Summary from 86 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated U2’s catalog across 53 albums from 86 opinions, with an overall average of 7.8/10. The top-rated U2 album is The Joshua Tree (1987) with a 9.2/10 average from 8 ratings, followed by Achtung Baby (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) and War. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1980 to 2026. Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of (Songs of Surrender) ranks as the highest-rated U2 song on Rate.fm with a 10.0/10 average.
Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of (Songs of Surrender)
U2 • 2023
With or Without You
U2 • 1987
Vertigo
U2 • 2004
The Joshua Tree
“The Joshua Tree has been U2’s most popular album since about ten minutes after it was released. The 1987 smash was the culmination of their American phase, between their florid, young-European phase and their grizzled, mature-European phase. The album’s huge commercial success whisked the lads from superstardom to megastardom, and they spent the next decade […]”
Songs of Innocence
“No other rock band does rebirth like U2. No other band – certainly of U2's duration, commercial success and creative achievement – believes it needs rebirth more and so often. But even by the standards of transformation on 1987's The Joshua Tree and 1991's Achtung! Baby, Songs of Innocence – U2's first studio album in five years – is a triumph of dynamic, focused renaissance: 11 tracks of straight”
Achtung Baby (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
“At the dawn of the 1990s, most of the biggest bands in the world – Def Leppard, INXS, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, Poison – marched blindly into the new decade, releasing a watereddown retread of their last album. Not U2. Abandoning the stadium-size sincerity of LPs like The Joshua Tree, they went to Berlin, drew […]”