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Weekend Rock List: U2 Songs

10/2/09, 5:26 pm EST

Photograph by Sam Jones
With U2’s giant spaceship of a 360° Tour landing in stadiums across the country and Bono and the Edge on the current cover of Rolling Stone, all the stars have aligned for a Rock List to finally be dedicated to the Irish rockers. Our feature in the new issue finds Bono and the boys attempting to resurrect the obscure song “Your Blue Room,” a track from the band’s Passengers collaboration with Brian Eno. Bono has been fixated on the song lately, but what we want to know is what U2 songs our readers have been fixated on for the last three decades. Tell us your favorite tracks by the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, and on Monday we’ll reveal the Readers’ Rock List of U2 Songs. Before you go diving into their discography, check out some of our picks below:

• “Bad”
• “Running To Stand Still”
• “One”
• “All I Want Is You”
• “Mysterious Ways”


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jk | 10/2/2009, 5:38 pm EST

Ultraviolet
Bad
Bullet the Blue Sky
Sunday Bloody Sunday
One
Love is Blindness

Will The Thrill | 10/2/2009, 5:42 pm EST

Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Bad
Unknown Caller
Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?
Lemon
Mother’s of the Disappeared
Out of Control
Until The End of the World
The Wanderer
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

Listen To Penny Racer | 10/2/2009, 5:44 pm EST

Top 10 U2 songs (in my opinion):
-Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
-Moment of Surrender
-Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
-Miss Sarajevo
-Love Is Blindness
-Out of Control
-Red Hill Mining Town
-The Ground Beneath Her Feet
-Numb
-Drowning Man

Matt | 10/2/2009, 5:49 pm EST

Top 5 U2 Right Now:

Streets
A Sort of Homecoming
Like a Song
Kite
Until the End of the World

Steve | 10/2/2009, 6:28 pm EST

Ultraviolet
Stay
Two Hearts Beat As One
Sort Of Homecoming
When I Look At The World

Tony | 10/2/2009, 6:36 pm EST

One

The Unforgettable Fire

I Will Follow

Sweetest Thing (the original “Where The Streets Have No Name” B-side, NOT the remake)

Gloria (From Under A Blood Red Sky album)

Running To Stand Still

Matute | 10/2/2009, 6:51 pm EST

Acrobat
Bad
The Fly
Moment Of Surrender
Mofo

Anonymous | 10/2/2009, 6:52 pm EST

A Sort Of Homecoming
Running To Stand Still
Exit
Hawkmoon 269
So Cruel
The First Time
Please
Kite

Andrew | 10/2/2009, 6:58 pm EST

Dirty Day
Lemon
Mofo
Do You Feel Loved
So Cruel

ElJayVee | 10/2/2009, 7:15 pm EST

Wherever do I start?!

Acrobat
Love is Blindness
Mysterious Ways
Out of Control
Tomorrow
Drowning Man
Surrender
A Sort of Homecoming
The Unforgettable Fire
Bad
One Tree Hill
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
All I Want Is You
Heartland
Numb
Lemon
M ofo
Please
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Beautiful Day
Kite
All Because of You
City of Blinding Lights
Fez/Being Born
White as Snow
Magnificent

Tom in vegas | 10/2/2009, 7:20 pm EST

Most all of them are good, many great but one stands above them all.
Bad

hcg76 | 10/2/2009, 8:08 pm EST

The Fly
Beautiful Day
City of Blinding Lights
Where the Streets Have no Name
One
Stay (Faraway, so Close!)
40′

ONOB | 10/2/2009, 8:11 pm EST

Seconds
Trip through your wire
Heartland
Bad
New Year’s Day
WTSHNN
Please
A Sort Of Homecoming
Unforgettable Fire
Kite
So Cruel
Mofo
Unknown Caller
Red Hill Mining Town

Robin Holland | 10/2/2009, 8:32 pm EST

Beautiful Day
Lemon
with or without you
Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
Desire
Numb
One

LK | 10/2/2009, 8:38 pm EST

So hard to choose favorites so here are the most underrated U2 songs, deserving of far more attention then they get due to the fact that everyone focuses on favorites.

