exit, OTH (5)
UF - ASOH, wire, ISS (3)
war - SBS, Seconds, Drowning Man (3)
October - Tomorrow (1)
Boy - OOC (1)

 

[Irishteen]

This is the most generic, middle-of-the-road taste I have seen on these forums. Did you just buy U2:18 or something?

Give him some credit Ax he obviously bought the best of Johnny Cash too for the Wanderer

 

[rwolins1]

LOL pwned

yeah, uh, I give like every U2 song five stars. No joke. I'm a blind sheep like that.

Even Miami?

 

[AtomicBono]

Even Miami?

Pop is my favourite album, so yes, even Miami.

Pretty much most get 5, some get 4, some get 3, very few get anything below that. Except NLOTH 2, I give that -25 stars. Fuck that song.

 

[Axver]

Except NLOTH 2, I give that -25 stars. Fuck that song.

And NLOTH I gets -250 then?

 

[AtomicBono]

And NLOTH I gets -250 then?

No, NLOTH gets 5 stars. It's my favourite from the album How U2 managed to make two versions of a song where I feel 100% opposite is beyond me. I mean, I dig both the Guilty and Garage mixes of Holy Joe, so what's up with this shit?

 

[BVS]

This is the same poster that said Saints should have been saved for NLOTH...

 

[adypole]

nloth-moment of surrender,unknown caller, no line on the horizon, fez being born, magnificent

bomb-city of blinding lights

all that you can't-walk on

pop-do you feel loved,mofo, dischoteque, wake up dead man, please

zooropa-zooropa

achtung baby- zoo station, the fly, one, until the end of the world, acrobat, love is blindness

rattle and hum-bullet the blue sky, hawkmoon 269, pride, all I want is you

the joshua tree-where the streets have no name, bullet the blue sky, with or without you, exit

the unforgettable fire-a sort of homecoming, wire, bad

war-the refugee, sunday bloody sunday, seconds

october-I threw a brick through a window

boy-electric co, out of control

 

[adypole]

Hey,it seems pops my third favourite album! nice one! I though it was joshua tree. I'm too easily influenced.

 

[allbecauseofu2]

i did give alot of songs 4 stars. sometimes songs are hits for a reason. like i;m really not gonna give WOWY 5 stars. just to be cool or something. and no i don't think anything on NLOTH is a 5 star classic. alot of 4's, but no 5's. and october is no 5's. gloria was close. im not giving is that all? 5 stars just to get respect on this board. casual fans don't know acrobat or the wanderer off the top of thier head. and i gave that 5 stars.

 

[65980]

First of all, can I say that you people (mainly Axver) trolling the guy's thread because you think his tastes are too mainstream is absolutely pathetic! There is nothing wrong with liking hit songs. You are officially not a smarter person because you think an unreleased demo of Adam farting is better than 'With Or Without You' (I realize that you are smarter in your own mind, but that's a place I wouldn't want to visit).

And so what if the guy did just buy U2:18? So, he can't express his opinion? By that standard, those of us who've followed the band since the 80s should ban anyone who first listened to them after Pop.


To get to the poor guy's topic:

It's a little hard to say what's a "5-star classic" unless we specified whether we're looking for (a) generally-accepted classics (in the public arena) or (b) our own idiosyncratic choices -- the two lists would obviously be different for most people. But anyway, I'll give it a go (bear in mind my standards for a "classic" are very high, so there can't be many) as far as generally accepted "classics" in the public arena go:

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. Pride
3. Bad
4. Where the Streets Have No Name
5. With Or Without You
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
7. One
8. Beautiful Day

That's it. For my own personal tastes, I would add to those 8, the following:

-- A Sort Of Homecoming
-- Running To Stand Still
-- All I Want Is You
-- Until The End of the World
-- The Fly
-- Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
-- Please
-- Vertigo
-- City of Blinding Lights

I feel like I should add 'I Will Follow', 'Gloria', and 'New Year's Day', but... I dunno; the older I get, the less I enjoy the really early stuff. It's all good, but it's just so adolescent.

