Originally posted by yeah:90s for sure. Fantastic albums, amazing tours, perfect political actions. Everything they touched became gold... and then along came Stuck...
Originally posted by conjasnat:has to be the 80's for me and always will be, drive and energy, the shaping of the altime greatest band in history, Raw and pumped up without any gimics, 4 friends driving a crowd into utter madness, crying my eyes out with the first chimes of Bad (edinburgh 84) if you havent heard this one give it a go the lads were outstanding that night. getting crushed in the stampeed on the war tour, Live aid, JT, streets, never has an album had so many rock anthems and everyone a single if they wanted to release them, oh the memories. God i love them guys.
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I think it's too hard to determine. On the one hand you have the 80's, when U2 grew and got to a stage where they couldn't take the (then) current band direction any further. Without the 80's there'd be no respect for what they did in the 90's. If a band started out in the 90's and their debut album was Achtung Baby and for some reason they had enough money to pull off ZooTV, it wouldn't be nearly as effective, simply because half of the whole spectacle and idea is the transition from 80's U2 to 90's U2. You can't have U2 without the 80's or the 90's, and in my opinion you can't pick!
The topic is "U2's best decade". I guess the definition of best would have to be determined. Best music? Most success? Most growth? I say 80's and 90's are tied either way.