1. The very popular and successful series, created by Bart and Fabian, returns for it's fourth instalment! We would like you to submit a list of what you think are the best songs of all-time. Don't be afraid to be different, we want to see a wide range of musical tastes represented in the lists. Since the last song list in 2013 we have welcomed plenty of new members to the site and we would love you to get involved! At the end, we'll count up all of the lists and reveal the top 100 songs as voted for by U2start.

    Feel free to use this topic to ask questions regarding the lists and to discuss the very best that music has to offer.

    Results:
    Spotify - Apple Music
    1. U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
    2. U2 - Bad
    3. U2 - Zooropa
    4. U2 - One
    5. U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
    6. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
    7. U2 - The Fly
    8. Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
    9. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
    10. Pearl Jam - Black
    11. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
    12. Oasis - Champagne Supernova
    13. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
    14. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
    15. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
    16. John Lennon - Imagine
    17. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
    18. Pearl Jam - Corduroy
    19. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
    20. Dire Straits - Tunnel Of Love
    21. U2 - Acrobat
    22. David Bowie - Heroes
    23. Pearl Jam - Better Man
    24. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
    25. U2 - Running To Stand Still

    26. David Bowie - Life On Mars
    27. REM - Find The River
    28. Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
    29. Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror
    30. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
    31. U2 - Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
    32. The Beatles - A Day in The Life
    33. The Clash - London Calling
    34. Eagles - Hotel California
    35. Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
    36. Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
    37. U2 - All I Want Is You
    38. U2 - With or Without You
    39. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
    40. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
    41. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
    42. Bruce Springsteen - The River
    43. Ben E. King - Stand By Me
    44. Oasis - Live Forever
    45. R.E.M. - Country Feedback
    46. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
    47. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
    48. Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street
    49. Pink Floyd - Dogs
    50. Bruce Springsteen - New York City Serenade

    51. Coldplay - Clocks
    52. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
    53. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
    54. Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
    55. U2 - Love Is Blindness
    56. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
    57. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge
    58. Pink Floyd - Echoes
    59. Aerosmith - Dream On
    60. Guns N Roses - Paradise City
    61. Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
    62. The Who - Baba O'riley
    63. Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O’ Mine
    64. Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City
    65. Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
    66. Oasis - Wonderwall
    67. Muse - Citizen Erased
    68. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
    69. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
    70. Nirvana - All Apologies
    71. Foo Fighters - Everlong
    72. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication
    73. Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
    74. Guns N Roses - Don't Cry
    75. The Verve - The Drugs Don’t Work

    76. Pink Floyd - Time
    77. Radiohead - Karma Police
    78. U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
    79. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
    80. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
    81. U2 - Drowning Man
    82. The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
    83. Pulp - Common People
    84. Patti Smith, 10,000 Maniacs - Because The Night
    85. The Killers - A Dustland Fairytale
    86. Prince - Purple Rain
    87. Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
    88. Live - Lightning Crashes
    89. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
    90. Bon Jovi - Dry County
    91. Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever?
    92. Elvis Presley - Can’t Help Falling In Love
    93. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
    94. Passengers - Slug
    95. Pink Floyd - The Trial
    96. Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
    97. James - Sit Down
    98. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
    99. The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
    100. Muse - Butterflies and Hurricanes


    Please submit one of the following lists:
    - Top 10
    #1 gets 100 points, #2 gets 90.. etc
    - Top 25
    #1 gets 100 points, #2 gets 96, #3 gets 92.. etc
    - Top 50
    #1 gets 100 points, #2 gets 98, #3 gets 96.. etc
    - Top 100
    #1 gets 100 points, #2 gets 99, #3 gets 98.. etc

    Other rules:
    1. It's a list of all time, so don't send in only songs from last 2 months
    2. Please try to order you list in this form: Artist - Song, this will make it easier to count
    3. If you posted your list but changed it again, please let us know.
    4. If you are too busy but still want to join; you can always send in your list from previous toplists.
    5. You list may contain no more than 10% of songs from one artist. If you choose to do a top 10 list, then you can only include one song per artist. If you choose to submit a top 100 list, then you may have up to 10 songs per artist.
    6. No Bieber.

    Deadline: January 31st, 2016.

    Previous Lists

    2011
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    01. U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
    02. U2 - Bad
    03. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
    04. U2 - All I Want Is You
    05. U2 - With or Without You
    06. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
    07. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
    08. U2 - The Fly
    09. Pearl Jam - Better Man
    10. The Beatles - Let It Be

    11. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
    12. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
    13. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
    14. U2 - One
    15. Coldplay - Fix You
    16. Guns n' Roses - Paradise City
    17. Pink Floyd - Confortable Numb
    18. Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
    19. The Beatles - A Day In The Life
    20. Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

    21. U2 - Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
    22. Foo Fighters - Everlong
    23. Guns 'n Roses - November Rain
    24. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
    25. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
    26. U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
    27. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
    28. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    29. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
    30. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

    31. Pearl Jam - Even Flow
    32. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
    33. Coldplay - Clocks
    34. Pearl Jam - Alive
    35. U2 - Until The End of The World
    36. Pink Floyd - Time
    37. U2 - Kite
    38. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
    39. Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
    40. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