Like a Song
2 Hearts beat as 1
Wire
Exit
In Gods Country
Hawkmoon 269
God Part II
Love is Blindness
Ultraviolet
Numb
Last Night on Earth
Please
In a Little While
Kite
A Man and A Woman
Love and Peace or Else
No Line on the Horizon
Fez/Being Born

anon | 10/2/2009, 8:46 pm EST

I Will Follow
Stories for Boys
The Ocean
October
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year’s Day
40
Pride
Where the Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
With or Without You
Red Hill Mining Town
All I Want is You
One
Acrobat
Staring at the Sun
Beautiful Day
Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
Walk On
Kite
In a Little While
Peace on Earth
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can’t Make it on Your Own
City of Blinding Lights
Original of the Species
Yahweh
Breathe
Cedars of Lebanon

anonymous | 10/2/2009, 8:47 pm EST

Miss Sarajevo, if it counts.

whalespoon | 10/2/2009, 8:54 pm EST

“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” (As a songwriter and musician myself, it’s one of the few songs that I have ever heard that I wish I had written, because it expresses something I deeply feel myself.)

“Sunday, Bloody, Sunday”
“Until the End of the World”
“Stand Up Comedy”
“Gloria”

BillyBreathesJF | 10/2/2009, 9:16 pm EST

Sunday bloody sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
The Fly
Desire
Where The Streets Have No Name
One
Bad
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can’t make it on your own
Stuck In a moment
elevation
beautiful day

Lance | 10/2/2009, 9:18 pm EST

How ’bout some deeper tracks, both great and underated:
Three Sunrises
Love Comes Tumbling

le fan fini de 3-Rivieres | 10/2/2009, 9:29 pm EST

Unforgettable Fire
Kite
Miracle Drug
and the whole Joshua Tree lp

King Of Pop | 10/2/2009, 9:37 pm EST

One
Sunday Bloody Sunday
City Of Blinding Lights
Magnificent
Elevation
Vertigo
Sweetest Thing
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
When Love Comes To Town
Where The Streets Have No Name
Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
The Saints Are Coming
Get On Your Boots
White As Snow
I Believe In Father Christmas
Beautiful Day
With Or Without You
New Year’s Day
Unchained Melody
Walk On
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
etc.

Sarah H | 10/2/2009, 9:57 pm EST

Where the Streets Have No Name
Acrobat
Mothers of the Disappeared
Vertigo
40
One Tree Hill
Red Hill Mining Town
Moment of Surrender
Electrical Storm
Hawkmoon 269

Seth | 10/2/2009, 10:01 pm EST

Ultraviolet
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Bullet the Blue Sky
Drowning Man
Wire
Promenade
Sometime s You Can’t Make It…
Stand Up Comedy
Please

pearls | 10/2/2009, 10:38 pm EST

1. Bad
2. Until the End of the World
3. One
4. Electric Co.
5. Your Blue Room
6. Mysterious Ways
7. Ultraviolet
8. Lemon
9. Dirty Day
10. Where the Streets Have No Name
11. Moment of Surrender
12. With or Without You
13. I Still Haven’t Found
14. The Fly
15. Beautiful Day
16. Breathe
17. No Line on the Horizon
18. Running to Stand Stll
19. Beautiful DAy
20. Elevation

Ignacio | 10/2/2009, 11:25 pm EST

Acrobat
Drowning Man
Numb
Please
Mofo
Ultraviol et

ghostoftomwaits | 10/2/2009, 11:40 pm EST

Even Better than the Real thing
Numb
Mysterious Ways
Staring at the Sun

Deeeda | 10/2/2009, 11:42 pm EST

My absolute favorite song in the whole world, bar none, is:

“All I Want Is You” from Rattle & Hum

Njoy | 10/2/2009, 11:55 pm EST

The best U2 songs right here:

