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

So far, it's the only one of today's batch that I voted for.

xpost -- whoops, scratch that

Bono straining for the high notes on Red Hill is my least favorite thing about the Joshua Tree.

Out of Control is so good, one of the last things I had to cut.

Love the Zoo era live version of Running to Stand Still (somewhat bashfully, thanks to Bono clumsily miming injecting himself with heroin), with the Hallelujahs leading in the opening chords of Streets.

Ohhh, quite lower than I expected that one!

Was in my top 5.

"Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" was my most hated

I thought it was mine, too

I really do not understand anyone who even knows of the existence of "Elvis Ate America" not picking that as most hated.

I thought it was mine, too

Gah, you're right - it was in your second email and I didn't notice it. Bump it down three places mentally.

Which also puts Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me into the revised Top Thirty

"One Tree Hill" starts to suck when Bono turns into Jim Kerr.

Very happy to see the last three tracks on Acthung Baby place, it's such an amazing end to the album and I voted for all three.

Really surprised to see Hold Me, Thrill Me so high, it totally deserves to be there. I recently read it was almost put on Zooropa, not sure where it would fit on there.

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24 Even Better Than The Real Thing
270 points, thirteen votes
Achtung Baby (1991)

not sure where it would fit on there.

Instead of Babyface, hopefully.

I didn't vote but if I did it probably would have looked something like this:

1 - Out of Control
2 - With of Without You
3 - All I Want is You
4 - Pride
5 - Two Hearts Beat As One
6 - I Will Follow
7 - New Year's Day
8 - Who's Gonna Ride Yr Wild Horses
9 - Seconds
10 - Where the Streets Have no Name

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, August 9, 2011 9:55 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

awesome imaginary ballot! wish you had voted to help some of my faves.

Can't remember what order the Achtung Baby singles came out, but the Real Thing video was possibly the first consciousness I had of U2 as a proper, current act - it seemed weirdly distant and unengaged I thought, as if Bono was this virtual character like Max Headroom. I now realise that's probably exactly what he was aiming for, but I totally missed the context of this being a reaction against the authenticity thing. It's certainly an odd way to get to know someone.

It's like meeting someone on Halloween dressed up in a Bono suit

Exactly! Except also not knowing who Bono is.

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23 Two Hearts Beat As One
276 points, eleven votes
War (1983)

order was the fly, mysterious ways, one, even better, wild horses

kinda same thing for me, except mysterious ways was my first real consciousness of u2 as a current act, and then even better was the first that i remember when it was first released, seeing the video debut on mtv, etc.

i heard "Two Hearts" on the radio earlier this summer and it just totally knocked me out and i realized i'd never really listened to it closely before or appreciated how great the band sounds on it, ended up very high on my ballot

Two Hearts was top-5 for me.

My first conscious introduction to U2-as-U2 was "Sunday Bloody Sunday" on the local rock station, followed by "Pride (In The Name Of Love)". Investigating backwards after adoring "Pride" made me realize I'd heard "Seconds", "New Year's Day", "Two Hearts Beat As One" and "The Refugee" on that same rock station a lot but never connected them as all being by the same band, let alone from the same album as "Sunday Bloody Sunday".

Keep in mind this was all intermingled with endless amounts of Rush and Pink Floyd (miss you, KQRS glory days)

It's good, but the verse sounds kind of weak to me, like there's too much empty space in it maybe.

was re Two Hearts

I can't believe Sunday Bloody Sunday was never a single. That's the most shocking thing I've learned from this poll.

That is surprising. But the Red Rocks live video gave it more exposure than the radio ever could have, I think.

yeah i feel like once i've heard a song on radio THAT many times it not having been released as a physical single is kind of a moot point

"Two Hearts..." was the first early song my college radio station played that I loved: Bono shouting "CAN'T stop the DANCE!" and those perfect bass pokes.

Sunday Bloody Sunday caught on so quickly, apparently, that by something like its seventh outing Bono was already having to announce 'this is not a rebel song'.

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22 Zoo Station
284 points, thirteen votes
Achtung Baby (1991)

what a jam; my #5. When my friend & I arrived in Berlin on the train from Frankfurt at the Zoo Station in the mid 90s, we air riffed the opening for ten minutes...not least because we were waiting to meet someone named Michael who we'd never met & had no clue what he looked it. We ended up in a gay lederhosen bar later that night. We were ready for the laughing gas.

The last two made my ballot.

Is that a real photo? Bono looks like a blow up doll

<3 Zoo Station

It's awesome. In sequence even more so - from the dead end of Rattle And Hum into Zoo Station is one of the most startling moves I can think of.

Two Hearts... was in my top ten too

It's awesome. In sequence even more so - from the dead end of Rattle And Hum into Zoo Station is one of the most startling moves I can think of.

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, August 10, 2011 12:07 AM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark

This is very true!

I think that photo is from their b-boy years.

26 Out Of Control
256 points, eleven votes
Three EP (1979)

26

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hmpf

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I am displeased.

ok sorry people who don't actually vote can't complain

i know, i know

ok sorry people who don't actually vote can't complain

srsly

I voted for Out of Control, don't blame me

btw this movie employs good use of "Out of Control" in its opening scene. Pretty good movie all around imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8EGCC9NNvo

It's awesome. In sequence even more so - from the dead end of Rattle And Hum into Zoo Station is one of the most startling moves I can think of.
--Ismael Klata

Right on. They've always done openers well, but after rattle and hum they were really stick-a-fork-in-em done. It's hard to remember that Achtung was basically a comeback record.

right, last one for tonight then bunk for me

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21 Red Hill Mining Town
307 points, fourteen votes, one first place
The Joshua Tree (1987)

They've always done openers well, but after rattle and hum they were really stick-a-fork-in-em done. It's hard to remember that Achtung was basically a comeback record.

Were they? The album got middling to poor reviews, and only "Desire" took in America, but it sold spectacularly. It's perceived as a disaster cuz the band has done such an expert job slighting it over the years.

it's also perceived as a disaster because it is fucking terrible

I agree but it's not a flop.

and for me actually The Joshua Tree was the beginning of the decline and R&H is the bottom.

cmon there were some good songs on there
the suffocating romance of "all i want is you" for instance

RHMT was a late cut from my ballot, iirc.

Never liked "All I Want is You," although I'm biased because I was appalled by how terrible it sounded in Reality Bites.

Red Hill Mining Town my #1! Though I could have picked any of 4 or 5 off JT tbh.