Top 5 Videos

[miss becky]

We've had a lot of lists lately about favorite songs. What about videos? What are your top 5 favorites?

Mine are:

1. Streets
2. HMKMTMKM
3. Lemon
4. One (the drag version)
5. Sweetest Thing

Honorable mentions must go to Discoteque for the Village People bit, and Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, for Bono's "Fuck!" at the end. Two of the funniest things I've ever seen in a U2 video.

 

[Yahweh]

1. Even Better Than The Real Thing
2. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
3. Please
4. All I Want Is You
5. Unforgetable Fire

I think the majority of U2s videos do stand the test of time and are a lot less dated then they make them seem other then the very very early ones like Two Hearts.

 

[Peter]

1. HMTMKMKM
2. Discothèque
3. Vertigo
4. Streets
5. Please

 

[beau2ifulday]

1. One (Buffalo Version)
2. Stay
3. Beautiful Day
4. Please
5. Lemon

 

[Jack In The Box]

Please
One (Berlin version)
Stay
All I Want Is You
HMTMKMKM

 

[elevation2u]

Please (great video and my favorite song)
One (drag version)
Beautiful Day
Sweetest Thing
Last Night On Earth

honorable mentions ...Walk On (one in brazil), even better than the real thing..

 

[neutral]

Electrical Storm
Stay
Sweetest Thing
Stuck In a Moment (Godley version. not the football one)
Numb

 

[DaveC]

Please
Stay
Beautiful Day
Where the Streets Have No Name
All I Want is You

Honourable Mentions:
Numb (Emergency Broadcast)
Stuck in a Moment
Last Night on Earth
EBTTRT
One (all versions)
Miss Sarajevo

 

[Queen Bee]

Stay
One (Berlin version)
Where the Streets Have No Name
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Lemon

 

[U2Kitten]

Stay
Streets
One bar
European Stuck
UF

I don't think the old videos are so much 'dated' as just low tech. Being someone who was around in those days, and seeing the first videos, they were cool and impressive at the time, but now look fake and old timey especially to those of you who were born later and only saw the better quality stuff. Then looking back on these they look cheesy and lame but it's the technology not the video itself.

 

[Aygo]

1. Even better than the real thing
2. Discothèque
3. All I want is you
4. One (Buffalos version)
5. Staring at the sun

 

[miss becky]

Electrical Storm
Stay
Sweetest Thing
Stuck In a Moment (Godley version. not the football one)
Numb

Ack! I forgot about Stuck in a Moment. I love that version, too.

 

[U2Kitten]

2. Discothèque
3. All I want is you
4. One (Buffalos version)
5. Staring at the sun

Your list reads like my bottom five! Add LNOE and you got it. (if SATS is Miami version)

 

[Lancemc]

yay, videos.

1. Stay
2. Discotheque (the part where Edge is showing the guys how to dance is hilarious)
3. Even Better Than the Real Thing
4. If God Will Send his Angels
5. Lemon

 

[theedge111]

Lemon
Stay
One (Bono Singing alone)
Still Haven't Found
All I Want is You

 

[Siren]

Stuck In A Moment (European version)
The Fly
Where The Streets Have No Name: a classic
With Or Without You
Lemon (I used to hate this but now I like it)


Honorable Mentions:
Beautiful Day
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Electrical Storm

 

[ultrraviolette]

1. Stay

2. One (drag version)

3. The Sweetest Thing

4. Please

5. Lemon

Mentions:

The Sweetest Thing, New Years Day, Mysterious Ways

 

[bsp77]

1. Even Better Than the Real Thing (helped get me into U2, was about the coolest thing I had ever seen)
2. Hold Me Thrill Me
3. One (drag)
4. Lemon
5. Streets

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Rather tough...

1. The Sweetest Thing (this one is my all-time favorite )
2. Where The Streets Have No Name
3. Mysterious Ways
3. Discotheque (just 'cause it's so funny)
4. One (drag)

Honorable mentions: "Lemon", "Stay", "Even Better Than The Real Thing", "Numb" (see reason for "Discotheque"), "Please", "All I Want Is You"

Angela

 

[2861U2]

1) The Sweetest Thing
2) Stuck In A Moment (the non-football one, the one with the cars)
3) Discotheque
4) Gone
5) EBTTRT

 

[ravenette]

Hmm....let's see if I can make up my mind!

1. Night and Day
2. Desire
3. Pride
4. extended version of Streets
5. Two Hearts

Whooo....not enough room for All I Want Is You!

 

[yimou]

The fly
Even better than the real thing
Who´s gonna ride your wild horses
Lemon
Mysterious ways

I know, i know,, only early 90´s videos. But i simply think they are cool

 

[-macphisto-]

Pride
WTSHNN
AIWIY
New Years Day
A Celebration

 

[greenlight7-11]

Please
One (bison version)
Numb
Last Night On Earth
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

Honorable Mention:
Love Is Blindness
Even Better Than The Real Thing (Gallo/Kampah version)
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)

 

[Kate1]

In no order....
numb
discoteque
hold me thrill me kiss me
where the streets have no name
disire (proper band version)

 

[ZeroDude]

The Sweetest Thing (imo the greatest video ever, come on the hand puppet with the white flag great aint it?)
Discotheque
HMTMKMKM
Even Better than the Real Thing ( The Matrix invented by Bono?)
One ( Bar version)

 

[2861U2]

On another note, I never really got into their 80's videos. The only ones I can stand to watch over and over are Streets, ISHFWILF, maybe Pride. Aparently, a lot of these answers are showing the same....

 

[U2Kitten]

On another note, I never really got into their 80's videos. The only ones I can stand to watch over and over are Streets, ISHFWILF, maybe Pride. Aparently, a lot of these answers are showing the same....

I think their 80's ones were the best

 

[U2girl]

1. One-Bono bar version
2. Stay
3. Stuck (the van version)
4. Who's gonna ride your wild horses (I bought the 90's Best of DVD and saw this in full for the first time)
5. Where the streets have no name

 

[Pero]

1.Discoteque(2 words: hillarious and again hillarious)
2.Bautiful Day(because of the scene where Bono takes an apple from a lady a lies on that moving thing for cases)
3.Streets
4.The Fly
5.Elevation(great faces as they compete in playing guitar solo)