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“Hawkmoon 269” by U2
Released 1988
“Hawkmoon 269” by U2 appears on 12 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2010. It was first released in 1988. Its best result is #514 on the CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,549 alternative song of all time.
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"Hawkmoon 269" is the fourth track on Rattle and Hum, U2's 1988 album, cut at Sunset Sound in Hollywood. The title is a small mystery. The story went that "Hawkmoon" was a town in North Dakota the band drove through on tour, except no town by that name exists in either Dakota, and a Sam Shepard book may be the real source. The "269", the Edge said, was the number of mixes it took over three weeks to get it right.
Bob Dylan sits in on Hammond organ, and it's a blues-rock storm: Larry Bunker's timpani and Alex Acuña's percussion rumbling underneath, the backing voices of Billie Barnum, Carolyn Willis and Edna Wright lifting Bono higher, and the whole thing building to a fever. Jimmy Iovine produced; David Tickle recorded and mixed it with Don Smith.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 514 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 514 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 514 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 514 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 514 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2003 | 560 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2004 | 514 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 515 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2007 | 1937 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1909 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1944 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1998 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
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