8 Great Albums That Are Incredibly Top Heavy With Their Best Songs

The Joshua Tree is often praised as U2's best work, where their signature sound is perfected and the shimmering glints of Edge's guitar work and Bono's eloquent vocals work off one another beautifully.

With the opening song 'Where The Streets Have No Name' the album instantly drags you into it's cool collected vibe as the song warms up to the point it feels larger than life. 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' and 'Running To Stand Still' continues the theme of sound stretched across space and time, and is pure heaven for your ears.

'With Or Without You' remains the powerful, epic love ballad it's always been and shows the masterful control U2 had over their sound with a perfect blend of subtlety and raw emotion.

Then the remainder of the album, while still fantastic, sticks close to the atmospherics without a focus on being as memorable. It's hard to explain why, as the songs don't abruptly dip in quality, but they lack the hooks and punch of passion the initial tracks promise.

Some of the finest material 'The Worlds Best Band' has ever produced comprises the first 5 tracks, and while the 2nd half is still a somber listen, it simply does not compare the now-classic opening songs.

To give you an idea of how top-heavy the album's tracklist is, the first 3 songs alone have 700,000,000 plays combined on Spotify, while the remaining 8 barely scrape together 90,000,000 between them.