War
by U2
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U2 bestography
War is ranked 3rd best out of 39 albums by U2 on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by U2 is The Joshua Tree which is ranked number 51 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 17,997.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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War track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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War rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | U2: So Far... | 3/9 | - |
| 2026 |  JMGL95 | Top 32 Music Albums of 1983 | 14/32 | 3 |
| 2026 | thenat | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 48/100 | 11 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Greatest Irish Albums | 4/23 | - |
| 2026 | BurndenAce | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 47/100 | 53 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 55 Music Albums of 1983 | 23/55 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Musicbuff123 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 6/100 | 94 |
| 2026 |  hoyquarlow | Top 50 Music Albums of the 1980s | 36/50 | 6 |
| 2026 |  jhuik | Best/ Favourite Songs of All Time | 51/100 | - |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Greatest Albums (One Album Per Year) | 31/68 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 798 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 5,491 | |||
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War ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/20/2026 22:46 | Mrump | 550 | 75/100 |
| ! | 10/14/2026 14:44 |  UofTBlues | 3,642 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2026 13:48 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.1/100, a mean average of 77.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.4.
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War forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/18/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5469): By wizardalienView latest topic →
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War comments
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Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/15/2016 20:21 | #176944 | TOP COMMENT
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Look, I can't stand lots of what U2 have put out and bono gets on my tits but I can't deny this record. It contains some of the best singles of the 80s. This and achtung baby are just quality. Sunday bloody Sunday...wash the car, mow the lawn. Cheers Alan.
War is my favorite U2 album. It's also my favorite 80's album. It is so raw, so intense, so powerful, it really moves me. Every song is good, with a few being close to perfection (Like A Song, Drowning Man, The Refugee, Surrender).
The cover art is iconic and as powerful as the music and the lyrics. Bono is better and has more energy than ever before or after, Larry Mullen kills it on drums, The Edge is very creative and Adam's bass tone is tasty and cuts perfectly in the mix.
U2 is the only band I know that was at their peak in the 80's. I don't really like the 80's sound in general because I don't think it aged very well, but this album transcends its era. It's a timeless album, a true classic.
The best of U2's early albums. The songs on War are held together with a theme about struggle. They take the universal concepts about War and strife in their homeland and relate them to the inner struggle going on within each of us to be something better.
Actually, I've changed my mind about this, it's a really solid album. i still believe it to be U2's best though.
Detroit Rock Citizen 05/16/2009 23:26 | #4313 | TOP COMMENT
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Before U2 or more specifically Bono became too full of themselves.
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