Song · U2
“Twilight” by U2
From the album Boy (1980)
“Twilight” by U2 appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2001 and 2003. It was first released in 1980 on the album Boy. Its best result is #844 on the Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,087 alternative song of all time.
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"Twilight" comes from Boy, the debut album U2 released on Island on 20 October 1980, and all four members share the writing credit: Bono on lead vocal, the Edge on electric guitar, Adam Clayton on bass and Larry Mullen Jr. on drums. Steve Lillywhite produced it, the first time the Irish band worked with him, and Paul Thomas engineered with Kevin Moloney assisting.
Boy was cut between July and September 1980 at Windmill Lane in Dublin, where Lillywhite went looking for sounds off the beaten track, setting Mullen up to play in a stairwell and taping smashed bottles and cutlery scraped against a spinning bicycle wheel. The album's songs brood on adolescence, innocence and the shaky crossing into adulthood, and "Twilight" carries the same nervy, wide-eyed charge as the rest of it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1237 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2002 | 1131 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 844 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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