Hmm... I've just come up with a list of tunes that would make a pretty good 17-track Best of U2.... but then I'm duty-bound to add a few earlier ones.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

you gave Vertigo 5 stars??

I think that pretty much invalidates your entire marking system. I love Vertigo but a 5 Star song it is not...

 

[Axver]

First of all, can I say that you people (mainly Axver) trolling the guy's thread because you think his tastes are too mainstream is absolutely pathetic!

I know I've made a good post if you hate it.

 

[Bonochick]

Due to some of the replies in this thread, I feel the need to say something so that this thread doesn't totally nosedive.

Not everyone is going to have the same opinion on songs. Feel free to discuss different opinions...but could we leave the snobby elitism at the door, please?

 

[thefly418]

Boy: I Will Follow, The Electric Co., Out Of Control
October: Gloria
War: New Year's Day, Sunday Bloody SUnday
The Unforgettable Fire: Bad, Pride, The Unforgettable Fire, A Sort Of Homecoming
The Joshua Tree: Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, With Or Without You, Running To Stand Still, One Tree Hill
Rattle And Hum: All I Want Is You
Achtung Baby: The Fly, One, Until The End Of The World, Msterious Ways
Zooropa: Stay, Zooropa
Pop: Please, Gone
All The You Can't Leave Behind: Beautiful Day, Walk On
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb: City Of Blinding Lights
No Line On The Horizon: No Line On The Horizon, Magnificent, Moment Of Surrender, Unknown Caller, Breathe

 

[MMP]

Counting only studio versions to judge, here it goes:

The Unforgettable Fire: Bad, MLK
The Joshua Tree: In God's Country, Mothers of the Disappeared, With or Without You, Running to Stand Still, Trip Through Your Wires
Rattle and Hum: Hawkmoon 269, Desire, All I Want Is You
Achtung Baby: So Cruel, Even Better Than the Real Thing, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, Until the End of the World
Zooropa: Zooropa, Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car, The First Time, Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Original Soundtracks 1: Miss Sarajevo, Your Blue Room
Pop: The Playboy Mansion, MOFO, If You Wear That Velvet Dress
All That You Can't Leave Behind: Elevation, When I Look at the World, Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: Original of the Species, One Step Closer, City of Blinding Lights
No Line on the Horizon: Get on Your Boots, Unknown Calller, Moment of Surrender, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight, No Line on the Horizon

Also:
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Levitate
Lady with the Spinning Head (Exetended Dance Remix)
A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
Big Girls Are Best
Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)
If God Will Send His Angels (Single version)
Jesus Christ
Fast Cars
Window In the Skies
God Part II (Hard Metal Dance Mix)
Slow Dancing ('93 version)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Discothèque (Hexadecimal Mix)


Btw:
0: Awful
1: Bad
2: Average
3: Good
3.5: Very good
4: Excellent
4.5: Love it
5: Love it/classic/amazing
6: Perfect

Here are the ones with 5/6 ratings.

 

[Snowlock]

I reserve 5 stars for the truly exceptional so for me:

Nloth - 0 (breathe is closest, 4)
HTDAAB - 0 (Verigo is closest, 3)
ATYCLB - 1 (BD)
Pop - 1 (please)
Zooropa - (title track closest, 3)
AB - 2 (Zoo Station, WGRYWH)
RH - 1 (AIWIY)
JT - 3 (Streets, WOWY, RHMT)
TUF - 0 (title track is closest, 4; Bad from Wide Awake is a 5)
UABRS - 0 (SBS is closest, 2)
War - 0 (Like A Song closest, 3)
October - 0 (Gloria closest, 2)
Boy - 0 (Out Of Control closest, 2)

Anything with a star I consider good. Zero stars are reserved for the crap.

 

[Acrobat51829]

5 stars in my playlists:

October: Tomorrow
War: New Year's Day
TUF: A Sort of Homecoming, Pride, Bad
TJT: Streets, Still Haven't Found, WOWY, Exit
R&H: Desire, Silver and Gold, AIWIY
AB: One, Mysterious Ways
Zooropa: Dirty Day
Pop: Discotheque, Please
ATYCLB: Beautiful Day
HTDAAB: Vertigo, LAPOE
NLOTH: Breathe

Just opinion.

