Your Favorite U2 song - There can only be one

[Oregoropa]

Even Better than the Real Thing

I just love the guitar sound and swagger of the whole song. The lyrics are great. Love the Icarus reference. Great live, glad it made a comeback on 306. U2's coolest song.

 

[bono_212]

The Unforgettable Fire. Without question.

 

[Bad Exit]

BAD
Live version even better.
Emotionally powerful, obscure lyrics, the best two notes ever played on a guitar.

 

[TheSweetestEdge]

if there can only be one then definitely Stay...this song made me fall deeply in love with U2!

 

[ImNotSleeping]

Very funny question... Only one song? This is a U2 forum...

 

[purpleoscar]

Where the streets have no name. The best song about breaking barriers in life!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Streets_Have_No_Name#Lyrics

The lyrics were inspired by a story that Bono heard about the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland, where a person's religion and income are evident by the street they live on.[12] He contrasted this with the anonymity he felt when visiting Ethiopia, saying: "...the guy in the song recognizes this contrast and thinks about a world where there aren't such divisions, a place where the streets have no name. To me, that's the way a great rock 'n' roll concert should be: a place where everyone comes together... Maybe that's the dream of all art: to break down the barriers and the divisions between people and touch upon the things that matter the most to us all."[13] Bono wrote the lyrics while on a humanitarian visit to Ethiopia with his wife, Ali Hewson; he first wrote them down on an airsickness bag while staying in a village.[14]

 

[bono_212]

Very funny question... Only one song? This is a U2 forum...

How. Dare. He.

 

[thavidesco]

Right now it is BOY FALLS FROM THE SKY
EPIC GEM

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

The Fly

 

[Oregoropa]

Very funny question... Only one song? This is a U2 forum...

Yes, the smoking Bonos know somebody would start listing ten honorable mentions.

 

[bono_212]

I feel like we should enter every thread snapping.

 

[mikal]

Zooropa


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[Oregoropa]

We totally goofed up our order the last 4 posts

 

[ImNotSleeping]

thavidesco got it right when he began "right now"

I could say the top 5 that will always be. If it was life or death, I think I know what I'd have to listen to before the very end. That's the best I can do when it comes to U2. And, only w/ U2 is this a problem.

 

[LemonMelon]

Zooropa. Always has been, probably always will be.

 

[BWU2Buffs]

Going with New Year's Day.

Enjoy it live and on War, love the piano line; love watching Edge bounce back and forth between guitar and piano during a show.

The lyrics and background / Polish Solidarity give it that rebel feel, which is what I like about a lot of U2 songs. Plus, it came out at a very impressionable age for me, 23, which I guess just makes me older than most Blue Crackheads.

 

[ImNotSleeping]

NYD was the very first U2 song I heard back in the day. Still my top 5. There's been no song like it since for me.

 

[Mack_Again]

I don't want to choose mainstream song, so I'll go with:


Until The End Of The World.

 

[trevgreg]

Until the End of the World.

 

[digitize]

Ultraviolet. Means more to me than any other song. Has been with me for my most difficult of moments.


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[Scorpionac]

Streets. Sometimes I get tired of it, of course, but it very often has an effect on me like no other U2 song.

 

[TheSweetestEdge]

Streets. Sometimes I get tired of it, of course, but it very often has an effect on me like no other U2 song.

where the streets have no name is one of those songs that have to be on the setlist...it is sooo uplifting (especially the intro), always makes me feel like being in heaven...

 

[Salome]

A Sort of Homecoming

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

Like a song....

Always been in my top 3, right now I need some agressive music in my life and this is one of the few U2 song that rocks enough love it

 

[Axver]

A Sort of Homecoming, if we're talking studio versions only.

 

[Aardvark747]

Heartland, if we're talking live versions only.

 

[trainmaniac]

Until the End of the World.

 

[roy]

With or Without You


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[jeevey]

Wait, studio version only was not part of the rules! Smoking soapy Bono refuses to play that way; he demands we acknowledge Bad.

 

[hasin73]

Acrobat.

It is my favourite song ever since I heard this in 1992.