GEN
Active topics
  1. 1. Songs Of Experience
    2. Achtung Baby
    3. Pop
    4. Songs Of Innocence
    5. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    6. Zooropa
    7. The Joshua Tree
    8. Rattle And Hum
    9. The Unforgettable Fire
    10. Boy
    11. No Line On The Horizon
    12. All That You Can't Leave Behind
    13. October
    14. War
  2. Just made a stupid "U2 ranking system" up in my head. Anything over 70 is really good, anything over 80 is unusually good, anything over 90 is impossible to really explain how wonderful it is

    1. Achtung Baby 100
    2. The Joshua Tree 100
    3. Pop 100
    4. Rattle And Hum 97
    5. War 95
    6. Zooropa 94
    7. All That You Can't Leave Behind 93
    8. The Unforgettable Fire 92
    9. How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb 91
    10. No Line on the Horizon 89
    11. Boy 85
    12. October 79
    13. Songs of Experience 75****too early to tell****
    14. Songs of Innocence 60
  3. I've always felt that NLOTH is better as an album than as individual songs. It actually makes MOS tolerable never quite figured out why that song was so high on people's lists....
  4. I have to take the time to give the worst/best album with ratings thread a go again but for now

    1. Achtung Baby
    2. Joshua tree
    3. SOE
    4. SOI
    5/6 (tied) zooropa/ ATYCLB
    7. Pop
    8. HTDAAB
    9. Boy
    10. Unforgettable fire
    11. Rattle and Hum
    12. NLOTH
    13. War
    14. October
  5. Originally posted by mattfromcanada:[..]
    I've always felt that NLOTH is better as an album than as individual songs. It actually makes MOS tolerable never quite figured out why that song was so high on people's lists....
    MOS is a very good song on a so close to great album, but falls short as very good plus with me. To make NLOTH better, add Soon and Winter(without 1960's Star Trek Opera vocal at the end), and omit Unknown Caller, and you've got a great album.
    The hype u2.com, the band and either Eno or Lanois gave MOS was about as bombastic overhype I have heard from any artist or producer. Calling it "The best moment of my entire life in the studio" is like me saying the time I first heard The Three Sunrises was better than the first time I heard Where The Streets Have No Name.
  6. Originally posted by u2joost: at the end of 2016:

    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



    At the end of 2017 I feel it is as follows:

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

    5. No Line On The Horizon
    6. Songs of Innocence
    7.The Unforgettable Fire
    8. Zooropa

    9. Rattle And Hum
    10.October
    11.War
    12.Boy
    13.How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb


    14.All That You Can't Leave Behind
  7. the joshua tree 9,26
    achtung baby 8,94
    zooropa 8,53
    rattle and hum 8,45
    songs of innocence 8,35
    war 8,27
    how to dismantle an atomic bomb 8,16
    songs of experience 8,12
    boy 7,88
    pop 7,68
    the unforgettable fire 7,50
    all that you can't leave behind 7,47
    no line on the horizon 6,98
    october 5,75
  8. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

    My list from 2006:

    01 - Achtung Baby
    02 - The Joshua Tree
    03 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    04 - Rattle And Hum
    05 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
    06 - Zooropa
    07 - Under A Blood Red Sky
    08 - War
    09 - Boy
    10 - The Unforgettable Fire
    11 - POP
    12 - October


    List from 2011:

    01 - Achtung Baby
    02 - The Joshua Tree
    03 - Zooropa
    04 - POP
    05 - War
    06 - Rattle And Hum
    07 - No Line On The Horizon
    08 - Under A Blood Red Sky
    09 - Boy
    10 - October
    11 - The Unforgettable Fire
    12 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
    13 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb


    List from 2013:

    01 - Achtung Baby
    02 - The Joshua Tree
    03 - Zooropa
    04 - Pop
    05 - The Unforgettable Fire
    06 - War
    07 - Boy
    08 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
    09 - No Line On The Horizon
    10 - Rattle & Hum
    11 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    12 - October



    2014-09-16, exactly one week after SOI surprise release:

    01& 02 - The Achtung Tree & Joshua Baby
    03 - Pop
    04 - Zooropa
    05 - War
    06 - The Unforgettable Fire
    07 - Songs Of Innocence
    08 - No Line On The Horizon
    09 - Rattle & Hum
    10 - Boy
    11 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
    12 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    13 - October


    2017-12-10, 10 days after SOE release (but still haven't rated each song individually at the Worst/best album with ratings thread, that might make this ranking change some positions):

    01& 02 - The Achtung Tree & Joshua Baby
    03 - Pop
    04 - Zooropa
    05 - War
    06 - The Unforgettable Fire
    07 - Songs Of Innocence
    08 - No Line On The Horizon
    09 - Boy
    10 - Songs Of Experience
    11 - Rattle & Hum
    12 - October
    13 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
    14 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
  9. It's funny to see how my appreciation for some of these albums has evolved through the years (HTDAAB, I'm looking at you )
  10. Originally posted by LikeASong:It's funny to see how my appreciation for some of these albums has evolved through the years (HTDAAB, I'm looking at you )
    Quite remarkable indeed... (but I'm looking at your ATYCLB appreciation )
  11. Based on my perfect live-show of 25songs, ranking albums representing most songs to least songs

    01 - The Joshua Tree
    02 - Achtung Baby
    03 - Boy
    04 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    05 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
    06 - The Unforgettable Fire
    07 - Rattle & Hum
    08 - October
    09 - War
    10 - Zooropa
    11 - No Line On The Horizon
    12 - Songs Of Innocence
    13 - Songs Of Experience
    14 - Pop
  12. I can’t understand how anyone could rank SOE at number 1. Nothing against the album but...

    Achtung
    JT
    ATYCLB
    SOI
    Pop
    Boy
    TUF
    No Line
    RnH
    War
    Dismantle
    SOE
    Zooropa
    October