Favorite 3 Songs by U2!

[troykennedy]

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All haters; Please start a separate I hate U2 thread. :)

[A-Bone]

Hard for me to pick just three, but I have always loved these tunes:

"I Will Follow" (my introduction to the band)

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"Bad" (live versions, still remains a hugely powerful part of their live set)

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"All I Want Is You" (a song that meant a great deal to me as a mopey, romantic teen, and still invokes that part inside of me)

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[GulfportBound]

An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart
New Year's Day
The Unforgettable Fire

[Fifthstone]

Bad
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day

[Bluedano1]

Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Years Day, Bullet in Blue Sky (not sure of title, sorry, I like the grind of the song, slide too)

stick in When Love Comes to Town- just as it's U2's weird take on the blues, but I dig it

[Jack Gilvey]

Bad (Wide Awake in America version), One, Streets.

[KRosser]

I'm not sure I could tell you, but it's pretty likely at least two would be from "Achtung Baby"

[A-Bone]

I'm not sure I could tell you, but it's pretty likely at least two would be from "Achtung Baby"

Yeah. I'm already regretting the three I chose above because they are all from the earlier period of the band, and Achtung Baby is one hell of an album.

[jhvox]

Bad
All I Want Is You
Mothers of the Disappeared

[Blanket Jackson]

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Honorable mention
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[jb70]

new year's day
in god's country
pride (in the name of love)

[melven62]

Kite
New Years Day
Sunday Bloody Sunday

[cledussnow]

Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (with the gospel singers)
When Love Comes to Town
Sunday Bloody Sunday

[JimboMansonMB-1]

Beautiful Day
Until the End of the World
Crumbs from Your Table or One ft. Mary J. Blige

[stratmansblues]

Red Hill Mining Town
All I Want Is You
Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

[agradywills]

One
Beautiful Day
Bullet the Blue Sky

[paultanderberg]

Where The Streets Have No Name
Bad
Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

[nevernamed]

Bad, pride, where the streets have no name!

[bwc3000]

Hard to pick just three, but...

"I Fall Down"

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"Two Hearts Beat as One"

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"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)"

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[mesa/boogieman]

Beautiful Day
Where The Streets Have No Name
Sunday Bloody Sunday

[Mark McPheeters]

Not a big U2 fan but I'll say:

New Year's Day
Vertigo
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

[Shiny McShine]

Pride
With Without
New Year's Day

[Niblos]

An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart
New Year's Day
The Unforgettable Fire

Almost the same:

Party Girl
An Cat Dubn (THE BLACK CAT)
Unforgettable Fire

[Kentano2000]

Unforgettable Fire
New Year's Day
Trip Through Your Wires

[troykennedy]

Pride - first song I remember hearing of theirs and going "Holy Cow, what is that!?" Bought the whole back catalog after that.
Streets - Creates such a longing for things hoped for.
One - Just an iconic moment in modern songwriting. It says so much, so simply.

Almost impossible to pick 3. Their whole catalog has meant so much to me over the years. I remember hearing the Unforgettable Fire Cd and crying. Not even knowing why. SO abstract, spiritual and beautiful.

[Seabazz]

sunday bloody sunday
still havent found what im looking for ( the version with Springsteen is my favourite)
with or without you

[Hammered]

Wire
Bullet the blue sky
All I want is you

[Tbone135]

I really don't think I could pick three. Maybe three albums...

[ropiyas]

"Trying to throw your arms around the world"
"Stay"
"So Cruel"

[rspencer]

Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day
Beautiful Day

[redshark1105]

Bullet the blue sky
New year's day
Vertigo

[bjjp2]

Bad
Electric Co
Trip Through Your Wires

[tsar nicholas]

Tough one, they were great back in the day


uh, let's see, how about

"Bullet the Blue Sky" [live version]
"Desire"
"Mysterious Ways"


bonus : "Van Diemen's Land"

[tsar nicholas]

Am I buggin' you? I don't mean to bug ya, honey

[Cream]

Pride
Bad
Beautiful Day

That was tough. Now I'll pick others...

