Best Song Survivor: Grand Finalé

[Sicy]

That would have been so awesome, especially if Zooropa had won. Imagine the fit Prick66 would have had over that one!

No need for personal attacks.

 

[mikal]

My apologies. I was out of line.

 

[PennyLanePHINS]

How would everyone's personal favorites look compared to this? Of course it can always change but mine would be a bit different from the results.
1. Beautiful Day
2. Zooropa
3. The Fly
4. Breathe
5. Where The Streets Have No Name
6. New Year's Day
7. Vertigo
8. Kite
9. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
10. One
11. Walk On
12. Until The End of The World
13. When I Look at the World
14. An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
15. A Sort of Homecoming
16. City of Blinding Lights
17. Gone
18. With or Without You
19. Moment of Surrender
20. One Tree Hill

 

[the tourist]

Hm. A top 20 from me would look something like this:

01. New Year's Day
02. All I Want Is You
03. With Or Without You
04. Pride
05. Bad
06. Where The Streets Have No Name
07. The Unforgettable Fire
08. Like A Song
09. Zooropa
10. Heartland
11. Acrobat
12. A Sort Of Homecoming
13. Wake Up Dead Man
14. An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
15. Another Time Another Place
16. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
17. Promenade
18. Ultraviolet
19. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
20. Fez/Being Born

 

[OpenG180]

1- The Fly
2- Lemon
3- New Year's Day
4- Until the End of the World
5- Your Blue Room
6- Where the Streets Have No Name
7- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (UABRS live version)
8- Zooropa
9- Running to Stand Still
10- Ultra Violet
11- One
12- Mofo
13- With or Without You
14- The Unforgettable Fire
15- Heartland
16- Drowning Man
17- Sunday Bloody Sunday
18- Stay
19- If God Will Send His Angels
20- All I Want Is You
21- Wire
22- Walk To The Water
23- Dirty Day
24- In God's Country
25- Gone
26- Exit
27- Twilight
28- Miss Sarajevo
29- Magnificent
30- Do You Feel Loved
31- Discoteque
32- Please
33- The Ground Beneath Her Feet
34- Love Comes Tumbling
35- Last Night on Earth
36- Bad (WAIA)
37- One Tree Hill
38- I Threw a Brick Through a Window
39- Slug
40- Pride

Honorable mention: Stateless

 

[LadySpinHead]

1. With or Without You
2. One
3. Zooropa
4. Stay
5. Where the Streets Have No Name
6. Angel of Harlem
7. A Sort of Homecoming
8. Bad
9. Beautiful Day
10. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
11. The Unforgettable Fire
12. Slug
13. One Tree Hill
14. Love Is Blindness
15. Running to Stand Still
16. In Gods Country
17. Lemon
18. Stateless
19. Even Better Than the Real Thing
20. City of Blinding Lights

Give or take.

 

[Nick66]

80's

1) ASOH
2) Streets
3) OTH
4) NYD
5) TUF

90's

1) Zoo Station
2) The Fly
3) Mysterious Ways
4) UTEOTW
5) WGRYWH

00's

1) MOS
2) NLOTH
3) BD
4) Kite
5) Fez/BB

The rest is silence.

 

[digitize]

80s:
1) Bad
2) With or Without You
3) The Unforgettable Fire
4) One Tree Hill
5) Where the Streets Have No Name
Honorable mentions: A Sort of Homecoming, All I Want Is You, Drowning Man, Tomorrow

90s:
1) Lemon
2) Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
3) Until the End of the World
4) One
5) Zooropa
(Very) Honorable mentions: Wild Horses, Real Thing, Love Is Blindness, Stay, Your Blue Room, Slug, Miss Sarajevo, Discothèque, Mofo, Please, Mysterious Ways

2000s:
1) Moment of Surrender
2) City of Blinding Lights
3) Beautiful Day
4) White As Snow
4) Breathe
4) Magnificent (yeah, pretty much a three-way tie)
Honorable mentions: Fez-Being Born, Original of the Species, Kite, Walk On

 

[Axver]

I used to have a very stable U2 top fifteen or twenty, but now I'm not so sure of the order past the top three or five. Based on studio alone, I put ASOH at #1 and 11OTT doesn't even get a look-in, but in keeping with the spirit of my Survivor votes in considering the totality of a song's live career alongside its studio version:

