What Is Your Favorite U-2 Song?

[Parche]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWPeVfWB9o

[nomorenomore08]

1. "Bullet the Blue Sky" ('Rattle and Hum' version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kI5bOzERDc

And Bono's ridiculous rant in the middle ("The God I believe isn't short of cash, MISTER!") just adds to it IMHO. :)

[taterguy]

2. Their cover of Woody Guthrie's Jesus Christ

It's on that Folkways tribute album released in 1988

[Sky Masterson]

3. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfJtUL7FkMo

[Missy Vixen]

4. Walk On

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z72Uv-qMci0

My other favorites:

One
Where the Streets Have No Name
In God's Country
Beautiful Day

[Mike 03]

5. Damn, this question is just as hard as "What is your favorite Elvis Costello song?"

Sheesh...

I think, uh...

1. With or Without You
2. Red Hill Mining Town
3. One Tree Hill
4. Love Rescue Me
5. Bullet the Blue Sky
6. Beautiful Day
7. Wild Honey
8. In a Little While
9. Hawkmoon 269
10. Silver and Gold

[datasuspect]

6. even though it's a ripoff of kraftwerk and eno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAXI1urvxDI

still good

[MorningGlow]

7. Tough call

"One" is great. I'll pick "Drowning Man"--I'm a sucker for all of War.

Take my hand
You know I'll be there
If you can
I'll cross the sky for your love
For I have promised
Oh, to be with you tonight
And for the time that will come

Take my hand
You know I'll be there
If you can
I'll cross the sky for your love
And I understand
These winds and tides
This change of times
Won't drag you away

Hold on, and hold on tightly
Hold on, and don't let go
Of my love

The storms will pass / The storm will pass
It won't be long now / It won't be long now
His love will last
His love will last... forever

Take my hand
You know I'll be there
If you can
I'll cross the sky for your love
Give you what I hold dear

Hold on, hold on tightly
Hold on, and hold on tightly
Rise up, rise up
With wings like eagles
You run, you run
You run and not grow weary

Take my hand, take my hand
Hold on, and hold on tightly
Hold on, hold on tightly
To this love... last forever / This love, this love
To this love... last forever / This love, this love

Take my hand
Take my hand

[mitchum]

8. That one where Bono caterwauls, the Edge plays a couple of notes through delay...

and the rhythm section plays a stiff marching band beat.
Y'know, that one.

[HughBeaumont]

51. My favorite is where they ride Eno chords, play uilleann pipes and borrow from the Comsat Angels.

That one.

:rofl:

[HopeHoops]

9. Street With No Name

(If that's the title).

I can't understand a fucking word in the song, but I like the music and the bass line in particular.

[CreekDog]

10. In God's Country, One Tree Hill and Bullet the Blue Sky

the imagery of those songs is unforgettable and the sound as expansive as the western deserts I traveled as I listened to them over and over again.

[Arugula Latte]

11. I like their older stuff, so maybe "The Electric Co." or "Gloria" and songs from "Unforgettable Fire

I like the song "Wire" a lot and it brings back good college memories.

[ElmStreetPlaza]

12. Any song that was on their "Boy" album

[SalmonChantedEvening]

13. Desire

It has my favorite U2 drumwork. It's a blast to play. :D

[bluedigger]

14. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"

Impossible choice, really - it's all good! (I don't care what Dylan says...)

[EastTennesseeDem]

15. Running to Stand Still

Never was a huge fan of U2's, but that is one spectacular song.

[Coventina]

38. That song brought me to tears on their last tour.

When Bono dedicated it to the US Armed Forces.

[SoxFan]

16. Top Ten...

The Cry/The Electric Co.
Out of Control
Gloria
I Will Follow
40
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Elevation
The Refugee
Tomorrow
Exit

[Lyric]

17. With or Without You

[mvd]

48. Gotta go with that one

:thumbsup:

[MrScorpio]

18. Here we go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7XnSrMVftE

[MrSlayer]

19. "Seconds"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFgoXcntSBU

The Refugee, Bad and Bullet the Blue Sky are also favorites.