[fetchmybeer]

I'm rather unimaginative since all are on my favorite U2 album, but there are a lot of songs that are very, very close to my top 3. As it were, my top 3 are

A Sort Of Homecoming - this one just puts me in a nice place
Bad - great build and release
Wire - an absolutely psychotic riff and song in general. Very dark for U2

Honorable mentions...

I Will Follow
An Cat Dubh
New Year's Day
Like A Song
Streets
With or Without You
Running To Stand Still
Red Hill
Acrobat
Yahweh

[d3nzi0]

Bad
She Moves in Mysterious Ways
Pride (In the Name of Love)

[dillingerescaped]

love u2, at the moment im jamming
where the streets have no name
magnificent
one
so ill choose those three

[Sidmore]

God part II
Trip Through Your Wires
Bullet the Blue Sky

[bluesmoose]

In a Little While
Bullet the Blue Sky
Vertigo

[freedom's door]

Like A Song
Drowning Man
Electric Co

[shane88]

only 3 makes it real hard

the fly
staring at the sun
with or without you

a top10 may have been easier 4 me :)

[FigMusic]

The Fly
Discotheque
Mofo

[thornie]

bullet the blue sky
ultraviolet
acrobat

[NorCal_Val]

Until the End of the World(soundtrack version)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Where the Streets Have No Name
Bullet the Blue Sky
(ooooops, sorry about the 4th tune)

[MrTAteMyBalls]

hmmmm...tough one.

"Still havent found" is to me, the most perfect song of all time.

Others......

40

One

There are dozens of others. Great band.

[mapleneck72]

Stay
Streets
Until the End of the World

honorable mention:
Mercy

[brain g]

Electrical Storm
Desire
The Fly (The solo is seriously orgasmic - am I allowed to say that here?)

Favorite Video: Window in the skies - Modernista version

[pima1234]

Great Thread!

Utterly impossible for me to answer definitely.

[fusionbear]

Wire from Unforgettable Fire

Vertigo from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bob

Until the End of the World from Achtung Baby


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[Windup 43]

Really hard to answer, but off the top of my head:

An Cat Dubh
Unforgettable Fire
Fire (New Year's Day EP live version)

Honorable mention: Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop)

[televox]

Red hill mining town
A sort of homecoming
The Unforgettable Fire

[saneff]

Bad
Running to Stand Still
I Will Follow

[Tuberoast]

Out Of Control
Desire
Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

[FenderBigot]

Bad (Wide Awake in America version), One, Streets.
These are mine and my band covers them too. Nice choices Jack!

Honorable mention goes to I Will Follow and Bullet in the Blue.

[MightyGuru]

Like A Song
Ultraviolet
New Years Day remix by Francois Kevorkian

[ransacker]

I Will Follow
Stay(Far Away, So Close)
City of Blinding Lights

A rough catalogue to whittle down......

[cfo_deebiedaddy]

Running to stand still...my best friend used to sit and play/sing this, and it was spectacular.

One (the live version with string section at some castle)

With or without you

Honorable mentions to...
Van Dieman's land
I still haven't found (also the Rattle & Hum version)

[Grenville]

I Fall Down
Twilight (a song I always thought of as about adolescence rather than gayness or vampires)
Promenade
Bonus track: One

[Trickstaaah]

Tough to pick only three ... these are personal favorites, not necessarily their "best" or most representative:

"One" -- I don't think they'll ever top this tune, especially lyrically. It got even better on the Zoo TV tour with Edge's solo at the end.

"Until The End Of The World" -- Most of my favorite U2 songs are those that could either be hymns or breakup songs, depending on what the listener wants to hear. This is the champion of that genre.

"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" -- I lived in eastern Berlin around the turn of the millenium and this song brings back a lot of great, bittersweet memories.

(I can't believe nothing from The Unforgettable Fire made my list!)

