Your favorite song, but it has to be U2

john the one

Title explains....

Whats your favorite U2 song?
I have sat in a chair and argued with another guy(drunk) about how much i dislike U2 and Bono. Low and behold to we talk about the songs that U2 have released and realize the music is pretty damn good!

Personally right now favorite song is:

Staring at the sun.Its awesome,

Bloody Sunday. just means so much, especially when you listen to it on reeling in the years.......closest i have ever been to tears!

Bad Live Aid, what a mullet!

No hating and no griefing please.


Few more posts and it should be due a poll!

OU812

Hands that built America

OldMrBrennan83

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racso1975

After the day I had yesterday, sunday bloody sunday.

Frosty McSnowballs

Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me
Or
Electrical Storm

osarusan

Bad.

Mental Mickey

One

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shamrock55

So cruel, or acrobat, love em:)

Senor Fancy Pants

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me

+1.

Have also always loved "With Or Without You"

Maphisto

Just had to

Slicemeister

Mental Mickey wrote: »

One

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Metallica's version.

DEFTLEFTHAND

A young Bono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BqLlVHlWA

Boskowski

The unforgettable fire

fleet_admiral

hold me thrill me kiss me kill me

discoteque is very good as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuy4828wpvg

LizzieJones

My favourite U2 song is With or Without You.

vitani

Where the Streets Have No Name

simplybam

U2 and 'favourite song' will never be in my head at the same time. Hate the tax dodging, pretentious pricks - especially bonobo

alchemist33

October

bnt

No problem: I still like Achtung Baby to this day, and it was great to see them revive it at Glastonbury. This song in particular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q63QlNL5sM

PS: Achtung, Baby!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-p6zh0Ar7E

Mental Mickey

Slicemeister wrote: »

Metallica's version.

Eh....no

Pawwed Rig

'All I want is you' is a class song and one of my favourites. U2 have a great collection

nomdeboardie

simplybam wrote: »

... bonobo

:pac::pac::pac:

Duck's hoop

simplybam wrote: »

U2 and 'favourite song' will never be in my head at the same time. Hate the tax dodging, pretentious pricks - especially bonobo

Ok but what about the music? They've made some very, very good music over the past 3 decades. According to basically everybody.

One is class. But Johnny Cash does it better!

New Year's Day.

simplybam

Duck's hoop wrote: »

Ok but what about the music? They've made some very, very good music over the past 3 decades. According to basically everybody.

One is class. But Johnny Cash does it better!

New Year's Day.

Just can't make myself listen to their tripe, so will have to disagree here.

risteard7

U2 me hole

razorblunt

Stay - Faraway, So Close.

worded

Amazing band live.

Saw them in Slane in 81 when they played support to lizzy.
I was right up the front and just went wild.

They are a very positive band that give me great happiness over the years sometimes dancing for hours at their gigs

My current FAV is magnificent. Unforgettable fire is magical

Lukehandypants

Screw them and their crappy music.

But exit of the joshua tree album.

Titzon Toast

I will follow.
Staring at the sun.
All I want is you.
In a little while.

Birneybau

"The Fly" by a mile.

I also think it's THE greatest Irish song of all time.

A Dub in Glasgo

The live versions from the Slane Castle gig in 2001 of

Angel of Harlem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ATGjUNMGg

All I Want Is You / Where The Streets Have No Name - the change from songs with the crowd sprawled out at Slane is the best I have seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3e2f4bzumY

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suicide_circus

Staring at the sun

Blazer

Staring at the Sun
Hold me, thrill me, kill me
With or Without You
Discoteque

pow wow

Angel of Harlem.

c_man

risteard7 wrote: »

U2 me hole

That one of their newer ones?

Sir Osis of Liver.

risteard7

c_man wrote: »

That one of their newer ones?

Yea went to number 1. Ah no they have some good songs I just don't like bono. One.... Would be my pick

TroutMask

I have Boy on cassette and 'A Day Without Me' is my favourite song on that tape.

catallus

Achtung Baby is a flawless album, a very special achievement. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses is my favourite. U2 have an awful lot of ****e thrown at the wall, but that album will stand the test of time as a collection of untouchable love-songs.

take everything

Ultraviolet (light my way).
Ms Sarajevo. Maybe it's the Pavarotti bit but always give me chills.
Stay (faraway so close)
With or without you.
Unforgettable fire.
Bad.
New years day.
One.
For a band so vilified they really have produced some great songs IMO.

Mint Sauce

A Sort of Homecoming

nomdeboardie

I have liked, and probably still do like, some of their music. (In fact, I bought one of their albums many years ago.) But now my perception is coloured by what I think of as Bono's over-mannered-quasi-earnestly-constipated-singing-in-the-shower delivery. Not to mention (oops, there I mentioned it...) repeated proclamations about being "the best band in the world"...with no hint of irony/humour? And other stuff.


All in my head? Maybe, but not excorcisable

nullzero

Gloria or Lemon.

NipNip

Who's gonna ride your wild horses.

Wacker The Attacker

Its been downhill all the way since the unforgettable fire.

Therefore I've completely stopped listening

gugleguy

In New York.

RikkFlair

Your Blue Room from the Passengers side thingy

Shakespeare's Sister

simplybam wrote: »

Just can't make myself listen to their tripe, so will have to disagree here.

Not liking them as individuals doesn't suddenly make their music tripe.

I couldn't name just one - so many superb songs: Gloria, I Will Follow, Out Of Control, Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year's Day, Pride, Bad, The Unforgettable Fire, Bullet The Blue Sky, In God's Country, One Tree Hill, With Or Without You, The Fly, Discotheque, Lemon (yeh I know - may as well be track-listing for U2's Greatest Hits )... God they were brilliant up to the 90s.

Far too much bland fare since - and Bono's carry-on keeps getting worse (I remember him being nowhere near as pompous in the '80s) but still the odd diamond of a track. I adore Beautiful Day - so uplifting. They brought out a single a few years ago also called Magnificent, which was a return to vintage U2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi52HjJbwVQ

Very talented band in terms of songwriting (well, up to the 90s anyway), musicianship and vocals. The arseyness doesn't change that.

5live

risteard7 wrote: »

U2 me hole

Thanks for the offer, bud, but i'll pass, thanks:)

My favourite has to be 'Love comes tumbling' from the 'Wide Awake I America' EP.

In fact all that EP is my fallback album on my phone.

Cienciano

I really don't the band, but in fairness, they were a great band in the 80's. I don't like anything since Joshua Tree.
I'm going with Bad

Mental Mickey wrote: »

One

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I used to like it, but now I think it's one of the cheesiest songs ever, don't like it at all.

kfallon

Love the start of 'The Fly'