# Best song off of U2's "the Joshua Tree"?

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**Created:** [September 29, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-u2s-the-joshua-tree/555478 "2010-09-29T15:29:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-u2s-the-joshua-tree/555478/21 "2010-09-30T12:49:42Z")

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I picked Bullet The Blue Sky, because I can see those fighter planes.

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**Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-u2s-the-joshua-tree/555478/22 "2010-09-30T14:40:03Z")

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Really hard to choose; my favorite off of this album changes regularly.

I voted for _One Tree Hill_, though, because it’s a great song, and positioned perfectly on the album. Whenever I’m listening to the CD, and it gets to _One Tree Hill_, it’s like a breath of relief after everything that had come before.

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**Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-u2s-the-joshua-tree/555478/23 "2010-09-30T16:17:52Z")

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The first song I heard from this album was “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Leaving For” &, um, I disliked two of the other tracks for sounding a lot like it & not being it. But I’ve come to appreciate them as well.

But my faves of the whole album are “Exit” & “Bullet the Blue Sky.”

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**Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-u2s-the-joshua-tree/555478/24 "2010-09-30T20:30:55Z")

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> [@Chimera](#):
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> _I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For._  
> But not my all time favorite U2 song. That would be the live version of Bad, off the _Wide Awake In America_ EP.

Oh, seconded!

But I went for “Running to stand still” for this poll - love the ‘hallelujah’ section.

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