You're All-Time TOP TEN U2 Songs! (always a good time!)

[madonna's child]

This thread has been done several times, but I'm always intrigued by the variety in the lists. It's an oldie but goodie, I guess. Anyway, post your top ten favorite U2 songs. Only ten. Preferrably rank them, but you don't have to.

1. Ultraviolet
2. Pride
3. The Fly
4. One
5 Running to Stand Still
6. New Year's Day
7. A Sort of Homecoming
8. The Unforgettable Fire
9. Mysterious Ways
10. Heartland

 

[madonna's child]

those are mine listed there, BTW.

 

[Flaming Friar Sr]

not ranked, but chronologically:

another time, another place
bad
red hill mining town
heartland
until the end of the world
acrobat
stay
please
the ground beneath her feet
beautiful day


it varies though

 

[Peter]

Where the streets have no name
Hold me thrill me kiss me kill me
Elevation
The fly
Mysterious Ways
Bullet the blue sky
Until the end of the world
Even better than the real thing
Gone
Gloria

 

[Squishy Peanut]

Ok, here's my 10, they all kinda change order on a fairly regular basis though!


1. In A Little While
2. Until The End Of The World
3. Your Blue Room (does that count? eh it does now )
4. Electrical Storm
5. Gloria
6. Desire
7. Angel Of Harlem
8. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
9. With Or Without You
10. Running To Standstill

 

[Tabby]

Ultraviolet
Acrobat
One
UTEOTW
Streets
Beautiful Day
Walk On
Gone
The Unforgettable Fire
Stay

(not in order)

 

[alia612]

Walk On
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Stay
Van Diemen's Land
Angel Of Harlem
With Or Without You
Streets
One
Running To Stand Still
Heartland

(that is in some vague form of ranking)

 

[adamswildhoney]

Bad
ISHFWILF
AOH
RTSS
MW
SBS
IWF
PRIDE
SLOW DANCING
PARTY GIRL



(in order,er I think )

 

[Strato Edge]

Mine:
(not in order)

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Electrical Storm
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
The Fly
One
Where The Streets Have No Name
In A Little While
Beautiful Day

 

[maro_chik]

Mofo
EBTTRT
UTEOTW
Gloria
New York
All I Want Is You
Numb
Surrender
ISHFWILF
Bullet The Blue Sky

 

[Basstrap]

Where the streets have no name
Sort of Homecoming
With or Without you
Ultraviolet
Zooropa
Do You Feel Loved?
If You Wear that Velvet Dress
Ground Beneath Her Feet
Lady With the Spinning Head
North and South of the River (Omagh tribute version)

 

[MrBrau1]

Acrobat
One
Gone
Kite
Zooropa
HMTMKMKM
Bad
Streets
Like A Song
God Part II

 

[Mango]

In order:

1. Bad
2. Stay
3. Kite
4. Streets
5. Elevation
6. Electric Co
7. Hawkmoon 269
8. HMTMKMKM
9. Ultraviolet
10. Gone

Numbers 2 thru 10 are pretty fluid for me actually. But unless something quite miraculous comes from the next album, Bad can never be topped. It is simply the best piece of music ever written in the history of the world.

 

[jinn77]

In no particular order,
Ultraviolet
With or Without You
Exit
One
Electrical storm
Stay
The Unforgettable Fire
The Wanderer
Slow Dancing (Willie Nelson vocals)
Heartland

 

[Michael Griffiths]

My Top 10 In Order:

1. One
2. Where The Streets Have No Name
3. With Or Without You
4. Bad
5. Pride (In The Name of Love)
6. Running To Stand Still
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
8. The Unforgettable Fire
9. All I Want Is You
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday

Oh my...4 of the top 10 are from The Joshua Tree. No wonder it's my favourite album!

Here are my next 5 in case anyone is curious, hehe:

11. October
12. Mysterious Ways
13. Miss Sarajevo
14. Out Of Control
15. Kite

 

[Jack In The Box]

is hard...

in order... i think...