    41. U2 - Beautiful Day
    42. Pearl Jam - Rearview Mirror
    43. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
    44. U2 - Zooropa
    45. R.E.M. - Nightswimming
    46. John Lennon - Woman
    47. Nirvana - Come As You Are
    48. Pearl Jam - Black
    49. The Beatles - Yesterday
    50. U2 - Running To Stand Still

    51. Muse - Knights of Cydonia
    52. Radiohead - Let Down
    53. Oasis - Champagne Supernova
    54. Pearl Jam - Given To Fly
    55. Muse - Plug In Baby
    56. a-ha - Stay On These Roads
    57. Coldplay - Yellow
    58. Bruce Springsteen - The River
    59. Pearl Jam - Corduroy
    60. The Killers - All These Things That I've Done

    61. The Who - Baba O'Riley
    62. Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love
    63. Oasis - Live Forever
    64. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
    65. U2 - One Tree Hill
    66. Metallica - Enter Sandman
    67. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
    68. The Passengers - Your Blue Room
    69. Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
    70. Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly

    71. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
    72. The Police - Every Breath You Take
    73. Coldplay - In My Place
    74. U2 - Heartland
    75. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
    76. The Passengers - Miss Sarajevo
    77. Muse - Time Is Running Out
    78. John Lennon - Imagine
    79. The Beatles - In My Life
    80. Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire

    81. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
    82. Pearl Jam - Jeremy
    83. Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
    84. The Verve - Drugs Don't Work
    85. Muse - New Born
    86. Bob Marley - Redemption Song
    87. Snow Patrol - Run
    88. Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever
    89. The Beatles - Hey Jude
    90. Pearl Jam - Daughter

    91. Bryan Adams - Run To You
    92. Radiohead - Karma Police
    93. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
    94. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood To The Head
    95. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
    96. Johnny Cash - Hurt
    97. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
    98. Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
    99. The Killers - Mr. Brightside
    100. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit


    2013
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    01. U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
    02. U2 - Bad
    03. U2 - One
    04. Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
    05. U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close)
    06. Pearl Jam - Black
    07.Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
    08. U2 - All I Want Is You
    09. U2 - With Or Without You
    10. Ben E. King - Stand By Me

    11. U2 - Ultraviolet
    12. Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
    13. R.E.M - Losing My Religion
    14. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
    15. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
    16. Oasis - Champagne Supernova
    17. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
    18. Pearl Jam - Better Man
    19. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
    20. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

    21. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
    22. The Beatles - A Day In The Life
    23. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
    24. U2 - The Fly
    25. Guns N' Roses - November Rain
    26. Radiohead - Street Spirit
    27. Muse - Plug In Baby
    28. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
    29. John Lennon - Imagine
    30. The Clash - London Calling

    31. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
    32. Pearl Jam - Alive
    33. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
    34. David Bowie - Heroes
    35. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
    36. The Beatles - Let It Be
    37. The Who - Baba O'Riley
    38. U2 - Running To Standstill
    39. U2 - Acrobat
    40. Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia

    41. Muse - Citizen Erased
    42. U2 - Please
    43. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
    44. The Beatles - Yesterday
    45. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
    46. U2 - Kite
    47. Dire Straits - Tunnel Of Love
    48.Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O Mine
    49. U2 - Beautiful Day
    50. Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

    51. Coldplay - Yellow
    52. Michael Jackson - Thriller
    53. Nirvana - Come As You Are
    54. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
    55. Muse - Butterflies And Hurricanes
    56. Prince - Purple Rain
    57. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    58. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
    59. Coldplay - The Scientist New
    60. Oasis - Live Forever

    61. Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror
    62. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
    63. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
    64. Pink Floyd - Time
    65. U2 - Love Is Blindness
    66. Oasis - Wonderwall
    67. Pearl Jam - Given To Fly
    68. U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
    69. Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
    70. U2 - Pride

    71. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
    72. Jimi Hendrix Experience/U2/Bob Dylan- All Along The Watchtower
    73. Queen - I Want To Break Free
    74. Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderfull World
    75. The Killers - When You Were Young
    76. The Beatles - In My Life
    77. Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
    78. The Beatles - Something
    79. Otis Redding - Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay
    80. Radiohead - Creep

    81. Pearl Jam - Corduroy
    82. Foo Fighters - Everlong
    83. Van Morrison - Moondance
    84. Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street
    85. Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
    86. Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark
    87. Johhny Cash - Hurt
    88. Coldplay - Fix You
    89. The Who - Love, Reign o'er Me
    90. U2 - If God Will Send His Angels

    91. Metallica - Enter Sandman
    92. The Verve - Drugs Don't Work
    93. R.E.M - Everybody Hurts
    94. U2 - Moment Of Surrender
    95. Muse - New Born
    96. Snow Patrol - Run
    97. Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
    98. Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes
    99. Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
    100. Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City
  2. I'm fine with that last rule
  3. It must be said, I think my taste has change quite a bit over the past two years and dramatically since we first did this in 2011. It'll be interesting to see what my final list looks like compared to those two.
  4. Can someone submit a top 20 list?

