![]() And “Pride” has basically been my favorite song since MTV put the video on back in 1984, the black-and-white one with the two little kids watching the band. But I don’t know if Kelly and Stacy found U2 before that or at the same time. As I recall the story, John went to college and heard one of the songs from Under a Blood Red Sky on a jukebox – either “Sunday Bloody Sunday” or “New Year’s Day” and was won over. How did I become such an over-whelming U2 fan? For once my parents are absolved of any blame – hell, I’d still be listening to just Peter, Paul and Mary and classical if my music tastes just came from them. And that’s not even everything I could have had, because I don’t have U218, the singles collection which only had two new songs, or any of the singles that have been released since 2004. And even more again if I want to count the 37 different cd’s I have that are compressed onto data cd’s. Even more if I count the 36 ones that are 2 cd sets separately. Which is a roundabout way of explaining that I have 91 92 U2 cd’s. And yet, because I hate commercial radio stations, I got out of touch with music, except for those few years I was at Borders and was forced to listen to new music, some good ( Wincing the Night Away, All the Road Running, Hot Fuss), some of it abysmally bad (Josh Groban, Ingrid Michaelson, Maroon 5). “I won’t fall out of touch with music because it’s too important to me,” I thought. “I know what my major is,” I thought, going into college. Some of those things we keep from happening. There are some things we say will never happen to us, when we look at those who are older. And yet things have gone off the rails in the last decade. If you disagree with my choice, if you say, like the band but don’t like my #1 song, well, feel free to comment. And for those people who want to just trash on U2 or say how much they dislike them that’s fine, but I’m going to delete your comments. So why would I waste my time with such a list, certainly some people are thinking. The list now covers 107 songs because I didn’t want to just lop the songs off the bottom of the list. So, I am reposting this with updates since the original post came out. Second, I just saw U2 in Boston and have now had the chance to hear all the best songs off the album live. But, first, I wanted to give more time to listen to the album. I could have done one much earlier – in October of 2014, say, when Songs of Innocence and Experience was released. Note: This update is coming in July of 2015, and all the updated bits are in red (except the links, which are in blue because of some formatting issues). That includes the 131 142 different songs on the band’s 12 13 albums, 40 b-sides from the various singles over the year and 52 rare songs that have either been on soundtracks, tribute albums, compilations or were unreleased until the box set in 2006. Well, to be precise, they have 223 235 songs that I considered for this list. Top 100 Songs? Do they even have 100 songs? It’s not currently on any of our walls because it’s enormous.
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