U2 Best Album Poll - 1 of 1

[Music Head]

Boy (1980)



Track Listing

1. "I Will Follow" 3:36
2. "Twilight" 4:22
3. "An Cat Dubh" 4:47
4. "Into the Heart" 3:28
5. "Out of Control" 4:13
6. "Stories for Boys" 3:02
7. "The Ocean" 1:34
8. "A Day Without Me" 3:14
9. "Another Time, Another Place" 4:34
10. "The Electric Co." 4:48
11. "Shadows and Tall Trees" 4:36


October (1981)



Track Listing

1. "Gloria" 4:14
2. "I Fall Down" 3:39
3. "I Threw a Brick Through a Window" 4:54
4. "Rejoice" 3:37
5. "Fire" 3:51
6. "Tomorrow" 4:39
7. "October" 2:21
8. "With a Shout (Jerusalem)" 4:02
9. "Stranger in a Strange Land" 3:56
10. "Scarlet" 2:53
11. "Is That All?" 2:59


War (1983)



Track Listing

1. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" 4:40
2. "Seconds" 3:10
3. "New Year's Day" 5:35
4. "Like a Song..." 4:46
5. "Drowning Man" 4:14
6. "The Refugee" (produced by Bill Whelan) 3:40
7. "Two Hearts Beat as One" 4:03
8. "Red Light" 3:46
9. "Surrender" 5:34
10. "40" 2:35


The Unforgettable Fire (1984)



Track Listing

1. "A Sort of Homecoming" 5:28
2. "Pride (In the Name of Love)" 3:48
3. "Wire" 4:19
4. "The Unforgettable Fire" 4:55
5. "Promenade" 2:35
6. "4th of July" 2:12
7. "Bad" 6:09
8. "Indian Summer Sky" 4:17
9. "Elvis Presley and America" 6:23
10. "MLK" 2:31


The Joshua Tree (1987)



Track Listing

1. "Where the Streets Have No Name" 5:38
2. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" 4:38
3. "With or Without You" 4:56
4. "Bullet the Blue Sky" 4:32
5. "Running to Stand Still" 4:18
6. "Red Hill Mining Town" 4:54
7. "In God's Country" 2:57
8. "Trip Through Your Wires" 3:33
9. "One Tree Hill" 5:23
10. "Exit" 4:13
11. "Mothers of the Disappeared" 5:12


Achtung Baby (1991)



Track Listing

1. "Zoo Station" Daniel Lanois 4:36
2. "Even Better Than the Real Thing" Steve Lillywhite, with Brian Eno and Lanois 3:41
3. "One" Lanois with Eno 4:36
4. "Until the End of the World" Lanois with Eno 4:39
5. "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" Lillywhite, Lanois, and Eno 5:16
6. "So Cruel" Lanois 5:49
7. "The Fly" Lanois 4:29
8. "Mysterious Ways" Lanois with Eno 4:04
9. "Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World" Lanois with Eno 3:53
10. "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" Lanois with Eno 5:31
11. "Acrobat" Lanois 4:30
12. "Love Is Blindness" Lanois 4:23


Zooropa (1993)



Track Listing

1. "Zooropa" Flood 6:31
2. "Babyface" Flood 4:01
3. "Numb" (The Edge) Robbie Adams 4:20
4. "Lemon" Flood 6:58
5. "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Flood 4:58
6. "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" Flood 5:20
7. "Some Days Are Better Than Others" Robbie Adams 4:17
8. "The First Time" Flood 3:45
9. "Dirty Day" (Bono and The Edge) Robbie Adams 5:24
10. "The Wanderer" Flood, Adams 5:41


Pop (1997)



