I love “Up the Junction” and am happy to see it on the list.
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Used To Love Her - Guns N’ Roses
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Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother - Jerry Jeff Walker (written by Ray Wylie Hubbard)
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Uptight (Everything’s Alright) - Stevie Wonder
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Uncle John’s Band - Grateful Dead
Uncle Fucker - Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Up on the Sun - Meat Puppets
Unbelievers - Vampire Weekend
USA IV: Manifest - Dan Deacon
Universe City - Man or Astro-Man?
U.S.S.A - The Butthole Surfers
Yeah, if I could just post that album in its entirety and tell the unpleasant condiment to grab my first selection from its titles as their letter rolls around, I would. But that’d kind of ruin the fun of me remembering them, now wouldn’t it? Plus, there’s no real point in making the condiments mad by asking them to serve as our secretaries when they’re already doing us a favor.
I guess, but I didn’t have a problem coming up with more than 5 songs and had to prune down quite a bit, just from my own restrictive active playlist.
If I was going by more open criteria like every song I know, I’d have had even more of a task there, many great older or male-sung postpunk/indie/alternative songs haven’t been mentioned yet, by giants of those genres.
Underneath The Radar - Underworld
Una Paloma Blanca - George Baker Selection
Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton
Unskinny Bop - Poison
Unintended - Muse
Up the Hill Backwards - David Bowie
Untitled - The Cure
I laughed.
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What are your favorite U songs? POLL 1 of 3. Select up to 8 from this list.
- U Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer
- U Got the Look – Prince
- U Know What’s Up – 4*TOWN
- U Plavu Zuru – Pink Martini
- U.M.C. (Upper Middle Class) – Bob Seger
- U.N.I.T.Y. – Queen Latifa
- U.S. Blues – Grateful Dead
- U.S.S.A. – The Butthole Surfers
- Ugly – Skating Polly
- Ugly Boy – Die Antwoord
- Ugly Girl – Fleming & John
- UH OH! – Sub Urban feat. BENEE
- Uh! All Night – Kiss
- UHF – “Weird Al” Yankovic
- Ukelele Lady – Bette Midler
- Ultraviolet (Light My Way) – U2
- Ulysses – Dead Can Dance
- Uma Thurman – Fall Out Boy
- Umbrella - Rihanna
- UMF – Duran Duran
- Un Alma Mas – Josh Groban
- Una Paloma Blanca – George Baker Selection
- The Unattainable Earth – Daniel Amos
- Unbelievable – Diamond Rio
- Unbelievable - EMF
- Unbelievers – Vampire Weekend
- Un-Break My Heart – Toni Braxton
- Unchain My Heart – Ray Charles
- Unchained – Van Halen
- Unchained Melody – The Righteous Brothers
- Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey – Paul McCartney
- Uncle Fucker – Trey Parker & Matt Stone
- Uncle Jeff – Arlo Guthrie
- Uncle John’s Band – Grateful Dead
- Uncle Remus – Frank Zappa
- Uncle Salty – Aerosmith
- Uncle Walter – Ben Folds Five
- Undecided – Ella Fitzgerald
- Under African Skies – Paul Simon
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What are your favorite U songs? POLL 2 of 3. Select up to 8 from this list.
- Under My Thumb – The Rolling Stones
- Under My Wheels – Alice Cooper
- Under Pressure – Queen
- Under the Boardwalk – The Drifters
- Under the Bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Under the Milky Way – The Church
- Under the Sea – Samuel E. Wright
- Undercover Angel – Alan O’Day
- Undercover of the Night – The Rolling Stones
- Underdog – The Blanks
- Underground – Montrose
- The Underground – Meg Myers
- Underneath It All – No Doubt
- Underneath the Radar – Underworld
- Understand Your Man – Johnny Cash
- The Understudy – China Crisis
- Undertaker – Southern Culture on the Skids
- Undone (The Sweater Song) – Weezer
- Undun – The Guess Who
- Unfamiliar – Ride
- Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack
- Unforgettable – Nat King Cole
- The Unforgiven – Metallica
- The Unguarded Moment – The Church
- The Unheard Music – X
- Unintended – Muse
- Uninvited – Alanis Morissette
- Union Maid – Woody Guthrie
- Union of the Snake – Duran Duran
- Union Sundown – Bob Dylan
- United – Judas Priest
- United States of Whatever – Liam Lynch
- United We Stand – Brotherhood of Man
- Universal Soldier – First Aid Kit
- Universe City – Man or Astro-Man?
