Best Non-Album Track Survivor - Final Pool - Round 17

[namkcuR]

The results of Round 16:

Advancing:
11 O'Clock Tick Tock - 0
Love Comes Tumbling - 0
The Three Sunrises - 2
Luminous Times(Hold On To Love) - 2
Spanish Eyes - 0
Lady With The Spinning Head - 0
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me - 0
The Ground Beneath Her Feet - 0
Stateless - 3
Electrical Storm - 1
Mercy - 1
The Crystal Ballroom - 2

Eliminated:

#13 - Silver And Gold - 10
#14 - Walk To The Water - 8
#15 - Holy Joe - 9
#16 - A Celebration - 7
#17 - Sweetest Thing - 5
#18 - Salome - 7
#19 - Invisible - 6
#21 - Summer Rain - 4
#21 - She's A Mystery To Me - 4
#22 - Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad - 13
#23 - North And South Of The River - 7
#24 - Hallelujah(Here She Comes) - 5
#25 - Fast Cars - 4
#27 - Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk/Korova I - 4
#27 - Party Girl - 4
#28 - A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel - 5
#29 - Disappearing Act - 4
#30 - Bass Trap - 5

Levitate - 8 / 9(tiebreaker)
Are You Gonna Wait Forever - 7
Window In The Skies - 7
Where Did It All Go Wrong - 6
Down All The Days - 6
Slow Dancing - 6
Always - 6
Smile - 6
Native Son - 6
Soon - 6
Oh Berlin - 5
I'm Not Your Baby - 4
Blow Your House Down - 3
Heaven And Hell - 1
Near The Island - 0

Endless Deep - 9 / 2(tiebreaker)
Treasure(Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop) - 9 / 6(tiebreaker)
Boomerang II - 9 / 2(tiebreaker)

Boomerang I - 8
Deep In The Heart - 8
Another Day - 5
Touch - 4
The Fool - 4
The Dream Is Over - 3
Lost On A Silent Planet - 3
Boy-Girl - 3
Things To Make And Do - 3
Street Mission - 3
Pete The Chop - 2
Cartoon World - 2

Winter - 11 / 9(tiebreaker)

The Hands That Built America - 9
Xanax And Wine - 9
Ordinary Love - 9
Lucifer's Hands - 9
Big Girls Are Best - 7
Love You Like Mad - 7
Flower Child - 6
Return Of The Stingray Guitar - 6
North Star - 3
We Love You - 2
Glastonbury - 1

Viva Davidoff - 8

Wild Irish Rose - 10
Sixty Seconds - 9
Yoshino Blossom - 9
Wave Of Sorrow - 8
Race Against Time - 6
Desert Of Our Love - 5
Womanfish - 5
Rise Up - 4
Drunk Chicken - 2
Beautiful Ghost - 1

Angels Too Tied To The Ground - 7 / 4(tiebreaker)

Saturday Night - 5
J.Swallo - 5
Be There - 5
False Prophet - 4
Speed Of Life - 3
Alone In The Light - 2
Father Is An Elephant - 2
Inside Out - 1
Carry Me Home - 1
Jack In The Box - 0

Silver And Gold has been eliminated.

Instructions: Simple. This is a traditional survivor. You will vote for your LEAST FAVORITE track!

The poll will be open for 24 hours.

Here is a list of tracks in this poll, all linked to YT for your reference.

11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Love Comes Tumbling
The Three Sunrises
Luminous Times
Spanish Eyes
Lady With The Spinning Head / UV1
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Stateless
Electrical Storm / William Orbit Mix / Early BBC/Radio One Version
Mercy
The Crystal Ballroom / 12" Mix

 

[2861U2]

Luminous Times. Come on, folks.

 

[LemonMelon]

Crystal Ballroom is still here?

 

[intedomine]

Delighted that a Silver and Gold is gone.

Crystal Ballroom, although I really enjoy the song.

It may have so far been getting a bit of "novelty protection" (from myself included) given it's unique characteristic of being a 2010's "b-side" and I don't think it has ever featured in one of these survivor games before. Would it have fared as well in th same contest in a decade's time? Who knows.

Also think it's the best chance of saving the beautiful Luminous Times.

 

[Oregoropa]

TCB to save Luminous Times

 

[Axver]

Get out of here, Crystal Ballroom.

 

[kiwilad]

The Crystal Ballroom. I like intedomine's comment, nail on head.
And Luminous Times is way too good.

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[prbiker15]

Mercy.

 

[LemonMelon]

I'll vote whatever next round to get Stateless into the top 10.

 

[gareth brown]

love Crystal Ballroom, but next to the others it's sadly time for it to go

 

[kiwilad]

I'll vote whatever next round to get Stateless into the top 10.

Yup

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[Axver]

I'll vote Stateless or Mercy to protect everything else.

What a fucking great collection of songs we'll have once Crystal Ballroom is ousted.

 

[kiwilad]

I'll be coming for Loves Comes Tumbling again soon. Me and my army of, ah, me...

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[namkcuR]

I'll vote Stateless or Mercy to protect everything else.

What a fucking great collection of songs we'll have once Crystal Ballroom is ousted.

It's already a fucking great collection of songs. Crystal Ballroom might've been a top 5 track on SOI and I am sad to see it go, though if I'm being honest, Electrical Storm is the only track left that should really go before it. I'm genuinely surprised that Electrical Storm has made it this far.

 

[lazarus]

For the love of god what is so good about Electrical Storm? It's so forced. Just because Edge started playing electric guitar with some energy again?

The lyrics are shit.

And Mercy with 4 votes already has me loading the magazine.

 

[LemonMelon]

For me Electrical Storm's quality comes down to a number of factors. Besides nostalgia (it was the first new U2 single released after I became a fan), I love the melody/chord progression of that song. I love the high, cracking vocal delivery in the chorus. I love the biting guitar tone. It has the weariness of the best Achtung Baby tracks and it conveys that through all of the above factors and just a touch less studio polish. It's a good, hearty rock song from a band fresh off of a very pop, very mainstream album. It's what I wish HTDAAB had sounded like (along with Mercy and Smile).

It is a shame that the lyrics aren't better, but as far as 00s U2 goes it's passable.

 

[namkcuR]

Electrical Storm once again.