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  1. 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
  2. 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)
  3. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. 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.
  7. 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?
  8. 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
  9. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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...