Your favorite song, but it has to be U2

suicide_circus · 05-05-2014 10:30AM

Staring at the sun

Blazer · 05-05-2014 10:31AM

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

pow wow · 05-05-2014 10:36AM

Angel of Harlem.

c_man · 05-05-2014 10:39AM

risteard7 wrote: »

U2 me hole

That one of their newer ones?

Sir Osis of Liver. · 05-05-2014 10:45AM

risteard7 · 05-05-2014 10:52AM

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 · 05-05-2014 10:59AM

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

catallus · 05-05-2014 11:00AM

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 · 05-05-2014 11:09AM

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 · 05-05-2014 11:11AM

A Sort of Homecoming

nomdeboardie · 05-05-2014 11:49AM

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 · 05-05-2014 11:50AM

Gloria or Lemon.

NipNip · 05-05-2014 11:52AM

Who's gonna ride your wild horses.

Wacker The Attacker · 05-05-2014 12:18PM

Its been downhill all the way since the unforgettable fire.

Therefore I've completely stopped listening

gugleguy · 05-05-2014 12:37PM

In New York.

RikkFlair · 05-05-2014 01:45PM

Your Blue Room from the Passengers side thingy

Shakespeare's Sister · 05-05-2014 01:50PM

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 · 05-05-2014 02:01PM

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 · 05-05-2014 02:16PM

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

/thread

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

kfallon · 05-05-2014 02:17PM

Love the start of 'The Fly'

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 05-05-2014 02:29PM

simplybam wrote: »

Hate the tax dodging, pretentious pricks - especially bonobo

Reminded me of..

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

JohnMearsheimer · 05-05-2014 04:45PM

I've always been fond of Pride (In The Name of Love). I love the video too, seeing the Poolbeg station flying into Dublin Airport always reminds me of the song.

woof im a dog · 05-05-2014 05:00PM

trying to throw your arms around the world!

also out of control, it always reminds me of the start of intermission

bodhi085 · 05-05-2014 05:00PM

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

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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I have to agree with the change from the songs on the second slane video clip. I was there that day for both concerts. I had moved to ireland only 3 weeks before with an ex gf and her parents live a mile from slane so residents got in free. I hadn't taken that much notice of U2 before but went because it was free and even though I never became a fan I did get into the music and it kind of made me feel like I had sort of arrived in ireland after that version of where the streets have no name. But the song that got me and still does now is the live slane version of "kite". Reminds me of missing my parents and siblings in the uk.
And bonos dedication to his father who had passed away days before makes it even more emotional in the way he sang it.

Kitty6277 · 05-05-2014 05:03PM

I have to say, I love Sweetest Thing.

Irish Guitarist · 05-05-2014 05:08PM

Bono and The Edge wrote She's A Mystery To Me for Roy Orbison. I think it's the best song he ever recorded and the best song anyone from U2 ever wrote.

As for their own songs I think New Years Day is great. Staring At The Sun is the last song they released that I love. Even at the time it stood out as being the only listenable song on that terrible Pop album.

redfacedbear · 05-05-2014 05:08PM

'Running to stand still' or 'Until the end of the world'

MRnotlob606 · 05-05-2014 05:12PM

sunbeam · 05-05-2014 05:41PM

I Sill Haven't Found What I'm looking For-the version with the gospel choir.

A Dub in Glasgo · 05-05-2014 06:58PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Bono and The Edge wrote She's A Mystery To Me for Roy Orbison. I think it's the best song he ever recorded and the best song anyone from U2 ever wrote.

Such a fantastic song

Your favorite song, but it has to be U2

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