40 (track)
by U2
40 appears on the following album(s) by U2:
- War (track #10) (this album) (1983)
- Live "Under A Blood Red Sky" (track #8) (1983)
- Live From Paris (track #18) (2008)
- From The Ground Up: Edge's Picks From U2360° (track #15) (2012)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/09/2025 01:57 | Exist-en-ciel | 26,306 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2025 11:29 |  VictorVale | 42,926 | 88/100 |
| ! | 07/22/2025 09:35 |  ExTeaSea | 12,186 | 85/100 |
| ! | 05/14/2025 09:37 | machiaj | 8,801 | 74/100 |
| ! | 04/10/2025 12:41 | timosbuecherei | 3,138 | 60/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 5% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.6/100, a mean average of 80.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.9.
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I never really cared for U2 after this album. This sing, however, helped me through the tough times as an 18 year old.
Closing the shows with that song is kind of boring in my opinion. I prefer when they played another songs to it.
nitomano 12/01/2016 02:10 | #179429
Great bass line
koner1 08/29/2014 19:48 | #120746
good closing track
You know what, this ending's alright.
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