Song and year

[kawai17]

Give me the one song and year that hooked you to

For me:

Staring at the Sun, 1997

 

[Sicy]

With or Without You, 1987

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

Two Hearts and Gloria... the videos from MTV back in the early early 80s.

 

[UnforgettableLemon]

Give me the one song and year that hooked you to

For me:

Staring at the Sun, 1997

Yo.

 

[bcrt2000]

Electrical Storm, 2002

 

[brownda7]

wtshnn 87

 

[tiny dancer]

New Year's Day, 1983

 

[Dr_Macphisto]

HMTMKMKM '95

More notably, WOWY '95 (as in I get into the song in 1995)

 

[typhoon]

"Zoo Station" in 1991 or so.

 

[kevink]

Stuck in a Moment, 2001

 

[Schmeg]

Beautiful Day, 2000.

Although I have known all the words to all the radio songs since 1983, I was sucked in when this song sounded exactly like my life.

 

[Bono's shades]

With or Without You, 1987

 

[kawai17]

Beautiful Day, 2000.

Although I have known all the words to all the radio songs since 1983, I was sucked in when this song sounded exactly like my life.

Exactly what I'm interested in finding out...for me it was SATS, and then i realized how much I liked so many other songs that I never realized were written by u2.

 

[Roland of Gilead]

Pride '84

Friday Night Videos!!!! Remember that!

 

[grbounds]

One, 1997.... i traded my uncle a nintendo game for achtung baby because i liked the song. a few months later i had pretty much all of their cds...

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

Pride '84
Friday Night Videos!!!! Remember that!

11:30 p.m. on NBC!! Yeah!!

My song was Sunday Bloody Sunday (Red Rocks) 1983!!

 

[RobVox]

Bad from the Rattle and Hum the movie. I got drug to a showing in a theatre and was ever after glad I was. I wept when I saw the portion of the film, and I am not one to cry easily.

Bad: 1988

 

[beegee]

a sort of homecoming - 1984

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

Pride '84

Friday Night Videos!!!! Remember that!

 

[Ancalagon]

I Will Follow, 1980... or was it '81? To quote Adam, I don't know if I can remember that far back!

 

[DPrinceNY]

Beautiful Day, 2000.

 

[Erin go bragh]

With or Without You, 1987

Ditto.


Funny, I just elaborated on this very point in another thread.

 

[blue eyes123]

Going on 5 months:

Pride . . . --> June 2004.

I LOVE this song!

 

[Palace_Hero]

I got very lucky. I can't pinpoint it, I was litterally born on U2. My mum used to play 'One Tree Hill' to me in my cot to help me sleep. I was born in 1986, and heard nothing but the Joshua Tree for most of my early life. That was my grounding (in particular Streets). Achtung hit when I was 5, that is the first U2 album I conciously remember comming out in my lifetime.

But yes. Lets just say I became a fan on 30th September 1986, to no song in particular, just the band.

Although I'll say 'Bad' on its own is the coup de grace.

 

[Axver]

Gone (Best Of Mix), 2002, though I grew up with U2 and loved their music anyway. Gone just sealed the deal.

 

[GDopplerXT]

Bad, in 1985.

I had heard of the band, but didn't know much. Then I saw Live Aid on tv, and their performance of 'Bad' absolutely blew me away.

 

[2861U2]

Beautiful Day, 2000

 

[BluRmGrl]

"New Year's Day", 1984

 

[snutes1]

11 Oclock tick tock from UABRS (listened to it the first time 1993)

 

[SCDave]

ISHFWILF, 1987

Ironically, it's now one of my least favorite songs that's among their "hits"