Unforgettable Single
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annapoliskelly
01 September, 2012 With or Without You
I was in highschool when I first heard the song on the radio. I think I went out and bought it on vinyl back then--cds were just appearing on the market, but I didn't have a player. Absolutely love this song and all of The Joshua Tree album. Happy to say that I took my daughter to her first concert ever on the last tour.
iloveyou2again
01 September, 2012 BAD!!!!
I had never heard of U2, but I have always been passionate about Irish history and poetry. One night many years ago, I was riding in the car with my then teen-aged son. I heard the most amazing song I had ever heard with incredible lyrics and guitars. I said to my son -" Wow, who is that??" He said, "I can't believe you do not know that Irish bad - U2." Well, that was the beginning of my lifelong passion for the band and everything they stand for. To this day, it remains my favorite song of all times - I am sure I have played it at least 5000 times!!!
mollison
01 September, 2012 Rejoice
Growing up in Ireland in the 80's was bleak, when I first heard Rejoice on the radio, I was amazed by the energy of the song and the energy of the band, I wondered could they make it big in Ireland....Little did we know.....
In 1983 aged 15 I cycled 50 miles to the Phoenix Park in Dublin to see the band, I locked my bike to a tree and saw them play for the 1st time, I was estatic...the only problem it was a long 50 miles home after the show!!
alumoffsu
01 September, 2012 Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own
This is my favorite song. Period. Not just from U2, from all the bajillion songs that exist out there on the airwaves. I cry every single time I hear it, and I could listen to it nonstop all day & not tire of it. Brilliantly written, brilliantly performed. It's pure perfection. Thanks, Bono.
composer57
01 September, 2012 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking f
I had Unforgettable Fire in my collection and then Under a Blood Red Sky. Then one day I was watching MTV and there is "I Still Haven't Found....." Sung on the streets of Las Vegas....the juxtaposition of the land of excess against the simple beauty of this modern day hymn. To this day the final two verses always catch me, as if a higher power is willing me to stop, listen, and reflect. The U22 collection version of the song gives me goosebumps every time with so many thousands singing along. I perform an acoustic version at every gig, and taught it to my church choir where we performed it at least once a year.
cb8003
01 September, 2012 Discotheque
It was Feburary of 1997, I was a junior in high school and MTV was going to premire the "Discotheque" video from U2's forthcoming Pop album. I remember the thobbing baseline interspaced with an undercurrent of pulsating techno beats, Bono's piercing falsetto, crooning the word "love" over Edge's signature sound, familar yet very new and of course Larry's disco-oriented drum beats, giving the song a disco/rave feel. And lyrics pondering the riddle of love and of wanting heaven in one's heart. The song still gives me chills when I listen to it and is responsible for transforming U2 from a band I liked to the only band that mattered.
lwhite
01 September, 2012 Stay/Walk On
For me, there is a memory or emotion attached to virtually every U2 album or single. Two singles stand out as I write this and they are Stay and Walk On. Both tracks gave voice to emotions I was feeling at the time they were issued and which continue to resonate to this day. In particular, I appreciate the way that Walk On was "re-invented" for 360. When it was first issued, Walk On came along at a very difficult time for me, it spoke to me and through me, and it reminded me what I'm about and helped me keep my perspective. That's a lot to lay on a piece of music, but the tune is up to the task ... and so much more. Thank you.
rosevox
01 September, 2012 With or without you
Because this is the song of my life.
Glennkodds
01 September, 2012 "We''ll Shine Like Stars in Tthe Summer
With or Without you with the above postscript gives the song a spiritual moments that brings chills to the soul.
bigblock
01 September, 2012 BAD !!!
For me , BAD describe best U2 . The guitare stays with you all day ...I think they played BAD only 2 times in their 360tour and even if i'm from Montréal,Canada , i heard it in Rome, Italy in 2010... Thanks U2 !!! i'll never forget that concert .
