Best Single -- B-sides included

[Utoo]

What is it?

 

[cobl04]

New Year's Day single.

1. New Year's Day 3:54
2. Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop?) 3:26
3. Fire (Live from Belgium) 3:48
4. I Threw a Brick Through a Window/A Day Without Me (Live from Belgium) 7:01

It has one of their best b-sides of all time, plus two magnificent live versions.

 

[Screwtape2]

No question:

With Or Without You

1. With Or Without You
2. Walk To The Water
3. Luminous Times

The greatest single ever released.

The Unforgettable Fire single is in close second.

 

[phillyfan26]

Stay w/ BTBS and LIB live on Zoo TV .

 

[Zoots]

One

1. One
2. Lady With The Spinning Head
3. Satellite Of Love
4. Night And Day (Steel String Remix)

 

[Zoots]

These look pretty good too, although I don't own any of them.

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

1. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
2. Spanish Eyes
3. Deep In The Heart

Stay (Faraway So Close) [The Live Format]

1. Stay (Faraway So Close)
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. Slow Dancing
4. Bullet the Blue Sky (Live)
5. Love is Blindness (Live)
6. Lemon (Bad Yard Club Edit)

Please (Popheart Live EP)

1. Please (Live from Rotterdam)
2. Where the Streets Have no Name (Live from Rotterdam)
3. With or Without You (Live from Edmonton)
4. Staring at the Sun (Live from Rotterdam)

 

[Axver]

Not even a contest:

The Three Sunrises / The Unforgettable Fire / A Sort Of Homecoming (live) / Love Comes Tumbling / Bass Trap

 

[theu2fly]

Window In The Skies, Pt. 2

1. Window In The Skies
2. Zoo Station (Live from Buenos Aires)
3. Kite (Live from Sydney)

The only single I've bothered to download...

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

One

1. One
2. Lady With The Spinning Head
3. Satellite Of Love
4. Night And Day (Steel String Remix)




Stay (Faraway So Close) [The Live Format]

1. Stay (Faraway So Close)
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. Slow Dancing
4. Bullet the Blue Sky (Live)
5. Love is Blindness (Live)
6. Lemon (Bad Yard Club Edit)

Those are my two favorites that I have. I like the Popheart EP, too. I was really into collecting singles back in the 90s, but I only have a few from ATYCLB and none from HTDAAB. I usually find them in used music shops, though, and I haven't been to any in awhile.

 

[LemonMelon]

Even Better Than The Real Thing:

1. EBTTRT
2. Salome
3. Where Did It All Go Wrong
4. Lady With The Spinning Head

 

[xaviMF22]

Even Better Than The Real Thing:

1. EBTTRT
2. Salome
3. Where Did It All Go Wrong
4. Lady With The Spinning Head

WINNAR

 

[2861U2]

Why is there even a debate?

Beautiful Day
with
Summer Rain
Always

not. even. close.

 

[An Cat Gav]

One

1. One
2. Lady With The Spinning Head
3. Satellite Of Love
4. Night And Day (Steel String Remix)

 

[An Cat Gav]

Not even a contest:

The Three Sunrises / The Unforgettable Fire / A Sort Of Homecoming (live) / Love Comes Tumbling / Bass Trap

 

[Popmartijn]

This is a difficult one, as U2 have released many great singles (WOWY, One, EBTTRT, Stay [Live Format], Popheart EP). One which hasn't been mentioned yet is this one:

If God Will Send His Angels

1. If God Will Send His Angels (Single Edit)
2. Slow Dancing
3. Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Live from Sarajevo)

 

[gman]

was it Angel of Harlem that had Love Rescue Me (live) and a Room at the Heartbreak Hotel on it?

Having sed that, really liked Streets (Silver and Gold and Sweetest Thing) AND WOWY (lumionus times and walk to the water)

 

[U2girl]

The JT WOWY/Streets/I Still haven't found... singles tied , with IGWSHA single and the Please live EP closely behind.

