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An Cat Dubh
Into The Heart
The Electric Co
I Threw A Brick Through A Window
Tomorrow
October
Seconds
Like A Song...
''40''
A Sort Of Homecoming
Indian Summer Sky
Elvis Presley And America
In God's Country
Exit
Heartland
All I Want Is You
So Cruel
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
Love Is Blindness
Zooropa
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Dirty Day
Slug
Please
Wake Up Dead Man
Wild Honey
Peace On Earth
When I Look At The World
Miracle Drug
Moment Of Surrender
Cedars Of Lebanon
Winter
Iris (Hold Me Close)
Cedarwood Road
The Troubles
Disappearing Act
Oh Berlin
Levitate
Beautiful Ghost
Night And Day

Bullet_Blue

9 years

1- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
2 - The Electric Co
3 - A Day Without Me
4 - Shadows And Tall Trees
5 - Fire
6 - I Threw A Brick Through A Window
7 - With A Shout
8 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
9 - Seconds
10 - New Year's Day
11 - Drowning Man
12 - Two Hearts Beat As One
13 - A Sort Of Homecoming
14 - The Unforgettable Fire
15 - Promenade
16 - Elvis Presley And America
17 - Boomerang II
18 - Love Comes Tumbling
19 - Where The Streets Have No Name
20 - Exit
21 - In God's Country
22 - Heartland
23 - The Fly
24 - Love Is Blindness
25 - Lemon
26 - Theme From Let's Go Native
27 - Slug
28 - Mofo
29 - Gone
30 - Summer Rain
31 - Beautiful Day
32 - New York
33 - Love And Peace Or Else
34 - Breathe
35 - Winter
36 - Invisible
37 - Cedarwood Road
38 - Raised By Wolves
39 - One Tree Hill ( Dublin, 26/12/89)
40 - Please ( Sarajevo, 23/09/97)

Bloodraven

9 years

Always heartbreaking to leave so many out.
Some of these are covers, collaborations and/or solo attempts. I count them anyway.

1 Bad
2 Zooropa
3 Mercy
4 The Unforgettable Fire
5 Elvis Presley and America
6 Where the Streets Have no Name
7 Acrobat
8 Exit
9 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
10 The Fly

11 No Line on the Horizon
12 FEZ - Being Born
13 Always
14 Bullet the Blue Sky
15 An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
16 Gloria
17 Cedarwood Road
18 Falling At Your Feet
19 Promenade
20 Twilight

21 Lemon
22 Paint it Black
23 All I Want is You
24 I'm Not Your Baby
25 Running to Stand Still
26 Please (S)
27 Mofo
28 Red Hill Mining Town
29 Sunday Bloody Sunday
30 New Year's Day

31 Raised By Wolves
32 Wave of Sorrow (Birdland)
33 The Ground Beneath Her Feet
34 Beautiful Day
35 Breathe
36 Staring at the Sun
37 In The Name of the Father
38 This is Where You Can Reach Me Now
39 Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
40 Forty (I had to)

As you go down on the list, ranking spots became easier interchangeable.

u2joost

9 years

Originally posted by Bullet_Blue:
7 - With A South

don't know that one yet.....

Bloodraven

9 years

Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..] I NEED both those versions of NYD as they are completely different... Album version for the last verse and Kevorkian remix for alternate lyrics...

I made my own version attaching the slow opening of Kevorkian to the album version. (And opening the album with it instead of SBS).

LikeASong

9 years

I like the chronological order.

01 - Out Of Control
02 - Shadows And Tall Trees
03 - A Day Without Me
04 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
05 - I Will Follow
06 - Tomorrow
07 - October
08 - Like A Song
09 - Drowning Man
10 - ''40''
11 - A Sort Of Homecoming
12 - Wire
13 - The Unforgettable Fire (coincidentally it had a 13 before)
14 - Bad
15 - Where The Streets Have No Name
16 - Red Hill Mining Town
17 - One Tree Hill
18 - Mothers Of The Disappeared
19 - Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
20 - Spanish Eyes
21 - Hawkmoon 269
22 - Heartland

23 - Until The End Of The World
24 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
25 - Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
26 - Acrobat
27 - Love Is Blindness
28 - Zooropa
29 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
30 - Dirty Day
31 - Last Night On Earth
32 - Gone
33 - If You Wear That Velvet Dress

34 - Kite
35 - Electrical Storm
36 - Fez - Being Born
37 - Breathe
38 - Cedarwood Road
39 - This is Where You Can Reach Me Now
40 - The Crystal Ballroom

I wouldn't have guessed that 22 out of 18 would be from the 80s

That surprised me a lot to be honest, I thought there would be more balance between 80s and 90s, something like 17-17 and then 6 from the 10s.