Pizzmen
01 September, 2012 ISHFWILF / With or without you
It was just after the Velvet Revolution here in the Czech Republic. I got my first walkman and ran to my brother to give me something recorded on the tape. On the one side, he recorded the Pet Shop Boys, on the other for me was noncommittal name U2. Even at first listen , I felt as I knew this music from time immemorial, been so close to me . Neither do not compute how many times I listened to it over and over , again and again and still bounced around the room with a tennis racket and strummed it as an imaginary guitar. And why are they important for me just first and second single from the LP The Joshua Tree? It's simple , first from both, 25 years ago, forever chained me to U2 and the other was one that I had for 25 years as the first song played on the electric guitar , which I have just bought because U2 . Indeed, it is difficult to choose a specific song because U2 accompanied me for so long in my life and behind each song I can recall some wonderful memories.
flea56
01 September, 2012 Still haven't found what I'm looking for
We had just moved from the UK to Indianapolis and the local rock station kept playing this song over and over, it was on MTV too, my first taste of that medium. Joshua Tree had not been released yet but as soon as it was I bought the CD. I love this sing and it reminds me of the year we arrived in the USA (we are still here. We saw U2 in concert the same year in October and have never looked back. I cannot wait for the next tour they are so great live. When I hear this song it reminds me of starting a new life in my new country, new friends (now old friends) and the live we left behind in England.
mapasqui
01 September, 2012 PS:... Desire!
Every time I listen to Bono saying "Yeah", after "Desire" intro... I have chills!!!
maria
DreamerDon
01 September, 2012 Beautiful Day
A return to form. I thought the band had lost their "vibe" however this was a pleasant surprise. A great song from a band still exploring.
mapasqui
01 September, 2012 Full Moon
It was september, in Reggio Emilia (Italy). It was my first U2 concert: Pop Mart Tour.
I sang and danced and screamed for my fab four. Then, lights softened. Bono and The Edge came closer to us, just with guitars. And they sang unplugged version of "One" and "Staring at the sun". An amazing full moon was behind them, listening, and lighting the stage like no other light could have done. I can't choose. When I listen to this two songs, I can see that wonderful moon. Thank you guys.
Maria
Ps: I'm sorry for my bad English!
ltanalau
31 August, 2012 Mysterious ways (1991) vertigo (2005) so
Mysterious ways was the first song I heard U2 because my brother was listening every day. Bono also sang this song in U2360MEX when I saw him just a few feet away. Vertigo is one of the songs that I remember when I first saw the band live. And Sometimes You Can not Make It On Your Own is a wonderful song that I dedicate to my father and brother
hippiechick
31 August, 2012 Vertigo!
Vertigo was the song that did it for me, I am a newer fan of theirs and this song is the reason why. I remember hearing it for the first time and just having my mind blown, everytime I heard it I fell more in love with it. Edge just totally kills it in this song, simply amazing. This song is almost like the soundtrack to my life, always in a state of confusion looking for direction and guidence. It totally rocks my world evrytime I hear it :D
mike_walsh
31 August, 2012 with or without you
I was a very early fan but at university I wasn't paying much attention to the music scene. It seems a bit incredible now but I didn't even notice the release of the Joshua Tree.
Our uni pub was The Grapes in Stafford and I heard this amazing track from the video jukebox. I had to know what it was and was astonished to find it was U2.
I walked out of the pub and bought the album - typical student in the pub at lunchtime I know.
There isn't a lot of stuff that I can tell you exactly where I was the first time I heard it.
Bugpowder
31 August, 2012 A Celebration
I was actually lucky enough to have seen the video for this song on, believe it or not MTV.
I immediately had my mom drive me to the Record Store to get the 45 that they had IN STOCK in the import section! I played the grooves off of it and worried of it wearing out ,I latter got a second copy to keep pristine in its shrink wrap which I still have to this day.We did not have a VCR at that time, i don't think they had even come out yet. I stocked MTV whenever I could to catch it again but I only saw it a couple of times.
This song to this day gets me an immediate adrenaline dump, it's dangerous if I'm driving I feel the need to mash the accelerator pedal to the floor. The way the song starts it feels like it's the first time it's ever been played, a lucky perfect storm of four musicians instantly having a collective impulse that fit together and didn't need to be changed. The song comes to an end and you realize you are in the middle of the desert and you were supposed to be at work 2 hours ago!
Nrwjnwd
31 August, 2012 ReneW Sept 11th 1987
I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR.
Off the coast of Cancun, while sailing a catamaran this song "I Still Haven't Found what I'm Looking For" came on and played on the radio. I looked at my wife, lifted my corona and my lips said I LOVE YOU, she replied the same and blew me kiss. What a beautiful moment. Two months earlier my wife's doctor said to me, you should take her on a nice vacation. I did and it was great.
On 3/26/1990 she passed away. Myself and the rest of my family were hanging out in my sisters backyard shortly after her burial. Your song "WITH OR WITHOUT YOU" played as the sun was setting. My sister-in-law saw me standing ther watching the sun set with tears running down my face. She just stood next to me with her around me. Man, tears fill my eyes just thinking about it. Thank You U2. You've been a big part my life's memories.
