Rank Your Favorite Songs on the Album Part 5: How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

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1 One Step Closer (9.2/10)
2 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (9.1/10)
3 Original Of The Species (8.8/10)
4 Vertigo/Native Son (8.8/10)
5 Mercy (8.6/10)
6 Yahweh (8.4/10)
7 Miracle Drug (8.3/10)
8 Smile (7.8/10)
9 Flower Child (7.7/10)
10 All Because Of You (7.6/10)
11 City Of Blinding Lights (7.4/10)
12 A Man and A Woman (7.3/10)
13 Fast Cars (7.1/10)
14 Crumbs (6.6/10)
15 Love and Peace (4.2/10)



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1. Vertigo
2. Original of the Species
3. City of Blinding Lights
4. Crumbs From Your Table
5. Miracle Drug
6. Love & Peace or Else
7. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
8. Fast Cars
9. All Because of You
10. A Man and a Woman
11. One Step Closer
12. Yahweh
 
Didn't realize I had posted in this thread four years ago.
1. City Of Blinding Lights
2. Miracle Drug
3. Original Of The Species
4. Vertigo
5. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
6. Yahweh
7. One Step Closer
8. Crumbs From Your Table
9. A Man And A Woman
10. Love And Peace Or Else
11. All Because Of You
City of Blinding Lights - 10 / 10
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own - 10 / 10
Vertigo - 10 / 10
A Man and a Woman - 9 / 10
Crumbs from Your Table - 9 / 10
Original of the Species - 8 / 10
Miracle Drug - 8 / 10
All Because of You - 7 / 10
Yahweh - 7 / 10
Love and Peace or Else - 6 / 10
Fast Cars - 5 / 10
One Step Closer - 5 / 10
 
1. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
2. City Of Blinding Lights
3. Miracle Drug
4. Vertigo
5. Crumbs From Your Table
6. Yahweh
7. Original Of The Species
8. Love And Peace Or Else
9. All Because Of You
10. A Man And A Woman
11. One Step Closer
 
#1 Yahweh
#2 City Of Blinding Lights
#3 Crumbs From Your Table
#4 One Step Closer
#5 Original Of The Species
#6 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
#7 Vertigo
#8 All Because Of You
#9 Love And Peace Or Else
#10 Miracle Drug
#11 A Man And A Woman
 
Great:
None.

Good:
Crumbs From Your Table
City Of Blinding Lights

Okay:
A Man And A Woman
One Step Closer

Mediocre/Boring:
Everything else.

Terrible:
None.

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Still my least favourite album and probably always will be.

That said there's a still a few good tracks on it, just none that will ever trouble my U2 top 30 or maybe 40, well COBL may have a chance of getting in the top 40, maybe.

1. COBL
2. Fast Cars
3. Vertigo
4. SYCMIOYO (unsure why this song gets so much hate).
5. A Man and A Woman.
6. Crumbs From Your Table.
7. One Step Closer.

Now I'm struggling to find a song that I'm certain I'll even want to hear again.

8. Love and Peace Or Else (Great opening minute, great dirty guitar riff but that's it).
9. Original of The Species
10. All Because Of You
11. Yahweh (worst album closer they've ever done).

Until I encountered SUC, this was the worst U2 song I'd ever heard. It's now the 2nd worst, but still the most boring.


12. Miracle Drug
 
1. Original Of The Species
2. Vertigo
3. City Of Blinding Lights
4. Yahweh
5. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
6. Miracle Drug
7. Love And Peace Or Else
8. All Because Of You
9. A Man And A Woman
10. Crumbs From Your Table
11. One Step Closer

This is maybe U2's biggest "what might have been" album since they left so many quality B-sides on the cutting room floor. Mercy, Levitate and either of Fast Cars/Xanax & Wine are better than all but the top three songs on my list. This track order would've made for a much better record...

1. Levitate
2. Vertigo
3. Mercy
4. Xanax & Wine
5. Love & Peace Or Else
6. Miracle Drug
7. A Man And A Woman
8. Original Of The Species
9. City Of Blinding Lights
10. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
11. Yahweh
 
After thinking about it I realized how much better the new songs are than anything on HTDAAB.
 
After thinking about it I realized how much better the new songs are than anything on HTDAAB.

