"It's a musical journey" - U2 POLL RESULTS

The point when the blurriest part of Love Come Tumbling (with the vocal "ba-ba-ba"s) fades out and the the echoey guitar arpeggio reappears is one of my favorite U2 moments.

the Exit photo puts me in mind of a fop trying to sneak unnoticed past a building site

most of the above tracks are tracks that I love

thought 'exit' would do better

was terribly impressed by the R&H film version, when I didn't know the song

seems like a good place to put this, i dunno how anyone could stay mad at Bono and Edge after they watch it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIdTSlqYpj8

Happy to see several of my votes make it to the list.

I've called October my favourite U2 album for a long time - I was surprised when I found out it was so disliked. I spent many evenings wandering about after dark listening to it on my walkman ca. 1987/88. It's the most "post-punk" sounding U2 album - atmospheric and dark - less pop. (This is probably the same reason I've long preferred the Joshua Tree b-sides over much of what made it onto the album.) I didn't expect anything from October to get votes from anyone else, except maybe "Gloria."

I'm surprised to see "Surrender" place so low. Love "Exit." Hate "Trip Through Your Wires" with a passion.

^^^ one of mine
--livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

In my top 10 iirc. Is Zooropa still underrated around here/in general?

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44 Dirty Day
126 points, six votes
Zooropa (1993)

I dunno, Zooropa has quite a few amazing moments but I was a bit underwhelmed by it this time around (I knew it before). Achtung Baby, on the other hand, blows me away now.

Wow. Glad we went Top 60. Nice to know I'm not alone in my love for Dirty Day.

My #3!

I'm looking forward to watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S72kzwjbJlk&feature=related

Think "Dirty Day" is in my top 10.

Mine as well. The days, days, days run away like horses over the hills.

Zooropa is such a strange album because it's pretty uneven but the highs are so high, the first half in particular is flawless and contains my top two for this poll.

Wow, I'll be grabbing some the stills from that youtube for the later jpgs!

Love Dirty Day <3

The next one really should be much higher...

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43 Twilight
141 points, five votes
Boy (1980)

it's kind of fun as a casual fan to see how far up we can get on this poll before i see a song i can hum when i read the title

the next one will probably do it for you

and if not, the one after

some dude, "I Threw A Brick Through A Window" is a great song, you should check it out

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42 Numb
142 points, seven votes
Zooropa (1993)

yeah, listening right now, this is pretty good! one of these days i definitely need to spend a good amount of time w/ the pre-Joshua Tree LPs. (xpost)

"Love Comes Tumbling" was about as obscure as my ballot got, but that song's a keeper; the sound is close to Fables of the Reconstruction, with Bono's vocal sounding like Elvis circa 1966 (think "Beyond the Reef").

last one for today, should meet the humming test...

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41 Discotheque
148 points, nine votes, one most hated
Pop (1997)

voted for it!

Me too!

As most hated... cannot stand it and it was the moment where U2 and I definitely parted ways.

You crazy, it's fantastic.

Loooooved Larry's expression in the video.

I voted for it too. As a song there's not a lot to it. I get the feeling that they had all these scraps of songs and ideas which were pretty good but not quite enough to expand into a whole so they just stuck all these scraps together and it's utterly fantastic.

"Discoteque" is one of two U2 CD singles I own

it's kind of funny how they openly drew from dance music for half a decade to huge acclaim, but then they name a song "Discotheque" and dress like the Village People in a video and the backlash comes along pretty swiftly

Really interesting results so far. I'm not sure why I didn't vote for more early 80's songs like "11 O Clock Tick Tock". And I love "Rattle and Hum" but can't stand "Heartland", I'm surprised that made it!

And like others have been saying, the pictures are great!

well U2 was leaden about it, as usual: the band begged you to applaud their embrace of kitsch. Remember the K-Mart press conference?

Smart fans already heard the interest in junk culture on its two predecessors, so why was the band being so self-congratulatory about it on Pop?

Remember the K-Mart press conference?

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Is Adam supposed to be a drain clearance guy? Or is that Larry on the left?

That's Adam. I saw them on this tour.

So did he fix the septic tank or what then?

'I Fall Down' was my #1. Also, I guess 'October' will always be my favorite U2 album. It's damp and swirly, and the sound is very much within the conventions of 1981 post-punk, which is still one of my very favorite musical epochs. You could play 'October' for your same mopey English-major friends who were listening to The Sound or Echo & the Bunnymen, for example, and they might not hurt your feelings with savage dismissals!

I still get the "discotheque" guitar riff stuck in my head regularly

Smart fans already heard the interest in junk culture on its two predecessors, so why was the band being so self-congratulatory about it on Pop?

Exactly. Baffled me at the time.

Gotta tell you the truth here: I remember the era well, and I listen to the albums lots, but I've never for the life of me figured out just what about "Achtung Baby" and "Zooropa" was meant to be ironic, or junk cultury or whatever. I took them both as pretty earnest works. Even much of "Pop" is pretty dark. Is this all just because Bono started wearing sunglasses?

But, yeah, "Pop" is just an all-around underrated record. Of special note, it's the only one post-'UF" with neither Eno nor Lanois, let alone Lillywhite, and may be the last time I've seen the name Howie B. credited anywhere.

good work ismael

Damn straight. I'll get this up & running in a few minutes. First up today is the best song I didn't vote for.

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40 Love Is Blindness
157 points, eight votes
Achtung Baby (1991)

Didn't vote for this, but easily could have voted for this. More dark stuff, great album closer, perfect closer to the disc's themes.

Next one got few votes, but everyone who did rated it highly.