Interference's Top U2 Songs (NLOTH Redux) Voting Thread

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My 50 favourites are everything from Pop apart from Discotheque, everything from Zooropa apart from The Wanderer, all of NLOTH, all of the Joshua Tree, and all of UF apart from In the Name of Love.
 
My 50 favourites are everything from Pop apart from Discotheque, everything from Zooropa apart from The Wanderer, all of NLOTH, all of the Joshua Tree, and all of UF apart from In the Name of Love.

Added your list in as all songs being equal and unranked seeing as there was definitely no clear ranking
 
just from the top of my head, in order though :wink:

1 please
2 the ground beneath her feet
3 bad
4 acrobat
5 if god will send his angels
6 another time, another place
7 beautiful day
8 fez-being born
9 gone
10 stay
11 love is blindness
12 red hill mining town
13 unknown caller
14 cedars of lebanon
15 the unforgettable fire
16 do you feel loved
17 mofo
18 until the end of the world
19 with or without you
20 all i want is you
21 new year's day
22 original of the species
23 when i look at the world
24 the fly
25 zooropa
26 wake up dead man
27 discotheque
28 stateless
29 dancing barefoot
30 party girl
31 loves comes tumbling
32 one tree hill
33 no line on the horizon
34 one
35 miss sarajevo
36 an cat dubh/into the heart
37 tomorrow
38 staring at the sun
39 heartland
40 walk on
41 moment of surrender
42 slow dancing
43 last night on earth
44 running to stand still
45 sunday bloody sunday
46 pride
47 unchained melody
48 everlasting love
49 numb
50 yahweh
 
Great thread.

It's necessary after NLOTH release.

My top 50 songs of the greatest band in the world:

1. One
2. Until The End Of The World
3. Discotheque ("U2 made some of the greatest music of their lives" (c) RS)
4. Gone
5. Miami (unfortunetely there are no Pop album songs in U218 :angry::heart:)
6. The Unforgettable Fire
7. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
8. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
9. White As Snow
10. Where The Streets Have No Name
11. Magnificent
12. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
13. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
14. Love Rescue Me (the most underestimated U2 song)
15. Bad
16. Silver And Gold
17. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
18. Cedars Of Lebanon
19. No Line On The Horizon
20. Beautiful Day
21. Trip Through Your Wires
22. Do You Feel Loved
23. Twilight
24. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
25. Zoo Station
26. Angel Of Harlem
27. Stateless
28. Walk To The Water
29. Walk On
30. Sweetest Thing
31. One Tree Hill
32. The Fly
33. Get On Your Boots
34. Unknown Caller
35. Even Better Than The Real Thing
36. Heartland
37. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
38. Running To Stand Still
39. Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland)
40. Numb
41. Breathe
42. City Of Blinding Lights
43. Lemon
44. Dirty Day
45. Fire
46. Drowning Man
47. Mysterious Ways
48. Hawkmoon 269
49. Acrobat
50. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
 
Welcome to Interference!

Anyone who has in their top 25 Stuck In A Moment, UTEOTW, One, Bad, The Unforgettable Fire, Trip Through Your Wires, Love Rescue Me and Cedars of Lebanon is good in my book. :up:
 
Welcome to Interference!

Anyone who has in their top 25 Stuck In A Moment, UTEOTW, One, Bad, The Unforgettable Fire, Trip Through Your Wires, Love Rescue Me and Cedars of Lebanon is good in my book. :up:

Thank you! :) In my book too. :lol:
 
Welcome to the forum Russian Fox, thanks for the list

2 days left to submit lists for anyone who still wants to, we've just hit the number of lists that were submitted to the Scientist's competition, 54

The results will also include where the song ranked last time, which has some surprises with one song dropping 83 places, another dropping 74 places, other songs rising from outside the top 100 last time to the top 75, one song that apparently got zero votes last time is set to hit the top 75 this time. The song that was winning for the first 20 or so lists is now stuck at number 9

At 54 lists in
203 songs have been voted for
189 songs have a score of 1 or higher
146 songs have a score of 5 or higher
138 songs have a score of 10 or higher
109 songs have a score of 25 or higher
98 songs have a score of 50 or higher
83 songs have a score of 100 or higher
55 songs have a score of 250 or higher
35 songs have a score of 500 or higher
18 songs have a score of 1000 or higher
6 songs have a score of 1500 or higher
4 songs have a score of 2000 or higher

Just a score of 1 separates 3rd and 4th. 9th and 10th are equal at present, just a point between 20th and 21st, just a point between 23rd and 24th. So every list is gonna count towards the end
 
I don't get this. So 14 songs voted for have a score of 0?

The score is based on where it is on someone's list, 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. and how many lists the song was on. For example all songs with zero points at present have been on just one list, while if they were on two lists there score would be higher, and if they were on all 54 lists higher again
 
^ :yes:

Here are the rules and tabulation methods that were listed in the first post of this thread:


. . .

The final scores that the songs get will be based on three things
1. The number of lists it appears on
2. How high it appears on each list
3. The number of people who enter lists

Rules:
. . .

