The Holy Trinity - Rank Your Favorites BONUS THREAD #3 - Your Favorite Albums

[TheEdge25]

Let's do this one, hopefully its not too hard for everyone!!
Rank your favorite U2 albums, their 12 studio albums, no Passengers or anything. Separate your Top 3 from the rest of the list in some way. Let's go!

Mine:

The Holy Trinity (TOP 3)

1 - Achtung Baby
2 - The Joshua Tree
3 - No Line On The Horizon

Pride (In The Name of [I LOVE THIS ALBUM])

4 - The Unforgettable Fire

90's U2 Will Always Be My Favorite Era
5 - POP
6 - Zooropa

All I Want Is U2

7 - Rattle and Hum
8 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

Oh, You Look So Beautiful On New Years Day, If You Walk Away, I Will Follow
9 - War
10 - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
11 - Boy

What is this nonsense

12 - October


Have fun!

 

[theedgeu2]

1. Achtung Baby
2. The Joshua Tree
3. Zooropa

4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
6. No Line On The Horizon

7. All That You Can't Leave Behind
8. Boy
9. War

10. October
11. Rattle And Hum
12. Pop

 

[nirniva]

1. Achtung Baby
2. The Unforgettable Fire
3. No Line On The Horizon
---
4. Zooropa
5. Pop
6. All That You Can't Leave Behind
7. The Joshua Tree
8. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
9. War
10. Boy
11. Rattle And Hum
12. October

 

[Catman]

12) October

11) How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
10) Rattle & Hum

9) War

8) The Unforgettable Fire

7) POP
6) No Line on the Horizon

5) All That You Can't Leave Behind
4) Boy

3) Zooropa

2) The Joshua Tree
1) Achtung, Baby!

 

[MrPryck2U]

1- Achtung
2- Joshua
3- POP!

4- Rattle
5- Zooropa
6- Unforgettable

7- Horizon
8- Bomb
9- War

10- Behind
11- Boy
12- October

 

[kabigon]

1. Achtung Baby
2. The Joshua Tree

---

3. No Line On The Horizon
4. Boy
5. Pop
6. Zooropa
7. The Unforgettable Fire
(Passengers)

---

8. All That You Can't Leave Behind
9. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
10. October

---

11. Rattle And Hum
12. War

 

[hillers]

1. Achtung Baby
2. The Joshua Tree
3. War
4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. Pop
6. No Line On The Horizon
7. Boy
8. How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
9. Zooropa
10. Rattle and Hum
11. All That You Can't Leave Behind
12. October

This is bound to change - I don't really know where to put NLOTH actually.

Wow, I thought War was more popular.

 

[digitize]

1) No Line
2) Achtung Baby
3) Pop
4) The Unforgettable Fire
5) Zooropa
6) The Joshua Tree
7) All That You Can't Leave Behind
8-11) Whatever
12) Rattle and Hum

 

[65980]

Wow, only 12? Didn't The Beatles have 13 albums in six-and-a-half years of recording?

Anyhoo (and sorry, I couldn't do it by three):

High amongst the greatest LPs I've ever heard by anyone:
Achtung Baby
The Joshua Tree

Not quite the greatest LPs I've heard, but still brilliant and showing much of U2's best-ever work:
War
The Unforgettable Fire
Rattle and Hum (if studio tracks only are judged)

Very good:
How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Zooropa
Rattle & Hum (if the entire album as a whole is judged)

All good, but I have to be in a certain mood:
Pop
Boy
All That You Can't Leave Behind
October
No Line On The Horizon

 

[Axver]

I am ranking Passengers, because I consider it as much a U2 album as any of the others (in fact, more of an album than RAH), and because I think it is one of their finest efforts. Feel free to read my list as if it isn't there and mentally re-number it accordingly if you disagree that much.

Exceptional U2 Listening
1. The Unforgettable Fire
2. Boy
3. Passengers

Very Fine U2 Listening
4. The Joshua Tree
5. October

Fine U2 Listening
6. Pop
7. War
8. No Line On The Horizon
9. Zooropa

Patchy (with moments of brilliance) U2 Listening
10. Achtung Baby
11. Rattle And Hum

Mediocre U2 Listening
12. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

Disowned
13. All That You Can't Leave Behind

 

[MrPryck2U]

8-11) Whatever

 

[the tourist]

1. The Joshua Tree
2. The Unforgettable Fire
3. Boy
4. Achtung Baby
5. War
6. October
7. Zooropa
8. No Line On The Horizon
9. Pop
10. Rattle & Hum*
11. All That You Can't Leave Behind
12. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
13. Passengers

*would be higher if it was just the studio stuff + b-sides.

 

[Sicy]

1. The Joshua Tree
2. The Unforgettable Fire
3. Achtung Baby
4. ATYCLB (shut up)
5. NLOTH
6. Rattle and Hum
7. HTDAAB
8. Zooropa
9. POP
10. October
11. War
12. Boy

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

4. ATYCLB (shut up)

:rants about this for hours:

my picks -
yay-tastic:
1. achtung baby
2. pop
3. the unforgettable fire

yay-riffic:
4. passengers (yep)
5. zooropa
6. nloth

yay:
7. the joshua tree
8. boy
9. october

nay:
10. rattle and hum
11. war
12. htdaab
13. atyclb

 

[Sicy]

ATYCLB has sentimental value to me because I drifted away from U2 during Zooropa and POP and Beautiful Day is what got me back into them again.

