Songs U2 Wish They Wrote
From the new 20th anniversary Q Magazine:
Larry Mullen Jr. wishes he wrote:As for songs they wish they hadn't written? One can only guess. What's the worst U2 song of all time?
The Chemical Brothers - "Block Rockin' Beats"Adam Clayton wishes he wrote:
Soul II Soul - "Back To LIfe"Edge wishes he wrote:
Oasis - "Wonderwall"Bono wishes he wrote:
Bob Dylan & Sam Shepherd - "Brownsville Girl"
Massive Attack - "Unfinished Sympathy"
Oasis - "Live Forever"
Gavin Friday - "The Last Song I'll Ever Sing"
The Verve - "Lucky Man"
Emm Gryner - "Almighty Love"
Posted at 6:40 PM
Tags: Oasis | U2
Elevation.
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Most anything on Pop blows.
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Miami. Say what you will about Pop -- and some of it passes my test -- but Miami? Worst song ever, hands down. "My mammy"!! That even trumps "a mole / digging in a hole"!!
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Oh, and that Gavin Friday song is my favorite of all his stuff and if you haven't heard it, find it. Damn right ol' B wishes he wrote it!
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I'm no fan of Pop or Atomic Bomb, but "Elevation" has to be one of the worst songs I've ever heard.
"A star
Lit up like a cigar
Strung out like a guitar
Maybe you can educate my mind"
Maybe you can stop being relevant, right now.
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that one with the overly-melodramatic soaring chorus
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that one with the overly-melodramatic soaring chorus
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one! two! three! fourteen!
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'kite'
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Though I am a huge fan, I cannot stomach Playboy Mansion. Awful.
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Damn, I hate when I do that.
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/emm gryner/! holy. crap!
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"Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" is pretty bad.
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lemon
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Do You Feel Loved on Pop is the worst one. But Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For sounds like shit these days, too.
To "the billionaire"
I listened to your mp3. You could use a soaring chorus or two. People who live in glass houses...
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Every U2 song ever.
except maybe Sunday Bloody Sunday. maybe.
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In honor of Mark Foley, I nominate "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" which features such lyrics as:
"Daddy won't let you weep, Daddy won't let you ache, Daddy gives you as much as you can take, Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car."
Ugh, awful.
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Discotheque. As if there was any doubt.
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I'd say Discotheque, but they were having a laugh with that one, so it doesn't really count.
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I've thought U2 was pretty overrated on most of their stuff. But then again I think that of a lot of big-time arena-size bands.
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some of the suggestions here better be jokes. lemon and discotheque are awesome in their own megalomaniacial ways.
but i might agree with saying most of Pop. and most of How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. I only listen to Josh Tree and Achtung Baby anymore, with War and October thrown in for good measure every now and then.
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The one that Ryan Adams covers....
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MIAMMMMIIIIIIII
MI-AAAMMMM-EEEEEEEE
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wait, soul ii soul. that's the 'back to life, back to reality, back to life, etc. ad nauseum'?
he's joking?
please?
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The slow sappy ballads. By which I mean all of The Joshua Tree.
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There are no "worst" U2 songs, only "least good" U2 songs
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elevation - a few letters in bonos rhyming dictionary from putting 'sky' and 'fly' together.
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anything written after about 1982.
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jerusalem. or another day,
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Elevation.
I love Pop, I reckon its great fun.
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"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" from the Batman Whatever soundtrack.
(The only worse Batman related song was "Batdance" by Prince.)
Or "Stuck In A Contract And You Can't Get Out Of It".
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'elevation' for me too... man that song is awful.
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Worst U2 song: Vertigo. When Bono sings the chorus to this song, you realize how big of an assface he really is.
Best U2 song: "Numb" for sure.
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Worst U2 song: Vertigo. When Bono sings the chorus to this song, you realize how big of an assface he really is.
Best U2 song: "Numb" for sure.
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Party Girl.
Boooooo!
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hi, can we have this same discussion once more this week? c'mon, just once more.
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Not strictly relevant - just think this is hilarious:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=11worst
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How Damn! He listed Emm Gryner! She's fantastic.
BEST U2: Bad
Worst U2: Grace
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all of them. They are my least favorite band of all time and i throw up a little every time i see/hear/read about them, which is why i'm bulemic now.
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A shout out to Emm Gryner - cool!
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Yahweh. Everything that can be annoying about U2 wrapped up in one song.
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Yaweh = Last song on Atomic bomb.
Worst.
Song.
Of.
All.
Time.
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That song with extemporaneous/improvised lyrics on "Unforgettable Fire". What's it called? "Something, America, and Me?" I don't feel like looking it up, let alone listening to that self-important, pretentious wank-off ever again.
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Do not forget what a crap album "Rattle and Hum" is. I guess those would be the worst U2 covers...
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i was totally going to post that maddox link
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Worst early U2 songs: 'The Refugee' off War - disastrous 80s funk\shouting experiment, or else 'Is That All?' off October, which is total filler they recorded at the last minute to pad out the album..
Worst later U2 songs: Anything post 'Pop'.. no way does that album deserve the routine slagging that it gets... the last interesting U2 record, unless they pull out some major surprises pretty quickly.
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>That song with extemporaneous/improvised lyrics on >"Unforgettable Fire". What's it called? "Something, >America, and Me?" I don't feel like looking it up, >let alone listening to that self-important, >pretentious wank-off ever again.
"Elvis Presley And America".
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Lemon.
I like U2 an awfull lot, but I have to switch it off whenever that song comes on. And the video... AGH!
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While I think Pop has a few excellent songs on it - "Do You Feel Loved," "Gone," and especially "Please" - it's a pretty thin (yet undeniably interesting) album on the whole.
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waa waaa waaaaa U2 are big and famous and rich waaa waa waaaa they must suck waaa waaawaaaaa waaaaaaaa pretentious waa waaa waaaa I'm so cool cause I hate what's big waa waaa waaaaa I got no brains, I'm a reactionary waaawaaaa waaaaaaa waaaaaaawaaaaaa I eat irony for breakfast waaa waaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaa my mind is only open to irrelevence waaaw waaaa waaaaa I'm a spineless bastard waaaaa waaaa waaaaaaa let's be high school losers and hate the cool kids waaaa waaaaa waaaaa
the bands I like you haven't heard of waaaw aaawaaaaw waaaaaaaa I wear a uniform that keeps the world at a distance waaaa waaaaa waaaaa facists of cool waaaa waaaaaa waaaaaaaa
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To "the billionaire"
I listened to your mp3. You could use a soaring chorus or two. People who live in glass houses...
Ha. Point taken Honest Abe. We'll try to give it more of a go.
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Their latest new song out on u218, the last after "The Saints" cover, sounds pretty awful (to be fair I was listening to it on my computer..hopefully it will be ok on CD.)
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Flappppa, or whatever, says it very well.
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