Reception
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| Creem | B+ |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.9/10) |
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War became U2's first number-one album in the UK, supplanting Michael Jackson's Thriller at the top of the charts. The album finished in 6th place on the "Best Albums" list from The Village Voice's 1983 Pazz & Jop critics' poll. In 1989, War was ranked number 40 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Albums of the '80s". In 2012, the album was ranked number 223 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". That same year, the album was listed at number 94 on Slant Magazine's "Best Albums of the 1980's."
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