Track Listing

1. "Discothèque" Flood 5:19
2. "Do You Feel Loved" Steve Osborne, Flood 5:07
3. "Mofo" Flood 5:46
4. "If God Will Send His Angels" Flood, Howie B 5:22
5. "Staring at the Sun" Flood 4:36
6. "Last Night on Earth" Flood 4:45
7. "Gone" Flood 4:26
8. "Miami" Flood, Howie B 4:52
9. "The Playboy Mansion" Flood, Howie B 4:40
10. "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" Flood 5:14
11. "Please" Flood, Howie B 5:10
12. "Wake Up Dead Man" Flood 4:52


All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)



Track Listing

1. "Beautiful Day" Bono 4:06
2. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" Bono, The Edge 4:32
3. "Elevation" Bono 3:45
4. "Walk On" Bono 4:55
5. "Kite" Bono, The Edge 4:23
6. "In a Little While" Bono 3:37
7. "Wild Honey" Bono 3:37
8. "Peace on Earth" Bono 4:46
9. "When I Look at the World" Bono, The Edge 4:15
10. "New York" Bono 5:28
11. "Grace" Bono 5:31


How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (2004)



Track Listing

1. "Vertigo" Bono and The Edge Steve Lillywhite 3:11
2. "Miracle Drug" Bono Lillywhite 3:54
3. "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" Bono Chris Thomas 5:08
4. "Love and Peace or Else" Bono and The Edge Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois 4:48
5. "City of Blinding Lights" Bono Flood 5:47
6. "All Because of You" Bono Lillywhite 3:34
7. "A Man and a Woman" Bono Jacknife Lee 4:30
8. "Crumbs from Your Table" Bono Lillywhite 5:03
9. "One Step Closer" Bono Thomas, Lanois 3:48
10. "Original of the Species" Bono Lillywhite 4:41
11. "Yahweh" Bono and The Edge Thomas 4:22

[Music Head]

It is not necessary to post as to why you voted the way you did, but it would be interesting to the rest of us.

Note - For your vote to be counted, you must check the box at the top of the thread. By just making a post to comment on your selection will not include that selection in the poll.

Note - There are 2 albums I did not include in the poll options. One is Rattle and Hum which is an album of about half live tracks. The other is their last one, No Line On The Horizon which I did not think would be selected. Leaving those 2 off would make our 10 limit for 1 thread. You may still vote for either of those albums by posting as a comment. I will then include it in the summary.

[Tiggi]

Achtung Baby for me.

Their best collection of songs by quite a stretch IMHO. Not really a duff track on the album.

[goth metal raver]

Tough call.

I like Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby the best.

In the end I settled for Joshua Tree because its gems seem to shine much brighter than the gems of the other albums, even though the outstanding tracks are all at the beginning of the album.

[Music Head]

Do you remember The Unforgettable Fire, under the Indian Summer Sky, when we had just crossed the Wire after celebrating MLK day? It was later, on the 4th Of July that there was A Sort Of Homecoming for us that became a source of Pride, as we took a Promenade before turning in and being Bad, only to awake to honor Elvis Presley and America.

[MoJoRaven]

U2 - unfathomably good band. While the earlier more passionate U2 is what does it for me, I have to agree with the masses that Joshua Tree is the best album when we look at albums as a whole. Not much these guys can do wrong in my eyes.

[TraceNspace]

I'm going to have to come back to this thread. I can't make up my mind! I know without a doubt that 'I Will Follow' is a song I never get tired of and so probably my favorite but I know it's not on my favorite album. Still, I can't decide. Great band. I don't hink about them often but I guess I do love them.

[SteveO]

I had to go with The Unforgettable Fire simply because one of my favorite songs - Bad - appears on this album.

[JosephCorrosive]

a 3 way tie for me

-War (sunday bloody sunday, new years day - wicked tracks)
-Boy (stories for boys is possibly their best song)
-The Joshua tree (goes without saying)

My dad supported them in 1980!

[NastyBudes]

so hard to decide. i think that best for me zooropa. One time i was in berlin and first thing what i want to see was a Zoo metro station. This station was a Bono inspiration for album. Sound of album was so good,soft something a little bit ahead. but they are allways a little bit ahead