Worst of U2 Album: Create your own

[Oregoropa]

Somebody over on the 'Rank Zooropa' thread said SUC and EPAA were awful tracks. Sacriledge! to suggest such a comparison, but to each their own. Let the debate begin.

Rules - 11 Tracks from U2 Studio albums (No Passengers). Organize your tracklist for maximum angst.

1.) Stand Up Comedy
2.) Stranger in a Strange Land
3.) Red Light
4.) Peace on Earth
5.) Love and Peace or Else
5.) With a Shout (Jerusalem)
6.) Wild Honey
7.) Miami
8.) Shadows and Tall Trees
9.) Wake Up Dead Man
10.) Love Rescue Me
11.) Grace

I know I'll catch some heat for WUDM. Lyrically it's great, but musically bleh.
Definetly not a fan of some their closers.

 

[CosmoKramer]

Somebody over on the 'Rank Zooropa' thread said SUC and EPAA were awful tracks. Sacriledge! to suggest such a comparison, but to each their own. Let the debate begin.



Rules - 11 Tracks from U2 Studio albums (No Passengers). Organize your tracklist for maximum angst.



1.) Stand Up Comedy

2.) Stranger in a Strange Land

3.) Red Light

4.) Peace on Earth

5.) Love and Peace or Else

5.) With a Shout (Jerusalem)

6.) Wild Honey

7.) Miami

8.) Shadows and Tall Trees

9.) Wake Up Dead Man

10.) Love Rescue Me

11.) Grace



I know I'll catch some heat for WUDM. Lyrically it's great, but musically bleh.

Definetly not a fan of some their closers.

I'm with you on most of those songs but not Love and Peace.....thats one of my favorites!


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[TinKnight]

1. Man and a Woman
2. The Miracle
3. Some Days are Better than Others
4. Desire
5. Babyface
6. New York
7. Miami
8. Love and Peace

These are really the only songs I hate. Everything else I'm pretty meh about. I don't really understand the hate for Honey or Stand Up Comedy. Yeah, the lyrics are a little hacky, but the whole packages aren't that terrible.

 

[LemonMelon]

1. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)
2. Elevation
3. Song for Someone
4. Crazy Tonight
5. Get On Your Boots
6. Stand Up Comedy
7. Stuck in a Moment
8. Original of the Species
9. Yahweh
10. Grace
11. Is That All? (hidden bonus track)

 

[Oregoropa]

11. Is That All? (hidden bonus track)

I was about to say, You know U2 made albums prior to 2000?

 

[LemonMelon]

I don't think U2 have any truly terrible songs until the new millennium (Passengers has Elvis Ate America, which belongs on this list).

Is That All is an awful closer but not an awful song. The Refugee is borderline. Miami is too great live to hate, although it is admittedly a failed experiment as far as the studio version is concerned. I like every track on Zooropa. Bono's lyrics save some of the lesser moments of R&H.

Then the 00s start and Bono's lyrics fall off, at which point we find some real abominations.

 

[BigMacPhisto]

1. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)
2. Iris
3. One Step Closer
4. Hawkmoon
5. Love Rescue Me
6. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
7. Miami
8. Cedarwood Road
9. Crumbs From Your Table
10. Song for Someone
11. Stand Up Comedy


1-3 are incredibly bland...4-7 are meant to try your patience...and 8-11 are just awful and slotted in a way where they each become more irritating and prolong the agony.

 

[Fumbleitis]

1. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)
2. Elevation
3. Song for Someone
4. Crazy Tonight
5. Get On Your Boots
6. Stand Up Comedy
7. Stuck in a Moment
8. Original of the Species
9. Yahweh
10. Grace
11. Is That All? (hidden bonus track)

Agree completely with Stuck and OOTS- probably the 2 worst singles ever released by U2,

 

[DaveC]

1. Like A Song
2. The Refugee
3. Red Light
4. Some Days Are Better Than Others
5. Wild Honey
6. Miracle Drug
7. One Step Closer
8. Stand Up Comedy
9. Get On Your Boots
10. Peace on Earth
11. Yahweh

 

[gvox]

1. Like A Song

:ban:


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[digitize]

I don't know if there are eleven U2 songs that I dislike enough to put on a list like this.


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[lazarus]

9.) Wake Up Dead Man

 

[LemonMelon]

Wake Up Dead Man, Hawkmoon and Like a Song are ridiculous picks. I wish there was anything as good as those songs in U2's more recent work.

 

[DaveC]

EDIT: wow, I haven't listened to War in a long time and thought Like A Song was a completely different tune.

