Rank Your Favorite Songs on the Album Part 2: POP

[TheEdge25]

Same deal as Part 1, but POP is the new album.

---FANTASTIC---
1 - Last Night On Earth
2 - Discotheque
3 - Mofo
---Classic U2---
4 - Please
5 - Do You Feel Loved
6 - Gone
7 - Staring At The Sun
---Acceptable---
8 - If God Will Send His Angels
9 - The Playboy Mansion
10 - Miami
----Bearable----
11 - Wake Up Dead Man
----Terrible----
12 - If You Wear That Velvet Dress

 

[monsieur fly]

-FANTASTIC---
1 - Last Night On Earth
2 - Discotheque
3 - Mofo
4- Velvet Dress
---Classic U2---
5 - Gone
6- Please
7-- Do You Feel Loved
8- If God Will Send His Angels
---Good---
9- Staring At The Sun
10 - The Playboy Mansion
11- Wake Up Dead Man
12 - Miami
----Bearable----
N/A
----Terrible----
N/A

 

[corianderstem]

Ooh, let's see. I have to think a little more about this one.

1. Please
2. Mofo
3. Gone
4. Miami
5. Do You Feel Loved
6. Discotheque
7. Staring At the Sun
8. If God Will Send His Angels
9. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
10. Last Night On Earth
11. Wake Up Dead Man
12. The Playboy Mansion

6-10 are somewhat interchangeable depending on my mood.

 

[bono_212]

Harder for me, not a secret that I'm no huge fan of this one.

1) Please
2) If God Will Send

3) Last Night on Earth
4) Gone
5) Playboy Mansion

6) Staring at the Sun
7) Discotheque

8) Mofo
9) Wake up Dead Man

10) Do You Feel Loved

Potential Worst U2 songs ever:
11) Miami
12) If You Wear that Velvet Dress

 

[Salome]

---FANTASTIC---
1 - Mofo
---Classic U2---
---Acceptable---
2 - Discotheque
3 - Please
4 - Wake Up Dead Man
5 - Miami
6 - Do You Feel Loved
7 - If You Wear That Velvet Dress
----Bearable----
8 - Gone
9 - Staring At The Sun
10 - Last Night On Earth
----Terrible----
11 - The Playboy Mansion
12 - If God Will Send His Angels

 

[corianderstem]

I hope it's BEARABLE and not TERRIBLE that I did not follow the format everyone else is using.

 

[Roland of Gilead]

1. Gone
2. Mofo
3. Last Night on Earth

4. Do You Feel Loved
5. Please

6. Discotheque
7. Staring at the Sun

8. If God Will Send..
9. Wake Up Dead Man
10. If You Wear that Velvet Dress

11. Miami
12. Playboy Mansion

 

[theedgeu2]

1. Do You Feel Loved
2. Discotheque
3. Mofo
4. Gone
5. If God Will Send His Angels
6. Last Night On Earth
7. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
8. Staring At The Sun
9. Please
10. The Playboy Mansion
11. Wake Up Dead Man
12. Miami

 

[LemonMelon]

1. Wake Up Dead Man - 10/10
2. Do You Feel Loved - 9.5/10
3. Gone - 9/10
4. Last Night On Earth - 8.5/10
5. Mofo - 8/10
6. Discotheque - 8/10
7. Please - 8/10
8. Playboy Mansion - 8/10
9. If You Wear That Velvet Dress - 7.5/10
10. If God Will Send His Angels - 7.5/10
11. Staring At The Sun - 6.5/10
12. Miami - 5/10

 

[Axver]

Very Fine U2 Listening
1. Gone
2. Last Night On Earth
3. Do You Feel Loved
4. Mofo
5. Please

Fine U2 Listening
6. Wake Up Dead Man
7. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

Mediocre U2 Listening
8. Staring At The Sun
9. Discotheque
10. If God Will Send His Angels

Ugh
11. Playboy Mansion
12. Miami

 

[chelle00]

Fantastic:
1. Discotheque
2. Please
3. If God will send his angels
4. If you wear that velvet dress

Classic:
5. MOFO
6. Gone
7. Last Night on Earth

Acceptable:
8. Do you feel loved?
9. Staring at the sun
10. Miami

Bearable:
11. Playboy Mansion
12. Wake up Dead Man

 

[alanah]

1 - Wake Up Dead Man
2 - Please
3 - Discotheque
4 - Gone
5 - Do You Feel Loved
6 - Mofo
7 - Last Night On Earth
8 - If God Will Send His Angels
9 - Staring At The Sun
10 - If You Wear That Velvet Dress
11 - Playboy Mansion
12 - Miami

 

[BonosLil'Pal94]

1. Discotheque
2. Gone
3. Mofo
4. Last Night On Earth
5. Do You Feel Loved
6. Staring At The Sun
7. The Playboy Mansion
8. Please
9. Miami
10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
11. If God Will Send His Angels
12. Wake Up Dead Man

 

[the tourist]

1. Wake Up Dead Man
2. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
3. Last Night On Earth
4. Do You Feel Loved?
5. Discotheque
6. Staring At The Sun
7. Mofo
8. The Playboy Mansion
9. Gone
10. Miami
11. Please
12. If God Will Send His Angels

 

[xtrmx]

--FANTASTIC-- (Many songs, <3 P0P)
1. Gone
2. Please
3. Do You Feel Loved
4. Last Night On Earth
5. The Playboy Mansion
6. Discotheque

--GREAT--
7. Mofo
8. If God Will Send His Angels
9. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
10. Miami


--MY TOP10 WORST U2 SONGS--
Wake Up Dead Man
Staring At the Sun

 

[rogueslayer1138]

1. If God Will Send His Angels^ [Excellent]
2. Gone
3. Discotheque
4. Staring at the Sun
5. Please [Good]
6. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
7. The Playboy Mansion
8. Last Night on Earth
9. Do You Feel Loved [Fair]
10. Wake up Dead Man
11. Mofo [Poor]
12. Miami
^ Original album version with scat singing and the more organic song structure

Albums:
1) Achtung Baby
2) The Joshua Tree
3) Pop*
...

