# The Best U2 Guitar Solos

> The 18 best U2 guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Bullet the Blue Sky (1987), then The Fly and Mysterious Ways. Every video starts at the solo.

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The Edge rewrote the idea of a lead guitarist, using delay, texture and chiming harmonics rather than long solos to shape U2's sound. When he does step forward, his solos are sonic events, from war-torn slide to industrial fuzz.

Informed by: [CultureSonar](https://www.culturesonar.com/the-top-5-solos-by-the-edge/), [U2 Interference](https://www.u2interference.com/threads/edges-top-ten-guitar-solos.94727/)

1. [Bullet the Blue Sky](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-bullet-the-blue-sky/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1987
2. [The Fly](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-the-fly/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1991
3. [Mysterious Ways](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-mysterious-ways/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1991
4. [Until the End of the World](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-until-the-end-of-the-world/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1991
5. [Love Is Blindness](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-love-is-blindness/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1991
6. [Surrender](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-surrender/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1983
7. [Sunday Bloody Sunday](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-sunday-bloody-sunday/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1983
8. [All Because of You](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-all-because-of-you/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 2004
9. [Elevation](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-elevation/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 2000
10. [Vertigo](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-vertigo/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 2004
11. [I Will Follow](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-i-will-follow/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1980
12. [Where the Streets Have No Name](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-where-the-streets-have-no-name/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1987
13. [Gone](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-gone/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1997
14. [Bad](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-bad/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1984
15. [Exit](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-exit/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 1987
16. [Electrical Storm](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-electrical-storm/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 2002
17. [Kite](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-kite/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 2000
18. [Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of](https://greatestsolos.com/song/u2-stuck-in-a-moment-you-can-t-get-out-of/) — U2 · solo by The Edge · 2000

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