/sap

 

[Catman]

It's a fine album. Don't listen to the haters!



EDIT: Wait a second, you put Boy LAST?!

 

[An Cat Gav]

1. Achtung Baby
2. The Joshua Tree
3. The Unforgettable Fire


4. Zooropa
5. Passengers
6. Boy

7. October
8. Pop
9. War

10. NLOTH
11. Rattle and Hum
12. ATYCLB


A long way Behind....


13. HTDAAB

 

[intedomine]

MASTERPIECE
1. Achtung Baby (2nd fave album of all time, behind the The Queen Is Dead)
2. The Joshua Tree

EXCELLENT
3. Pop
4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. Boy

VERY GOOD
6. No Line On The Horizon
7. October

GOOD
8. Zooropa
9. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
10. All That You Can't Leave Behind
11. War

BOLLOCKS
12. Rattle and Hum

 

[cobl04]

1. Achtung Baby (#2 overall behind Dark Side - inte i have come to quite love Queen is Dead)
2. Joshua Tree (#3 overall)

and that's as far as i get.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

BEST EVAAAR ALBUHMS (IF GOD EXISTED, THIS'D BE HIS WORK):
- Achtung Baby
- Pop
- Zooropa

I SOILED MY PANTS:
- The Unforgettable Fire
- The Joshua Tree

I DIG IT:
- No Line on the Horizon
- Boy
- War
- October

GOOD:
- All That You Can't Leave Behind

OK/BUH:
- Rattle and Hum
- How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

 

[Galeongirl]

Achtung Baby
No Line on the Horizon
Joshua Tree

Pop
Zooropa
UF

HTDAAB
War
Boy






ATYCLB
R&H




October

 

[Flaming Friar Sr]

2nd only to Exile on Main Street:

1. Pop

Other stand-outs:

2. Achtung Baby
3. Boy

Yeah baby:

4. The Joshua Tree
5. No Line on the Horizon
6. The Unforgettable Fire
7. ATYCLB

Great:

8. Rattle and Hum
9. Zooropa
10. War

Still good:

11. HTDAAB
12. October

 

[stratocaster]

Bada-BING!
1. Achtung Baby (I think Bono’s voice is best here, i guess I’m biased as it’s how I discovered U2. As a guitar fan it doesn’t get much better than this for me)
2. Joshua Tree (This album defined images of the American Desert for me as a kid in Australia, and lived up to it 100% when I visited the Joshua Tree! I’m a sucker for a thematic album: In God’s Country!)
3. No Line (The flow of the first four tracks are just amazing IMO. I rate the middle section, and I think Boots is underrated (I think a bit too salacious for most with its eastern influence) and the moodier tracks at the end are just awesome)

4. Pop
5. Zooropa
6. ATYCLB
7. Unforgettable Fire
8. Atomic Bomb
9. Rattle & Hum
10. Boy
11. War
12. October

 

[intedomine]

^ love your avatar, stratocasta!

 

[Casamares]

1. THE JOSHUA TREE Masterpiece.

2. No Line On The Horizon

3. October

*

4. Achtung Baby
5. Pop (I'm not sure I prefer AB than Pop, it depends, but now - yes)

*

6. War
7. Rattle & Hum
8. All That You Can't Leave Behind
9. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
10. Zooropa
11. Boy
12. The Unforgettable Fire

For now

 

[gvox]

Loosely rating the albums based on how many tracks I can listen to before I have to hit the "skip" button:

1. The Joshua Tree
2. The Unforgettable Fire
3. War
4. Boy
5. Achtung Baby
6. Pop
7. October
8. How To Dismantle
9. Rattle N Hum
10. No Line on the Horizon
11. All That You Can't Leave Behind
12. Zooropa


*3-5 and then 8-11 interchange with one another (in their respective brackets), depending on mood.

 

[doctorwho]

Using your heart filled system of ranking, here are mine:

The Holy Trinity (TOP 3)

1 - Achtung Baby
2 - The Unforgettable Fire
3 - No Line On The Horizon

Pride (In The Name of [I LOVE THIS ALBUM])

4 - Boy

90's U2 Will Always Be My Favorite Era
5 -Zooropa
6 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

All I Want Is U2

7 - War
8 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

Oh, You Look So Beautiful On New Years Day, If You Walk Away, I Will Follow
9 - Rattle & Hum
10 - The Joshua Tree
11 - Pop

What is this nonsense

12 - October

 

[gvox]

I can't comprehend calling October "What is this nonsense", but that's just me.

 

[Acrobat51829]

1. Achtung Baby
2. Pop
3. The Joshua Tree

4. War

5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. No Line on the Horizon
7. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
8. All That You Can't Leave Behind
9. Boy
10. October
11. Rattle and Hum
12. Zooropa

 

[Roland of Gilead]

1. The Joshua Tree
2. Achtung Baby!
3. The Unforgettable Fire


4. No Line On The Horizon
5. Boy
6. All That You Can't Leave Behind


7. Zooropa
8. War
9. Pop
10. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

11. Rattle and Hum
12. October