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U2 Acronym Dictionary
« on: June 05, 2011, 09:19:03 PM »
As requested by a few forum members, this is a list of U2 songs listed by their acronyms. I will maintain this list.

I request that you PM me if you see any errors, omissions or have a better acronym to contribute.


•   11OCTT - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
•   40
•   4OJ/FOJ - 4th of July

•   AATW - All Along the Watchtower
•   ABOY - All Because of You
•   AC - A Celebration
•   ACD - An Cat Dubh
•   Acrobat
•   AD - Another Day
•   ADIHFABOM/K1 - Alex Descends Into Hell for a Bottle of Milk/Korova 1
•   ADKOB - A Different Kind of Blue
•   ADWM - A Day Without Me
•   AFN - Always Forever Now
•   AG – Amazing Grace
•   AIWIY - All I Want Is You
•   Always
•   AM - Ave Maria
•   AMAAW - A Man and a Woman
•   AOH - Angel of Harlem
•   ARATHH - A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
•   ASOH - A Sort of Homecoming
•   ATAP - Another Time, Another Place
•   AYGWF - Are You Gonna Wait Forever

•   Babyface
•   Bad
•   BD - Beautiful Day
•   BG - Beautiful Ghost
•   BGAB - Big Girls Are Best
•    BYHD - Blow Your House Down
•   BI - Boomerang I
•   BII - Boomerang II
•   Boots – Get on Your Boots
•   B/G - Boy/Girl
•   Breathe
•   BS - Beach Sequence
•   BT - Bass Trap
•   BTBS - Bullet the Blue Sky
•   B(WNOY) - Bottoms (Watashitachi No Ookina Yume)
•   BYHD - Blow Your House Down

•   C(BPCH) - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
•   CFYT - Crumbs From Your Table
•   CHFIL - Can't Help Falling In Love
•   COBL - City Of Blinding Lights
•   COL - Cedars of Lebanon
•   Corpse
•   Crazy - I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
•   C(TCAWTL) - Corpse (These Chains Are Way Too Long)

•   DB - Dancing Barefoot
•   DC – Drunk Chicken
•   DD - Dirty Day
•   Desire
•   DGPFYCC - Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
•   Discotheque
•   DITH - Deep In the Heart
•   DM - Drowning Man
•   DS - Dancing Shoes
•   DTYGTT - Don't Take Your Guns To Town
•   DWTIME - Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes
•   DYFL - Do You Feel Loved

•   EAA - Elvis Ate America
•   ED - Endless Deep
•   EBTTRT - Even Better than the Real Thing
•   EL - Everlasting Love
•   Elevation
•   EPAA - Elvis Presley and America
•   ES - Electrical Storm
•   Exit

•   FAYF - Falling at Your Feet
•   FBB - Fez – Being Born
•   FC - Fast Cars
•   Fire
•   Flower Child
•   FS - Fortunate Son

•   Glastonbury
•   Gloria
•   Gone
•   GOYB - Get On Your Boots
•   GPII - God Part II
•   Grace

•   H269 - Hawkmoon 269
•   Heartland
•   HHSC - Hallelujah Here She Comes
•   HIAWG - Happiness is a Warm Gun
•   HJ - Holy Joe
•   HMTMKMKM - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
•   HS - Helter Skelter

•   IALW - In a Little While
•   IBIFC – I Believe in Father Christmas
•   IFD - I Fall Down
•   IGCIIDGCT - I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
•   IGC - In God's Country
•   IGWSHA - If God Will Send His Angels
•   INYB – I’m Not Your Baby
•   IO - Ito Okashi
•   ISHFWILF - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
•   ISS - Indian Summer Sky
•   ITA - Is That All?
•   ITABTAW - I Threw a Brick Through a Window
•   ITH - Into the Heart
•   IWF - I Will Follow
•   IYWTVD - If You Wear that Velvet Dress