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Bullet the Blue Sky
New Year’s Day
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Pride
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
With or Without You
Bad
One
Magnificent
Where the Streets Have No Name
Beautiful Day

dublininja | 10/3/2009, 12:13 am EST

7. A day without me
6.if god will send his angels
5.I still haven’t found what im looking for
4. one
3. Running to stand still
2. Stay (far away, soclose)
1. The first time

thezero | 10/3/2009, 12:14 am EST

as spiderman says, “everybody gets one”

hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me

CuckoosNest75 | 10/3/2009, 12:53 am EST

I Will Follow
Gloria
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year’s Day
40
A Sort of Homecoming
In the Name of Love
Bad
The Unforgettable Fire
Where the Streets Have no Name
I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For
With or Without You
Bullet the Blue Sky
Running to Stand Still
In Gods Country
Red Hill Mining Town
One
Until the End of the World
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
Ultraviolet
Lemon
Beau tiful Day
Elevation
Walk On
City of Blinding Lights
Sometimes You Cant Make it On Your Own
No Line On the Horizon
Magnificent
Moment of Surrender
Breathe

Fahad | 10/3/2009, 1:06 am EST

One

PJluvsVan | 10/3/2009, 1:57 am EST

Mysterious Ways
Desire
One Tree Hill
Angel of Harlem
Bullet the Blue Sky
Bad
With or Without You
Wire
I Will Follow
When Luv Comes to Town
A Sort of Homecoming
One

Well.... | 10/3/2009, 2:45 am EST

To me it’s almost impossible to have just a Top 10 list of their best songs let alone a Top 50. So I’m just going to give my Top 5 to make it easier.

-With Or Without You
-Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)
-Pride (In the Name of Love)
-Bullet the Blue Sky
-Love Is Blindness

ChannelNo.5 | 10/3/2009, 3:35 am EST

One
(Other version with Mary J)

michael451 | 10/3/2009, 7:18 am EST

Until the End of the World
Zooropa
Where the Street Have No Name
Bad
Magnificient
No Line on the Horizon
Walk On

Greg DC | 10/3/2009, 9:05 am EST

Running to Stand Still
Stay
Whos Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Ultraviolet
Walk On
11 O Clock Tick Tock
One
Yahweh
Miracle Drug
Acrobat

Greg DC | 10/3/2009, 9:05 am EST

Running to Stand Still
Stay
Whos Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Ultraviolet
Walk On
11 O Clock Tick Tock
One
Yahweh
Miracle Drug
Acrobat

Steel Dragon \m/ | 10/3/2009, 9:38 am EST

This is actually my live show wish list

I Will Follow/An Cat Dubh
Where The Streets Have No Name
Magnificent
Elevation
City of Blinding Lights
“40″
Bad
Gloria
Mis s Sarajevo
Please
Wake up dead man
Bullet the Blue Sky
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Get On Your Boots
Vertigo
Beautiful Day
One
Ultraviolet
Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
New Years Day
Electric Co
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill
Moment of Surrender (close)

Jake Burns | 10/3/2009, 10:23 am EST

I Will Follow. That’s the end of the list, wankers.

mhgypb | 10/3/2009, 11:10 am EST

Until the End of the World
Where the Streets Have No Name
Even Better Than the Real Thing
Bullet The Blue Sky
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

mhgypb | 10/3/2009, 11:11 am EST

I forgot Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

Gurjit | 10/3/2009, 11:31 am EST

One
Until The End of The World
WOWY
Breathe
Kit e
St ill Haven’t Found

Czikk | 10/3/2009, 11:54 am EST

Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Mysterious Ways
Breathe
With or Without You
Where the Streets Have No Name
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Kite
City of Blinding Lights
One
Bullet the Blue Sky
Angel of Harlem
When Love Comes to Town
Fez- Being Born

Really, there are way too many to count.

Michi | 10/3/2009, 11:55 am EST

My top 10 U2 songs today…changes depending on my mood…the top 3 never change! Bad is my favorite song in the world.

1. Bad
2. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
3. Lady With a Spinning Head
4. Electrical Storm
5. Kite
6. Ultraviolet
7. A Sort of Homecomming
8. Breathe
9. Until the End of the World
10. All I Want is You

Scooter McGavin | 10/3/2009, 12:07 pm EST

Sometimes You Can’t Make it On Your Own
All I Want Is You
If God Would Send His Angels
With or Without You
Grace

JBL | 10/3/2009, 12:12 pm EST

Exit
Dirty Day
3 Sunrises
Zooropa
Breathe
Wi re

Zoogy MoonPaint | 10/3/2009, 1:11 pm EST

I would rather go deaf.

