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  2. Let's do this again when U2 celebrates their 50 or 60 years in music!
  3. Was very heartbreaking to take out last 12 songs to make it 40. If it was 55,would be much easier

    01 Gloria
    02 Twilight
    03 Unforgettable Fire
    04 Exit
    05 Seconds
    06 Stories For Boys
    07 Silver And Gold
    08 God Part II
    09 A Celebration
    10 11 O Clock Tick Tock
    11 Spanish Eyes
    12 Like A Song
    13 One Tree Hill

    14 Alex Descends Into Hel For A Bottle of Milk/Korova 1
    15 Mofo
    16 Gone
    17 Do You Feel Loved
    18 Holy Joe
    19 Zooropa
    20 Dirty Day
    21 Please
    22 Lady With The Spinning Head
    23 Zoo Station
    24 The Fly
    25 Discotheque
    26 Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
    27 Acrobat
    28 Wake Up Dead Man

    29 Volcano
    30 No Line On The Horizon
    31 Electrical Storm
    32 Cedarwood Road
    33 Raised By The Wolves
    34 The Ground Beneath Her Feet
    35 Love And Peace Or Else
    36 Unknown Caller
    37 Sleep Like A Baby Tonight
    38 Fez/Being Born
    39 Breathe
    40 The Troubles
  4. ^ that's far more balanced (and many more 00s) than I hoped, but nice list too
  5. 1. Out Of Control
    2. The Electric Co.
    3. Shadows And Tall Trees
    4. Tomorrow
    5. October
    6. Drowning Man
    7. Like A Song
    8. '40'
    9. A Sort Of Homecoming
    10. The Unforgettable Fire
    11. Promenade
    12. Bad
    13. Where The Streets Have No Name
    14. With Or Without You
    15. Running To Stand Still
    16. Exit
    17. Hawkmoon 269
    18. God Part II
    19. All I Want Is You
    20. Unchained Melody
    21. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
    22. So Cruel
    23. The Fly
    24. Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
    25. Ultaviolet (Light My Way)
    26. Acrobat
    27. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
    28. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
    29. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
    30. Last Night On Earth
    31. Kite
    32. Miracle Drug
    33. Original Of The Species
    34. Yahweh
    35. Moment Of Surrender
    36. Unknown Caller
    37. Sleep Like A Baby Tonight
    38. Song For Someone
    39. Cedarwood Road
    40. Raised By Wolves
  6. I just couldn't take out ANY of those songs from 00s... At first cut down I ended up with 18 songs from 80s, 19 from 90's and 15 from 00s and I was like "How could I make 40?" In the end it looked like lottery
  7. So here are our 40 favourite U2 songs folks. Lots of ties which I used alphabetical order to resolve but numbers 36 - 53 were one giant tie !!

    TOP 40 VOTES
    1 The Unforgettable Fire 18
    2 Where The Streets Have No Name  17
    3 Bad 16
    4 Ultraviolet  (Light my way) 16
    5 One Tree Hill  15
    6 The fly 14
    7 All I Want Is You  13
    8 One 13
    9 Running To Stand Still 13
    10 Stay (Faraway, So Close !) 13
    11 Acrobat 12
    12 Kite 12
    13 Please  12
    14 Wth or without you 12
    15 Zooropa 12
    16 Exit 11
    17 Love Is Blindness 11
    18 Moment of Surrender  11
    19 New Year's Day  11
    20 Out of Control  11
    21 A Sort Of Homecoming  10
    22 Bullet The Blue Sky 10
    23 Cedarwood Road  10
    24 Until The End of the World  10
    25 11 O'Clock Tick Tock 9
    26 40 9
    27 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For  9
    28 Mofo  9
    29 Sunday Bloody Sunday  9
    30 The Electric Co. 9
    31 Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses 9
    32 Every Breaking Wave  8
    33 Gloria 8
    34 Gone 8
    35 Staring At The Sun 8
    36 Beautiful Day 7
    37 City of Blinding Lights  7
    38 Drowning Man 7
    39 Even Better Than the Real Thing  7
    40 Hawkmoon 269 7


