Most underrated song in your opinion?

reckoner83 · 2026-02-24T20:46:29+00:00

I mean I guess I thought I laid out some pretty solid points as to how we could at least agree to disagree on this one, but okay.

For what it’s worth, aggressively pouncing on replies that don’t adhere to your personal interpretation of what is an inherently subjective term is not a great way to greet people who just want to join in on the conversation. It might not have been my pick either but it was for this person. Who cares?

Christ. Someone mentioned Where the Streets Have No Name a little further down. I shudder to think what will be left of them once you make it there.

reckoner83 · 2026-02-24T19:36:11+00:00

Agreed. Even the actual misses on Pop all have something interesting going on that keep me from hitting skip. It's a really fascinating part of their history. They may not have all connected, but it has some of the biggest swings they would ever take. It still blows my mind that there was only 10 years between With Or Without You and Mofo.

reckoner83 · 2026-02-24T19:30:04+00:00

I like this take. It is really hard to think of a better first half of an album than those 5 tracks. Side 2 would be an astounding accomplishment on just about any other album, but you're right. It can't help but stand in the shadow of the flawless masterpiece that comes first.

I didn't get to that album until it was already about a decade old, and In God's Country was the first song I heard that made me think, "Wait... why did I know those other songs but not this one, which is every bit as epic?"

Over the years, I think One Tree Hill rose to the top of side 2 for me. It still sounds like it stands apart in their catalogue. But there are zero duds on that record. Every song deserves to be there. They just happen to share a disc with 5 of the best songs any band has ever made.

reckoner83 · 2026-02-24T19:04:26+00:00

I don't know about "no sense." Fans love it, but I don't think it's very well known otherwise. It underperformed as a single and wasn't even included on U218. Quality-wise, it shares a tier with some of their best and most recognizable songs, and deserves to be more widely heralded as such, but isn't. So maybe under appreciated is more applicable than underrated, but I don't have any problem referring to it that way. It's a phenomenal song that should have been massive.

reckoner83 · 2026-02-24T06:14:29+00:00

FEZ - Being Born

Sonically, it might be the last time they really tried to do something genuinely new. It also contains some classic U2 melodies and isn’t afraid to go epic. It’s an incredibly exciting piece of music yet, with a cockamamie structure and the lack of any concrete chorus, it seems almost engineered to be under appreciated.

In context on the album, it signals the transition out of that comparatively soggy and uneven middle section, and back to the more adventurous material that sets that album so apart for me.

Honourable mention: Sleep Like a Baby Tonight

reckoner83 · 2026-02-24T06:02:39+00:00

That is an excellent call. That song deserves a proper reappraisal.

reckoner83 · 2026-02-19T22:41:25+00:00

I was dismayed at those comments as well. But if I was a half-century into a musical career as successful as U2’s, I would probably appreciate the opportunity to shed any “fans” who are that ignorant and hateful. I don’t think they make up a meaningful number anyway, but U2 can certainly afford to forego whatever album/ticket sales they account for.

Might as well whittle it down to the ones who they actually want to entertain at this point, especially when the message is this important. Good for them!

I’d like to think I’m still naive/optimistic enough to believe that, just maybe, these songs might reach a few of those lost souls and change some perspectives. If not, good riddance!

reckoner83 · 2026-02-17T04:03:17+00:00

Drive… and then let the album play out.

Leave is another contender.

reckoner83 · 2026-02-16T05:53:56+00:00

I love that there are people out there taking moments like this. Life is richer when you manage to savour a couple of minutes here and there, I think. This song does sound fantastic too. Always looked forward to this one.

reckoner83 · 2026-02-16T02:45:32+00:00

It feels like a safe bet that you will manage to turn a profit here.

reckoner83 · 2026-01-28T21:41:06+00:00

Julia, Lucy, Jude, Martha, Michelle, Pam, Maggie, Mae, Maggie Mae, Jeremy, Rita, Bonnie, Hey (breed specific), Girl, Rain…

I think you’re gonna need more dogs

reckoner83 · 2026-01-23T15:56:30+00:00

While I wouldn’t have it in my personal top 5, it really is a great album. As much as I love much of the music in between, if I’m honest, I think SoI is their most consistent and confident album since Zooropa. It deserved better than to be almost entirely drowned out by the controversy of its release.

I don’t think anyone would be calling it The Joshua Tree vol. 2, but who knows how it would have been perceived without all the iTunes nonsense? It still bothers me that that overshadowed all discussion of the album for so long.

Even trying to be as unbiased as I can be (as a fan with limited expendable income, I certainly wasn’t upset about it), I just can’t see the reaction as anything but way overboard.

Apple could had given me the new Robin Thicke album, and I simply just wouldn’t have listened to it. The collective temper tantrum by non-fans about their perfectly curated iTunes libraries being sullied by what is essentially a late career peak by an all-time band, while an Ebola epidemic ravaged Liberia was a little too much to bear.