[Left Is Write]

20. Beautiful Day

[GOPisEvil]

21. "I Will Follow" or "Gloria"

[Chemical Bill]

54. Yeah, one of those. n/t

[Haole Girl]

22. Stuck in a moment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykIj190mJek

"Stuck In A Moment"

I'm not afraid
Of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me
That I haven't already heard

I'm just trying to find
A decent melody
A song that I can sing
In my own company

I never thought you were a fool
But darling look at you
You gotta stand up straight
Carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere baby

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it

Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I will not forsake
The colors that you bring
The nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing

I am still enchanted
By the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears
Through your eyes I can see

And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it's tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now
My, oh my

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

Oh love, look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm 'til you discover how deep

I wasn't jumping, for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass

It's just a moment
This time will pass

[Mike 03]

25. That is a beautiful song, and not only that but anyone trying to learn

how to play guitar will learn a shitload of new chords if he or she tries to learn this song.

It is beautiful...

[abq e streeter]

30. tough to choose just one, but this is definitely among their very best

Still Haven't Found... Pride, Sunday Bloody Sunday are right up there too

[pinniped]

23. New Year's Day

.

[Swede]

34. That was my first choice, also.

Great tune.

[Orsino]

37. +1

Kinetic music, and Bono's most urgent, soaring vocals.

[MadBadger]

24. Where the Streets Have No Name

[oshyposhy]

26. Many

Top two are

All I Want Is You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWBKBkEJQRk

You say you want
Diamonds on a ring of gold
You say you want
Your story to remain untold

But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You say you'll give me
A highway with no one on it
Treasure just to look upon it
All the riches in the night

You say you'll give me
Eyes in a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You say you want
Your love to work out right
To last with me through the night

You say you want
Diamonds on a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold
Your love not to grow cold

All the promises we break
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You...all I want is...
You...all I want is...
You...all I want is...
You...


And, of course, One.

[bluethruandthru]

27. Love Comes Tumbling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h20Bx65sbrA

[Tektonik]

28. Mysterious Ways or Pride

Achtung Baby is one of the best albums of all time.

Oh I also like 'Discothèque' :scared:

[Bossy Monkey]

29. I'll go with "Bad"

I'm mortified that I no longer remember how "A Sort of Homecoming" goes. I sound like somebody's grampa: If I could remember how it goes, it might be my favorite song-- and get off my lawn!

[Common Sense Party]

39. I'll second "Bad" -- the live version off "Wide Awake in America"

[kentauros]

31. just a couple

Numb - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cFuG7YzVzw
Snuggles - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gPSSYxex0

:)

[rockymountaindem]

32. Running to Stand Still (among the more obscure songs)

and Sunday Bloody Sunday from the more popular ones.

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[abq e streeter]

35. Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl is one of my all-time favorite Bono songs

Orbison sings Bono-----doesn't get much better than that. ( sorry I'm such a low-tech doofus that I don't know how to post a you tube link for this , but its there)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

45. this one -- ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohhh_TSJ8QI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUVj6MM5BE&feature=related

[abq e streeter]

53. That's the song..thanks for posting the links

the whole album is really nice too. I remember finding it in a cut-out bin at a truck stop in Needles ( or was it Barstow) California in maybe 1988 (?). A couple of years later it somehow vanished, but at least there's this and a couple others on you tube. Thanks again...

[AllenVanAllen]

36. These two

Zooropa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqBgDa_VuM

U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=838dPcVq0c4

[Rambis]

40. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday: Live Red Rocks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQVyXiXrI7E

[av8rdave]

41. One Tree Hill and Wire

It's a tie

[mikeytherat]

42. The Unforgettable Fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yiNqwEAtpk

Had this one cranked last weekend coming back from back-to-back gigs (two shows + 1000 miles in 38 hours!). All four of us in the van were singing this at top volume, four in the morning, storming back through the Blue Ridge mountains.

mikey_the_rat

[960]

43. Beautiful Day

They have a number of great songs, but none beat it

[Tommy_Carcetti]

44. Red Hill Mining Town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytRekLUX3GE

I don't know why, it just sticks with me. People can say what they will about U2, The Joshua Tree is a classic album.

[backtoblue]

46. beautiful day & stuck in a moment

[Eurobabe]

47. Still Haven't Found What I am Looking For....

Ah, the irony, wasted on a pensive 27 year old beauty.

At 49, it seems I FINALLY found what I was hoping for...doesn't get any better than this. :loveya: :loveya:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

49. Please, Party Girl, Bullet the Blue Sky, God Part II

[Recursion]

50. I'm with you: one

[HughBeaumont]

52. The Unforgettable Fire.

Really, that's my favorite album by them. I just like the production.

[Jean Louise Finch]

55. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

Achtung Baby was the first album of theirs that I really appreciated, and it was also the first proper album I ever really liked. I think I was only about 10 when it came out, and it totally changed how I thought about music.