    THE REST
    41 I Will Follow 7
    42 Iris (Hold me Close) 7
    43 Like a Song…  7
    44 Miracle Drug 7
    45 October 7
    46 Pride (In The Name Of Love) 7
    47 Promenade 7
    48 So Cruel  7
    49 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own 7
    50 The Troubles 7
    51 Tomorrow 7
    52 Wake Up Dead Man 7
    53 Zoo Station 7
    54 A Day Without Me 6
    55 Breathe 6
    56 Discothèque 6
    57 Electrical Storm 6
    58 Heartland 6
    59 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me 6
    60 Mysterious Ways  6
    61 Raised By Wolves 6
    62 Red Hill Mining Town 6
    63 The Crystal Ballroom  6
    64 Walk On 6
    65 Do You Feel Loved? 5
    66 Elvis Presley And America  5
    67 I Threw A Brick Through A Window  5
    68 If You Wear That Velvet Dress 5
    69 Lemon 5
    70 Luminous Times (Hold On To Love) 5
    71 Magnificent  5
    72 Original of the Species 5
    73 Seconds  5
    74 Two Hearts Beat As One  5
    75 California (There is no end to love) 4
    76 Desire 4
    77 Fez/Being Born 4
    78 God Part II 4
    79 In God's Country  4
    80 Into The Heart 4
    81 Love Comes Tumbling 4
    82 Mercy 4
    83 No Line On The Horizon 4
    84 Sleep Like A Baby Tonight 4
    85 Spanish Eyes 4
    86 The First Time 4
    87 This is Where You Can Reach Me Now 4
    88 Unknown Caller 4
    89 Vertigo  4
    90 An Cat Dubh 3
    91 Cedars Of Lebanon 3
    92 Dirty Day 3
    93 In A Little While 3
    94 Indian Summer Sky 3
    95 Invisible  3
    96 Last Night On Earth 3
    97 Miss Sarajevo  3
    98 North And South Of The River 3
    99 Numb 3
    100 Please [Single Version] 3
    101 Rejoice 3
    102 Shadows And Tall Trees  3
    103 Slug 3
    104 Stories For Boys 3
    105 The Ground Beneath Her Feet 3
    106 The Hands That Built America 3
    107 The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) 3
    108 Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World 3
    109 Wild Honey 3
    110 Xanax and Wine  3
    111 A Celebration 2
    112 A Man and a Woman 2
    113 Angel of Harlem 2
    114 Another Time, Another Place 2
    115 Babyface 2
    116 Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car 2
    117 Dancing Barefoot 2
    118 Falling At Your Feet 2
    119 Hallelujah! (Here She Comes) 2
    120 Heaven and Hell 2
    121 I Fall Down 2
    122 If God Will Send His Angels 2
    123 Love And Peace Or Else 2
    124 MLK 2
    125 Mothers Of The Disappeared 2
    126 Native Son 2
    127 New York  2
    128 Night And Day 2
    129 Silver And Gold 2
    130 Song for someone 2
    131 Stuck in a moment you can’t get out of 2
    132 Summer Rain 2
    133 Surrender 2
    134 Touch 2
    135 Twilight 2
    136 Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad 2
    137 Unchained Melody 2
    138 Volcano 2
    139 When I Look At The World 2
    140 Window In The Skies 2
    141 Winter  2
    142 Wire 2
    143 With A Shout  2
    144 Yahweh 2
    145 Acrobat [Baby Version] 1
    146 Alex Descends Into Hel For A Bottle of Milk/Korova 1 1
    147 Always 1
    148 Another Day 1
    149 Are You Gonna Wait Forever 1
    150 Beach Sequence 1
    151 Beautiful Ghost 1
    152 Boomerang II 1
    153 Crumbs From Your Table 1
    154 Deep In The Heart 1
    155 Disappearing Act 1
    156 Elevation 1
    157 Every Breaking Wave (Acoustic) 1
    158 Fire 1
    159 Flower Child 1
    160 Get On Your Boots 1
    161 Glastonbury 1
    162 Hands That Built America 1
    163 Holy Joe 1
    164 I'm Not Your Baby 1
    165 In The Name of the Father 1
    166 Lady With The Spinning Head 1
    167 Levitate 1
    168 Mercy [U2360 Version] 1
    169 New Year's Day (François Kevorkian US Remix) 1
    170 Oh Berlin 1
    171 One Step Closer 1
    172 One Tree Hill ( Dublin, 26/12/89) 1
    173 Ordinary Love 1
    174 Paint it Black 1
    175 Party girl 1
    176 Peace On Earth 1
    177 Please ( Sarajevo, 23/09/97) 1
    178 Saturday Night 1
    179 She's A Mystery to Me 1
    180 Slow Dancing 1
    181 Some Days Are Better Than Others 1
    182 Stateless 1
    183 Street Mission 1
    184 Sweetest thing 1
    185 The Playboy Mansion 1
    186 The Three Sunrises 1
    187 The Wanderer 1
    188 Theme From Let's Go Native 1
    189 Treasure (whatever happened to Pete the chop) 1
    190 Van Diemen’s Land 1
    191 Walk To The Water 1
    192 Wave of Sorrow (Birdland) 1
    193 Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses [Baby Version] 1
    194 Your Blue Room 1
  8. Nice to see so many b sides and reissue bonus tracks in the "also ran" section and interesting to see that Slug got 3 votes !!

  9. thanks! I was hoping someone would do the counting!
    great to see TUF at the top spot!
  10. 1 The Unforgettable Fire

    Who would have thought

    I would have waited a few more days to publish this, though... Maybe until the anniversary itself!
  11. it would be interesting to juxtapose this list with the 3 favorites of each band member that they revealed during that U2 you talking to me podcast


  12. Is there going to be an official anniversary party? complete with 40 candles on a giant cake and our "U2 40 best songs" on repeat in a Spotify-playlist?