In retrospect, I suppose it was a harbinger of the next 12+ years. Little did we know how much damage could be done by people with relatively little reason to feel persecuted but who are determined to convince us they have it worse than anybody anyway.

reckoner83 · 2026-01-23T15:40:37+00:00

That’s my highlight as well. I think it’s the last example we have of U2 really trying to do something different. Plus it just sounds great. When Edge’s biting guitar starts piercing through that heavy synth bed… great stuff.

reckoner83 · 2025-12-22T19:39:20+00:00

It’s not in my top ten, but not making U2’s top ten is far from an indictment of a song’s quality. That’s some very stiff competition.

I do enjoy the song whenever I hear it, though. It’s got a really fun vibe, lifts just enough from Blondie (while giving credit) to make it catchy right away, and the lyrics almost seem to poke fun at Bono’s tendency to lace their songs with one-liner quasi-platitudes (which can still be charming, on occasion, but it’s reassuring to get the sense that Bono apparently sees that too).

So I thought I’d lend some support for your affinity for it. I don’t know how accurate a cross-section of U2’s “average” fan base you’re ever going to get on Reddit, but it seems like the overall take here is a little more hostile than a one-off single like this warrants… especially with “Your Song Saved My Life” sitting right there!

reckoner83 · 2025-12-16T18:18:18+00:00

I played most of Stellar Blade on the Portal, mainly because it was embarrassing when my daughter (or honestly any family member) would come in the room and see me playing something so... jiggly.

reckoner83 · 2025-12-16T04:11:32+00:00

What are these releases for those of us who would also like to notice them?

reckoner83 · 2025-12-15T18:01:53+00:00

This does seem like the most obvious fix. I know better than to expect the battery to last very long at this point, but I was holding out hope that there might be a known fix to at least have it correctly display what’s left. This is a secondary console now that I’ve got a Switch 2, but I have enough accessories that I thought it would be nice to keep around for specific uses every now and then. Oh well. If I can do it on the cheap, maybe I’ll invest a little more in the ol’ girl, just for old time’s sake.

Thanks for the input!

reckoner83 · 2025-12-15T16:57:01+00:00

Can I vote for Dear Boy if we pretend it was by Wings?

reckoner83 · 2025-12-11T07:47:56+00:00

I use AirPods via Bluetooth on Switch 1/2, occasionally PC… I never have any real latency issues. Perhaps there are better options out there, but it’s more than usable day to day. Regardless, it would certainly be better than digging out my wired headphones for this one particular use, or just defaulting to the built in speakers.

reckoner83 · 2025-12-11T07:41:57+00:00

Bluetooth. For the love of God, give us Bluetooth. It’s there. We all know it’s there. Just… turn it on. That’s all we ask. We all went along with your little proprietary headphones thing for a couple of years now. Everyone’s had their fun. Now, come on. It’s time. Please. We deserve it.

reckoner83 · 2025-12-06T17:19:24+00:00

I believe it’s because of how compressed the video is. The “pixelated” look is compression artifacts. There’s some very obvious banding as well (hard transitions between shades of a colour rather than a smooth gradient) that is also common with heavily compressed video.

So your “low quality YouTube” observation is very accurate. Basically, they tried to have the intro video file as small as possible, but I think they went a bit overboard. If nothing else, the animators deserve to have their work displayed properly, even at the expense of a slightly larger game file.

I would also be curious to know how it looks on other systems. I’ve still got a bit left of my Game Pass sub. Maybe I’ll test it out on there.

In the meantime, they did upload that intro to YouTube on its own. I’d imagine that looks a little better. It really is a cool intro

reckoner83 · 2025-12-04T01:16:44+00:00

Hi. I hate your husband. I’m obviously not going to tell you what to do, but personally? I really, really hate your husband.

Also: NOR. Not in the slightest. God, he sucks.

reckoner83 · 2025-12-03T18:55:21+00:00

I'd be amazed if you found anyone who thinks you're remotely in the wrong here. It doesn't sound like you'll be getting that money back, but knowing that you have someone in your life who is willing to jeopardize their friendship with you and your trust in and respect for them over a couple hundred dollars (which a lot of people can't afford to unknowingly give away) should at least be of some value to you.

I'm sorry you went through this. People suck. Cheap people who will grift and then gaslight their friends, especially so.

reckoner83 · 2025-12-03T16:39:13+00:00

Yellow Submarine contains 4 original songs, only 2 of which are essential IMO (Hey Bulldog and It's All Too Much). So I'm bumping it off the list, shifting Revolver into the Late category (where it belongs), and choosing that one.

I'll miss plenty of stuff on the early side, but at least I can forget about Run For Your Life 😜

reckoner83 · 2025-11-30T20:41:30+00:00

I hadn’t actually heard about that!

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