1. Zoo tv seems to be the crowd favorite. No surprise there ::+
  2. Zoo Tv , by a distance
  3. Zoo TV based on being there and gauging it against everything else
  4. I'd say only a 0,5% (max) of all 65K U2starters have attended at least one show of all tours... So I'd say the vast majority of us are judging by bootlegs we've heard, reviews we've read, photos we've seen, videos we've watched.

    @Bloodraven splitting Zoo TV and Zooropa just give it a double 1 & 2 position was brilliant
  5. Favourites (from listening):

    1. Zoo TV
    2. Elevation
    3. I+E
    4. Lovetown
    5. Popmart
    6. 360
    7. TJT 30
    8. TJT
    9. Vertigo
    10. Unforgettable Fire
    11. War
    12. Boy
    13. October

    Favourites from what I've seen (this is based on staging, concepts, etc. not just performances):

    1. I+E (everything)
    2. 360 (unbelievable tour but looking back, I don't like how they moved to a greatest hits tour at the end)
    3. TJT 30 (although Toronto was the best show out of the 5 others I've seen. Great but just can't top the two others)
  6. To be perfectly honest, I still have not listened to enough of the early tour bootlegs to judge fairly on ALL of them, but I'll do top 5:

    1. Zoo TV - untouchable
    2. PopMart - flawed, but a total monster of a tour when it worked.
    3. 360 - incredible spectacle, staging, and performances this late into their career
    4. I & E - love the narrative arc of this show.
    5. War - love the fire and energy of the band displayed in stuff like Red Rocks, obviously.
  7. The problem i have with this topic is my final list is always subject to change,judging by most of you guys i'm likely to cause outrage by placing Zoo Tv at 5 and War at 12 but its not a wind up just my fav U2 tours are the recent ones.That being said i LOVE EVERY tour they have done.
    Elevation Tour had it all for me,the setlists were perfect,U2 "re-applying for the job" of best band in the world.Just four guys in an arena giving it everything they had and totally delivering.Those times also around 9/11 when U2 rose above fear and the hope and positivity they brought America that autumn was incredible,i doubt any other band could've done that.

    1.Elevation Tour
    2.Vertigo Tour
    3.360 Tour
    4.Joshua Tree Tour
    5.Zoo TV/Zooropa Tour
    6.Popmart Tour
    7.Unforgettable Fire Tour
    8.Innocence and Experience Tour
    9.October Tour
    10.Lovetown Tour
    11.Joshua Tree 30 Tour
    12.War Tour
    13.Boy Tour
    14.Conspiracy Of Hope Tour
  8. Here's my list, from worst to best. Keep in mind that if I place a tour as "worst" is for U2 standards, it's still better than most of the shows out there. Also, Conspiracy of Hope was not a U2 tour.

    13. JT 2017 (The whole concept of the tour was wrong for me. Plus, the performances are not getting any better with the years. Understandable.)
    12. I+E tour
    11. Vertigo Tour
    10. Boy Tour
    9. October Tour
    8. War Tour
    7. Unforgettable Fire Tour
    6. Popmart (We will always have Sarajevo, Leeds, Mexico and Santiago, but for every one of them we had 4 Vegas or San Diego shows. Performances were not consistent, half-empty stadiums, Bono's voice was weak and karaoke? wtf)

    Ok, now for true greatness, any band will be lucky to have a tour like these and U2 had 5!
    5. Elevation Tour
    4. 360 Tour
    3. Joshua Tree Tour
    2. ZooTV tour
    1. Lovetown (I already said enough about this tour)
  9. 1.Elevation Tour
    2.Vertigo Tour
    3.360 Tour
    4.Joshua Tree Tour
    5.Zoo TV/Zooropa Tour
    6.Popmart Tour
    7.Unforgettable Fire Tour
    8.Innocence and Experience Tour
    9.October Tour
    10.Lovetown Tour
    11.Joshua Tree 30 Tour
    12.War Tour
    13.Boy Tour
  10. 1. elevation
    2. vertigo
    3. zoo tv
    4. popmart
    5. jt
    6. ie
    7. lovetown
    8. unforgettable fire
    9. war
    10. jt30
    11 ei
    12 war
    13 boy
    14 conspiracy of hope
    15 october
  11. i think that is this

    1. zoo tv
    2. popmart
    3. eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE
    4. vertigo
    5. elevation
    6. lovetown
    7. 360°
    8. iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE
    9. joshua tree tour 2017
    10. joshua tree
    11. war
    12. unforgettable fire
    13. october
    14. boy
    15. 11 o'clock tick tock