4. Lists do not strictly have to be ranked, although it is preferable. You can mix ranking and non-ranking in your lists as much as you wish. All songs that are unranked will receive the same number of points but the number of points overall for your list will be lower than if everything is ranked. Alternatively you can use tiers, which leaves all unranked songs in one tier with an equal number of points, and other songs in lower tiers with lower but again equal number of points each.
 
hmm, so if I placed my list in no particular order (which I did), does that mean that my votes count differently?

I'm going to try to explain this in a way that makes sense...try

So when someone submits a list they either rank or don't rank the songs

Songs have a score based on Points (Where they are placed on a list) and Number (Number of lists they were placed on). Every time a song appears on a list, 1 is added to the number of lists, obviously

If the songs are ranked the song that's top, will get 50 points and the song at bottom gets 1.

If a list is unranked, every song gets an equal number of points, I can't remember what the number is, it depends on the number of unranked songs on a list.

Or apparently I said this in the rules :lol:
 
My attempt for today :)

1 One
2 Where the streets have no name
3 Walk On
4 Miss Sarajevo
5 Sunday bloody sunday
6 All I want is you
7 Bad
8 Van Diemens Land
9 Beautiful day
10 Unknown caller
11 Running to stand still
12 Crazy Tonight
13 City of blinding lights
14 Mothers of the disappeared
15 Out of control
16 MLK
17 Love is blindness
18 40
19 Even Better than the Real Thing
20 Wave of sorrow
21 Mystery girl
22 The Playboy Mansion
23 Kite
24 Gone
25 The Ground Beneath Her Feet
26 Mysterious Ways
27 Moment of Surrender
28 Father Christmas
29 Peace on Earth
30 Magnificent
31 11 o'clock tick tock
32 Pride
33 Elvis Presley and America
34 Mission Impossible
35 Some days are better than others
36 The Saints are Coming
37 October
38 Crumbs from your table
39 Ultra Violet
40 Miracle Drug
41 The Electric Co
42 If God will send his angels
43 Angel of Harlem
44 Hawkmoon 269
45 Red Hill Mining Town
46 Original of the Species
47 Everlasting Love
48 The Wanderer
49 Seconds
50 Surrender
 
1 - 10 are in order

1 Kite
2 Bad
3 Stay
4 No Line On The Horizon
5 Acrobat
6 Beautiful Day
7 Out of Control
8 Miracle Drug
9 Unknown Caller
10 The Electric Co.

11 - 50 not in order. Sorry.

11 I Will Follow
12 Gloria
13 October
14 Sunday Bloody Sunday
15 New Years Day
16 40
17 Pride
18 A Sort of Homecoming
19 Promenade
20 Where The Streets Have No Name
21 With Or Without You
22 Running To Stand Still
23 Sweetest Thing
24 Hawkmoon 269
25 All I Want Is You
26 Even Better Than The Real Thing
27 One
28 Until The End Of The World
29 The Fly
30 Ultraviolet
31 Zooropa
32 The First Time
33 HMTMKMKM
34 If God Will Send His Angels
35 Last Night On Earth
36 Gone
37 Please
38 Two Shots of Happy...
39 North & South Of The River
40 Stuck In A Moment
41 Elevation
42 Walk On
43 Electrical Storm
44 Vertigo
45 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
46 City Of Blinding Lights
47 Original Of The Species
48 Window In The Skies
49 Breathe
50 Moment of Surrender
 
1-10 are in order.

1. Bad. :heart:
2. With or Without You. :heart:
3. Knocking on Heavens Door with Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, I forget when exactly it was played.
4. WILATW
5. The Fly
6. Angel of Harlem
7. Pride
8. WGRYWH
9. Van Diemans Land :drool:
10. COBL :drool:
11. TUF :drool:
12. So Cruel
13. TTYAATW
14. Numb ( :D, so sue me )
15. Your Blue Room
16. Stay
17. Walk On :drool:
18. Out of Control
19. Kite
20. Summer Rain.
21. Bono and Frank Sinatra - Under My Skin.
22. Sweetest Thing
23. Wild Honey
24. Lemon
25. AIWIY.

Perhaps the most unconventional list? I told you I have very eclectic tastes, John!
 
1 Mysterious Ways
2 Unknown Caller
3 Where the Streets Have No Name
4 Magnificent
5 Mofo
6 No Line on the Horizon
7 Fez-Being Born
8 Still Haven't Found
9 The Fly
10 Ground Beneath her Feet
11 City of Blinding Lights
12 Unforgettable Fire
13 Miracle Drug
14 Fez-Being Born
15 Your Blue Room
16 So Cruel
17 Gone
18 Heartland
19 Running to Standstill
20 Bullet the Blue Sky
21 HMTMKMKM
22 Original of the Species
23 Do You Feel Loved
24 Instant Karma
25 Window in the Skies
26 Yahweh
27 40
28 Ultraviolet
29 Walk On
30 Bad
 
58 lists in now, gonna leave it open for another few hours a few people who have shown interest have yet to submit lists. If anyone else wants to submit one, go ahead
 
Gonna close this whenever I wake up and come online tomorrow, so if anyone wants to submit lists over night go ahead

Results thread will be up tomorrow evening
 
Okay I'm going to close this now, the result thread will be posted tonight. If anyone still wants to enter a list you can PM it to me and I will add it if I have time but don't post any more in the thread. See you all later today for an epic results thread :wave:
 
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