Best Intro, Best Verse, Best Chorus, Best Bridge, Best Outro

[MacPhistoPT]

Name your favourites...

Let's see what happens.

Mine are:


Best Intro: Where the streets have no name
Best Verse: 2nd verse of Kite/2nd verse of Heartland/last verse of UTEOTW
Best Chorus: The Fly
Best Bridge: Wild Horses
Best Outro: One/With or without you

 

[namkcuR]

Best Intro: Where the streets have no name
Best Verse: 'God's got his phone of the hook' verse of If God/'cartoon network turns into the news' verse of If God
Best Chorus: Still Haven't Found
Best Bridge: Wild Horses
Best Outro: WOWY, If God single, If God album

 

[U2bpbear24]

Best Intro: Bullet The Blue Sky
Best Verse:
This desperation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Let it go
Best Chorus: OOTS (tho it keeps changing)
Best Bridge: Gloria...LIVE
Best Outro: All I Want Is You..kinda

 

[God Part III]

Best intro: Zooropa
Best verse: "and I have no compass, and I have no map... etc." - Zooropa
Best chorus: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Best bridge: Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Best outro: The Fly

 

[TheQuiet1]

Best Intro: Streets
Best Verse: First verse of Miracle Drug
Best Chorus: SYCMIOYO
Best Bridge: WGRYWH or UTEOTW
Best Outro: Fire.

Nice mix of eras there I hope.

 

[Joshua87]

Best intro: Streets
Best verse: 2nd of Acrobat
Best chorus: One
Best bridge: Ultraviolet
Best outro: Please (live)

 

[Nisse]

Best intro: Exit
Best verse: -
Best outro: Surrender
Best chorus: Where The Streets Have No Name
Best bridge: Red Hill Mining Town

 

[U2girl]

Intro: Streets
Verse: something from One, either one of them
Chorus: Original of the species (currently)
Bridge: Love like a screaming flower... (from So cruel - is that a bridge?)
Outro: WOWY the quiet one or Until the end of the world for a loud one

 

[MumblingBono]

What is a "bridge"?

 

[miss becky]

Best intro: Streets
Best verse: You're taking steps that make you feel dizzy/Then you learn to like the way it feels/You hurt yourself, you hurt your lover/Then you discover/What you thought was freedom is just greed
Best outro: All I Want Is You
Best chorus: City of Blinding Lights
Best bridge: City of Blinding Lights

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

Best intro: Bullet The Blue Sky (Live) / Where The Streets Have No Name

Best verse: "They say a secret is something you tell another person, so I'm telling you, child."

Best chorus: Pride (In The Name Of Love) / Last Night On Earth / Vertigo

Best bridge: Zoo Station / The Fly (just before the solo, I hope that's a bridge)

Best outro: The Fly / The Electric Co. / Until The End Of The World / Hawkmoon 269

Great thread!

 

[Pero]

Intro-Streets
Verse-"Looking for a baby Jesus under the trash"
chorus-Stay
Bridge-Mysterious ways(one day you look and you see)
outro-The Fly

addition
solo-THE FLy

 

[Carmelu2fan]

Best into-The Fly-EDGE'S Guitar
Best verse-"you know your chewing bubble gum"
Best chours- "In the name of love what more in the name of love"!
Best Bridge-"one day you look...back and you will see..."
Best outro-New Year's Day-EDGE'S Guitar!

 

[1stepcloser]

Best Intro: Zoo Station
Best Verse: With or Without You
Best Chorus: The Fly
Best Bridge:City of Blinding Lights
Best Outro: With or without you

 

[BlackElectric]

Best Intro: Wire (I love how the guitar sounds there!)
Best Verse: One Tree Hill, So Cruel
Best Chorus: City of Blinding Lights
Best Bridge: WGRYWH, Beautiful Day, Please
Best Outro: All I Want is You, With or Without You

(I'm not positive what a bridge is either) but I think I got it

 

[2861U2]

Intro: Crumbs From Your Table
Verse: 1st verse of UTEOTW
Chorus: New Years Day
Bridge: Stuck In A Moment
Outro: Crumbs From Your Table

 

[pepokiss]

Intro: Lady With The Spinning Head (EDM)
Verse: the last one in Acrobat... the whole last one
Bridge: City Of blinding Lights (And I'll miss you when you're not around... I am getting ready, to leave the ground!)/Yahweh
Chorus: Ultraviolet/WOWY
Outro: 11 O'Clock tick tock/One/The Fly (live)

 

[typhoon]

A bridge is a part of the song that's different musically and lyrically from the choruses and verses. You usually throw it in after the second chorus to keep things interesting. In the standard thirty-two bar form (most modern rock and pop songs have structures derived from this), this is also known as a middle eight. E.g., in "Beautiful Day," the "See the world in green and blue..." part is a bridge (and a really long one too).

Not all songs have bridges; "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," for instance, is basically all verses with a simple refrain. "Stay" is just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse.

Pre-choruses are also sometimes called bridges because they "bridge" the verse and the chorus. Pepokiss used the word in this way (in "City of Blinding Lights," the "And I miss you when you're not around..." part and the whoo-whoos are part of the pre-chorus). In the other sense, the "Time..." part would be the bridge. Obviously, it isn't very cut-and-dry.

 

[tuwie]

interesting question!!

intro: where the streets have no name
verse: acrobat
bridge: beautiful day
chorus: one
outro: with or without you

 

[AtomicBono]

Intro: Where the Streets Have No Name
Verse: "Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill their inspiration/and sing about the grief"
Chorus: Mercy ("love hears...")
Bridge: Discotheque (that chimey guitar part after "wanna be the song..." and toward the end before the BOOM CHA's)
Outro: Until the End of the World

now put that all together as one song somehow...

 

[LMP]

Intro: Where the Streets Have No Name
Verse: "It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky/the universe exploding cuz of one man's lie/look I gotta go, yeah I'm running out of change/there's a lot of things, if i could I'd rearrange"
Chorus: The Fly
Bridge: Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Outro: One

 

[Earnie Shavers]

What do the "Midnight is where the day begins.." parts of Lemon count as? Verse, chorus, or reoccuring bridge? The answer is vital to my voting here...

 

[timothius]

I would've thought bridge Earnie.

 

[Earnie Shavers]

Well then dammit it kicks ass!!!

but it's still a tough call between that, and the final bridge of One.
"You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl, and I can't be holding on......."

Say what you like about One being overrated, overplayed etc, but that last bridge, chorus and outro is a fucking money shot.

 

[timothius]

Bono's lyrical exploits have run hot and cold through his career. And while he isn't as consistant as a Finn/Dylan/Lennon... his third verses, bridges etc at their best can rank up there.

Until The End Of The World is similar to One, where he brings ties it all together at the end.

 

[Earnie Shavers]

That is true, but I'm not just talking about Bono's lyrics there. His delivery of them, the way the band all pulls together right there, the song goes up a notch - brilliant.

 

[isabelle_guns]

I think the track to Zooropa has a nice intro. It sounds like a space ship.

 

[Axver]

Best intro - Red Light
Best verse - 4th Of July
Best chorus - Promenade
Best bridge - MLK
Best outro - God Part II

 

[MacPhistoPT]

Best intro - Red Light

 

[shart1780]

Intro: Where the Streets Have no Name
Verse: 1st verse of Zooropa
Chorus: Kite
Bridge: Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses/Playboy Mansion
Outro: Stuck in a Moment

I think Wild Horses has quite possibly my favorite bridge ever!