Best Song Survivor: The Joshua Tree Round One

[digitize]

In the last round, Wire was eliminated by a large margin. A Sort of Homecoming, Pride, The Unforgettable Fire, and Bad shall be The Unforgettable Fire's representatives in the late 1980s quarterfinal round. Now competition begins for The Joshua Tree. Eleven songs compete for its four slots in quarterfinals. You have 24 hours to vote for your least favorite song, the next song to be kicked out of this contest. For anyone just joining us, rules may be found here.

 

[cobl04]

Mothers. Trip is a helluva lotta fun on an album that up to that point is pretty serious (not that that's a bad thing, just gives the album some nice levity).

Mothers is nice enough but can't stand up to the rest of these tunes.

Anyone who votes for Running to Stand Still in the TJT polls dies.

 

[digitize]

My ranking for this album is something like this:

1) With or Without You
2) One Tree Hill
3) Where the Streets Have No Name
4) Running to Stand Still or Mothers of the Disappeared (so close... I love both songs)
...Whatever...
∞^∞) Trip

 

[the tourist]

Mothers of the Disappeared, though I expect Trip will be ousted first. Probably Exit will even go before Mothers. But Mothers it is.

 

[the tourist]

1. With Or Without You
2. Where The Streets Have No Name
3. Running to Stand Still
4. One Tree Hill
5. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
6. In God's Country
7. Exit
8. Bullet The Blue Sky
9. Red Hill Mining Town
10. Trip Through Your Wires
11. Mothers of the Disappeared

 

[FlyontheHorizon]

Wow, this is hard. All the songs on here are almost equally good.

 

[intedomine]

I will be voting to eliminate Trip, OTH and Exit as early as possible, and voting to keep Streets, Still Haven't Found and In god's Country for as long as possible.

 

[digitize]

I will be voting to eliminate ... OTH ... as early as possible...

 

[digitize]

Anyone tempted to vote off MOTD is required to listen to this first:

U2 El Pueblo Vencera & Mothers of the Disappeared (Soundboard) - Tempe AZ 1987 - YouTube

 

[LadySpinHead]

I like Trip a lot, but I love Mothers. Gotta go with Trip for the first round.
Bullet's many amazing live performances are the only thing saving it for me. The studio version does nothing for me.

 

[Axver]

How the hell did Trip even make the album. Or get released at all. Especially when they had Heartland, Luminous Times, and Spanish Eyes all lying around.

Can't believe anybody would vote for Mothers of the Disappeared. OTH/Exit/MOTD is my favourite part of the album.

 

[silkensky]

Never quite warmed up to the album version of Bullet. In fact, I never really loved it until Zoo TV. Anyway it goes first for me.

 

[AndrewCowley]

Ok so the UF one was very hard and this is no better. Talk about splitting hairs.

I will start with Red Hill Mining Town. I love the lyrics but over the years have grown to dislike the vocal delivery. It is a screamfest.

EDIT: @#$@!#$ I accidently voted for Running To Stand Still. Damn it.

 

[LemonMelon]

Trip is fucking great.

I'm going with Mothers so Trip doesn't get whipped too badly. I like it though, along with every other song here. This is their most consistent album.

 

[AndrewCowley]

Can I somehow get my vote removed?

 

[digitize]

Ok so the UF one was very hard and this is no better. Talk about splitting hairs.

I will start with Red Hill Mining Town. I love the lyrics but over the years have grown to dislike the vocal delivery. It is a screamfest.

EDIT: @#$@!#$ I accidently voted for Running To Stand Still. Damn it.

I'm more than willing to change it

 

[AndrewCowley]

digitize, if you can change my vote from RTSS to RHMT that would be great. Can I change it myself?

 

[bonocomet]

I voted Red Hill but if my vote can save Mother's in the end you can change it

 

[cobl04]

digitize, if you can change my vote from RTSS to RHMT that would be great. Can I change it myself?

Too late. You may have provided me with Radiohead tickets but now you must be put to death.

 

[AndrewCowley]

Too late. You may have provided me with Radiohead tickets but now you must be put to death.

Lol. I can't believe I accidently voted for RTSS. Radiohead in Melbourne is this weekend, isn't it?

 

[cobl04]

Yes can't wait. When's Sydney?

 

[digitize]

digitize, if you can change my vote from RTSS to RHMT that would be great. Can I change it myself?

No you can't. And neither can I, really. What I can do is mentally change your vote when the round is over if it matters.

 

[AndrewCowley]

No you can't. And neither can I, really. What I can do is mentally change your vote when the round over if it matters.

I see. Thanks!

 

[AndrewCowley]

Yes can't wait. When's Sydney?

Sydney was earlier this week. I didn't go. I only had those Melbourne tickets but had to offload them 'coz something else came up for this weekend. I originally tried for Sydney tickets but the ticketek website is a piece of crap.

 

[Super Yo]

I've just listened the album for the first time in months, maybe years, and what a gorgeous and perfect album.

 

[Vlaco]

Trip.

 

[Galeongirl]

Yeah, uhm.. there's one song here that's just not like the others...

 

[djerdap]

Trip Through Your Wires. One of the worst vocal melodies Bono has ever come up with.

 

[gvox]

Lol. I can't believe I accidently voted for RTSS. Radiohead in Melbourne is this weekend, isn't it?

I can't believe you actually wanted to change your vote to RHMT.

Are you feeling quite ok?

 

[FitzChivalry]

Oh good, I'm not alone.