The Holy Trinity - Rank Your Favorites BONUS THREAD #3 - Your Favorite Albums

[nielsgov]

Masterpiece. My favourite album of all time.
1. Achtung Baby

Great albums
2. The Joshua Tree
3. Pop
4. No Line On The Horizon: this one and Pop are very close

Very good albums
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. All That You Can't Leave Behind

Good albums
7. Zooropa
8. Boy
9. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

Enjoyable albums
10. October
11. Rattle And Hum

Utter crap except for a few songs

























12. War

 

[U2girl]

Their best work

JT (sorry fans of the other one - it is the ultimate U2 album)
AB (great reinvention)
UF (Eno brings the fourth dimension with his synth

Very good
War (second half brings it down)
NLOTH/Zooropa - a tie (a better song selection for the latter and a tighter theme/sound for the former would do the trick)

Solid/average
ATYCLB/Pop/HTDAAB (midlife crisis albums)

Not bad per se but they were still yearning and it's only here because the later stuff is better
Boy (the debut charm still works after all these years)

Weakest links
October (not as charming as Boy, not as good as War)
Rattle and Hum (overdoing the American sound)

 

[prbiker15]

SIMPLY GREAT
--
1. Achtung Baby
2. The Joshua Tree
3. The Unforgettable Fire

REALLY GOOD / AVERAGE
--
4. No Line On The Horizon
5. All That You Can't Leave Behind
6. War
7. Boy
8. How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

OK / SO-SO
--
9. Zooropa
10. Pop
11. Rattle And Hum
12. October

 

[JoRu]

1. The Joshua Tree
2. Achtung Baby
3. No Line On The Horizon
4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. Rattle And Hum
6. All That You Can't Leave Behind
7. Zooropa
8. How To Dismantle An Atomic
9. War
10. Pop
11. October
12. Boy

 

[TheEdge25]

Their best work

JT (sorry fans of the other one - it is the ultimate U2 album)

this made me laugh so hard!

 

[super fly guy]

Hmm changes daily but here goes!

1.Achtung Baby
2.No line on the horizon
3.How to dismantle an atomic bomb

4.War
5.Joshua tree
6.Boy

7.Pop
8.All that you cant leave behind
9.Unforgettable fire

10.Zooropa
11.Rattle and hum
12.October

Even though october is last i still love it!

 

[lauramullen]

1. Achtung Baby
2. Joshua Tree
3. Unforgettable Fire
4. No Line On The Horizon
5. War
6. All That You Can't Leave Behind
7. How To Dismantle An Atmoic Bomb
8. Zooropa
9. Boy
10 Pop
11. Rattle and Hum
12. October

 

[TheEdge25]

Looks like Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby (of course) are consistently in the top 3 of people's lists.

Bono and the Edge are probably reading this thread and going, "Man, by the amount of requests for POP songs live we get from these people, you'd think Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby would be at the bottom of their lists!"

 

[super fly guy]

Has october been bottom of every list?

 

[Salome]

INCREDIBLAY
1. No Line On The Horizon
2. The Unforgettable Fire
3. All That You Can't Leave Behind

WOOHAY
4. The Joshua Tree
5. October
6. Zooropa

HOORAY
7. Rattle and Hum
8. Achtung Baby
9. War

YAY
10. Boy
11. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
12. POP

OKAY
13. Passengers

 

[65980]

1. The Joshua Tree
2. Achtung Baby
3. No Line On The Horizon
4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. Rattle And Hum
6. All That You Can't Leave Behind
7. Zooropa
8. How To Dismantle An Atomic
9. War
10. Pop
11. October
12. Boy

Your "mono-lexicism" against the single-word albums is very unfortunate and will not be permitted in this lexically-free forum.

 

[LemonMelon]

Top 3:

1. Zooropa
2. Joshua Tree
3. Pop

Awesome but slightly inferior:

4. Boy
5. Achtung Baby
6. War
7. No Line On The Horizon
PASSENGERS

Good, but a clear step back:

8. The Unforgettable Fire
9. Rattle And Hum
10. HTDAAB

Average:

11. ATYCLB
12. October

U2 has not released a bad album yet.

 

[An Cat Gav]

Has october been bottom of every list?

Not mine.

 

[doctorwho]

I can't comprehend calling October "What is this nonsense", but that's just me.

I agree, however, I was simply using the headers from the original poster.

 

[cobl04]

Good, but a clear step back:
8. The Unforgettable Fire

care to elaborate?

in terms of following Boy-October-War it's definitely not a step back.