And, just because it was so hard, here are three favorite B-sides/rarities:

"Are You Gonna Wait Forever?"
"Spanish Eyes"
"The Sweetest Thing" (the original, not the recent version)

[AussieIan]

Unforgetable Fire

Bad

One

[gustipawana]

U2 is always my favorite. :peenut

[Pietro]

Impossible for me, too... but... If I HAVE to choose 3...

Streets (of course)

Miracle Drug

Magnificent

[Whogo]

A Sort of Homecoming

October

Bad

[billfoma]

There is NO WAY I can limit it to just 3, but I can go 3 per era:

1st Era: Boy - Wide Awake In America (1980-1986)

1. Pride
2. Bad
3. I Will Follow

2nd Era: The Joshua Tree - Pop (1987-1999)

1. One
2. Where The Streets Have No Name
3. All I Want Is You

3rd Era: All That You Can't Leave Behind - No Line On The Horizon (2000-Present)

1. Beautiful Day
2. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
3. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own


It really would have been easier to do 5 from each era!

[blackba]

One
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Where the Streets Have no Name

Ask me tomorrow and the list will probably be different. For me it is easier to pick my top 3 albums from U2 than top 3 songs.

[arem]

I'm only a fan of the first 4 records, but there are so many great songs in there. I'll name 3 that haven't been claimed so far


11 O Clock Tick Tock
I Threw A Brick Thru A Window
Surrender

[Bankston]

Hard to narrow it down to just 3, but I'll go with:

1. Bullet the Blue Sky
2. Pride
3. Where the Streets Have No Name

[Dr. Tweedbucket]

I was in a relaxed state of mind late on a Sat night and heard An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart come on. I was thinking woW! That is sooo 80s, I was digging it and not knowing it was early U2 :love: It sort of sounded like Bono, so I did a search the next day and found it. That's such a cool song (the full version).

2nd up is: With or Without You. The vocal work just blows me away. Bono has such a great voice and they found a great mic to capture it on tape!

3rd is probably Vertigo.... but not sure. I'm thinking of that song where the Edge does the high falseto thing at the end.... :confused:

Yeah, 3 albums would be easier to do.

[TC (Houston)]

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[burningyen]

Promenade
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Last Night On Earth

[Kepi]

I'll go with:

"The Unforgettable Fire"
"Running to Stand Still"
"Until the End of the World"

There's a cool, slightly different mix of "Until the End of the World" on the soundtrack to the Wim Wenders movie of the same name - worth checking out if you like that song...

[zzzezums]

in a little while
one
sunday bloody sunday

[guitarz1972]

Where The Streets Have No Name
With Or Without You
Bullet The Blue Sky

Started playing guitar a year after Joshua Tree came out, and that sound WAS electric guitar, for me. For years following, I put everything I had, playing-wise, straight into the context of that kind of sound. Probably among the most important things I've ever heard in my life, really.

Sidenote: For "Bullet The Blue Sky," Bono apparently told the Edge to "put (the) El Salvador (civil war) through an amplifier." Huge win IMO.

[Teh RedWizard]

Running to Stand Still
One Tree Hill
The Fly

Honourable mention.....Seconds,Numb-

[JacieFB]

Good grief...only 3 for a band that has had 3 decades + of successful, ground-breaking music? OP must be spanked.

Okay, if only 3, then let's go 1 per decade:

80s: Sunday Bloody Sunday

90s: Zoo Station

00s: Breathe

Honorable mention:

the rest of the Achtung Baby album

the rest of the No Line On The Horizon Album

I Will Follow

Out of Control

Vertigo (if they would have balanced the guitars better in the mix)

[CharAznable]

Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Fly
Where The Streets Have No Name

[Trickstaaah]

Started playing guitar a year after Joshua Tree came out, and that sound WAS electric guitar, for me. For years following, I put everything I had, playing-wise, straight into the context of that kind of sound.

Similar experience here -- I can still see myself in my room with a Yamaha acoustic, strumming and picking furiously to try to get that sound, not realizing that the Edge had something called an Echoplex....

Finally figured it out about a year in. :nuts