 

[Bonochick]

Why is there even a debate?

Beautiful Day
with
Summer Rain
Always

not. even. close.

 

[cdisantis83]

Please (Popheart Live EP)

1. Please (Live from Rotterdam)
2. Where the Streets Have no Name (Live from Rotterdam)
3. With or Without You (Live from Edmonton)
4. Staring at the Sun (Live from Rotterdam)

I'd agree with this one. The versions of Please and SATS are nothing short of transcendent.

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

Streets with:

Race Against Time
Silver and Gold
The Sweetest Thing

My favorite single...

 

[MrBrau1]

Streets with:

Race Against Time
Silver and Gold
The Sweetest Thing

My favorite single...

And the superior single version of "Streets."

I like Edge's backing vocals.

 

[catlhere]

Streets with:

Race Against Time
Silver and Gold
The Sweetest Thing

My favorite single...

QFT

Originally posted by catlhere
QFT

QFT

 

[gareth brown]

Not even a contest:
The Three Sunrises / The Unforgettable Fire / A Sort Of Homecoming (live) / Love Comes Tumbling / Bass Trap

quite possibly, The Three Sunrises and Love Comes Tumbling are definitely top of my list of favourite B-sides of the 80's and Bass Trap is just a few below too. I love how they took The Three Sunrises and used it as the opener it should be on any disc regardless of The Unforgettable Fire's status as a lead track.

Very strong single. Works very well as a stand-alone record from that era (could you call it an EP?) I don't think a first time listener would find fault with it if they heard it before The Unforgettable Fire LP.

 

[U2Man]

Stay (Faraway So Close) [The Live Format]

1. Stay (Faraway So Close)
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. Slow Dancing
4. Bullet the Blue Sky (Live)
5. Love is Blindness (Live)
6. Lemon (Bad Yard Club Edit)

and no. there is no contest. none at all.

if this single had only contained love is blindness, it would still have been the best ever.

 

[david]

Stay (Faraway So Close) [The Live Format]

1. Stay (Faraway So Close)
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. Slow Dancing
4. Bullet the Blue Sky (Live)
5. Love is Blindness (Live)
6. Lemon (Bad Yard Club Edit)

 

[cobl04]

Window In The Skies, Pt. 2

1. Window In The Skies
2. Zoo Station (Live from Buenos Aires)
3. Kite (Live from Sydney)

The only single I've bothered to download...

Oh doh! How could I forget that?



And I downloaded Always today. Great song. And they chose it over a song like Grace?



BTW, what the hell do QFT and FTW mean?



And is the version of ASOH on the TUF single the same version as on WAIA?

 

[cobl04]

New Year's Day single.

1. New Year's Day 3:54
2. Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop?) 3:26
3. Fire (Live from Belgium) 3:48
4. I Threw a Brick Through a Window/A Day Without Me (Live from Belgium) 7:01

It has one of their best b-sides of all time, plus two magnificent live versions.

Where's liamcool? He'll back me up on this one.

 

[Axver]

BTW, what the hell do QFT and FTW mean?

Queensland's Fucked Turnips and Fuck The What.

No, seriously, Quoted For Truth and For The Win.

And is the version of ASOH on the TUF single the same version as on WAIA?

Yeah, though there are some editions (i.e. the Aussie and Kiwi ones) with it mixed differently - plus a completely different version of Love Comes Tumbling.

 

[cobl04]

Queensland's Fucked Turnips and Fuck The What.

No, seriously, Quoted For Truth and For The Win.



Yeah, though there are some editions (i.e. the Aussie and Kiwi ones) with it mixed differently - plus a completely different version of Love Comes Tumbling.

Thanks!

Well I was going to get them off the complete U2 on itunes, are they the Aussie and Kiwi editions? I'd assume so.

 

[Axver]

No idea what's on iTunes, I'm afraid.