U2 has not released a bad album yet.

and how many bands can you say this for?

 

[Casamares]

Has october been bottom of every list?

NO! My 3rd position

 

[monsieur fly]

1. Achtung Baby
2. Pop
3. Zooropa

4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. No Line On The Horizon
6. War
7. The Joshua Tree
8. All That You Can't Leave Behind
9. Boy
10. Rattle and Hum
11.October
12. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

 

[LemonMelon]

care to elaborate?

in terms of following Boy-October-War it's definitely not a step back.

Read that as "good, but a clear step back...from the others."

However, even taking this change of phrasing into account, I believe TUF only surpasses Boy in ambition. It aims higher, and for that reason placed U2 on a track to even greater works. However, as it stands today, only 6 of the tracks (ASOH-Promenade, Bad) stand up to scrutiny, and the b-sides reveal how incomplete TUF truly is. The peaks are among the highest of any U2 album, and the production is fascinating, but as a 45 minute piece, it falls short of a good chunk of their other work.

That said, I liked it a lot less a few years ago, and I may grow to disagree with this opinion over time. It's entirely possible.

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Looks like Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby (of course) are consistently in the top 3 of people's lists.

Bono and the Edge are probably reading this thread and going, "Man, by the amount of requests for POP songs live we get from these people, you'd think Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby would be at the bottom of their lists!"

LOL, really, no kidding! Ah, U2 fans, confusing the hell out of U2 for 30 plus years .

Um, yeah, so let's see here...hopefully the band wouldn't be too confused by my list . Or maybe they would, who knows:

If I Were Stranded On A Deserted Island...

1. Pop
2. The Joshua Tree
3. Achtung Baby

And the rest...

4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. War*
6. No Line On The Horizon
7. Rattle & Hum
8. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
9. All That You Can't Leave Behind
10. Boy
11. Zooropa
12. October

*=I think I said in one thread that War was in the top 3, but I totally forgot about Achtung Baby when I said that, and then there's The Unforgettable Fire, so...um, yeah. I do love War immensely, though.

8 and 9 can switch back and forth depending on my mood, they're sort of tied in number of songs I love vs. number of songs that I'm not quite as big on. Zooropa has some classics on it, but again, also has some songs that aren't my top picks, as does October. All that being said, however, I'll ditto LemonMelon's sentiment. Even the lowest ranking U2 album is still definitely worthwhile listening. There's always something good you can pull out from any one of their albums .

Angela

 

[Katiesheb]

ATYCLB has sentimental value to me because I drifted away from U2 during Zooropa and POP and Beautiful Day is what got me back into them again.

/sap

You are not the the only one Sicy!


Anyway here are my picks. Had to think about this for a while!

1. The Joshua Tree (this would be the album I would take on a deserted island!!!)
2. The Unforgettable Fire
3. Achtung Baby

And the rest... (I can't number them. They all have sentimental value for me!!!)
War
All That You Can Leave Behind
Rattle and Hum
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Zooropa
Pop
No Line on the Horizon
October
Boy

 

[Saracene]

I find it really hard to rank U2 albums as I'm never sure whether to rank them based on how I feel about the album in general, or on the strength of its individual songs. This list mostly tends towards the former.

1. All That You Can't Leave Behind
2. The Unforgettable Fire
3. Boy
4. Pop
5. Achtung Baby
6. No Line On The Horizon
7. The Joshua Tree
8. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
9. Rattle and Hum
10. Zooropa
11. War
12. October

 

[65980]

I consider [Passengers] as much a U2 album as any of the others (in fact, more of an album than RAH)

I may be biting off more than I want to chew on here, but are you saying that 'Passengers', the name/project, is somehow more "U2" than the Rattle & Hum project?

Explanation...?

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

he said it was more of an album, not more u2.

 

[mad1]

lets seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:

1- Achtung Baby
2- PoP
3- Unforgettable Fire
4 - Rattle and Hum
5 - The Joshua Tree
6 - All That You Cant Leave Behind
7 - Zooropa
8 - October
9 - Atomic
10 - NLOTH
11 - Boy
12 - War

 

[Tyagu_Anaykus]

1- Achtung Baby
2- Zooropa




3- The Joshua Tree
4 - War
5 - NLOTH


6 - PoP
7 - Boy
8 - HTDAAB
9 - Rattle & Hum
10 - Unforgettable Fire
11 - October
12 - All That You Cant Leave Behind

 

[pepokiss]

Achtung Baby!
POP
HTDAAB / NLOTH