Top 10 U2 'one-word-only-titled' songs

[jacobus]

01 Acrobat
02 Mofo
03 Lemon
04 One
05 Gone
06 Please
07 Bad
08 Desire
09 Wire
10 Zooropa

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

1. Please
2. Bad
3. Vertigo
4. One
5. Gloria
6. Gone
7. Zooropa
8. Wire
9. Tomorrow
10. Exit

Honorable mentions to Kite, Breathe and Mofo

 

[2861U2]

1) One
2) Bad
3) Elevation
4) Please
5) Gone
6) Lemon
7) Breathe
8) Mercy
9) Mofo
10) Ultraviolet

 

[Y2K]

1. Please
2. Bad
3. Vertigo
4. One
5. Gloria
6. Gone
7. Zooropa
8. Wire
9. Tomorrow
10. Exit

Honorable mentions to Kite, Breathe and Mofo

Good list, but Vertigo ahead of One?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

A feeling is so much stronger than a thought, Y2K!

 

[lauramullen]

One
Bad
Please
Gloria
Gone
Desire
Acrobat
Please
Elevation
Tomorrow

 

[zooropop40]

no particular order

One, Bad, Magnificent, Mofo, Please, Gone, Zooropa, Acrobat, lemon, kite

 

[BrandonLee722]

One
Bad
Pride
Magnificent
Ultraviolet
Breathe
Acrobat
Desire
Discoteque
Promenade

 

[AtomicBono]

1. Gone
2. Acrobat
3. Discotheque
4. Exit
5. Mercy
6. Please
7. Mofo
8. Zooropa
9. Bad
10. One

 

[dsmith2904]

Stay
One
Gone
Desire
Elevation
Bad
Kite
Discotheque
Tomorrow
October

 

[phillyfan26]

1. Bad
2. Please
3. Zooropa
4. Mofo
5. Acrobat
6. Ultraviolet
7. Stay
8. Gone
9. Kite
10. Exit

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I've spotted some errors that must be corrected forthwith.

First of all, lauramullen, you have Please listed twice on your list.

Second of all, all entries with Stay and Ultraviolet are deemed null and void seeing as the official titles of those songs are, in fact, Stay (Faraway, So Close!) and Ultraviolet (Light My Way)...bringing each song title to a grand total of 4 words. Not one.

 

[Axver]

Second of all, all entries with Stay and Ultraviolet are deemed null and void seeing as the official titles of those songs are, in fact, Stay (Faraway, So Close!) and Ultraviolet (Light My Way)...bringing each song title to a grand total of 4 words. Not one.

Plus, if you care to check the back of your copy of Achtung Baby, you will discover the song is called Ultra Violet. Two words.

My list:

1. Bad
2. Heartland
3. Acrobat
4. Gone
5. Gloria
6. Exit
7. Zooropa
8. Slug
9. Rejoice
10. Twilight

And if we don't want to count Slug, then bump Rejoice and Twilight up a spot each and bring in Wire at 10th.

 

[Addicted To Bad]

1. Bad
2. Gone
3. One
4. Exit
5. Heartland
6. Stay
7. Desire
8. Gloria
9. Magnificent
10. Kite

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

btw, in case anyone wants a list of all the one word titles

twilight
gloria
rejoice
fire
tomorrow
october
scarlet
seconds
surrender
40
wire
promenade
bad
mlk
exit
desire
heartland
one
acrobat
zooropa
babyface
numb
lemon
slug
discotheque
mofo
gone
miami
please
elevation
kite
grace
vertigo
yahweh
magnificent
breathe
----------------------------
touch
salomé
always

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

1. seconds
2. fire
3. heartland
4. zooropa
5. magnificent
6. discotheque
7. mofo
8. slug
9. surrender
10. wire

honourable mention: twilight (but only the demo version)

 

[eviltwin]

Wire


this is just too difficult, a quick scan gives me 25 five star one word songs...but I'll give it a go anyway.

Zooropa
Desire
Wire
Salomé
Stateless (!)

