Best of U2

So in celebration of the new Vertigo U2 DVD today - I want to post what could be my most insightful blog posting yet. Let me know if you agree, disagree, don't care for any of my picks. I'm hoping to make some google search someday with this and get the band's attention. My contact information is here if you'd like to discuss over lunch someday guys!!! I'll buy!

Note that some categories may have more than one answer due to the impossibility sometime to come up with only one answer!

Best Era for U2 Songs - The 90s!!
Best Album for individual songs - Achtung Baby
Best "Art" Album to listen to start to finish - Zooropa
Most Identifiable Song Introduction - I Will Follow; Sunday Bloody Sunday
Best Song Introduction - The Fly; Until The End Of The World
Worst Song Introduction - Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Best Introduction to a CD - Zoo Station for Achtung Baby
Most Intriguing Introduction to a CD - Zooropa for Zooropa
Best Bass Line - Some Days Are Better Than Others; Please; If You Wear That Velvet Dress; Playboy Mansion; Stories for Boys
Best CD for Bass - Pop
Best Ballad/Slow Song - The First Time; Running to Stand Still; All I Want Is You
Best Cover - Slow Dancing; Can't Help Falling In Love
Best Song to Rock To - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me; Beautiful Day
Best Acoustic Versions - Desire; Staring at the Sun
Best Song for a Live Concert - Elevation; Pride (In The Name Of Love); Vertigo
Best Song to Sing Along to in Concert - City of Blinding Lights; Pride (In The Name of Love); Elevation
Song I still want to see in Concert - Exit
Most Interesting Lyrics - Until the End of the World..... The Passion of Christ as seen through the mind of Judas
Most Overplayed Songs - I Still Haven't Found...; Streets Have No Name
Least Favorite Song - When Love Comes to Town; Wild Honey
Best Cover of U2 Song - "40" by DC Talk or Mysterious Ways by Toby Mac
Best Drum Parts - Sunday Bloody Sunday; The Electric Co.; God Part 2; Beautiful Day; Mission Impossible Theme
Best Album for Playing For Company - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Worst Album for Playing For Company - Original Soundtracks I
Best Song done as "Passengers" - Your Blue Room
Best Video - Numb... gotta love the feet
Worst Video - Discotheque
Best Guitar Parts - Mysterious Ways; Sunday Bloody Sunday; I Will Follow
Best Song to have Kahn teach me on guitar - Trash, Trampoline, and the Party Girl; Mysterious Ways
Most Underrated Song - Exit; Please
Best Use Of Johnny Cash in a Song - The Wanderer
Best Dedication - Miracle Drug to "the amazing men and women, doctors and nurses of the Mayo Clinic"!!!!
Best Lyrics -
"You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice" (Running to Stand Still)
"To touch is to heal, To hurt is to steal, If you wanna kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel - on your knees boy" (Mysterious Ways)
All of Please... "So love is hard and love is tough, but love is not what you're thinking of"
"Green Light, 7-11, You stop in, for a pack of cigarettes. You don't smoke, don't even want to, Hey now, take your change" (Stay (Faraway, So Close!))
"I know a boy, a boy called Trash - Trash Can. I know he does all that he can WHAM BAM..... I know a boy, a boy called Trampoline, you know what I mean" (Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl)
Best Melody - Original of the Species; Mysterious Ways; Beautiful Day
Best SongS - Elevation; Beautiful Day; Mysterious Ways; Zoo Station; Party Girl; Exit

And Claire being the 2nd biggest U2 fan I know (I would never give up standing 5 feet from Bono and The Edge for a wedding but it's all about priorities) offered some insight as to her favorites to compare to mine:

Best Song - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Best Album - Unforgettable Fire
Best Lyrics - "one love, one life, when its one need in the night. one love, we get to share it, leaves you baby if you don't care for it.......one life, but we're not the same. we get to carry each other" (One)
Best Song for Live Performance - Pride (In the Name of Love)
Best Guitar Line - Beginning of Pride (In the Name of Love), Mysterious Ways
Best Beat - For Rock & Roll, Beginning of Sunday Bloody Sunday.... and for "other things" - With or Without You

Her closing thoughts were.... I love U2!! In no particular order: God, Family, and U2!!

I tend to agree

And my friend Jen had some contributions of her own:

Best Song - Where the Streets Have No Name
Best Song Live - Elevation

Anyone else?