    (I won't but I thought I should ask).
  5. No

    Mathematically, it wouldn't be a problem.


  6. 5 dates at O2 Arena and you want to exclude him? tsk tsk
    if he adds the 6th will you reply the residency there? hehehe
  7. Of course!
  8. ok... I'll go with the "burgers" instead of the "filets mignon", sorry.

    I know there's way too many songs that are way better than the ones I'm about to post, but whatever. I'm pretty sure Beethoven or Mozart is better than The Beatles, but I usually don't listen to Mozart, so why would I put him in this list? on that same note, I never listen to The Beatles, so that's why they're not on this list, even if their music was objectively better than whatever in here. So, let's start with a most likely very unpopular list...

    My first list was 300 songs long, and it was painful to reduce it to 100 but here it is:

    1 - 10

    1 U2 - Bad
    2 Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond
    3 David Bowie - Life on Mars?
    4 Dire Straits - The Tunnel of Love
    5 Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
    6 James - Sit Down
    7 U2 - Mercy
    8 Radiohead - Paranoid Android
    9 Aerosmith - Dream On
    10 James - Sometimes (Lester Piggott)

    11 - 30

    11 Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
    12 U2 - Zooropa
    13 U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
    14 U2 - Elvis Presley and America
    15 The Ocean Blue - Ballerina Out of Control
    16 Morrissey - There is a Light that Never Goes Out
    17 Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
    18 U2 - Where the Streets Have no Name
    19 Soda Stereo - Música Ligera
    20 James - Getting Away With it (All Messed Up)
    21 Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
    22 Queen - Radio Ga-Ga
    23 Scorpions - Still Loving You
    24 The Killers - A Dustland Fairytale
    25 Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
    26 Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
    27 The Killers - Read My Mind
    28 REM - Fretless
    29 Pink Floyd - Dogs
    30 Pink Floyd - Eclipse

    31 - 50

    31 U2 - Acrobat
    32 U2 - The Fly
    33 U2 - Exit
    34 James - She's a Star
    35 James - I Wanna Go Home
    36 James - Say Something
    37 10000 Maniacs - Stockton Gala Days
    38 Howard Jones - No One is to Blame
    39 Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
    40 Billy Joel - The Downeaster 'Alexa'
    41 10000 Maniacs - Because the Night
    42 Guns 'n' Roses - Civil War
    43 Pink Floyd - Echoes
    44 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
    45 Scorpions - No One Like You
    46 Queen - We Are The Champions
    47 Roger Waters - 4:41 (Sexual Revolution)
    48 Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
    49 U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
    50 James - We're Going to Miss You

    51 - 70

    51 James - Out to Get You
    52 Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart
    53 Oasis - Champagne Supernova
    54 Pink Floyd - Time
    55 Pink Floyd - Hey You
    56 Tears for Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love
    57 The Alan Parson's Project - Eye In The Sky
    58 John Lennon - Mind Games
    59 Supertramp - Fool's Overture
    60 Sting - Fragile
    61 REM - Nightswimming
    62 Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
    63 REM - Find the River
    64 Aerosmith - Janie's Got a Gun
    65 Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
    66 Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
    67 Queen - I Want to Break Free
    68 REM - Leave
    69 Roger Waters - Amused to Death
    70 Death in Vegas - Dirge

    71 - 100

    71 James - English Beefcake
    72 Pink Floyd - Fearless
    73 Bon Jovi - Runaway
    74 Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
    75 The Cranberries - Ode to my Family
    76 REM - Imitation of Life
    77 Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
    78 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - More News From Nowhere
    79 Sting - Moon Over Bourbon Street
    80 Sting - Mad About You
    81 Daniel Lanois + Bono - Falling at Your Feet
    82 Radiohead - No Surprises
    83 The Stone Roses - Made of Stone
    84 Sinead O'Connor - I'm Not Your Baby
    85 Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
    86 Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away
    87 INXS - Not Enough Time
    88 The Cure - Fascination Street
    89 Pet Shop Boys - Always on my Mind
    90 Simple Minds - Woman
    91 Phil Collins - I Wish it Would Rain Down
    92 The Servant - Cells
    93 Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
    94 David Bowie - Space Oddity
    95 The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
    96 Genesis - Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
    97 Oasis - All Around The World
    98 The Cranberries - Linger
    99 Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone
    100 Biffy Clyro - Accident Without Emergency
  9. That's fast already!!! Great list btw I will start making a shortlist tonight.

  10. I've started making separate lists for bands/artists. Tough choices. Will be even tougher to put it all together in one list. The only thing I'm sure of is the top three:

    1. U2 - Bad
    2. U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
    3. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
  11. and he did .. you're booked on Tuesday 11, Wednesday 12, Friday 14, Saturday 15 October, Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 November 2016
    good boy
  12. Originally posted by clover68:[..]
    and he did .. you're booked on Tuesday 11, Wednesday 12, Friday 14, Saturday 15 October, Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 November 2016
    good boy
    Be sure to include Immortality in your list this year, Ronnie!