U2 song draft signup/discussion thread

[Erik]

This is how they took the piss out of Bono in the early '90s.

[johnnya24]

The Frontman: Bono (In The Name of Power) by Harry Browne – review

Browne's case is simple but devastating. As a multimillionaire investor, world-class tax avoider, pal of Bush and Blair and crony of the bankers and neo-cons, Bono has lent credence to the global forces that wreak much of the havoc he is eager to mop up. His technocratic, west-centred, corporation-friendly campaigns have driven him into one false solution, unsavoury alliance and embarrassing debacle after another. The poor for him, Browne claims, exist largely as objects of the west's charity. They are not seen as capable of the kind of militant mobilisation that might threaten western interests.

Don't be shy ... tell us what you really feel about Bono.

[Erik]

Well, they won a Golden Globe. I guess that's... something.

[heyelander]

Sirius Radio launched a new U2 channel about a month ago. Over Labor Day they ran a user top 100.

I don't know how Until the End of the World came in at 4. It's not even close to my 4th favorite song on Auchtung Baby


100. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
99. The Saints Are Coming (with Green Day)
98. Seconds
97. The Wanderer (with Johnny Cash)
96. 13 (There is A Light)
95. No Line on the Horizon
94. Song for Someone
93. If God Will Send His Angels
92. Red Flag Day
91. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
90. I’ll Go Crazy if I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
89. Dirty Day
88. MLK
87. Tomorrow
86. Landlady
85. Cedarwood Road
84. Wire
83. Original of the Species
82. Like a Song…
81. Last Night on Earth
80. Yahweh
79. Numb
78. Miss Sarajevo
77. Get Out of Your Own Way
76. So Cruel
75. When Love Comes to Town (with BB King)
74. Love is Blindness
73. Mercy (Live from Brussels)
72. Staring at the Sun
71. Breathe
70. Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World
69. In a Little While
68. God Part II
67. Invisible
66. Trip Through Your Wires
65. Exit
64. Zooropa
63. Every Breaking Wave
62. Sweetest Thing
61. Hawkmoon 269
60. Iris (Hold Me Close)
59. Mofo
58. Heartland
57. Surrender
56. Gone
55. Lemon
54. Lady with the Spinning Head
53. Drowning Man
52. 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
51. Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
50. Please
49. Vertigo
48. Discotheque
47. Miracle Drug
46. Magnificent
45. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
44. You’re the Best Thing About Me
43. The Electric Co.
42. The Little Things that Give You Away
41. Even Better Than the Real Thing
40. Elevation
39. Electrical Storm
38. Angel of Harlem
37. Moment of Surrender
36. Red Hill Mining Town
35. Desire
34. Sometimes You Can’t Make it On Your Own
33. Two Hearts Beat as One
32. In God’s Country
31. One Tree Hill
30. Zoo Station
29. Bullet the Blue Sky
28. I Will Follow
27. Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way
26. Gloria
25. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
24. City of Blinding Lights
23. Mysterious Ways
22. Acrobat
21. New Year’s Day
20. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
19. Walk On
18. Pride (In the Name of Love)
17. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
16. Sunday Bloody Sunday
15. Out of Control
14. “40”
13. One
12. Beautiful Day
11. Running to Stand Still
10. The Unforgettable Fire
9. The Fly
8. Kite
7. All I Want is You
6. With or Without You
5. A Sort of Homecoming
4. Until the End of the World
3. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
2. Where the Streets Have No Name
1. Bad

[heyelander]

God part II coming in at 68

[chancellor]

Wow...that's just an awful order. What were your first two picks in the draft?

[Erik]

That list is, in the words of Charles Barkley, turrible.

[chancellor]

This list is worse than leaving Terry Kath off the RS top 100 guitarists. And I'd not have convicted an arsonist if they'd have burned down RS's building after that omission.

[Long John]

I think we'd all disagree with this list. Here are the first 10 songs we took in our U2 draft and where they rank on this list:

1.1 Long John -- Pride (in the Name of Love) (The Unforgettable Fire, 1984) - 18
1.2 Heyelander -- One (Achtung Baby, 1991) - 13
1.3 Overkill -- Where the Streets Have No Name (The Joshua Tree, 1987) - 2
1.4 Sheep -- Bad (The Unforgettable Fire, 1984) - 1
1.5 Johnny -- With or Without You (The Joshua Tree, 1987) - 6
1.6 Stephen -- Sunday Bloody Sunday (War, 1983) - 16
1.7 Erik -- New Year's Day (War, 1983) - 21
2.1 Erik -- Mysterious Ways (Achtung Baby, 1991) - 23
2.2 Stephen -- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (The Joshua Tree, 1987) - 17
2.3 Johnny -- Running to Stand Still (The Joshua Tree, 1987) - 11

Only 3 of our top 10 made their top 10. Yeah. Something's wrong here.

[madducks]

Bono once said in an interview: “There were so many bands around Dublin that were better than we were. We started doing original material because we weren’t good enough musicians to play covers.”

Here's their first TV appearance as U2 from 1978. The Edge and Larry Mullen are 16 years old here. Adam Clayton is 17 and Bono is 18 years old.