What 1 u2 song started it for you?

[LJT]

Zooropa was my first U2 album..and i guess the song too hooked me in

 

[popacrobat]

beautiful day/ elevation


but what really hooked me was seeing the elevation albany 6/2/01 show. followed by the 6/3/01 show in hartford. then it was all over.

 

[RademR]

one

 

[corianderstem]

I don't remember what song it was, specifically. I vaguely remember seeing videos for New Year's Day and Pride. My cousins, who were from a bigger city and therefore had exposure to different music before I did, played U2 and REM, and The Cure and Depeche Mode for me, got me into music like that.

I think then one of those cousins got me The Unforgettable Fire on cassette for me at Christmas, and I remember having The Joshua Tree at some point, and liking U2 well enough.

Then, when Rattle and Hum came out? Dang, man. That was it. I don't know if it was a specific song that did it, or if I'd already been teetering on the brink of obsession or what, but that was it for me. I was in for good.

 

[dandy]

bad

 

[u2fly1]

Hearing The Fly started it all. I was like WOW what’s that song is. It's my favorite song. But Until The End of The World is starting to creeping into top spot.

 

[U2jer]

live version ISHFWILF on Rattle and Hum, my dad loved this version and had it on constant rotation in the car. I loved it and listened to the whole album and fell in love with U2 from that moment, back in 1993.

 

[erin4618]

One...

(Yeah, I'm younger than most of you--I was 11 when it came out)

But then I bought Achtung Baby and it was the rest of the album that really solidified it.

 

[xtihn]

Mysterious Ways and One

 

[AtomicBono]

Discotheque!

One listen and I was hooked forever BOOM CHA!

 

[impy13]

Oddly enough, The Sweetest Thing. I posted the story about it in a thread a good while back, and I don't feel like telling it again.

 

[Sicy]

With or without you.

 

[Zoots]

Probably... Even Better Than The Real Thing w/ video!

But I have to say, all those songs on TV in 91/92 (except for The Fly which I heard much later, for some reason... ) such as Mysterious Ways, One, Even Better & Who's Gonna Ride all pulled me in!

 

[tiny dancer]

New Year's Day

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

Gloria

 

[nurse chrissi]

achtung baby - every song on it but probably Mysterious Ways dealed the deal

 

[xtal]

Even Better Than The Real Thing. Performed live with Garth at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.

 

[Sue DeNym]

I saw the New Years Day video on MTV in 1983, and was instantly hooked on U2.

(When, oh when are they going to release Best of 1980-1990 Videos on DVD?!?!)

 

[cobl04]

Lemon hooked me, and Stay reeled me in.

I think I was 11 or 12 when I heard Beautfiul Day and Stuck for the first time and they hooked me, but it was Vertigo that reeled me in. Then I bought the 80/90 best of and wow.

 

[cobl04]

I saw the New Years Day video on MTV in 1983, and was instantly hooked on U2.

(When, oh when are they going to release Best of 1980-1990 Videos on DVD?!?!)

I would sleep outside a shop to get my hands on that.

 

[discothequeLP]

Streets

 

[ultraviolet7]

All is quiet on New Year's Day...
In the year of 1983.

 

[Jdragonfly]

I heard this song on the radio in 1983( I was 8 yrs old.). Never knew much besides the chorus, never knew it was U2 till much later. Only reason I bought the War cd . . . 'Two hearts beat as one'.

 

[nurse chrissi]

Even Better Than The Real Thing. Performed live with Garth at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.

wow - I had forgotten about that - I remember thinking that u2 was the coolest thing in the world
still do as a matter of fact

 

[Jack In The Box]

Beautiful Day

i'm young

 

[Danny Boy]

Pride.

 

[echo0001]

Streets

 

[#1bonofan]

Sunday Bloody Sunday

 

[Ethlyn]

Ive liked them since Beautiful Day, Stuck and Walk On, but I wasnt really a fan then, until I got their greatest hits album.....

 

[BluRmGrl]

New Year's Day