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[Music] Top Ten Favorite U2 Songs

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Stone Cold Hakeem, Sep 20, 2007.

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  1. Jeff

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    No order:

    Like a Song
    Trip Through Your Wires
    Wire
    The Unforgettable Fire
    Running to Stand Still
    Bad
    A Sort of Homecoming
    Two Hearts Beat as One
    Spanish Eyes
    Red Hill Mining Town
     
  2. tinman

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    i like the old stuff too, but the newer stuff is amazing, you should give it a try. some people back in the day thought U2 was 'selling out' but their message and emotion of their songs remain the same.

    also you will notice how edge develops as a cutting 'edge' guitarist.
     
  3. tinman

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    Rafer Alston
    What happened after Choke City
    JVG's offense
    Its about Maxwell
    Song about Clyde
    Cuttino and Steve
    Luis Scola
    Yao's home town
     
  4. jo mama

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    i love everything up to joshua tree, but their 90's stuff is cool too. im just more into the early stuff.

    dude, is that a u2 pun? :eek:
     
  5. rimrocker

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    Man, I can't believe nobody's mentioned "When Love Comes to Town." I think it's one of the great dual artist songs of all time.
     
  6. Manny Ramirez

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    In no particular order:

    Sunday Bloody Sunday
    New Year's Day
    Two Hearts Beat as One
    40
    Bad
    Pride (In the Name of Love)
    Desire
    Where the Streets Have No Name
    Even Better Than the Real Thing
    All I Want Is You

    There are some others that I considered but these 10 are my favorites with New Year's Day probably being #1.
     
  7. tinman

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    popmart dvd is out at bestbuy. its on sale, its $9.99 for the regular dvd and $19.99 for the special edition

    great concert in mexico city.
     
  8. Stone Cold Hakeem

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    I Will Follow

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    Discotheque

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    Gone

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    Last Night of Earth

    I wish I'd been into U2 in '97, Pop is probably my second favorite album cover to cover but my favorite to hear live (well, via Youtube). It's a shame they stopped playing Do You Feel Loved after six shows, it sounds killer live.
     
  9. Oski2005

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    Wow, I think that's the first time I had watched a live version of Last Night on Earth, what an amazing performance. The problem with Pop was that they rushed it, clearly, the songs became more polished during the tour. That's probably why they reworked some of them for the Best of 1990-2000 compilation.
     
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    Not in Order

    Boy - Rattle and Hum

    1. Running to Stand Still (Joshua Tree)
    2. Bad (Live at Point Depot)
    3. Out of Control (Boy)
    4. The Electric Co. (Under A Blood Red Sky)
    5. Sunday Bloody Sunday (War)
    6. Love Rescue Me (Rattle and Hum)
    7. A Sort of Homecoming (Unforgettable Fire)
    8. A Cat Dubh/Into the Heart (Boy)
    9. Where the Streets Have No Name (Joshua Tree)
    10. Rejoice (October)

    Achtung to Atomic Bomb

    1. Until the End of the World (Achtung Baby)
    2. Acrobat (Achtung Baby)
    3. Some Days are Better Than Others (Zooropa)
    4. Gone (PopMart)
    5. Elevation (All That You Can't Leave Behind)
    6. In A Little While (ATYCLB)
    7. Xanex and Wine (Rare and Unreleased)
    8. Lady with a Spinning Head (Extended Dance Mix; Even Better than the Real Thing)
    9. The First Time (Zooropa)
    10. Love Peace or Else (Atomic Bomb)
     
  11. Rocketman95

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    I may have forgotten their cover of Satellite of Love.
     
  12. Oski2005

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    Xanax and Wine is an awesome song, I really wish they hadn't reworked it into Fast Cars.
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    Native Son (the original version of Vertigo)
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    That last album really has a nice set of unreleased/rarities/b-sides/etc.
     
  13. Stone Cold Hakeem

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    I almost like Native Son better than Vertigo. Much better arrangement although the lyrics SUCK.
     
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    Very, very hard to pick just 10...

    10. City of Blinding Lights
    9. Numb
    8. In God's Country
    7. Hawkmoon 269
    6. Vertigo
    5. New Year's Day
    4. The Electric Co.
    3. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
    2. A Sort of Homecoming
    1. Acrobat
     
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    1. Gloria - This is far and away their best song. No other U2 song has ever even come close.

    A distant 2-10 in no particular order
    Sunday Bloody Sunday
    I will Follow
    A Sort of Homecoming
    New Years Day
    Tomorrow
    October
    Shadows and Tall Trees
    Pride(In the name of Love)
    Wire
     
  17. Desert Scar

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    Tough, tough, tough, but I''ll go with

    Bad
    So Crue
    Light My Way
    WSHNN
    One Tree Hill
    A Cat Dubh/Into the Heart (good call by the poster before)
    One
    SBS
    The Elec. Co
    People Get Ready (off of a Cork Ire bootleg I once had)

    The only slam dunk easy calls for me were Bad and WSHNN, all the rest I mind find alternatives for.
     
  18. steddinotayto

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    1. One
    2. All I Want Is You
    3. Mysterious Ways
    4. Numb
    5. With Or Without You
    6. If God Will Send His Angels
    7. City of Blinding Lights
    8. Sweetest Thing
    9. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
    10. Where the Streets Have No Name
     
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    I just discovered that U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky is not available on DVD.

    Let me clarify that.... I'm not saying that it's just unavailable on HD or bluray. It's not available on plain-old dvd. It's only available on VHS.

    How can that be?




    And how can anyone not say that this is, by far the finest U2 performance ever?
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  20. mishii

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    I am sure some of you have heard already, but I am quite excited to hear that they are planning to release a 20th anniversary Joshua Tree edition. Supposedly there will be three versions.

    1. A digitally re-mastered standard album in a 'super' jewel case with a 24-page booklet.

    2. A deluxe edition to include a 5" hardcover book with two wallets (at front and back) to hold two CDs (the remastered album + rarities) and the 24-page booklet.

    3. A limited edition to contain everything in the deluxe edition, plus one DVD of a Paris show from The Joshua Tree tour.

    The tentative release date is November 23, 2007.

    http://www.atu2.com/

    I wonder if the digitally re-mastered album will be better than the old gold CD remastered album that came out a while ago (that has since been discontinued). Anyway, I am excited to hear the "rarities" and the DVD of the Paris show.
     

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