“Bullet the Blue Sky” on a tape loop in HELL.

ryan | 10/3/2009, 1:39 pm EST

bad
ultraviolet
one
miss sarejevo
moment of surrender
if god will send his angels

mitch | 10/3/2009, 1:56 pm EST

One is u2’s best song.. the lyrics are fantastic and so true, the melody is awesome.. everything about that song is just so good.. its one of the best songs ever made, and truly just an amazing song

jop | 10/3/2009, 2:48 pm EST

Running to Stand Still
Mysterious Ways
Streets
In A Little While
Kite
MLK
Pride
I Wil Follow
The Unforgettable Fire
New York

jop | 10/3/2009, 2:50 pm EST

:O

BAD !

Pam Bonamusica | 10/3/2009, 3:44 pm EST

Choosing my favourite U2 songs is incredibly difficult, because I could offer a Top 50 list. But I guess this would be too much, so here´s my selection…

No Line On The Horizon
Magnificent
Unknown Caller
Fez-Being Born
Sometimes You Can´t Make It On Your Own
Miracle Drug
City Of Blinding Lights
Beautiful Day
Kite
Mofo
Gone
Stay (Faraway So Close)
Zooropa
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
Acrobat
Until The End Of The World
Love Is Blindness
Hawkmoon 269
Heartland
Where The Streets Have No Name
Bullet The Blue Sky
The Unforgettable Fire
Wire
A Sort Of Homecoming
Surrender
Drownin g Man
I Fall Down
October
An Cat Dubh (Into The Heart)
Twilight
The Ocean

Jon | 10/3/2009, 4:18 pm EST

Bad
Electrical Storm
Ultraviolet
Running to Stand Still
Discoteque
The First Time
MOFO
Gone
Wild Honey
Stay (Far Away, So Close!)
Moment of Surrender

your mom | 10/3/2009, 5:05 pm EST

One
Trip Through Your Wires
Van Diemen’s Land
Numb
Bad
MLK
The Wanderer
All I Want Is You
So Cruel
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year’s Day

andy | 10/3/2009, 6:19 pm EST

Sunday Bloody Sunday, When Love Comes to Town, Bad, Mysterious Ways

as long as “Get on Your Boots” isnt on this list, i’ll be happy. that is such a crappy song its not even funny.

S.O. | 10/3/2009, 7:02 pm EST

from oldest to latest (my favorites:

Gloria
2 Hearts Beast as One
Pride (In the Name of Love)
The Unforgetable Fire
Red Hill Mining Town
All I Want Is You
The Fly
Zoo Station
So Cruel
Until the End of the World
Zooropa
Lemon
Gone
S tuck In a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
Miracle Drug
Original Of the Species

Brian | 10/4/2009, 12:41 am EST

With or Without You

Not only is it my favorite U2 song, but its my favorite song of all time.

dland9393 | 10/4/2009, 12:46 am EST

The Fly
Streets
Beautiful Day
One
Vertigo
Miracle Drug
City Of Blinding Lights
Running To Stand Still
Sunday Bloody Sunday

Syd | 10/4/2009, 2:48 am EST

The Ocean
October
“40″
MLK
Mothers of the Disappeared
All I Want Is You
Acrobat
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Staring At the Sun
Miss Sarajevo
Grace
City of Blinding Lights
Mercy

Lorna | 10/4/2009, 7:37 am EST

I love U2

1. Beautiful day
2. Pride
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. Sweetest Thing
5. Bad
6. One
7. I still have’nt found what I’m looking for
8. Veritgo
9. Get on your boots
10. With or without you
all stop now, cause I could on and on and on…..

JMK | 10/4/2009, 11:33 am EST

Top 5:

1) Where The Streets Have No Name
2) 40
3) Bad
4) Running To Stand Still
5) Vertigo

Oddjob | 10/4/2009, 1:09 pm EST

Bad
Ultraviolet
In A Little While
The Fly
Where The Streets Have No Name
With Or Without You
The Sweetest Thing

Anonymous | 10/4/2009, 1:46 pm EST

I like that U2 song, that has chiming, echo-ey guitars…

which one is that again?

