U2 weren't great songwriters when they first came together as high schoolers in 1976. It took them a couple of years as a second rate Dublin cover band to even rise to the level of juvenilia like "Cartoon World" and "Science Fiction Tune." But as the Seventies folded into the Eighties, something clicked and suddenly amazing bursts of
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The 50 Greatest U2 Songs