•   JC - Jesus Christ
•   JITB - Jack in a Box
•   JS - J Swallow

•   Kite

•   LAPOE - Love And Peace Or Else
•   LAS - Like a Song...
•   LCT - Love Comes Tumbling
•   Lemon
•   Levitate
•   LIB - Love Is Blindness
•   LNOE - Last Night On Earth
•   LRM - Love Rescue Me
•   LT – Luminous Times
•   LT(HOTL) - Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
•   LWTSH - Lady With The Spinning Head
•   LYLM - Love You Like Mad

•   Magnificent
•   MD - Miracle Drug
•   Mercy
•   Miami
•   MLK
•   Mofo
•   MOS - Moment of Surrender
•   MOTD - Mothers of the Disappeared
•   MS - Miss Sarajevo
•   MW - Mysterious Ways

•   NAD - Night and Day
•   NASOFTR – North and South of the River
•   NL - Neon Lights
•   NLMG - Never Let Me Go
•   NLOTH - No Line On The Horizon
•   North Star
•   NS - Native Son
•   Numb
•   NY - New York
•   NYD - New Year's Day

•   October
•   OMW - One Minute Warning
•   One
•   OOC - Out of Control
•   OOTS - Original Of The Species
•   OSC - One Step Closer
•   OTH - One Tree Hill
•   Outake 2: Sixty Seconds in Kingdom Come

•   PG – Party Girl
•   PIB - Paint it Black
•   PITNOL - Pride (In the Name of Love)
•   POE - Peace On Earth
•   PTC - Pete the Chop
•   Please
•   Plot 180
•   PM - Pop Muzik
•   Pride - Pride (In the Name of Love)
•   Promenade

•   RAT - Race Against Time
•   Rejoice
•   RHMT - Red Hill Mining Town
•   RL - Red Light
•   RTSS - Running to Stand Still

•   SAG - Silver and Gold
•   Salome
•   SAMTM - She's a Mystery to Me
•   SATS - Staring at the Sun
•   SATT - Shadows and Tall Trees
•   SBS - Sunday Bloody Sunday
•   SC - So Cruel
•   Scarlet
•   SD - Slow Dancing
•   SDABTO - Some Days Are Better Than Others
•   SE - Spanish Eyes
•   Seibu – Slug (working title)
•   Seconds
•   SFB - Stories for Boys
•   S(FSC) - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
•   SIAMYCGOO - Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
•   SIASL - Stranger in a Strange Land
•   Slug
•   SM - Street Missions
•   Smile
•   SOL - Satellite of Love
•   SR - Summer Rain
•   SSTKC - Sixty Seconds In Kingdom Come
•   ST - Sweetest Thing
•   Stateless
•   Streets – Where The Streets Have No Name
•   Stay
•   SUC - Stand Up Comedy
•   Surrender
•   SYCMIOYO - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

•   TEC - The Electric Co.
•   TF - The Fool
•   TFLGN - Theme from Let's Go Native
•   TFTS - Theme from the Swan
•   TFT - The First Time
•   TGBHF - The Ground Beneath Her Feet
•   THBAO - Two Hearts Beat As One
•   The Fly
•   THTBA - The Hands That Built America
•   TO - The Ocean
•   Tomorrow
•   Touch
•   TPM - The Playboy Mansion
•   TR - The Refugee
•   Trevor
•   TSOHOSOS - Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad
•   TTATPG (PG) - Trash, Trampoline, and the Party Girl
•   TTMAD - Things to Make and Do
•   TTS - The Three Sunrises
•   TTTYAATW - Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
•   TTYW - Trip Through Your Wires
•   TUF - The Unforgettable Fire
•   TW - The Wanderer
•   Twilight
 
•   UC - Unknown Caller
•   UCOP - United Colours Of Plutonium
•   UM - Unchained Melody
•   UTEOTW - Until the End of the World
•   UV - Ultraviolet

