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Your favorite song, but it has to be U2

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  • #62
    [Deleted User]
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    For me it's a cover that u2 do, Can't Help Falling in Love..
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG9wJu1Fm2A


  • #63
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,066 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    The Ground Beneath Her Feet


  • #64
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Never understood the hate.

    At the top of their game they were fantastic and racked out classic after classic. And to give credit where it's due Bonio is nothing if not an adroit and skilled lyricist. Until he went down the moles digging in the holes road.

    Favourite song would have to be a toss-up between With or Without You and Where the Streets Have No Name, with an honourable mention to One.


  • #65
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Red hill mining town...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytRekLUX3GE


  • #66
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    60 posts before I found what I was looking for.

    The Joshua Tree was one of the best albums of the 80s imo.


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  • #67
    sydthebeat
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    Heartland


  • #68
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    As mentioned by others, Ground beneath her feet, Sunday Bloody Sunday, and With or Without You

    This track is going to rile a lot of people. It is an old mashup, of With or Without You played over the thumping beat of Da Funk by Daft Punk.

    To many it will be electronic nonsense which destroys the feeling of the original track but I think it is one the few mash ups which works well.

    Yes, I know this is not an official U2 track in this form.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9qiUBJ7U_c


  • #69
    guinnessdrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭guinnessdrinker


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    Heartland

    Great song!

    I always really liked one of the songs of their Pop album called Gone. Not sure why I like it so much because its far from a classic as such but lyrically I think it's great and I always got the emotion in Bono's voice whenever he sung it live.


  • #70
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 45,436 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    guinnessdrinker wrote: »
    Great song!

    I always really liked one of the songs of their Pop album called Gone. Not sure why I like it so much because its far from a classic as such but lyrically I think it's great and I always got the emotion in Bono's voice whenever he sung it live.

    Pop is a much maligned album, probably because they were not happy with it themselves. They wanted more time to finish it. But there are some gems on there. I was lucky enough to see the pop tour in feyenord stadium in Rotterdam back in the day. I'm a huge fan of "please" off that album as well


  • #71
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    I like the song where they're phoning up people in sarajevo during their gigs

    I mean thats what kept them going when they were being lashed out of it, knowing bono was gonna give them a bell during their set


    Anyway, "All I want is you" is the only U2 song I wont immediately turn off if its on the radio or whatever


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  • #72
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    The Fly, Love is Blindness, With or Without You, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Stuck In A Moment, Moment of Surrender all great. But my favourite is probably With or Without You.


  • #73
    guinnessdrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭guinnessdrinker


    The Jack White cover of Love is Blindness, also amazing!!


  • #74
    JFKIRELAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭JFKIRELAND


    The Three Sunrises from the Wide Awake In America EP.


  • #75
    woof im a dog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭woof im a dog


    also 'trip through your wires!'


  • #76
    131spanner
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    holystungun9 wrote: »
    This track is going to rile a lot of people. It is an old mashup, of With or Without You played over the thumping beat of Da Funk by Daft Punk.

    It works! Nice take on a classic, refreshing.

    As for my favourite U2 song, The Sweetest Thing, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Beautiful Day are all contenders.


  • #77
    Deer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Deer


    The Ground Beneath Her Fee, Electrical Storm, One, End of the world


  • #78
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Slicemeister wrote: »
    Metallica's version.


    Damien Rice's cover is better



  • #79
    starlight baby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭starlight baby


    If You Wear That Velvet Dress

    One of the most seductive melty songs ever


  • #80
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    simplybam wrote: »
    U2 and 'favourite song' will never be in my head at the same time. Hate the tax dodging, pretentious pricks - especially bonobo
    risteard7 wrote: »
    U2 me hole

    Thanks for coming


  • #81
    brianthomas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭brianthomas


    Kite, a beautiful song.

    Clondalkin in Dublin



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  • #82
    Muff Richardson
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    All I Want Is You


  • #83
    The Th!ng
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 464 ✭✭The Th!ng


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gwahh04Y1Y


  • #84
    Frank Lee Midere
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    I love the minimalism of With or Without You. The edge is, by his then standards, holding back, the fade is excellent.

    To me that makes it better than All I want is you which goes power ballady at the end.


  • #85
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    U2 LAST NIGHT ON EARTH (FIRST NIGHT IN HELL MIX) :pac: :eek:





  • #86
    porsche959
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    NoDrama wrote: »
    For me it's a cover that u2 do, Can't Help Falling in Love..
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG9wJu1Fm2A

    There is a more minimalist version of that cover with just Bono and Paul Barrett.


  • #87
    creolebelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭creolebelle


    vitani wrote: »
    Where the Streets Have No Name

    One of my favorite songs
    City of blinding lights has a powerful effect me


  • #88
    ardinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,250 ✭✭✭ardinn


    A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »
    The live versions from the Slane Castle gig in 2001

    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
    [/QUOTE]

    I was at that gig - thats the very point I actually nearly lost my mind! the intro, the crowd, the energy was something i'd never experienced - I wasnt even a massive U2 fan - Been to all their Irish gigs since then.

    4:35 in - FUCK ME What a gig
    images.jpg
    http://slaneyfishing.com




  • #89
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    I really don't like Where The Streets... and Still Haven't Found... Not because they're popular (I adore With Or Without You) but in my opinion there are much stronger tracks on that album (The Joshua Tree). However they're very "anthemic" which made them natural singles in a way.


  • #90
    JJayoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,045 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    In a little while

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


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  • #91
    extra gravy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,464 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Mysterious ways. It's not their best one but I've always liked it.


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