To follow on from my Top 15 I just have to add another 5 songs and make it a Top 20! (again in no particular order):

16. Bullet The Blue Sky
17. Lemon
18. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
19. Love Is Blindness
20. Until The End Of The World

After all these years I still can't get enough of this band!

With or Without You is by far their standout song, just terrific.

Beautiful day - not coz it's a particularly great song or coz I love Windows it just takes me back to that time.

With or without you - even before I watched friends... Loved it

Sunday bloody Sunday... Shouldn't but I do. Sad

Numb - good god I hated this when j was young. The video wtf!!! The mumbling and the scraping. It's only when I was older I got into it.

Hold me thrill me kiss me kill me - ok any Irish on here of a certain age will remember the heatwave of 1995 and this song was everywhere.
It's not really heard much now or at least I don't hear it but this is my favourite U2 song

Add me to those that loved Hold Me, Thrill Me...
A criminally underrated song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDl1c0nR5SI

Red Hill Mining Town is my fave U2 song and IMO underrated.

1.Mysterious ways
2.One
3.Last night on earth
4.With or without you
5.Desire

How could I leave out Mofo?! One of my faves! I love it's pounding, driving beat and wish they'd recorded more songs with a rhythm like that! Very Chemical Brothers/Prodigy.

I must admit I wish they had persevered a bit more with some serious dance rhythms.

Is Pop their most undervalued album?

Yes, the album Pop is undervalued and underrated, I agree, although I wish they had put more songs like Mofo on it and less slow tempo numbers. It has some great tracks on it, like Staring At The Sun, Last Night On Earth, Gone, The Playboy Mansion, Please and I do love Discotheque, even though I know a lot of people thought it wasn't great and was very un-U2-like. That's what I love about it though, and the band at that time - they were doing different things, branching out and being adventurous and having fun with it too. The video for Discotheque is damn hilarious! Like I said though, I just wish there were less downbeat, slow tempo songs on it and more tracks like Mofo. It could have been U2's experimental dance album, full of thumping, pounding rhythms. They missed a trick there! I guess they didn't want to alienate their existing fanbase too much, which is a shame. I like when U2 make an album for themselves and challenge themselves, rather than just making what they think everyone wants to hear from them. I love experimental U2. Achtung Baby and Zooropa remain my favourite albums of theirs, followed by The Joshua Tree. Of their more recent albums I do like No Line On The Horizon. The title track is worth getting the album for alone!

That's why I love them so much.They're always experimenting, trying different styles and pushing themselves to write that 'perfect' album.They haven't rested on their laurels and that's why they're unique.

I'm glad they continually feel inspired to write new music and not just become a heritage nostalgia act! I haven't liked everything they've recorded in recent years but there's still so much greatness on every album of theirs. I look forward to what they do next. I think we're lucky to still have U2 around (with the same line up) after 37 plus years still making new music!!! They're a rarity! I just hope that Bono goes easy on himself and doesn't do injury to himself again just before their next tour! The man is a walking disaster area, lol!

Will there be a companion album to 'Songs of Innocence' called 'Songs of Experience' if they are following William Blake? 'Songs of Experience' was a real return to a rawer form which was lost in 'No Line...' which sounded overproduced to me.

Like Springsteen, U2 still write good stuff after 37 years although they are not as prolific as Springsteen. And again like Springsteen, U2 are one of the best live acts around yet they have only one short, completely live album release?

U2 are working on the new album as we speak.

From @U2:

One Republic's Ryan Tedder, who had production credits on four tracks from Songs Of Innocence, is apparently co-producing Songs Of Experience, too, and talked about U2's progress in a recent Radio.com interview:

"What is the most modern thing you can do that still has the DNA and soul of U2 but just elevates the songs [by making them] more accessible? It's a very, very accessible sounding record. But it's not pop. It's just great. It's like: I would buy this album. And I know that a lot of our younger fans would buy, or stream, the album."

Tedder sounds like a fan of All That You Can't Leave Behind, because he says U2's new material is "the most exciting stuff" he's heard since that album.

BTW, on September 25th U2 celebrate 40 years since they got together in Larry's kitchen.They weren't U2 for another 18 months but the core 4 are still together.Amazing

Surprised to see Beautiful Day not get mentioned a lot

I love Beautiful Day.It's such an upbeat song and it's amazing to hear live.

Rejoice
11 O'clock Tick Tock (Under A Blood Red Sky version)
I Will Follow

Hard to place anything else, I like many songs but this is a band who capitulated into crap-pop post Rattle And Hum IMO.

Favourite singles

01 One
02 Stay
03 Stuck in a Moment
04 All I Want is You
05 The Fly
06 Where The Streets Have No Name
07 With or Without You
08 Angel of Harlem
09 Even Better Than The Real Thing
10 Window In The Skies

Favourite non-singles

01 Original of the Species
02 Sunday Bloody Sunday
03 Ultraviolet
04 The Wanderer
05 Love is Blindness
06 So Cruel
07 Red Hill Mining
08 Trip Through Your Wires
09 Bullet The Blue Sky
10 Bad

Original of The Species > One

One of my fave U2 live songs:

https://youtu.be/JpozVvYe-h4?t=6

I'll start with yours..

Another time another place
Twilight
New years day
Tomorrow
The unforgettable fire

Mysterious Ways.

That's my favourite song off my favourite album.

They never topped Boy for me: Twilight, Out of Control, Stories for Boys, A Day Without Me, The Electric Co. Just classic stuff.

Always found their material very divisive. Some fine stuff, but also things that have me dashing for the off switch (The Sweetest Thing, Elevation etc. trite, lumpen tosh).

Top 5:

Electrical Storm
Breathe
Lemon
The Unforgettable Fire
Heartland

Btw - if we can detour in to Bono/Edge compositions, then I'd include 'She's a Mystery to Me', a lovely song they wrote for Roy Orbison.

It wasn't my favourite to start with (when first purchased many moons ago.... 1983 I think), that would've been Out Of Control or I Will Follow for the sheer energy levels.

I agree, they never topped Boy although October and War are both still excellent albums. Just shows what an extraordinary debut it was.