•   VD - Viva Davidoff
•   VDL - Van Diemen's Land
•   Vertigo

•   WAIA – Wide Awake In America
•   WAIE – Wide Awake In Europe
•   WAS - With A Shout
•   WDIAGW - Where Did It All Go Wrong
•   WGRYWH - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
•   WH - Wild Honey
•   White As Snow
•   WILATW - When I Look at the World
•   WIR - Wild Irish Rose
•   Wire
•   WITS - Window In The Skies
•   WLCTT - When Love Comes To Town
•   WO - Walk On
•   WTSHNN - Where the Streets Have No Name
•   WTTW - Walk To the Water
•   WUDM - Wake Up Dead Man
•   WOWY - With Or Without You

•   XAW - Xanax And Wine

•   Yahweh
•   YBR - Your Blue Room

•   Zooropa
•   ZS - Zoo Station

If you want a comprehensive list of U2 demo's and rarities, please see this thread: http://forum.atu2.com/index.php/topic,13115.0.html

Just a word of Thanks! to the @U2 mods, forum members of @U2, Interference and U2.com for helping put this together!!!
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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2011, 03:09:59 PM »
heh heh heh glad to see this materialized! Nice work

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2011, 03:10:39 PM »
wished my list of U2 songs would've got stickied

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2011, 04:18:20 PM »
Thanks for this

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2011, 01:54:36 PM »
WOW......thanks! I've always been horrible with the U2 song acronym's.......now I know where to go for a bit of help!

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2011, 01:57:22 PM »
Hahaha this is great!

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2011, 04:15:18 PM »
I think we've usually done Ultraviolet as UV. But this is great too! Some minor differences from what's been adopted around here, but maybe these will stick!

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2011, 05:23:24 PM »
brilliant  :)  i'm usually pretty good with the acronyms, but some of the songs have like 15 words in the title, and i'm just not that smart!  :D

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2011, 05:37:02 PM »
did u copy and paste the one they have at interference?

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2011, 05:38:14 PM »
serious lack of song titles taht start with a J in the albums dept.

•   JS - J Swallow
•   JITB - Jack in a Box
•   JC - Jesus Christ

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2011, 09:53:19 PM »
did u copy and paste the one they have at interference?

Interference was the base list. I did do some clean up and shifting. I can't beleive I missed UV! I will fix that, thanks!

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2011, 10:02:18 PM »
serious lack of song titles taht start with a J in the albums dept.

•   JS - J Swallow
•   JITB - Jack in a Box
•   JC - Jesus Christ


I'm going with what I've got in my collection. Do you have more that I don't know about? If so, PM me, thanks.

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2011, 10:43:19 PM »
serious lack of song titles taht start with a J in the albums dept.

•   JS - J Swallow
•   JITB - Jack in a Box
•   JC - Jesus Christ


I'm going with what I've got in my collection. Do you have more that I don't know about? If so, PM me, thanks.

no. i just never realized they only have 3 song titles that start with the letter J, none of which are actual album tracks, i dunno why i noticed that.

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2011, 10:54:53 PM »
serious lack of song titles taht start with a J in the albums dept.

•   JS - J Swallow
•   JITB - Jack in a Box
•   JC - Jesus Christ


I'm going with what I've got in my collection. Do you have more that I don't know about? If so, PM me, thanks.

no. i just never realized they only have 3 song titles that start with the letter J, none of which are actual album tracks, i dunno why i noticed that.

Oh OK! They are B-sides, if I remember right.

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Re: U2 Acronym Dictionary
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2011, 06:23:03 PM »
serious lack of song titles taht start with a J in the albums dept.

•   JS - J Swallow
•   JITB - Jack in a Box
•   JC - Jesus Christ


I'm going with what I've got in my collection. Do you have more that I don't know about? If so, PM me, thanks.

no. i just never realized they only have 3 song titles that start with the letter J, none of which are actual album tracks, i dunno why i noticed that.

Oh OK! They are B-sides, if I remember right.

Nah. J Swallow is for sure. JITB is just a pre-Boy song, and JC is R&H outtake.