1. One Tree Hill
2. A Sort of Homecoming
3. 11 O'clock Tick Tock
4. Heartland
5. Bad

Then, in loose order, the next fifteen songs would be:
New Year's Day
The Unforgettable Fire
Gone
Exit
Acrobat
Wild Irish Rose
The Fly
Gloria
Zooropa
Twilight
Treasure
Spanish Eyes
The Electric Co.
Love Is Blindness
Hawkmoon 269

 

[trevgreg]

Here's mine, minus b-sides/live versions/demos/Passengers/etc. And of course, in no particular order and subject to change.

1. Until the End of the World
2. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
3. Gone
4. Gloria
5. With or Without You
6. One Tree Hill
7. Even Better Than The Real Thing
8. The Fly
9. Zooropa
10. Do You Feel Loved
11. Beautiful Day
12. IALW
13. When I Look at the World
14. Original of the Species
15. No Line on the Horizon
16. Magnificent
17. Mysterious Ways
18. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
19. Lemon
20. Stuck

I probably would’ve thrown in at least Your Blue Room in from Passengers somewheres, maybe replacing one of the last two.

 

[popacrobat]

mine would look something like:

(apparently I got my wish with the top three here)

1. Streets
2. Bad
3. Until the End of the World
4. With or Without You
5. The Fly
6. Beautiful Day
7. Discotheque
8. Moment of Surrender
9. Vertigo
10. New Year's Day
11. Mysterious Ways
12. One
13. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
14. Magnificent
15. Even Better Than the Real Thing
16. Zooropa
17. A Sort of Homecoming
18. All I Want is You
19. In God's Country
20. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
21. Mofo
22. Lemon
23. City of Blinding Lights
24. Running to Stand Still
25. No Line on the Horizon

 

[LemonMirrorSky]

Top 15 in no particular order:

Do You Feel Loved
Mofo
Gone
Miami
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Wake Up Dead Man
The Ocean
Red Light
The Refugee
4th of July
Van Diemen's Land
Numb
Lemon
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Fez (Being Born)

 

[Vlaco]

25 songs in chronological (album) order:

11 O'Clock Tick Tock (Red Rocks)
Gloria
New Year's Day
A Sort Of Homecoming
Pride (studio)
The Unforgettable Fire
Bad
Where The Streets Have No Name
With Or Without You (studio and up to 1992, it became shit afterwards)
In God's Country (Joshua Tree Tour)
One Tree Hill
Exit
God Part II (Lovetown)
Heartland
Until The End Of The World
The Fly
Mysterious Ways (Zoo TV, Popmart, Elevation)
Ultraviolet (Zoo TV)
Love Is Blindness (Zoo TV)
Zooropa
Lemon
Your Blue Room
Mofo
Please (Popmart)
Fez-Being Born

 

[An Cat Gav]

Mine would look a little something like this;

1. Bad (waia)
2. The Fly
3. One Tree Hill
4. Where The Streets Have No Name
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. Zooropa
7. Stay
8. Even Better Than The Real Thing
9. All I want Is You
10. Promenade
11. An Cat Dubh
12. Tomorrow
13. A Sort Of Homecoming
14. Red Hill Mining Town
15. Night and Day
16. The Wanderer
17. Mofo
18. Wake Up Dead Man
19. Your Blue room
20. Beautiful Day or Magnificent

 

[LemonMelon]

1. Zooropa
2. All I Want You
3. Stay
4. A Sort of Homecoming
5. Lemon
6. Wake Up Dead Man
7. Running To Stand Still
8. An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart
9. Gloria
10. Red Hill Mining Town
11. Mysterious Ways
12. Love Comes Tumbling
13. Do You Feel Loved
14. Promenade
15. Hawkmoon 269
16. Until the End of the World
17. Gone
18. Moment of Surrender
19. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
20. Beautiful Day

 

[djerdap]

1. The Fly
2. Acrobat
3. Love is Blindness
4. Lemon
5. Bullet the Blue Sky (Live)
6. With or Without You
7. Running To Stand Still
8. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
9. Mysterious Ways (Live)
10. New Year's Day
11. The Unforgettable Fire
12. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
13. One
14. Tomorrow
15. Bad
16. Where the Streets Have No Name
17. Exit
18. Heartland
19. Do You Feel Loved
20. Wake Up Dead Man
21. Your Blue Room
22. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
23. Please
24. Until the End of the World
25. Dirty Day

 

[gvox]

Wait, where's all the people who claimed they'd put Pez Being Boring in their top 20?