 

[SeattleVertigo]

Great:
Please
Gone
Staring at the Sun
If God Will Send His Angels
Discotheque
Mofo
Do You Feel Loved
Wake Up Dead Man

OK:
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Last Night on Earth

Poor:
Playboy Mansion
Miami

 

[No spoken words]

This is not one of my favorite U2 albums:

1. Do You Feel Loved
2. Mofo
3. Please
4. Gone
5. Wake Up Dead Man
6. Last Night on Earth
7. Discotheque
8. If God Will Send His Angels
9. Staring at the Sun
10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
11. Playboy Mansion
12. Miami

 

[corianderstem]

I used to really hate Miami. Now I really like it.

Although the "my mammy" line still irks me.

 

[lauramullen]

1. Mofo
2. Discotheque
3. If God Will Send His Angels
4. Gone
5. Staring At The Sun
6. Do You Feel Loved
7. Last Night On Earth
8. Please
9. If you Wear That Velvet Dress
10. Wake Up Dead Man
11. Playboy Mansion
12. Miami

 

[digitize]

1) Please
2) Mofo
3) Staring at the Sun
4) Discothèque
5) If You Wear That Velvet Dress (though I must admit, the quality of the Jools Holland version probably puts this above where it would otherwise be).
6) If God Will Send His Angels
7) Last Night on Earth
8) Miami
9) Gone
10) Wake Up Dead Man
11) Do You Feel Loved
12) The Playboy Mansion

 

[corianderstem]

I might be the only one who prefers the album version of Velvet Dress to the Jools Holland one. I really like that version, but the album version just oozes sensuality. Love it.

 

[No spoken words]

I might be the only person who thinks Do You Feel Loved is the best song on the album......and I think that despite feeling like the song is just shy of being awesome.

 

[corianderstem]

I think it's really underrated, and even in making my own list, I thought it was going to end up higher, but then I'd think of the other songs and I liked more and it kept getting bumped down the list.

But it's still great.

 

[lazarus]

And off of that remark....

1. Gone
2. Wake Up Dead Man
3. The Playboy Mansion*
4. If God Will Send His Angels*
5. Last Night on Earth
6. Discotheque
7. Miami*
8. Please
9. Mofo
10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
11. Do You Feel Loved
12. Staring at the Sun

*suck it, haters.

Also, the "new mix" and single versions of all these songs can suck it, too. Even the one for Please.

 

[corianderstem]

I've also come around to Staring at the Sun - not as much as I have with Miami, but I've started liking it again. For years, it just struck me as kind of a blah song.

Now I dig it.

 

[digitize]

I might be the only one who prefers the album version of Velvet Dress to the Jools Holland one. I really like that version, but the album version just oozes sensuality. Love it.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the album version of Velvet Dress... but I do like the Jools Holland version more.

 

[corianderstem]

The only thing I liked about the live version was the way Edge transitioned into it from Discotheque. That was kind of nifty. And it transitioned nice into WOWY. But I didn't like it live.

 

[cobl04]

1. Gone - soaring guitar, touching lyrics, blistering live, it's everything i love in a U2 song. 10
~
2. Do You Feel Loved - another example of what i love about 90s U2, this has a dirty vibe, and an insatiable, cool vocal that (i've always imagined) drives Pleba crazy. 9
3. Mofo - little do my friends know that not every U2 song since 1976 sounds like Beautiful Day! i just wish the lyric matched the title 9
4. Discotheque - BOOM CHA! BOOM CHA! get over yourself Larry. 8
5. Wake up Dead Man - the loathing, metallic guitar and the defeated vocals it props up make this one of U2's best closers. a shame that whenever i hear this song in my head it's usually the poor Elevation live version. 8
6. Please - i have never seen in this song what its blind fans have, but it's a pretty terrific number all the same. 8
~
7. Last Night on Earth - despite the dirty guitar line and the vocals there is always something that's prevented me from loving this songs as i do the songs above it here. it might be the chorus; it doesn't hit you like it should. 7
8. If You Wear That Velvet Dress - one of two (Cori ) who prefers this version over the Jools Holland version. it's almost like Bono is whispering this song to you, and only you. watershed moment when the guitar finally comes in. 7
~
9. Feel Good Inc Staring at the Sun - inexplicably bothers me. 6
10. The Playboy Mansion - playful, funny lyrics and i like it because it doesn't take itself seriously at all, but at points it sounds serious. a good balance. 6
11. Miami - read as above. a bit like Daddy's Gonna Pay - it turned into a fucking monster live. 5
12. If God Will Send His Angels - not a bad song, exactly, but i think it falls into that category of "nice enough". not so bad i'll turn it off, but i've never had the urge to listen to it either. 5

 

[corianderstem]

8. If You Wear That Velvet Dress - it's almost like Bono is whispering this song to you, and only you.

DING DING DING!