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  1. I was recently pretty bored and decided it'd be interesting to compile a list of all the U2 songs I could remember hearing on the radio. The list is roughly from 2002-today (when I became a big fan)--I'm sure if I began in 1980, my list would hit a few more songs that have now faded into obscurity, although I feel like I've heard plenty of "random" songs. Also, I excluded any special U2 marathons, like that 24-hour one they do out in Ohio (I think...it might be somewhere else!), or entire play-throughs of new albums. I live in the Boston area and they played through HTDAAB a few times right when it came out, but I'm not counting Yahweh or One Step Closer

    Anyway, here's my list (note there's NO songs from Pop...strange):

    Get on Your Boots
    Magnificent
    I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
    The Saints are Coming
    Window in the Skies
    Vertigo
    Original of the Species
    City of Blinding Lights
    All Because of You
    Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
    Electrical Storm
    Beautiful Day
    Elevation
    Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
    Walk On
    In a Little While
    Sweetest Thing
    Numb
    Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
    Even Better Than the Real Thing
    One
    Mysterious Ways
    Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
    Desire
    Angel of Harlem
    All I Want Is You
    God Part 2
    When Love Comes to Town
    Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
    Where the Streets Have No Name
    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    With or Without You
    Bullet the Blue Sky
    In God's Country
    One Tree Hill
    Pride (In the Name of Love)
    Bad (Wide Awake in America version)
    Sunday Bloody Sunday (Studio & Red Rocks versions)
    New Year's Day
    Two Hearts Beat As One
    Gloria
    I Will Follow
    Out of Control

    The ones I was really surprised to hear were Numb, God Part 2, and Two Hearts.

    What does your list look like? What were you surprised by?
  2. God Part II? Now THAT is surprising!!

    Here in Spain, only the big, boring hits are aired regullarly. That includes SBS, WOWY, Beautiful Day, Vertigo, Still Haven't Found (most U2 song aired over here), Pride and One. Less frequently you can find some stuff like Elevation, Streets, THTBAmerica, I Will Follow, Bad, COBL and Sweetest Thing, but... Don't count on hearing them too often. Besides the big hits, U2 is largely ignored by most radio stations


    PS. This topic could/should be recicled into the Songs that just Unexpectedly Appear thread, but I couldn't care less if this is still opened. Let it run and surprise yourself with the stuff other people have heard through the radio waves!! (I bet no one has listened to Like A Song ever)
  3. I don't listen to the radio very often, but I remember hearing Vertigo on the way to the Sydney airport for a holiday in New Zealand in August 2004.

    List of the songs I've heard/seen on TV (not including live specials)

    Gloria
    New Year's Day
    Sunday Bloody Sunday [Red Rocks]
    Pride [Slane Castle Version always]
    With Or Without You
    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    Where The Streets Have No Name
    Desire remix
    Desire
    When Love Comes To Town
    Angel Of Harlem
    All I Want Is You
    The Fly
    Mysterious Ways
    One [Usually the restaurant version]
    Even Better Than The Real Thing [Album version video]
    Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
    Numb [Album version video]
    Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
    Discotheque remix (I didn't know this existed till today)
    Discotheque
    The Sweetest Thing
    Beautiful Day
    Elevation
    Stuck In A Moment [UK Version]
    Walk On
    Electrical Storm
    Vertigo
    Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
    City Of Blinding Lights
    All Because Of You
    The Saints Are Coming
    Window In The Skies [Both Versions]
    Magnificent


  4. I heard Gloria while I was working in England. Really special moment.
  5. this very moment: streets!
  6. Originally posted by LikeASong:God Part II? Now THAT is surprising!!

    Here in Spain, only the big, boring hits are aired regullarly. That includes SBS, WOWY, Beautiful Day, Vertigo, Still Haven't Found (most U2 song aired over here), Pride and One. Less frequently you can find some stuff like Elevation, Streets, THTBAmerica, I Will Follow, Bad, COBL and Sweetest Thing, but... Don't count on hearing them too often. Besides the big hits, U2 is largely ignored by most radio stations


    PS. This topic could/should be recicled into the Songs that just Unexpectedly Appear thread, but I couldn't care less if this is still opened. Let it run and surprise yourself with the stuff other people have heard through the radio waves!! (I bet no one has listened to Like A Song ever)


    The same in France, I'm used to hearing frequently
    - NYD
    - SBS
    - Pride
    - Streets
    - WOWY
    - I Still Haven't Found
    - Angel of Harlem
    - One
    - Beautiful Day
    - Elevation
    - Vertigo
    - Magnificent

    And sometimes :
    - I Will Follow
    - Bad
    - All I Want is You
    - Mysterious Ways
    - COBL
    - Boots
    - Crazy Tonight
  7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
    Streets
    Desire
    Pride
    Vertigo
    Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
    City of Blinding Lights
    Beautiful Day
    All Because of You
    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    With or Without You
    Get On Your Boots
    Magnificent
    Even Better Than The Real Thing
    One
    Mysterious Ways
    Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
    Elevation
    New York
    Sweetest Thing

    That's all I remember.
  8. I pretty much never listen to the radio, always CDs while im driving. But every now and then ill be listening to U2 and my sister or mum will be like can we listen to the radio instead of U2 all the time, and when i put it on the radio BAM its U2 haha this has happened a couple of times
  9. a cool radio station out here on the west coast of BC. plays a fair amount of u2...
    usually once a week a rare song is played, most recently "Discothèque" was played along with 'BITBS'
  10. and now playing: Bullet the blue sky never heard that one before
    other songs i've heard on the radio: TUF, IWF, WOWY, one, .... almost all the singles I guess + probably other songs, but I can't remember it right now
  11. Not really on the radio, but I just turned my TV on and there was Hold Me Trill Me Kiss Me Kill Me on

    Thats a nice way to wake up
  12. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    Beautiful Day
    Stuck In A Moment
    Vertigo
    City of Blinding Lights
    Get On Your Boots
    I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight

    Other than that, I have no recollection of hearing any other songs. Nowadays, we just get Still Haven't Found of Beautiful Day.

    EDIT: It is a goal of mine to get a Pop single played when the radio stations have an all request section. Just thinking that if Staring At The Sun or Last Night On Earth made an appearance on the radio today, people would want to hear it again.