So let me get this straight. U2 have in their catalog the songs entitled 'Peace On Earth' and 'Grace', and you people have insinutated that the following songs are worse?!
If God Will Send His Angels
Please
I guess Pop IS as misunderstood as so many say it is. Please is an absolute masterpiece lyrically(love is big, bigger than us, but love is not what you're thinking of) and musically, and Edge's guitar solo in the single and live versions is one of his best ever. If God is one of the most original, complex, and harmonically beautiful(Edge's backing 'Where do we go') songs in the U2 catalog.
So Cruel
It drives me nuts when people don't like this song because it is so totally gorgeous. People always drool over Achtung Baby because it is one of the most incredible records ever recorded, and yet this song still gets overlooked. The music in this song is better than pretty much anything on ATYCLB or HTDAAB.
Until The End Of The World
As someone else said, what the fuck? This is a live classic. Some people don't like it because it doesn't have a defined chrous. To that I say, grow up and learn to enjoy music without hooks. Edge's guitar solos are perfect and the vocal atmosphere in this song is wonderfully dense. A listen of Achtung Baby would be incomplete with the 'no NO no, NO no, NO no no no's and the outro with its awesome bassline to which Bono and Edge fight on the live stage.
Original Of The Species
This is one of the few songs on HTDAAB that can compare to U2's pre 21st century work, and it is absolutely gorgeous.
Mofo
Again with the not getting Pop. This is an incredible song. Again, enjoy music without hooks. This is one of Adam and Larry's finest hours, and the lyrics are some of the absolute most personal stuff Bono has ever written, about his mother.
Lemon
Again, about Bono's mother. This is a beautiful song, an other-worldly song, and it contains the classic line, 'midnight is where the day begins'!
A Man And A Woman
Why is this getting a bad rap already? I view it as Mysterious Ways ten years more mature. I can even picture a belly dancer with it.
Mysterious Ways
For those who need hooks...this has one of U2's most infectious ever...it's alright, it's alright, it's ALright...
Dirty Day
One of my favorite guitar riffs ever. Seriously, how can you say this is their worst?
Discotheque
FORGET ABOUT THE VIDEO ALREADY!!!!! If you listen to all the remixes you see how brilliant this song really is.
Last Night On Earth
The middle part of this song where it gets quiet and slow and Bono and Edge have alternating singing parts is one of the greatest musical accomplishments of U2's career, and the chrous and Edge's solo at the end are some of U2's rocking-est moments in recent years.
*deep breath*
I can't get over this....Grace and Peace On Earth exist, yet so many put all of these songs below them. Wow.
Oh, and I could write a whole new post about why all the 'Hands' bashers are wrong.