The Edge's guitar contributions to U2 have been ranked and rated by Guitar.com, which has posted a list of the “Top 20 Greatest Guitar Moments.” Topping the list is “The Fly” from 1991's watershed Achtung Baby album, followed by 1987's “Bullet The Blue Sky” from the mega-platinum, The Joshua Tree, and the Top Three rounded out by that album's opening track, “Where The Streets Have No Name.”
Prior to listing The Edge's Top 20 most essential moments on record, Guitar.com, posted, “At the heart of their sound, U2’s guitarist has undergone his own process of constant reinvention. But even as his gear stash has grown from a couple of guitars, a handful of pedals, a Vox and some gaffa tape to become a touring rig that looks like a Guitar Center warehouse, he’s stayed a step ahead of his imitators, managing to refine but never jettison the simplicity and directness of his playing.”
The intro went on to read, “The Edge has often referred to being 'at odds' with the guitar; and has characterized his playing as a “struggle or a fight” with the instrument. Here, we choose 20 battles he most definitely won, some against all the odds, among an exhaustive back catalogue of sonic explorations.”