Seriya | 10/4/2009, 3:48 pm EST

Acrobat
Love is Blindness
Exit
Discotheque
Ver tigo
Lemon
One
The Fly

SMK | 10/4/2009, 5:11 pm EST

I find it hard to believe that no one has mentioned Heartland. It is such an underrated gem.

JonathanT | 10/4/2009, 6:21 pm EST

havnt read through all the comments, but i hope to goddd sum1 posted “MLK.”

Anonymous | 10/5/2009, 1:12 am EST

acrobat
Even Better Than The Real Thing
I Will Follow
mofo
Running To Stand Still
Dirty Day
The Fly
Where the Streets Have No Name
sunday
Bad

andrea | 10/5/2009, 1:31 am EST

ultraviolet
a sort of homecoming (ep)
beautiful day
like a song
in God’s country
the fly
the electric co
sunday bloody sunday
where the streets have no name
pride
night and day
new year’s day
one
with or without you
magnificent
mysterious ways
two hearts beat as one
kite
i will follow
city of blinding lights
i still haven’t found…
trip through your wires
40
bad (ep)
breathe
if god will send his angels
When Love comes to town
God Pt. 2
the unforgettable fire
the wanderer
indian summer sky
the refugee

Ida | 10/5/2009, 10:40 am EST

-Bad
-Hold me. Thrill me. Kiss me. Kill me.
-Bullet the blue sky
-40
-ELectrical Storm
-Sunday Bloody Sunday
-I Will Follow
-Lemon
-The Fly
-Love and Peace
-Beautiful Day
-An Cat Dubh
-Gloria
-Discothéque
- Window in the Skies
-Elevation
-Vertigo
- October
-Numb
-Sunday Bloody Sunday (The Edge)
-Staring at the sun

Rabbitbunny | 10/5/2009, 1:44 pm EST

Their performance was brillliant last Tuesday in Landover! Here’s my U2 Lucky 13-here’e to the Irish electronica wizards-Bono, Edge,
Adam and Larry! All Four of You Are Rocking Brilliant!

1. Out of Control-Boy-1980
2. Rejoice-October-1981
3. Bloody Sunday-War-1983
4. Pride-Fire-1984
5. Streets-Tree-1987
6. Heartland-Rattle-1988
7. One-Baby-1991
8. Lemon-Zooropa-1993
9. Your Blue Room-Passengers-1995
10. Playboy Mansion-Pop-1997
11. Walk On-All That-2000
12. Vertigo-Atomic Bomb-2004
13. Get On Your Boots-Horizon-2009

-Cheers, U2! Y’all are brilliant!

Courtney | 10/5/2009, 2:06 pm EST

1. The Fly
2. A Sort of Homecoming
3. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
4. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
5. All I Want Is You
6. Utlraviolet (Light My Way)
7. In God’s Country
8. Running To Stand Still
9. Acrobat
10. Gone
11. Bad
12. Hallelujah, Here She Comes
13. Where The Streets Have No Name
14. Like A Song
15. Moment of Surrender
16. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
17. Stuck In A Moment
18. So Cruel
19. Lemon
20. Grace
21. Magnificent

Ivan | 10/5/2009, 3:06 pm EST

Elevation
Stand Up Comedy
Breathe
Where The Streets Have No Name
If you wear that velvet dress
Elvis Ate America
Angel of Harlem
Ultraviolet
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me,Kill Me
Until the end of the world
Babyface

Daver | 10/6/2009, 5:52 pm EST

Difficult to narrow down, but here’s my short list. What would be cool is to get the band’s top 10 or 20 songs… hint, hint.

1. Pride (In the Name of Love)
2. Magnificent
3. When Love Comes to Town
4. Running to Stand Still
5. Desire
6. New Year’s Day
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
8. Where Streets Have No Name
9. All I Want is You
10. Mysterious Ways
11. Even Better Than the Real Thing
12. The Fly
13. Lemon
14. Miami
15. Put on Your Boots

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