Worst Song U2 has written?

[Just_Boy]

Many recent songs have far too much rhyming lyrics. That is lazy too.

Rhyming lyrics are lazy when they are rhyming just for the sake of rhyming.

And don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that LiB is their worst song ever. I just don't like it ! And I've always felt that it stands between Achtung Baby and perfection.Considering their other albums of the late 80s and the 90s, it's not the kind of ending that Achtung Baby deserved.

 

[cobl04]

Soooo wrong but all music is subjective I suppose. I have many a friend who hate all that they know of U2.

When you say "the last bit is out of tune", are you talking about Edge's disjointed, fragmented solo? Because that part breaks many of our hearts... and I can't even relate to the lyrics really, having never had my heart broken.

 

[AndrewCowley]

25 pages in an I can't believe LIB has been named in this thread. I'm outta here.

 

[Just_Boy]

Worst

1) Grace
2) A Man And A Woman
3) Wild Honey
4) Stand Up Comedy
5) Wire
6) Get On Your Boots
7) Desire
8) Crumbs from your Table
9) Peace on Earth
10)Love Rescue Me
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18)Love is Blindness ( I searched for every possible interpretation and listened to it again and again, and finally i got tears in my eyes )

I'm leaving out Boy and October. Boring instrumentals don't qualify. And I'll defend Elvis Presley and America till the end of the world.

Different songs have different meanings for different people.

The sky is blue IMO.

If you don't understand that it's an opinion, it's your problem.

 

[AnCatKatie]

I'm leaving out Boy and October.

Good


And really, everyone—it is all opinion. And opinions change, too (for example, I used to skip past EP&A all the time but now I like it much more, etc etc)...

 

[Just_Boy]

 

[gvox]

I'm leaving out Boy and October. Boring instrumentals don't qualify.

U2 has instrumentals named Boy and October?

 

[Just_Boy]

I'm leaving out Boy and October STOP
AND (boring) Instrumentals don't qualify.


As I said, i had tears in my eyes.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

I'm having tears in my eyes at the sight of Wire being in someone's bottom 5 U2 songs.

 

[Galeongirl]

I'm having tears in my eyes at the sight of Wire being in someone's bottom 5 U2 songs.

It's just not gonna work out between us all is it?

 

[Vlad n U 2]

It's just not gonna work out between us all is it?

I am having a sad.

 

[bugo]

Miami is a piece of shit!

Let the flaming commence .

 

[Jive Turkey]

25 pages in an I can't believe LIB has been named in this thread. I'm outta here.

This. Jesus Christ

 

[Just_Boy]

Miami is a piece of shit!

Let the flaming commence .

Miami is pretty harmless. So is New York.

 

[ultraviolet92]

Miami is a piece of shit!

Let the flaming commence .

well looking at your top 10 songs in the other thread it makes sense

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Miami is a piece of shit!

Let the flaming commence .

I certainly think it's not easy to listen to, but I couldn't say it's the worst either.

I'd go with a lot of the stuff off of Original Soundtracks 1, most of that is just awful.

 

[tomtom]

It's the weakest song on AB, but it's weakest song is still a great song that many artist would have loved to have written... love this song.



I know I stand in the minority with this, but I this song, I find it very haunting.

Word. Word. Word. One of my favorite songs by any artist, of all time. Mystical brilliance.

 

[bugo]

well looking at your top 10 songs in the other thread it makes sense

You mean the lack of 'POP' songs?

Gone and Staring at the Sun would be in my top 25!

 

[ultraviolet92]

nah not so much that, just not too much weird/experimental songs by them besides the fly maybe
i was like WTF when i first heard miami but i love it now because its individual and there not another song like that in the u2 catalogue

 

[bugo]

Best way to discover the worst U2 song is to put them all on shuffle on an ipod - listened to about 25 in a row and so far the only one that's irritated me a bit is LAPOE. Even New York was a smidge enjoyable!

 

[Vlad n U 2]

Funnily enough I love LAPOE, better than anything else on Bomb for me.

 

[Just_Boy]

 

[Galeongirl]

Funnily enough I love LAPOE, better than anything else on Bomb for me.

I'd have to put Miracle Drug above it, but outside of that I agree. We seem to agree an awful lot lately.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

I'd have to put Miracle Drug above it, but outside of that I agree. We seem to agree an awful lot lately.

I still retain the opinion that the intro with those gurgly, distorted electronics is so much awesome. And that outro.

Because of this I shouldn't say anything else positive about the album.

 

[coolian2]

love and peace has a great intro, but it goes missing after that.

 

[theedgeu2]

LAPOE is one of my favorites off Bomb. But then again I love that album. I'm a weirdo. The intro and outro to LAPOE is indeed epic. It got better live too.

I've been thinking lately and I say that Jesus Christ song is probably the worst song they've written.

YouTube - U2- Jesus Christ

 

[BVS]

I've been thinking lately and I say that Jesus Christ song is probably the worst song they've written.

They didn't write it, it's a cover of an old woody guthrie song.

 

[corianderstem]

I love that cover. It's rollicking.

 

[theedgeu2]

They didn't write it, it's a cover of an old woody guthrie song.

Well I FAIL. Just forget the last half of that post.

 

[EdgeFest]

Party Girl

Red Light is also pretty brutal