1. Gone
2. Wire
3. Acrobat
4. Exit
6. Tomorrow
7. Like A Song
8. Another Time, Another Place
9. God Part II
10. In A Little While

. . . none single

 

[Kariann]

Not really in any order...too hard for me at the moment. The first 2 are usually the same but everything else changes from time to time.

1. Bad
2. One
3. Streets
4. Walk On
5. Kite
6. Gone
7. Beautiful Day
8. With or Without You
9. Pride
10. Out of Control

 

[Bono's shades]

1. With or Without You
2. Bad
3. One
4. Pride (In The Name of Love)
5. Where the Streets Have No Name
6. All I Want Is You
7. Tomorrow
8. Sunday, Bloody Sunday
9. New Year's Day
10. Ultraviolet

I think I had a slightly different list last time we did this, but what the hey...

 

[BigMacPhisto]

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. The Fly
3. Walk On
4. Beautiful Day
5. A Sort of Homecoming
6. Until the End of the World
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
8. Pride
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. New Year's Day

 

[elevation]

My top ten

In a somewhat order...

The Fly
Please (Single Version)
Where The Streets Have No Name (Live)
Running To Stand Still
Stay
Until The End Of The World
Wake Up Dead Man
Sunday Bloody Sunday (Live)
I Will Follow
Bullet The Blue Sky

I guess most of my favourites are songs that do well live......A song like RTST is actually a little tame on the album but absolutely amazing live

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

no order

a sort of homecoming
one
unforgettable fire
the fly
running to stand still
new year's day
kite
stay
streets
all i want is you

 

[Red Ships of Scalla-Festa]

1. slug

2. your blue room

3. until the end of the world

4. mofo

5. bad

6. running to stand still

7. trying to throw your arms around the world

8. the first time

9. love is blindness (live, preferably)

10. one tree hill

 

[Salome]

1. A sort of homecoming

Promenade
Rejoice
Lemon
I still haven't found ...
Stuck in a moment ...
Luminous times
Bad
Where the streets ...
SUnday Bloody Sunday

 

[A Maaaaaaan]

1. One
2. MOFO
3. The Fly
4. Where the streets have no name
5. Running to stand still
6. Please
7. Stay
8. Until the end of the world
9. Red hill mining town
10. Walk on

 

[U2girl]

*edit*

I'll write mine again once I consider B-sides, MDH soundtrack etc... as well.

 

[Mango]

Pardon me, I am acronym challenged. What is slug?

 

[Michael Griffiths]

Mango, my good mango - 'Slug' is not an acronym. It is one of the best songs off U2's Passengers Original Soundtracks 1 album (released in 1995 if I remember, in between Zooropa and Pop). It's not "officially" a U2 album, as they called themeselves the "passengers". It just so happens that the passengers consisted of Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., and Adam Clayton, with Brian Eno leading the way. Sounds an awful lot like a U2 record, hey? Many have said it's more like a Brian Eno record with U2 coming along for the ride (hence the title, Passengers).


PS. I forgot to include 'Stay (Faraway So Close!) into my top 15. God knows where I'd put it though.

 

[Sevikins]

My list:

1- Beautiful Day
2- PRIDE (In The Name Of Love)
3- The Ground Beneath Her Feet
4- The FLY
5- One
6- Lady With The Spinning Head
7- Stuck In A Moment (And Now You Can't Get Out Of It)
8- EleVation
9- Stay (Faraway So Close!)
10- Discoth?que

 

[U2girl]

Chronologically

Bad
Pride
With or without you
Running to stand still
Angel of Harlem
So cruel (no. 1)
One
Stay
Stuck in a moment
In a little while

 

[rymyx]

Me Taupe Tan:

1. One
2. Beautiful Day
3. With Or Without You
4. Lemon
5. Stay
6. Dirty Day
7. Until The End Of The World
8. Kite
9. Gone
10. Bad