 

[Moony]

I find it more laughable that someone put The Refugee or Red Light in their top 15. Talk about egregious errors! Or cruel joke.

I'm still compiling my top 20, stay tuned!

 

[mikal]

Wait, where's all the people who claimed they'd put Pez Being Boring in their top 20?

It's in my top 10. Probably U2's most adventerous song since the Pop era.

 

[PennyLanePHINS]

I'm not the only one who sees others lists and goes "S--t, how could I not put (insert song) into my list??".

The people doing it by decade are smarter, its easier that way.

 

[Vlaco]

Wait, where's all the people who claimed they'd put Pez Being Boring in their top 20?

Fez is in my top 20.

 

[Moony]

Top 20 in no order:

The Unforgettable Fire
Until the End of the World
The Fly
Zoo Station
Zooropa
Please
Seconds
Red Hill Mining Town
Running to Stand Still
Beautiful Day
No Line on the Horizon
The Electric Co.
Kite
Dirty Day
Bad
Where the Streets Have No Name
With or Without You
Love is Blindness
New York (Nice Mix)
Salome (the long ass remix)

 

[Rhiannon64]

My top 25 in no particular order. This was very difficult to compile!

1. The Unforgettable Fire
2. Until the end of the world
3. A sort of homecoming
4. Seconds
5. Surrender
6. Zoo Station
7. Stay
8. An Cat Dubh
9. Out of Control
10. MLK
11. Bad
12. Kite
13. New Year’s Day
14. One Tree Hill
15. I Trip Through Your Wires
16. In God’s Country
17. Hawkmoon 269
18. Heartland
19. Who’s Gonna ride your wild horses - AB and Baby versions
20. Original of the species
21. So cruel
22. Red Hill Mining Town
23. First Time
24. Tomorrow
25. Love Comes Tumbling

Other honorable mentions: Walk to the Water, Night and Day (even though they did not write it), Smile and the Jools Holland version of Velvet Dress.

 

[trevgreg]

Wait, where's all the people who claimed they'd put Pez Being Boring in their top 20?

Well, it's a lot better than Cedars of Boreanon and Dull as Snow!

As for Fez, I thought I saw it make a few appearances on here so far...

 

[gvox]

Well, it's a lot better than Cedars of Boreanon and Dull as Snow!

I`ll give you that! But that ain`t sayin much lol!

 

[lazarus]

1. Bad (live only)
2. Lemon
3. Zooropa
4. Mercy
5. Running To Stand Still
6. A Sort Of Homecoming
7. Wild Horses
8. Stay
9. Streets
10. Acrobat
11. All I Want Is You
12. Wake Up Dead Man
13. Gone
14. Moment Of Surrender
15. New Year's Day
16. No Line
17. Hawkmoon 269
18. The Fly
19. So Cruel
20. "40"

 

[lazarus]

Red Light
The Refugee
4th of July
Van Diemen's Land

 

[PhilsFan]

Wait, where's all the people who claimed they'd put Pez Being Boring in their top 20?

Other people's opinions are hilarious!

 

[Axver]

The people doing it by decade are smarter, its easier that way.

Nah, I didn't do it that way because it creates the false impression that the 2000s stuff deserves to be put on the same level as the 1980s and 1990s stuff. There's not a single song in my top twenty from after Pop, and only two from post-Achtung (Zooropa and Gone, and I forgot Beach Sequence, which should have been included).

Though, to be fair, The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Electrical Storm would definitely be in my top forty and Fez, Native Son, Smile, and NLOTH II would be potential inclusions.

 

[lov12113]

Nah, I didn't do it that way because it creates the false impression that the 2000s stuff deserves to be put on the same level as the 1980s and 1990s stuff.

According to your personal opinion, that is.

In my opinion, the 2000's stuff has plenty to offer and does indeed deserve it's place along side the 1980s and 1990s stuff.