Best U2 Album Opener

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Poll: Best U2 Album Opener?
I Will Follow
6%
 6%  [2]
Gloria
3%
 3%  [1]
Sunday Bloody Sunday
10%
 10%  [3]
A Sort of Homecoming
13%
 13%  [4]
Where The Streets Have No Name
36%
 36%  [11]
Zoo Station
10%
 10%  [3]
Zooropa
6%
 6%  [2]
Discotheque
3%
 3%  [1]
Beautiful Day
3%
 3%  [1]
Vertigo
3%
 3%  [1]
No Line On The Horizon
0%
 0%  [0]
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
0%
 0%  [0]
Love Is All We Have Left
3%
 3%  [1]
Total Votes : 30

RoundTheBend
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  • #1
  • Posted: 02/11/2019 19:13
  • Post subject: Best U2 Album Opener
Stealing this idea from the LebowskiRams duder.

How do you rank U2's album openers?

This is how I'd rank them, I think:
1.
Where The Streets Have No Name
Zoo Station
Zooropa
Sunday Bloody Sunday
I Will Follow

2.
No Line On The Horizon
Vertigo
Discotheque
Beautiful Day

3.
A Sort of Homecoming
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
Gloria
Love Is All We Have Left
Daydreamer
  • #2
  • Posted: 02/11/2019 19:51
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Where The Streets Have No Name is THE U2 song.
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  • #3
  • Posted: 02/11/2019 21:44
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I went for Zooropa, but it's possible I'm just trying to be different
CharlieBarley
Gender: Male

Age: 50

Location: Down To Earth
United Kingdom
  • #4
  • Posted: 02/11/2019 22:09
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Where The Streets Have No Name

My favourite U2 song and one of my favourite songs of all time
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  • #5
  • Posted: 02/11/2019 22:12
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u2 also open the compilation albums for the soundtracks of batman forever and lara croft:tomb raider
RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad

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  • #6
  • Posted: 02/12/2019 00:20
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Tap wrote:
u2 also open the compilation albums for the soundtracks of batman forever and lara croft:tomb raider


Fun fact for sure.

Would you like those included?

I often forget how decent a rock song Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me is... and I do like that remix of Elevation.

Especially this at 2:18-3:12 (even if the evil U2 thing is ridiculous) (which starts tomb raider):

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And this classic which starts Batman Forever?

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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control
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  • #7
  • Posted: 02/12/2019 03:55
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Michael1981 wrote:
I went for Zooropa, but it's possible I'm just trying to be different


Or cause it's amazing? It's got this soft dreamlike quality that then explodes into a dreamlike epiphany. Maybe the smoothest music white dudes in alternative rock have ever made?
AfterHours
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  • #8
  • Posted: 02/12/2019 04:04
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Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) off of their masterpiece Funeral (2004) ๐Ÿ˜‰




Whoops ๐Ÿ˜




Serious answer: Where The Streets Have No Name (Joshua Tree)
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control
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  • #9
  • Posted: 02/12/2019 04:13
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AfterHours wrote:
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) off of their masterpiece Funeral (2004) ๐Ÿ˜‰




Whoops ๐Ÿ˜




Serious answer: Where The Streets Have No Name (Joshua Tree)


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Stupid tonal (or melodic) music all sounds the same. (Saying this both seriously [in agreement] and sarcastically [in disagreement]).

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AfterHours
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  • #10
  • Posted: 02/12/2019 04:23
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sethmadsen wrote:
AfterHours wrote:
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) off of their masterpiece Funeral (2004) ๐Ÿ˜‰




Whoops ๐Ÿ˜




Serious answer: Where The Streets Have No Name (Joshua Tree)


๐Ÿคฃ

Stupid tonal (or melodic) music all sounds the same. (Saying this both seriously [in agreement] and sarcastically [in disagreement]).

:lol:


๐Ÿคฃ

Yep, I agree, there's some truth to that, particularly if we add "mainstream pop" to the statement. And especially formally and in the cadence of the chorus.

But what I was really referring to (halfway tongue in cheek) is Funeral having its share of doses of U2 (at their best), paricularly that opener ... but also in choosing it over any U2 song, alluding to its superiority. Though in a fun way. The explanation makes it less fun but oh well.. ๐Ÿคฃ Joshua Tree and Boy are "minor masterpieces" in their own right
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