Best U2 album, for sure, Achtung Baby

My Fav 10....not an easy list to make

With Or Without You
Bullet the Blue Sky
WTSHNM
New Years Day
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bad
Angel Of Harlem
Desire
Zoo Station
Ultra-Violet

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Ours meaning the United States.

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http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Bullet The Blue Sky
Gone
Acrobat
When Love Comes To Town
Eleven O'Clock Tick-tock
Last Night On Earth
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Please
New Year's Day

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November 19th in the US. Back in the old days, new releases came out on Tuesdays, which was what 11/19/91 was.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

I remember.

Im old enough to have anticipated a cassette single release

WTSHNN
Bad
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Gloria
I Will Follow
New Year's Day
In God's Country
With or Without You
Mysterious Ways
City of Blinding Lights

For me, in that order.

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Trying to do this without looking anything up. I find I really like the songs from "Joshua Tree" that were not hits. Very nostalgic for me. No order:

Bad
Running to Stand Still
One Tree Hill
Some Days are Better than Others
Trip Through Your Wires
40
Trying to Throw your Arms Around the World
Silver and Gold
I Will Follow
Mothers of the Disappeared

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Where The Streets Have No Name
With Or Without You
Drowning Man
Ultraviolet
Surrender
Beautiful Day
Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Unforgettable Fire
Exit
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

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Ooooh, Ultraviolet is a great deep cut

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Edge was a great/unique guitarist. Sunday Bloody Sunday is clearly a cut above the rest, also written by Edgy.

Edge didn't really invent that style of playing, non-blues-based, heavy on echo, on the upbeats. But U2 put it in front of a different audience. Keith Levene (PiL), John McGeotch (Souxie & the Banshees, also Pil) and Wil Seargent from Echo & the Bunnymen (this one is debatable to me, the other 2 are not) were contemporary influences. That being said, he did develop his own style by incorporating other elements of blues and electronica/industrial. Change the lyrics and singer and early U2 didn't sound that different from Bauhaus.

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Well, he invented it for me...but I stand corrected and I will check out Bauhaus. Thanks for the info.

Always a pleasure. Good night everybody. #ClassicRock #80s #McPlagiarists #Gothbandripoff

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30 years too late.

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1.) Lemon

This is a good list, and the Joshua Tree non-hits were fantastic. Definitely nostalgia--I was a junior and senior in high school, and we had some fun--but those are just damn good songs. I'd add the Boyd-mentioned "In God's Country" as well. "Bad" live was fantastic.

Hate to say it, but today they sound like a decent Cage the Elephant cover band.

Literally no one should give a shit about the Rock HOF. It's phony as fuck. But yea, U2 is easily in for me.

U2 were inducted in 2005; https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/u2



2005.

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As a high-schooler, I smoked Newports at the time (what an idiot), and I can still taste them every time I heard Joshua Tree or Wide Awake in America.

I wonder what would have happened if the Passengers album had been released under U2's name. Probably would have made a lot of people mad, even though everyone seems to like "Miss Sarajevo" enough. "A Different Kind of Blue" is like the Eno-est thing they ever recorded, probably because of the wind chimes at the beginning and Eno himself doing vocals.

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1. With or Without You
2. Bad
3. Where the Streets Have No Name
4. One Tree Hill
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. Bullet the Blue Sky
7. Still Haven't Found
8. One
9. Acrobat
10. New Years Day

But I would say, no way they've retired.

Also, Geordie from Killing Joke deserves a shout out. Nasty, stinging guitar licks.