 

[Peterrrrr]

NLOTH has alot of 5 star:
NLOTH2
Magnificent
MOS
IGC
Fez
WAS
Breathe
COL

 

[zooropop40]

i recently rated all the u2 albums on my media player. i can select 1-5 stars for each of the songs. i thought i would share how many songs on each album got 5 stars. and what songs they were.

NLOTH : 0
HTDAAB: 1 (vertigo)
ATYCLB: 2 (BD and WO)
POP: 1 (disco)
ZOO: 1 (the wanderer)
AB; 5 (fly,UTEOTW,one,acrobat,MW)
RAHdesire,AIWIY)
JT: 3 (wowy,streets,ISHFWILF)
TUF: (pride,bad)
WAR: 3 (SBS,40,NYD)
OCT: 0
BOY: 1 (IWF)

look, I know its just opinion, but seriously

you should go back to some of these albums, close your eyes, and listen to the beautiful sounds that make up practically every U2 song...perhaps your list will change?

 

[DarkAcrobat]

I reserve 5 stars for the truly exceptional so for me:

Nloth - 0 (breathe is closest, 4)
HTDAAB - 0 (Verigo is closest, 3)
ATYCLB - 1 (BD)
Pop - 1 (please)
Zooropa - (title track closest, 3)
AB - 2 (Zoo Station, WGRYWH)
RH - 1 (AIWIY)
JT - 3 (Streets, WOWY, RHMT)
TUF - 0 (title track is closest, 4; Bad from Wide Awake is a 5)
UABRS - 0 (SBS is closest, 2)
War - 0 (Like A Song closest, 3)
October - 0 (Gloria closest, 2)
Boy - 0 (Out Of Control closest, 2)

Anything with a star I consider good. Zero stars are reserved for the crap.

Are you a casual fan ?, Do you ?

 

[emzz]

NLOTH - 4 (Magnificient, MOS, Fez-Being Born, Breathe)
HTDAAB - 2 (Miracle Drug, City of Blinding Lights)
ATYCLB - 2 (Beautiful Day, Kite)
AB - 5 (The Fly, One, UTEOTW, Acrobat, WGWYWH)
Pop - 2 (Gone, Do You Feel Loved)
Zooropa - 2 (Stay, Zooropa)
RH - 1 (AIWIY)
JT - 5 (WTSHNN, WOWY, ISHFWILF, RHMT, RTSS)
TUF - 3 (Bad, Pride, ASOH)
War - 3 (Like A Song, SBS, NYD)
October - 2 (Gloria, October)
Boy - 2 (Out Of Control, Electric Co.)

 

[allbecauseofu2]

well if the rating program would let me put 4.5 stars, alot of songs would have gotten that.and then thier's not such a stark difference. the idea that i just copy from u218 is pretty well not thought out. alot of the songs on thier are not on u218. my version didn't have the fly on it? did yours? must have missed the wanderer on my u218. This idea that u2 is like radiohead is absurd. Let me ask this board something. who do you think this band is? they are not a cult driven, dead/phish/radiohead/cure type "album cuts are better and more meaningful then the hits and only morons listen to the hits" kinda band. sure they have experimented . but big difference between what u2 does and what radiohead does. u2 has never made music that had no chance of selling records.. ever. get it? they are a alternative pop rock band. they are not progressive. album cuts should get more play at concerts. but u2 isn;t gonna give anyone a show full of album cuts and rare b-sides and no hits.. like what phish and the dead do. the passengers is the closet thing to making music that can;t sell. i laugh when someone says u2 played it safe on this or that album. you have no idea what "safe" means in that context. you really don't. safe compared to what? where is this epic, 20 min songs, progressive, concept,pink floyd-ish album that u2 did (that was officially called u2) that they are not doing anymore, cause they went "safe"? can someone send me a copy of it?