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  1. except for a couple of minor adjustments I still agree with myself.
    I like that.

    Originally posted by Bloodraven:My BRAIN list
    on paper, on cold blood, these is the way I'd rank them

    work of art
    TUF
    AB
    TJT
    great albums
    BOY
    SOI
    ZOO
    WAR
    nearly great but there's something missing
    HTDAAB
    POP
    ATYCLB
    plenty of room for improvement
    NLOTH
    RAH
    OCT



    My HEART list
    My ranking on how much I actually enjoy them

    I really enjoy them anytime, no matter my mood
    TUF
    BOY
    SOI
    I can listen to them anytime
    WAR
    ZOO
    NLOTH
    usually I enjoy them, but sometimes I'm not in the mood for them
    TJT
    AB
    HTDAAB
    sometimes I'm in the mood to listen to them
    POP
    RAH
    ATYCLB
    OCT


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    Originally posted by Kerstkaas:Allright, i've tried a couple times to rank albums but I always feel bad about the result So my version of this will be slightly different by not ranking the albums individually. Here we go!
    Thoughts?
    Yeah, I always prefer ranking them in tiers
    Don't agree on the order, but that's part of the beauty of music overall, and about U2's catalog in particular.

    What's your opinion on your 4th tier though? do you still like those or do you try to avoid them?
  2. Originally posted by thefly108:Zooropa
    UF
    POP
    HTDAAB
    AB/SOI (Kind of a tie for me)
    No Line
    JT
    ATYCLB
    Boy
    War
    October
    R&H

    Hard to pick. My top 5 or 6 alternate a bit, but I love them all.


    This is hard to do, they're all great. But after the tour and changing it up a bit:

    Always love:
    Zooropa
    UF
    SOI
    JT
    POP
    AB
    Always enjoy, but not quite perfect:
    No Line
    HTDAAB
    Boy
    ATYCLB
    R&H
    War
    October
  3. Originally posted by NeonTiger64:1. Joshua Tree
    2. Unforgettable Fire
    3. Achtung Baby
    4. All That You Can't Leave Behind
    5. Pop
    6. Zooropa
    7. Songs Of Innocence *(this could change I still don't feel like I've had enough time with it)
    8. Boy
    9. Rattle And Hum
    10. October
    11. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    12. No Line On The Horizon
    13. War

    If I count Passengers It'd probably go in between SoI and Boy.

    A year later I'm feeling:

    1. JT
    2. AB
    3. UF
    4. SOI
    5. Pop
    >Passengers probably
    6. ATYCLB
    7. Boy
    8. War
    9. Zooropa
    10. R&H
    11. NLOTH
    12. October
    13. HTDAAB

    I'm looking forward to trying to put another album in here somewhere. Any day now I'm sure...
  4. Originally posted by ahn1991:
    All That You Can't Leave Behind
    Songs Of Innocence
    No Line On The Horizon
    Achtung Baby
    Pop
    Joshua Tree
    Rattle And Hum
    Boy
    How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    Zooropa
    The Unforgettable Fire
    War
    October


    Recently, I've been rediscovering NLOTH, so I'm bumping ATYCLB to 3rd on my list. SOI has pretty much cemented itself as one of U2's finest works in my mind.

    Songs Of Innocence
    No Line On The Horizon
    All That You Can't Leave Behind
    Achtung Baby
    Pop
    Joshua Tree
    Rattle And Hum
    Boy
    How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    Zooropa
    The Unforgettable Fire
    War
    October
  5. Originally posted by u2joost:1.Pop
    2.Achtung Baby
    3.Songs of Innocence
    4.The Joshua Tree

    5.The Unforgettable Fire
    6.No Line On The Horizon
    7.Rattle And Hum
    8.Zooropa
    9.October
    10.How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    11.War
    12.Boy
    13.All That You Can't Leave Behind


    1 year later:

    1.Pop
    2.Achtung Baby
    3.The Joshua Tree
    4.Songs of Innocence

    5.The Unforgettable Fire
    6.No Line On The Horizon
    7.Rattle And Hum
    8.Zooropa
    9.October
    10.War
    11.How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    12.Boy
    13.All That You Can't Leave Behind
  6. Making things up on the fly, I think I'd rank them like this:

    Achtung Baby
    Zooropa
    Pop
    The Joshua Tree
    The Unforgettable Fire
    Songs of Innocence
    No Line On The Horizon
    (Original Soundtracks 1)
    Rattle and Hum
    War
    Boy
    October
    How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    All That You Can't Leave Behind
  7. JT
    AB
    SOI
    TUF
    WAR
    BOY
    ZOOROPA
    R&H
    POP
    NLOTH
    OCTOBER
    HTDAAB
    ATYCLB

    Mind you, they're all good albums!
  8. Maybe TUF before SOI - actually, definitely so. Still, SOI comes close enough.
  9. Achtung Baby
    Joshua Tree
    The Unforgettable Fire
    Zooropa
    War
    Boy
    Pop
    Songs of Innocence
    All That You Can't Leave Behind
    How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
    October
    Rattle and Hum












    No Line On The Horizon

    JT and AB switch on the daily though.
  10. Yeah, I always prefer ranking them in tiers
    Don't agree on the order, but that's part of the beauty of music overall, and about U2's catalog in particular.

    What's your opinion on your 4th tier though? do you still like those or do you try to avoid them?


    Hi, basicly just like you I enjoy listening to SoI for example but I wouldn't reckon that as a great album. Mosly I play a couple of songs from Zooropa but rarely the whole album. There's only one album that I rarely listen to and that is NLOTH. Mostly I play the live versions of Breathe and Moment of Surrender on my iPod.
  11. I'm really impressed/pleased by the generally high rankings of Songs of Innocence, even after over a year on. It seems like for most of us it's in the top half of our album ranks, and for a lot of us is one of the top 4 or 5. I wonder, have our general opinions of it improved in the time since it's been released? I seem to remember a bit more resistance/criticism of it when it was only a couple of weeks/months old
  12. Originally posted by CMIPalaeo:I'm really impressed/pleased by the generally high rankings of Songs of Innocence, even after over a year on. It seems like for most of us it's in the top half of our album ranks, and for a lot of us is one of the top 4 or 5. I wonder, have our general opinions of it improved in the time since it's been released? I seem to remember a bit more resistance/criticism of it when it was only a couple of weeks/months old
    yep, it's nice to see it in the top half (not an easy achievement).

    I liked it at first, but it has grown a lot for me. At first it was "well, it's not great, but it doesn't have anything really awkward/bad/embarrassing neither". But it slowly improved as I kept listening to it and I didn't get tired of it... some songs became highlights (CR, Volcano, Troubles, RMN, SLABT...) and some remained acceptable.
    But after the tour, even the weakest links in the album for me, became very decent or even managed to become highlights, like Miracle, Iris and SFS...

    I honestly believe that this is one of their best works. I don't see it going down because of "time". Hopefully because of future releases, though.