I'll take that one back and swap in Original of the Species.

 

[DaveC]

4. Hawkmoon
5. Love Rescue Me
6. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

wait a sec...for real?


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[BVS]

Refugee
4th of July
Some Days
Miami
Elevation
New York
All Because of You
SUC

The truth is, I tried to think of others, but these are the only ones I skip... There are others that I consider subpar, but they either have lyrics or music that somehow keep me intrigued.

 

[bobsaget77]

1 Stand Up Comedy
2 Breathe
3 Unknown Caller
4 Winter (Linear Version)
5 Is That All? (Nope, we've got a surprise)
6 Stand Up Comedy (Reprised)
7 Big Girls Are Best
8 Always
9 Wild Honey
10 When Loves Comes To Town
11 Stand Up Comedy
[Ringing at the end of The Wanderer for 10 minutes]

Sounds like a great album.
When Love Comes To Town being the least awful, by a quite margin. I just have never gotten into that song.

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[Scorpionac]

A good handful from October, War, R&H - I don't hate the songs, I just find them completely unmemorable and never listen to them. Same goes for a few from ATYCLB, HTDAAB, NLOTH, SOI. You know, the usual suspects, the ones most people agree are mediocre.

"Crumbs From Your Table" I hate.

 

[lazarus]

1. I'll Go Crazy...
2. Stand Up Comedy
3. The Hands That Built America (no one else has mentioned this lifeless tripe yet??)
4. Window In The Skies (or this wannabe Beatles idiocy?)
5. When Love Comes To Town
6. Electrical Storm
7. Shadows And Tall Trees
8. Stranger In A Strange Land
9. Always
10. Summer Rain

[bonus disc]

11. Discotheque (New Mix)
12. Numb (New Mix)
13. Gone (New Mix)

 

[Oregoropa]

Album tracks only. It's a whole new ball game with b-sides and non-album tracks


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[An Cat Gav]

1. All Because Of You
2. Summer Rain
3. SUC
4. Wave Of Sorrow
5. Flower Child
6. Big girls are best
7. One (with mary j blige)
8. Miracle Drug
9. Walk On
10 Yahweh

 

[Fumbleitis]

1. Miami
2. Wild Honey
3. Original of the Species
4. Fire
5. Stand Up Comedy
6. Elvis Presley
7. Grace
8. All Because of You
9. Red Light
10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
11. Cedars of Lebanon

 

[Kieran McConville]

All Because of You
All Because of You
All Because of You
All Because of You
All Beacuse of You
All Because of You
All Because of You

Bonus hidden track

All Because of You

 

[trevgreg]

1. Cedars of Lebanon
2. White as Snow
3. Cedars of Lebanon
4. White as Snow
5. Cedars of Lebanon
6. White as Snow
7. Cedars of Lebanon
8. White as Snow
9. Cedars of Lebanon
10. White as Snow
11. Cedars of Lebanon
12. White as Snow



Actually, I'm sure there's more that I'd throw on there for the other spots, but those are the only two that stand out for me, personally. Maybe I'd throw on ones like Peace on Earth or some of their earlier material if pressed though...

In all honesty, I probably wouldn't put on anything from their 90's output either. Even my least favorite tracks from that era are halfway decent, at worst (i.e., Playboy Mansion or IYWTVD).

 

[Tyagu_Anaykus]

1 - is that all?
2 - Red Light
3 - The Refugee
4 - Love Rescue Me
5 - Stuck in a Moment
6 - In a Little While
7 - Wild Honey
8 - Peace on Earth
9 - Grace

yeah, I know, half of ATYCLB.

 

[digitize]

All Because of You
All Because of You
All Because of You
All Because of You
All Beacuse of You
All Because of You
All Because of You

Bonus hidden track

All Because of You

This is the correct answer.


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[youarenotimmune]

2. Iris
4. Hawkmoon
6. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
8. Cedarwood Road

 

[gvox]

EDIT: wow, I haven't listened to War in a long time and thought Like A Song was a completely different tune.

I'll take that one back

Whew. We can be bffs again lol



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[gvox]

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[Bad Exit]

1. MLK
2. Do You Feel Loved
3. Magnificent
4. Stand Up Comedy
5. When Love Comes to Town
6. Angel of Harlem
7. Red Light
8. Stuck in a Moment
9. The Refugee
10. 4th of July
11. Stranger in a Strange Land
12. Shadows and Tall Trees

(I don't dislike MLK live... but I hate Bono's voice in the TUF version)