U2's 5 (songs) moments of perfection.

[gherman]

List five songs that you feel could not be made any better, will stand the test of time (forever) and are just pure perfection in terms of the craft of song.

Mine are:

One
With or Without You
Beautiful Day
Where the Streets Have no Name
The Fly

 

[Caroni]

Stay
With or without you
Even better...
City of blinding lights
Elevation (for personal reasons)

 

[AndrewCowley]

Only 5? I could name a couple from almost every album! Trying to narrow it down:

New Year's Day
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
With Or Without You
All I Want Is You
The Fly

Hmm... nothing from Zooropa onwards. Interesting.

 

[mandrake]

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Where the Streets Have No Name
New Years Day
Beautiful Day
Until the End of the World

I think these will stand the test of time. I would also say One, but that song is overrated in my book.

 

[Chizip]

Streets
The Fly
With or Without You
Promenade
Babyface

 

[JCOSTER]

Sunday Bloody Sunday
A Sort of Homecoming
Stay
Where the Streets Have No Name
Wake Up Dead Man (tie) with Kite

 

[U2Man]

pride
streets
love is blindness
kite
oots

 

[Notabene]

With Or Without You
Bad
Pride
All I Want Is You
Sunday Bloody Sunday

 

[Axver]

If we're just going by studio versions, then:

Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop?)
Drowning Man
Promenade
Heartland
Acrobat

That's because some songs I might choose ahead of those were in fact made better in the live setting.

But if we're talking in terms of any version of the song U2 ever played, including live, then these would be my five:

One Tree Hill (26 December 1989, there's no topping this)
Bad
The Unforgettable Fire
Heartland
A Sort Of Homecoming

 

[Zoots]

Like A Song
The Unforgettable Fire
Running To Stand Still
The Fly
Please

 

[waynetravis]

Love Is Blindness
Mofo
The Unforgettable Fire
With or Without You
Walk On

 

[U2Kitten]

One
Streets
Stay
In God's Country

and the trilogy

Acrobat/Ultraviolet/Love is Blindness

 

[JCOSTER]

Like A Song
The Unforgettable Fire
Running To Stand Still
The Fly
Please

I like your selections!

 

[Z00rop@83]

If you wear that velvet dress
With or without you
Stay
One
Love is blindness

 

[toscano]

Bad
Streets
WOWY
Stay
A Sort of Homecoming

 

[LuvandPeace1980]

Mine are:

One
Gone (Pop Version)
Mofo
Original Of The Species
Acrobat

 

[2861U2]

One
Bad
Beautiful Day
Kite
Running To Stand Still

 

[LemonMelon]

Zooropa
Mysterious Ways
Stay
Trip Through Your Wires (People will get on me about this, but come on...it's the most fun U2 music has ever been )
City Of Blinding Lights (Live)

 

[Lancemc]

Beautiful Day
Where The Streets Have No Name
Lemon
The Fly
Stay (Faraway, So Close)

 

[Zoots]

I like your selections!

Thank you!

 

[cobl04]

For perfect songs ey...

Where the Streets Have No Name
Running to Stand Still
With or Without You
Lemon
Kite

And I think this and other people's list sums up why Teh Joshua Tree is so highly regarded. It may not be everyone's favourite, U2 may get dissed, bagged and mocked bu ultimately JT contains a lot of songs that are simply perfect.

 

[xaviMF22]

Lemon
Stay
One
Bad
The Fly

 

[U2girl]

Pride
Streets
WOWY
One
BD

 

[last unicorn]

One
Bad
Beautiful Day
Kite
Running To Stand Still

your selection

 

[Nisse]

New Year's Day
Acrobat
Gone
I Will Follow
Bullet The Blue Sky

(Album versions)

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

New Year's day
One
Love is blindness
With or without you
The Unforgettable fire

 

[intedomine]

Gloria
The Unforgettable Fire
Where The Streets Have No Name
Zooropa
Beautiful Day

 

[prideofzootv]

walk on
one
beautiful day
with or without you
where the streets have no name

top 10:-
bad
running to stand still
city of blinding lights
all i want is you
in a little while

 

[MullenGirl]

It's hard to choose only five but here it goes...

With Or Without You
Streets
Bad
Stay
Zooropa

 

[jacobus]

Acrobat
The Fly
UTEOTW
Pride
Stay