# Recommend some recent U2 music

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-recent-u2-music/567859>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 16, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-recent-u2-music/567859 "2011-01-16T20:40:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-recent-u2-music/567859/1 "2011-01-16T20:40:27Z")

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U2 has had some of their most successful/award-winning music in the last decade. But, in all honesty, the last U2 song I can name is “Walk On” or “Beautiful Day”. Tell me what I’m missing.

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**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-recent-u2-music/567859/2 "2011-01-16T20:43:22Z")

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Their last album was quite good. Search YouTube for White as Snow.

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**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-recent-u2-music/567859/3 "2011-01-16T20:47:43Z")

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Well, I can’t stand them, but if you want to hear their absolute latest work, you’ll somehow get your hands on the Spiderman musical soundtrack.

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**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-recent-u2-music/567859/4 "2011-01-16T21:01:44Z")

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My hubby is a bona fide U2 fan (he says he doesn’t qualify as a superfan). Singles-wise, we recommend:

- Vertigo (From _How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb_)
- In the City of Blinding Lights (HTDAB)
- Get on Your Boots (from _No Line on the Horizon_)
- No Line on the Horizon (um…)
- Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own (a song written by Bono to his recently passed father; very poignant to me as my father died in 2009) (HTDAB)
- Breathe (NLOH)
- Magnificent (NLOH)