Best Song Survivor: The Winner and the Showdown

[Axver]

Please vote for your LEAST FAVOURITE song.

In the fourteenth and last grand final, Bad finished in second place, defeated 63-51 by our tournament winner, With Or Without You.

Due to past results, One (the victor of both past Best Song Survivors) and Streets (the close runner-up and fan favourite) were declared default #1s. But let's see how they would survive against this tournament's most popular song.

GRAND FINAL RESULTS
16. Kite
15. Moment Of Surrender
14. Gone
13. Magnificent
12. Beautiful Day
11. A Sort Of Homecoming
The Top 10
10. Zooropa
9. Stay
8. All I Want Is You
7. One Tree Hill
6. Until The End Of The World
5. The Unforgettable Fire
4. New Year's Day
3. The Fly
2. Bad
1. With Or Without You

 

[Axver]

Blindingly easy choice. WOWY and Streets are both two of U2's fifty best songs, while One is one of their ten worst.

 

[alanah]

With Or Without You.

 

[OrARoundabout]

OH GOD!

This is hard!

 

[Screwtape2]

One. Half the songs on Achtung Baby are far better not to mention all of the Joshua Tree.

 

[2861U2]

I'll save my vote for whichever has the best shot of protecting One.

 

[intedomine]

Ranking these three from best to worst:

1. Streets
2. One
3. With Or Without You

With Or Without You has had it's time in the sun, now it's playing against the big boys. Out it must go.

 

[SethVincent]

This one was easy

Now when I see One in type format for some reason I can't not think of the diatribe I had to endure during The Vertigo Tour prior to this song finally starting

However it is still a great song without a doubt

 

[the tourist]

One. Easy.

 

[CTU2fan]

Close it Ax

 

[Harry Vest]

"Bad" lost to these three?!?!?!?!
I'm out. I can't take this seriously anymore.

 

[LemonMelon]

WOWY, again. I wouldn't even put that in their top 75. Honestly, I think the music video symbolizes everything I hate about the song. Dull, repetitive, simplistic, and it takes itself FAR too seriously for its own good. One isn't all it's cracked up to be, but at least it feels sincere and heartfelt. Or at least the meeker album version feels that way to me. Streets just kicks ass, no question about it.

 

[phillyfan26]

1. Streets
2. WOWY
3. One

Easy. Not even a question in my mind about how to order them. Streets and WOWY are just flat out better.

 

[bonocomet]

This is hard

WOWY is my favorite U2 song, but the others are equally amazing.

 

[Mr. V]

Blindingly easy choice. WOWY and Streets are both two of U2's fifty best songs, while One is one of their ten worst.

 

[digitize]

WOWY. One is vastly underrated by this forum. And I don't appreciate it.

I rank it this way:
1) One
2) Streets
3) WOWY

If Bad were still in, this would be another story - it is the only 80s U2 song that can really compare to a bunch of my 90s favorites, actually.

All in my somewhat odd opinion, of course.

 

[intedomine]

Looks like Streets has this won, can't see it losing from here. Can't really comprehend how One has so many votes at this early stage. Things will surely balance out eventually. Once 100 votes are counted, I predict:

Streets - 19
One - 33
WOWY - 48

 

[theFly51]

One

 

[bonocomet]

Threw a vote over to Streets for no good reason. These songs are nearly equal to me.

 

[the tourist]

One is vastly underrated by this forum.

AILURE.

One has won every previous survivor. It's not underrated by this forum, it's overrated if anything.

 

[I am]

Blindingly easy choice. WOWY and Streets are both two of U2's fifty best songs, while One is one of their ten worst.

Its comments like these that make you lose any credibility.

 

[the tourist]

Its comments like these that make you lose any credibility.

With certain people.

 

[cobl04]

^

One, pretty easy, though I still think it's a good song.

 

[Lila64]

I think I missed the last couple rounds of voting. Oh well.
I do WOWY

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

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[bathiu]

With Or Without You

 

[the tourist]

So, er, this is kinda close to a mercy-killing. Another 7 for One makes it 20.

 

[FitzChivalry]

This one was easy

Now when I see One in type format for some reason I can't not think of the diatribe I had to endure during The Vertigo Tour prior to this song finally starting

However it is still a great song without a doubt

This.

'One': fantastic, great lyrics. so-so, ok music.

WOWY and Streets

 

[cobl04]

This.

'One': fantastic, great lyrics. so-so, ok music.

WOWY and Streets

care to join me in my mission to have a bloc survivor in b&c down the road?

 

[Axver]

Its comments like these that make you lose any credibility.

Oh noez, I have different taste to you! If you define credibility based on how much another person's taste aligns with yours, you're a very sad person.