Your least favorite U2 song?

[lemon_vr6]

This should be good. What song can you truly not stand?



New York

 

[Axver]

Elvis Ate America.

If Passengers is not counted, then A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel.

 

[djerdap]

Love Rescue Me

 

[coolian2]

probably elevation. although given when i heard it in chicago i'd basically forgotten it was a u2 song, so does it really count?

 

[xtrmx]

Can't choose between White as Snow, or Love and Peace Or Else
I Threw a brick through a window is bad aswell

 

[God Part III]

Red Light

Does unreleased songs count?
Because if so, I nominated Smile and Love You Like Mad to the worst things U2 has ever recorded.

 

[Axver]

Does unreleased songs count?
Because if so, I nominated Smile and Love You Like Mad to the worst things U2 has ever recorded.

Wow, really? I'd say Smile is not only one of the best songs from the HTDAAB sessions, but one of the best songs U2 have recorded this entire decade, and not putting it on HTDAAB was a huge mistake.

If we want to talk about unreleased junk, let's go back to pre-Boy and look at Inside Out and Tonight from the band's first demo session. Laughably inept tracks.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

yahweh.

 

[nielsgov]

Red Light
Other candidates were Grace and Trip Through Your Wires

 

[Vlad n U 2]

Probably between Grace and Vertigo, the former was better off as a b-side methinks.

 

[SethVincent]

Now remember OP does say "LEAST Favorite" so I do not despise this song but it was the first one tha popped into my head

The Sweetest Thing

 

[Zoots]

Probably some b-side like Sixty Seconds To Kingdom Come or A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel or something like that.

If we are restricting ourselves to a-sides, then probably something on Bomb like LAPOE for example, or the horridly cheesy WITS.

 

[coolian2]

Probably some b-side like Sixty Seconds To Kingdom Come

dude, no!

 

[Zoots]

dude, no!

lol. Isn't it just a short instrumental with very repetitive guitar? I guess it's not the worst but I don't remember it being remarkable either.

 

[Ronnie269]

Miami! Experimental muck gone very wrong!!!!!!!

 

[The_acrobat]

Big girls are best!! Without any hesitation I say this!

 

[2861U2]

Flower Child, or if we're talking album tracks, Heartland.

 

[thelaj]

Love Rescue Me, though there are other close contenders!

 

[65980]

It's kind of fun to pick the worst U2 songs, since there aren't very many of them -- there isn't much musical fat on their Irish bones.

Talking about post-Boy album tracks or A-sides, I'd have to go with "Red Light", "Miami", and "I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Turn This Crazy Song Off" -- one from each decade, all stinkers.

Runners Up: "A Celebration" and "Stranger in a Strange Land"

But still, none of those songs are absolutely God-awful. I mean, none are as bad as, say, the average Bon Jovi A-side.


Then, if we're gonna count pre-Boy stuff and B-sides, I'd have to name: "Jack In The Box" (was this ever recorded?) ; "Things To Make and Do" (the most boring U2 track ever?) ; "Touch" ; J. Swallow ; "Treasure" (loved by Paul McGuinness, despised by the band) ; and maybe their cover of "Paint It Black" (almost ruined the original for me).

 

[tpsreports2424]

the 10 minute live intro of One.

 

[Galeongirl]

Red light.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Unknown fucking Caller.

 

[financeguy]

Yahweh, Grace.

 

[financeguy]

Flower Child, or if we're talking album tracks, Heartland.

I think they're both excellent. Flower Child is not as good as Heartland, but interesting lyrics.

 

[Salome]

1. If God will send his angels
2. Love & Peace or else
3. Playboy Mansion

 

[secretly alone]

Sweetest Thing comes about as close to the realm of dislike as a U2 song could for me. The original version is a little better, but the single version is just...

About half the stuff on Pop is right behind Sweetest Thing

Funny, several of the songs mentioned in this thread, I really love

 

[Scorpionac]

Crumbs From Your Table

 

[lauramullen]

Red Light

 

[blueeyedgirl]

Stuck. MOR at its worst.

 

[Outsider]

red light, miami, boots