Vertigo and COBL are the only two for me that are of a similar quality to those on SOI, and come to think of it, both cover similar themes to the new album.
 
1. Miracle Drug - a great 2 or 3 single IMHO
2. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
3. City
4. Original of the species
5. Vertigo - but good lead single
6. Love & Peace Or Else
7. Yahweh
8. A man and a woman
9. One Step Closer
10. Crumbs
11. All Because Of You
 
Classics:

1. City of Blinding Lights
2. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
3. Vertigo
4. Miracle Drug

Great:

5. Love and Peace or Else
6. All Because of You

Good:

7. Yahweh

Lame:

8. A Man and a Woman
9. Original of the Species
10. One Step Closer
11. Crumbs From Your Table



by comparison, here's my favorite album of all time...

Classics:

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. With or Without You
4. One Tree Hill
5. Red Hill Mining Town
6. Running To Stand Still
7. Bullet The Blue Sky
8. In God's Country

Great:

9. Trip Through Your Wires
10. Exit
11. Mothers of the Disappeared


and here's my last take on Songs of Innocence


Classics:

Great:

1. California

Good:

2. Every Breaking Wave
3. This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now
4. Sleep Like A Baby Tonight
5. The Troubles

Lame:

6. Iris
7. Volcano
8. Raised By Wolves
9. The Miracle
10. Cedarwood Road
11. Song for Someone
 
COBL
Sometimes
Crumbs
Vertigo
Yahweh
One Step Closer
Miracle Drug
Love and Peace
Man and a Woman
All Because of You
OOTS

First 2 are great, the last 2 suck even though they were chosen as singles. Let's hope they pick better singles on SOI (i.e. EBW)
 
Still my least favourite album and probably always will be.

That said there's a still a few good tracks on it, just none that will ever trouble my U2 top 30 or maybe 40, well COBL may have a chance of getting in the top 40, maybe.

1. COBL
2. Fast Cars
3. Vertigo
4. SYCMIOYO (unsure why this song gets so much hate).
5. A Man and A Woman.
6. Crumbs From Your Table.
7. One Step Closer.

Now I'm struggling to find a song that I'm certain I'll even want to hear again.

8. Love and Peace Or Else (Great opening minute, great dirty guitar riff but that's it).
9. Original of The Species
10. All Because Of You
11. Yahweh (worst album closer they've ever done).

Until I encountered SUC, this was the worst U2 song I'd ever heard. It's now the 2nd worst, but still the most boring.


12. Miracle Drug

Sorry you don't like Yahweh. Fave song on The Bomb....The live acoustic version gives me chills!
 
Tempted to look up my old reviews of this album but also kind of scared to.

Most recent appraisal:

1) Crumbs
2) Love and Peace or Else
3) Vertigo
4) OOTS
5) Miracle Drug
6) All Because of You
7) One Step Closer
8) A Man And A Woman
9) COBL
10) Yahweh
11) Although I pretty much hate Yahweh and SYCMIOYO equally, the latter loses for having an annoyingly long acronym.

Fast Cars, if it had been on the official release, would be in the top 3.
 
1. OOTS -- joy, bittersweet, Dad Rock but in the best possible sense of the word, contains the only spontaneous sounding moment on the album ("sugar come on") and really needs more love live
2. COBL -- not quite the 21st century streets, but soaring and gorgeous, feels like a plane taking off from NYC or LA at night, all possibility ahead of you
3. Vertigo -- the big rock song they've always wanted, even better live
4. Sometimes -- boring at the start, but ultimately soars and has the album's most emotionally devastating moment ("don't leave me here alone")
5. Miracle Drug -- somehow less than the sum of it's parts, the Magnificent of this album
6. AMAAW -- has improved with age, has the album's best line ("love and faith and sex and fear / and all the things that keep us here")
7. One Step Closer -- also not quite what it should be, good lyrics but music sounds too much like it's trying too hard to be "poignant," which leads into the rest of this trying too hard album ...
8. Crumbs -- some good lyrics, but hurts my ears
9. Yahweh -- some gorgeous parts, but just sounds a mess; the only one that sounded better in it's earlier version
10. Love and Peace or Else -- this was fun live, but a mess on the album, sounds like they were like, "ok, we need a political song because Iraq"
11. ABOY -- actually, i think the lyrics are kind of clever, but they just suck at this kind of rock
 
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