Breathe
Acrobat
Twilight
Please
Exit

shame to leave this off the list though on what's basically a technicality:
God pt.2

BTW, move Acrobat to before Exit and you've got a brilliant Album

 

[coolian2]

1. zooropa
2. gone
3. mofo
4. discotheque
5. breathe
6. slug
7. heartland
8. exit
9. lemon
10. magnificent

if slug is discounted, throw october in at 10 and bump everything up one.

my ill considered opinion at midnight....it'll probably change by the time i catch up on this thread.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

oh yeah and btw if slug's discounted, then throw gone in there. i'm kind of regretting i didn't put it on there in the first place. but there's so many good songs to choose from.

 

[CTU2fan]

In no particular order...

gloria
rejoice
tomorrow
wire
exit
heartland
acrobat
gone
kite
magnificent

I got down to about 15 songs and then it got hard.

 

[eviltwin]

btw, in case anyone wants a list of all the one word titles

missing from that list:


Levitate
Smile
Stateless
Testimony (should've been on my list really, now that I think of it.)
Winter

also not counted for various reasons:
God pt.II
Hawkmoon 269
Goldeneye
Boy-Girl
Stay (and others similar)

 

[God Part III]

Stay and Ultraviolet don't count! (if they do, my list will look different):

1. Zooropa
2. Magnificent
3. Mofo
4. Lemon
5. Acrobat
6. Breathe
7. One
8. Vertigo
9. Please
10. Gloria

 

[the tourist]

01. Heartland
02. Acrobat
03. Zooropa
04. Exit
05. Ultraviolet
06. Gloria
07. Desire
08. Promenade
09. October
10. Rejoice

 

[coolian2]

also not counted for various reasons:
God pt.II
Hawkmoon 269
Goldeneye
Boy-Girl
Stay (and others similar)

more specifically, the reason they aren't counted is because their titles have more than one word in them

 

[Purplereign]

Bad, Gone, Magnificent, Wire, Desire, Acrobat, Gloria,Vertigo,Twilight, Seconds

in no particular order because coming up with that ^ was hard enough

 

[eviltwin]

more specifically, the reason they aren't counted is because their titles have more than one word in them

I don't agree, numbers are not words, only if you spell them out. Abbreviations aren't words either. That technically would make "40" a non word title as would MLK.

Hyphenation, again debatable, if Boy-Girl were separate words, why hyphenate at all?

I would also like to know why U2 would incorrectly split Ultraviolet into two words. Ultra is not a word, unless it refers to the espionage cryptonym.

GoldenEye is one word for sure, defined by the movie title.
It might not be included, because it's Tina Turner singing. But I feel it should be included, as it is as much a U2 song as say, "She's a Mystery to Me". That they have yet to perform GoldenEye is irrelevant.


Not that is matters much since none of these is top10 material to me anyway, but others might find some obscure gem somewhere that (almost) fits the definition. Those "out of the box" ideas are what makes threads like these interesting. And I think people should have the freedom to make a case for anything similar.


The biggest issue is probably with subtitles in brackets.
It's not part of the title proper, it's a subtitle, that's why it is in brackets.
The problem is that songs like Pride and Stay would start to dominate lists.

 

[Axver]

The song is not Boy-Girl. It is Boy/Girl.

(Before anybody asks why it's Boy-Girl over on U2gigs, it's thanks to technical limitations. Using a / would make it count in the sets as two separate songs, Boy with a snippet of Girl.)

 

[Aardvark747]

Heartland
Lemon
Mofo
One
Kite
Acrobat
Magnificent
Zooropa
Rejoice
Bad

 

[eviltwin]

The song is not Boy-Girl. It is Boy/Girl.

(Before anybody asks why it's Boy-Girl over on U2gigs, it's thanks to technical limitations. Using a / would make it count in the sets as two separate songs, Boy with a snippet of Girl.)

It's Boy/Girl on the U2:3 cover, but it's Boy-Girl on the Boy remastered limited edition, both on the backcover and in the booklet.