Your least favorite U2 song?

[VintagePunk]

Grace.

It's been so long since I've listened to it, I just relistened to confirm that it is indeed my least favourite. I was only able to get through a minute and a half of it. I like almost all other U2 songs in varying degrees. This is the only one I can truly say I dislike. Blandest bland that ever blanded.

 

[OrARoundabout]

Red Light...cause that intro was just so fucking terrible

 

[u2popmofo]

Big Girls Are Best

 

[LemonMelon]

Studio Elevation is pretty fucking bad, but at least it was good live on its eponymous tour.

I'll go with Is That All.

 

[The John Tree]

Whoa whoa whoa WHOA.

I know this is all opinion here, but I have to defend some of these tracks:

Elevation is a fun song about sex. Nothing wrong with that. As Bono so famously said "sometimes you don't want to read a novel, you want to read a magazine."

I am in complete agreement with Axver, who said that "Smile" is one of the best tracks recorded in the 2000s. A damn travesty that that song didn't make HTDAAB. That chorus is so cathartic.

Surprised to see "Flower Child" on here, because I love that one too! That chorus has such a bittersweet melancholy and the song overall has that sad vibe to it. "The lights turned red on a love that should have stayed gold...". Great lyrics and melody on that tune!

Re: Miami. I "get it", but it took a looooong time for me to like. I like the song now, but I remember hating it for the longest time. I don't know what happened, I just kind of warmed to it. Though I admit it's not the high point in the U2 canon.

And I agree with whoever said that it's time to stop with the term "embarrassing" when describing these songs. I don't see how a song can be embarrassing. Quotes, however, can be embarrassing and this band has a few of them, like Bono on New Year's Eve 1989, "rock n' roll, that's all folks! *Woody Woodpecker laugh*" before All Along The Watchtower.

Now as for my least favorite U2 songs?

Gotta be the last three songs on October. "Stranger in a Strange Land" is boring to me. "Scarlet" would be a good tune if it had a verse or two, instead of the mind-numbing "Rejoice" chant, which gets old after a minute. And "Is That All?" does nothing for me. I like it much more as "The Cry".

Also, "4th of July" and "Elvis Presley in America" don't ever get any play from me.

Though I do have to give U2 credit, because while those first 4 albums have some spotty moments, they've been spot on since then. Every album since The Joshua Tree is playable front to back, in my opinion. Don't see that too often!

 

[The John Tree]

Forgot to add Acrobat....what a bore.












Kidding, of course.

 

[Harry Vest]

Flower Child, or if we're talking album tracks, Heartland.

"Heartland"?!?!?!?!
You're kidding right?

 

[Harry Vest]

Boots and Elevation

 

[intedomine]

Shortlisting:

Big Girls Are Best
A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
Love Rescue Me
God Part II
Red Light

Worst
Love Rescue Me

 

[FitzChivalry]

Runners Up:

Original Of The Species
WITS


The Winner Is:

Last Night On Earth (I loathe this song. It bugs the s**t out of me!)

 

[bono_212]

Babyface
If You Wear That Velvet Dress

 

[bono_212]

Also for the record, I love Red Light, and Elvis Presley and America is one of my top ten favorite U2 songs

 

[The John Tree]

I really did forget Window In The Skies. God, I loathe that song.

 

[nielsgov]

I also forgot to mention The First Time. I think it's really boring.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

I also forgot to mention Viva La Vida.

Oh wait ...

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

I also forgot to mention Viva La Vida.

Oh wait ...

 

[cobl04]

However, they could play a concert with just these songs, and I'd still be super excited if I was there. They're just not songs that I'll get an urge to put on

this probably sums up how i feel. someone jokingly listed a setlist somewhere that featured only pride, one and wowy over and over, hell i would still love that.

trip thru your wires has got a great ramshackle energy to it that i love, i think it suffers from being out of place on the album. probably could have replaced it with a better b side.

miami live kicks ass. i adore babyface. big girls are best is fun for what it's worth. grace gets through to me. red light is cool and has some good brass goin' on. i like bono's singing in a room at the heartbreak hotel. i kind of enjoy the first half of elvis ate america. i still like boots.

 

[Addicted To Bad]

Babyface



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What the #*&¨¨ U2????

 

[An Cat Gav]

It used to be If God WIll Send His Angels, now I don't mind it. Then it was Walk On for a long time, but lately I've developed a slight liking for it. So, for me it has to be Yahweh but mostly Miracle Drug, utter Fucking shite, the pair of them.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Babyface



Do do do do do do do do do do...do do...
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What the #*&¨¨ U2????

 

[Zoots]

Elevation is a fun song about sex. Nothing wrong with that.

Holy crap! You're right! Never thought about it that way.

Runners Up:

Original Of The Species
WITS


The Winner Is:

Last Night On Earth (I loathe this song. It bugs the s**t out of me!)

I cannot believe you think LNOE is worse than WITS.

 

[65980]

Elevation is a fun song about sex. Nothing wrong with that.

Well, if you're right then the "mole diggin in a hole" is a particularly nasty metaphor...

Maybe it's an ode to Viagra?

 

[Ronnie269]

Any Song somebody on here doesn't like they either don't get it or they are listening to it in the wrong context!

U2 have no bad songs! FACT!

 

[Galeongirl]

Well, if you're right then the "mole diggin in a hole" is a particularly nasty metaphor...

Maybe it's an ode to Viagra?

uh.. I can think of something much easier than viagra for that one.

 

[beegee]

Elvis Presley and America is one of my top ten favorite U2 songs

Elvis Presley and America has been my favorite U2 song for twenty-five years.

New York is my least favorite.

 

[Tiger Edge]

Holy crap! You're right! Never thought about it that way.

Uhh, are you joking? What do you think is exactly being elevated here?

Babyface without a doubt. I can't believe it took until page 2 for it to get a mention. I'd rather listen Grace 100 times in a row than hear Babyface.

 

[beegee]

Using the words "digging" and "excavation" as metaphors for sex is just

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Babyface without a doubt. I can't believe it took until page 2 for it to get a mention. I'd rather listen Grace 100 times in a row than hear Babyface.

 

[Zoots]

Uhh, are you joking? What do you think is exactly being elevated here?

Hmmmmm how about....... elevated... spirits? I mean mood? arousal?




ffs

Spoiler

PENIS!!!

Babyface without a doubt. I can't believe it took until page 2 for it to get a mention. I'd rather listen Grace 100 times in a row than hear Babyface.

Wow!

Babyface has got a sexy groove and tempo, you bastards! Just like Playboy Mansion.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Babyface sucks

I don't like the way you are perverting my username