City Of Blinding Lights (track)
by U2
Year: 2004
From the album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (track #5)
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City Of Blinding Lights appears on the following album(s) by U2:
- How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (track #5) (this album) (2004)
- U22: A 22 Track Live Collection From U2360 (track #15) (2012)
- Songs Of Surrender (track #20) (2023)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/11/2025 07:51 | zsolti | 6,683 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/26/2025 00:08 | Exist-en-ciel | 36,966 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/04/2025 17:02 |  Tamthebam | 44,325 | 79/100 |
| ! | 09/26/2025 12:24 |  VictorVale | 42,975 | 88/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2025 15:29 |  ExTeaSea | 12,264 | 85/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.9/100, a mean average of 83.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 16.5.
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One of the best U2 songs of the 2000’s and without a doubt the best song of the album.
Squonk007 08/08/2024 20:23 | #304681
One of their better tracks, it does sound like Coldplay.
What a song. The piano intro is superb and sounds nothing like U2, but then the Edge's signature guitar comes in. And it just gets better from there. One of their best.
Reminds me of Coldplay with the piano and guitar intro. Vocal and pacing also similar. As it breaks into the chorus it reminds me of 80's U2 before bursting into a Snow Patrol "oooh oh oh ooooh..." I do enjoy this song
Perfect live song
GandalfORiley345 06/20/2014 01:47 | #114831
This really sounds like All that You Can´t but with a different sound, but still too incredible
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