Catherinne
31 August, 2012 New Years Day
If I had to pick one it would have to be this one. My love affair with U2 begun in 1990, so I didn't only enjoy Acthung baby but I discovered all before that and NYD has everything I love about U2, I got lost with that song, dancing everytime and when I listen to it now I get transported to those wonderful days when I fell in love with them.
notcapableoflove
31 August, 2012 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking F
This song describes my life struggles so perfectly - the running, the climbing, the fighting with temptation, the struggle with belief. It lifted me out of depression and disillusionment.
dr_evazan22
31 August, 2012 One
Its hard to pick just one. I first heard / saw them on MTV - New Years Day; followed by Sunday Bloody Sunday. What a great live video!
The night they played here on the Unforgettable tour the radio station seemed to keep playing live versions of Bad and A Sort of Homecoming, and I fell in love with Adam's bass.
Then Joshua Tree in its entirety, and my first live U2 show.
When Achtung came out I bought both CD and cassette. I sat in my car in the parking lot and listened. I knew One was special three seconds in; I would rewind it and play it again and again - the intro and the entire song.
divemistress
31 August, 2012 With or Without You
In 1987, I was 16 years old and driving down I-35 in Wichita, Kansas, USA - which in those pre-Internet days seemed like the literal middle of nowhere - when I heard WOWY coming out of the radio in my old Chevette. I'd heard that Joshua Tree was coming out that week but I almost drove off the road as it slowly dawned on me what that song was - the first single from a mindboggling new album.
That song has been one of my favorites for the past - unbelievable! - 26 years, and the album has not once left my personal top 10 list since the first time I heard it. The week it came out, in March 1987.
in 1983 I'd been made to miss the one and only local concert - ever - by current reigning pop princes The Police. My mother made it up to me in major fashion in fall '87 by writing a fake 'illness' note to the principal of my high school so I could take the bus up to Kansas City to see U2 play Joshua Tree very nearly in its entirety. I haven't ever forgotten it. When I finally got to see U2 again - in summer 2011, they came to Nashville, TN, where I now live. Couldn't help it - I cried like a little girl to that song.
Words cannot express how grateful I am for all those albums and all these years. I will always love you all. Jean W., Nashville TN
phunnell
31 August, 2012 Kite
this song literally gave me a way to hold on to my sanity and humanity when my grandson died.
laughinggass
31 August, 2012 THE FLY
This was the first. The first single from the first cd I ever owned. Just like the new technology to enter our lives, the sounds made from this song seemed to come from another planet. Very intriguing, that had to be broken down with many repeated listens to become a believer, but always wanting to believe. The sound is well known now, but its origins are forever implanted in my mind. There was no turning back after this song. My new world set Achtung Baby as the best album ever to be made & every song on it to make a personal connection to experiences throughout that memorable year. There have been a few different favorites I've had - -too hard to pick one all time. But hearing it during the 360 shows put it back in my spotlight where it belongs and a new mix to make it easy to say each time it was played that there's nothing else like it. And to remind me that
Everything You Know Is Wrong
bignewfy
31 August, 2012 Moment of Surrender
I just checked my song count on itunes - 322 times for moment of surrender. very spiritual and thought provoking. before itunes, I probably listened to "one" just as many times.
Daks
31 August, 2012 Where the Streets Have No Name
I can remember the very first time I heard Discotheque - I was driving home from work and was so excited I had to pull over. Same for Beautiful Day. But for me the top has to be Where the Streets... I still get tingles down my spine during the opening. No other song will lift me, no matter what mood I was in before it came on.
And I love it even more live. There's such an amazing feeling to watching Edge playing that opening melody, and watching the stage lights slowly turning red. Its always a strange feeling - in the midst of the frenetic energy of a U2 show its comforting to have that same guitar and light show, almost like when you finally arrive home after a long journey. Bono's vocals are like sweet honey over the top of the song, and everything explodes with excitement.
thatcrazybeat
31 August, 2012 The Fly
I was working for Sam Goody at the time and this was so far from anything I could've expected from U2. The beginning of their most experimental/creative period in my opinion. From Achtung Baby through Pop (including Passengers). Consistently surprised and amazed. Thank you.
oomah
31 August, 2012 numb
This song was so amazing,Edge was just brilliant,haven't we all felt numb at some point in time,again it was just u2 doing what they do brilliantly,pushing themselves.It will go down as one of those unique songs I think.Too much is not enough.
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