"An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart"
"October"
"Surrender"
"The Unforgettable Fire"
"One Tree Hill"
"Hawkmoon 269"
"Until the End of the World"
"Stay (Faraway, So Close)"
"Please"
"In a Little While"

It's a start.

One Tree Hill in Auckland itself, I found out last year, no longer has the tree on it. Somebody cut it down.

bloody difficult actually

With Or Without You
Two Hearts Bleed As One
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Years Day (hell just for that opening mountain-top "eeeyyooo")
Mysterious Ways
One
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Numb
Elevation
Discotechque

doing this list reaffirmed that I hate Bono. Hate him.

Shake! Shake!...

Electric Co.
Gloria
New Year's Day
Where the Streets Have No Name
Zoo Station
Until the End of the World
The Fly
Zooropa
Lemon
Mofo

The Fly
In God's Country
One
Walk On
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
I Will Follow
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
One Tree Hill
Acrobat
Where the Streets Have No Name

best non-U2 U2 song: They're Blind v. Darlin' One

"A Celebration"
"Trash, Trampoline, And The Party Girl"
"Gloria"
"Seconds"
"I Will Follow"
"I Threw A Brick Through A Window"
"If God Will Send His Angels"
their cover of "Paint It Black"
"The Unforgettable Fire"
"Like A Song..."

My head hurts. I have this intense feeling to name at least 20 other songs, but I am going to try my hardest to let this be it.

Oh yeah, and there was a period of about three or so years when I was insanely angry about the whole U2 mystique thing, mainly because I had become so fed up with the outwardly negative response Duran Duran (my pet cause, apparently... *laughs*) has gotten with the music press and so bitter about how unrelentingly positive the response U2 (whom I also love, but not as intensely) has gotten with the same music press, but then I just let everything go and ever since then, I've been able to really enjoy listening to both artists, no problem.

D'oh! Well, just that main guitar riff I guess.

On a happier note, I had no idea that so many people liked "I Threw A Brick Through A Window"!

Dan almost OTM, but for "Hawkmoon 269".

Ned,
a Maori activist cut the tree down, the park/ domain suposedly stolen Maori land (a bit like the smashing of the "Americas Cup" stunt), down here in negativeland.

as for U2, they pox on

That was really hard.

stevem, are you filling in for Ned???

hey-o!

The Fly
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Walk To The Water
Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Numb
Dirty Day
All I Want Is You
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Where The Streets Have No Name
I Threw A Brick Though A Window
Until The End Of The World
Even Better Than The Real Thing
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Some Days Are Better Than Others
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl

No wonder Neil Tennant decided "I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Anymore" was an acceptable song title!

I will say that "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" is one of the most pointlessly redundant titles I've ever encountered. Does Bono realize that the word 'stuck' implies that you can't get out? Ugh. If they just left it at "Stuck In A Moment," it would have been a really nice, sweet title.

Peope who are not music obsessives are less likely to remember a title that takes up an entire page.

In which case.

I will follow.
In God's country.
Lemon.
One.
Hold me, thrill me....
Wire.
Numb.
Tryin' to throw your arms around the world.
Your blue room.
Miss Sarajevo.

This would be a ridiculously fantastic album (with a little reordering).

If you ever decide to burn this list as a CDR, let's talk.

My picks:

With or Without You
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
The original mix of Night and Day
Desire
Numb
Lemon
Zooropa
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
stay (faraway, so close)

Here's hoping the next album brings them back up to snuff....

Post-punk guitars, Christianity, + cold war angst, circa 1984 I adored them.

Bad (Live version on Wide Awake In America)
A Sort Of Homecoming
With Or Without You
Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Fly
Zooropa
Pride
The Unforgettable Fire
Red Hill Mining Town
Beautiful Day

(one of the above two would be my Pick Only One)

Numb
One
Desire
All I Want Is You
New Years Day
Beautiful Day
Staring at the Sun
Mysterious Ways

Who's gonna ride your wild horses
City of blinding lights
New years day
Unforgettable fire
Two hearts beat as one
Bad
Mysterious ways
Beautiful day
With or without you
Sunday bloody sunday

1. Lemon
2. Wire
3. Spanish Eyes
4. Bad
5. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
6. Gone
7. New Year's Day
8. Kite
9. An Cat Dubh
10. The First Time

after seeing them live on a balmy manchester night in 05 and being absolutely astonished, i've been steadily investigating the back catalogue with the help of threads like this. keep em coming! it's way interesting.

never having really known much beyond the biggest hits, i'm coming around to the feeling that had i been a music buyer i'd have loved the pre-RATTLE.. era 80s u2 and that much of that stuff and what followed has been misinterpreted, misunderstood and maligned for no good reason*. i'm pretty amazed to be honest.

*except yeah u know the whole bono thing but hey.

new year's day
where the streets have no name
bad
like a song
i will follow
with or without you
red hill mining town
pride
the fly
acrobat

Tried to somewhat sequence this:

The ground beneath her feet
Stay (faraway so close)
With or without you
Until the end of the world
Lemon
The fly
New Year’s day
The unforgettable fire
Bad (live)
Ultra Violet

When these guys were on...

revised list:

Unforgettable fire
New Year's day
Three sunrises
Zoo station
Even better than the real thing
Where the streets have no name
Ms. Sarajevo
I still havent found what Im looking for
the unforgettable fire
beautiful day

Without thinking terribly hard about it:

A Sort of Homecoming
New Year's Day
Red Hill Mining Town
The Unforgettable Fire
Wire
A Day Without Me
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Stay
A Celebration
Sunday Bloody Sunday

No, wait, "Acrobat" instead of "...Wild Horses"!