- Unknown Legend – Neil Young
- The Unknown Soldier – The Doors
- Unpack Your Adjectives – Sara Gazarek
- Unpretty – TLC
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What are your favorite U songs? POLL 3 of 3. Select up to 8 from this list.
- Unsatisfied – The Replacements
- Unskinny Bop - Poison
- Unsquare Dance – Dave Brubeck
- Unstoppable - Sia
- Until the End of the World – U2
- Until the Light – Lights
- Untitled – Collective Soul
- Untitled – The Cure
- Unwed Fathers – John Prine
- The Unwelcome Guest – Billy Bragg & Wilco
- Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother – Jerry Jeff Walker
- Up All Night – Cannons
- Up Around the Bend – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Up on Cripple Creek – The Band
- Up on the Roof – James Taylor
- Up on the Roof – The Drifters
- Up on the Sun – Meat Puppets
- Up the Hill Backwards – David Bowie
- Up the Junction – Squeeze
- Up the Ladder to the Roof – The Supremes
- Up the Neck – The Pretenders
- Up We Go – Lights
- Up Where We Belong – Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
- Up, Up & Away – The 5th Dimension
- Upside Down – Diana Ross
- Upside Down – Jack Johnson
- Uptight (Everything’s Alright) – Stevie Wonder
- Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars
- Uptown Girl – The Beths
- Ur Mum – Wet Leg
- ur so pretty – Wasia Project
- Urge For Going – Joni Mitchell
- Urgent – Foreigner
- Us and Them – Pink Floyd
- USA IV: Manifest – Dan Deacon
- Use Me – Bill Withers
- Use Somebody – Kings of Leon
- Used to Love Her – Guns N’ Roses
- The Usual Thing – Marshall Crenshaw
- Utopia Theme – Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
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OK, so polls are up, so herewith -
things that could have been nominated, that weren’t AFAICT, just off the top of my head:
Up Jumped The Devil - Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds
Upside Down - The Jesus and Mary Chain
U-Mass - The Pixies
Unloveable - The Smiths
Unhappy Birthday - The Smiths
Under the Gun - Sisters of Mercy
Under The House - Public Image Limited
Underpass - John Foxx
The Ubiquitous Mister Lovegrove by Dead Can Dance (props to @John_DiFool for the Ulysses nom)
ETA: The Universal by Blur, how could I forget?
But unfortunately, though the lyrics do include an Up, the Gorillaz song On Melancholy Hill doesn’t qualify.
Other U’s I considered:
- Unbearable Why – Dr. Dog
- Uncomplicated – Elvis Costello
- Underneath the Streetlight – Joni Mitchell
- Undertow – R.E.M.
- Uneasy Rider – The Charlie Daniels Band
- Uninhabited Man – Richard Thompson
- Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed – David Bowie
- Up to Me – Bob Dylan
- Use It – The New Pornographers
A few more:
Uh Uh - Thundercat (for all your manic jazz needs)
Unholy - Sam Smith / Kim Petras / Nova Twins (rather surprised this didn’t get mentioned)
The Unidentified Flying Tuna Trot - REO Speedwagon
updown - piri (it’s about sex)
Uska Dara - Eartha Kitt (it’s about bird’s milk. Apparently.)
And in a less serious vein:
Ugliest Girl On The Beach - Kyle Gordon / Antonio Frankfurt (words probably NSFW)
The Unidentified Flying Object - Perrey and Kingsley
Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom) - Kathy Kallick
Nominations left open for <22 hours. Congrats on your new speed record, mmm!
I can’t believe Uptown Girl by Billy Joel was not mentioned.
Not many from my list weren’t suggested by someone, but there are still a few left behind.
Under the Big Black Sun - X
Unhappy Girl - The Doors
Up to the Mountain - Patty Griffin
Used To Be Young - Miley Cyrus
Uptown - The Crystals 
And the one that I most regret not being able to suggest, A song most have heard in an iconic action movie (the singer is sometimes called the director’s muse).
Up All Night – Cannons
Alas the Boomtown Rats’ cut of the same name (but not a cover I don’t believe) didn’t make the cut.
Utopia Theme – Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
Utopia, by one of the core DCD members Brendan Perry (a solo effort so very low profile).
Undertow – R.E.M.
Chroma Key has a cut by this name too.
Under The Bamboo Tree - Judy Garland
Thought of another: Bob Dylan’s Under the Red Sky.
A song in which Dylan plays accordion for the first time on a record, accompanied by Al Kooper on the Hammond and George Harrison on slide guitar.
mmm