sharky
New Yorker
So I had a friend at work say "Vertigo is good but it's not in my all-time top 25 U2 songs." I said it was in mine. So he challenged me: make a list of your top 25. Which I did. And it sucked.
Edge said in some thread around here that songs are like children -- you can't pick your favorites. Hell, all I do is listen to the damn things and I felt the same way. Problems with doing this include the fact that the first five songs on Joshua Tree HAVE to be on my list. Then there are alot of songs that barely don't make it -- the No. 26s if you will. I had alot of those. Desire, 11 O'Clock, Stay!, Hold Me Thrill Me. I don't think I included any October songs and only one Zooropa song [Lemon] and the only non-album song I included was A Celebration. But I made room and Vertigo survived somehow.
So I'm not asking for your Top 25 list [we can start another thread for that]. And you don't have to even rank the songs -- 25 songs in any random order. So sit down and make the list. Take into account that you can include ANY song they've done and that you have to put Vertigo at a slight disadvantage because it's new and fresher than some of the classics. And remember that not choosing Vertigo doesn't mean it sucks and you have to disown it. Based on present day now, is it in your Top 25? And what song were relegated to No. 26 to make room for Vertigo?
[and that, my friends, is how to write a long intro to a short question]
Edge said in some thread around here that songs are like children -- you can't pick your favorites. Hell, all I do is listen to the damn things and I felt the same way. Problems with doing this include the fact that the first five songs on Joshua Tree HAVE to be on my list. Then there are alot of songs that barely don't make it -- the No. 26s if you will. I had alot of those. Desire, 11 O'Clock, Stay!, Hold Me Thrill Me. I don't think I included any October songs and only one Zooropa song [Lemon] and the only non-album song I included was A Celebration. But I made room and Vertigo survived somehow.
So I'm not asking for your Top 25 list [we can start another thread for that]. And you don't have to even rank the songs -- 25 songs in any random order. So sit down and make the list. Take into account that you can include ANY song they've done and that you have to put Vertigo at a slight disadvantage because it's new and fresher than some of the classics. And remember that not choosing Vertigo doesn't mean it sucks and you have to disown it. Based on present day now, is it in your Top 25? And what song
[and that, my friends, is how to write a long intro to a short question]