Thinking about it, I'd take Wire and Shadows off and substitute it with One and Running To Stand Still, and maybe Spanish Eyes ain't worthy of the 40-list either... Maybe have Moment Of Surrender instead. But overall it's a pretty decent list and I don't think it would/will change much.

blueeyedboy

9 years

Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]

I made my own version attaching the slow opening of Kevorkian to the album version. (And opening the album with it instead of SBS).

You have an mp3 of this available?

Kerstin

9 years

1. The miracle (of Joey Ramone)
2. Iris (Hold me close)
3. Song for someone
4. Raised by wolves
5. Cedarwood Road
6. Vertigo
7. Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
8. City of blinding lights
9. Beautiful day
10. Stuck in a moment you can’t get out of
11. Please
12. Miss Sarajevo
13. Even better than the real thing
14. One
15. Who’s gonna ride your wild horses
16. Love is blindness
17. Van Diemen’s Land
18. Desire
19. Angel of Harlem
20. Where the streets have no name
21. I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
22. With or without you
23. Running to stand still
24. One tree hill
25. Pride (In the name of love)
26. The unforgettable fire
27. Bad
28. Sunday bloody Sunday
29. Seconds
30. New year’s day
31. 40
32. October
33. I will follow
34. Out of control
35. The electric co.
36. 11 o’ clock tick tock
37. Electrical storm
38. Party girl
39. Sweetest thing
40. The hands that built America

dogpole

9 years

This was harder than i thought it was going to be...
In date order, the best I could remember.

1 Another Day
2 Stories For Boys
3 A Day Without Me
4 Into The Heart
5 I Threw A Brick
6 October
7 With A Shout
8 40
9 Bad
10 MLK
11 Wire
12 Deep In The Heart
13 One Tree Hill
14 Running To Stand Still
15 Spanish Eyes
16 All I Want Is You
17 God Part II
18 Hawkmoon 269
19 Acobat
20 Night And Day
21 Love Is Blindness
22 Ultraviolet
23 Lemon
24 The First Time
25 Stay (Faraway So Close)
26 If You Wear That Velevt Dress
27 Do You Feel Loved
28 Please
29 Kite
30 Summer Rain
31 Walk On
32 Wild Honey
33 The Hands That Built America
34 Flower Child
35 Native Son
36 Miracle Drug
37 No Line on the Horizon
38 California (There is no End)
39 The Troubles
40 Raised By Wolves

Alvin

9 years

Originally posted by u2joost:[..]

don't know that one yet.....

And With a North?

CMIPalaeo

9 years

Not U2's 40 greatest songs, just right now what I feel like are my 40 favourite U2 songs. Like Sergio said, there are some you could swap out with others but about 90% of this list would stay.

Organised by era, with anniversary reissue songs grouped with their respective album. This was so hard to do... even now I've thought of about four or five others that deserve a spot...

01 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
02 Another Time, Another Place
03 Saturday Night
04 Tomorrow
05 Like a Song…
06 Drowning Man
07 Two Hearts Beat As One
08 Indian Summer Sky
09 Promenade
10 Love Comes Tumbling
11 Where the Streets Have No Name
12 Bullet the Blue Sky
13 Exit
14 Heartland
15 Dancing Barefoot

16 Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses [Baby Version]
17 The Fly
18 Mysterious Ways
19 Acrobat [Baby Version]
20 Love Is Blindness
21 Heaven and Hell
22 Lemon
23 The Wanderer
24 Discothèque
25 Mofo
26 Please [Single Version]
27 Wake Up Dead Man
28 Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad

29 Wild Honey
30 A Man and a Woman
31 Xanax and Wine
32 Window In the Skies
33 Moment of Surrender
34 Cedars of Lebanon
35 Mercy [U2360 Version]
36 The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)
37 California (There Is No End To Love)
38 Iris (Hold Me Close)
39 Cedarwood Road
40 The Crystal Ballroom

thefly108

9 years

Zooropa
The Fly
The Unforgettable Fire
Elvis Presley and America
Mofo
Spanish Eyes
The Three Sunrises
One Tree Hill
Fez - Being Born
Promenade
Zoo Station
Some Days Are Better Than Others
Bullet the Blue Sky
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Get On Your Boots
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Xanax and Wine
The Electric Co.
Every Breaking Wave
Breathe
Tomorrow
Rejoice
Seconds
Please (Single Version)
Unknown Caller
All I Want Is You
Hawkmoon 269
Babyface
Yahweh
Exit
Running to Stand Still
She's A Mystery to Me
Silver and Gold
Do You Feel Loved?
Love is Blindness
Numb
Glastonbury
Acrobat
Bad
“40”

I wanted to also include Beach Sequence, EBTTRT, and a couple more, but it's so hard to pick...

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