Best Song Survivor v2: GRAND FINAL!

[LemonMelon]

Lemon > WOWY

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

STREETS!

Fucking STREETS!

FUCK ENO!

 

[BlueSilkenSky]

Damn, the poll is closed!

Excellent selections, though!

But how is Electric Co. the only song from Boy that made it through? And Gloria the only song from October? I mean, I adore Gloria but Tomorrow also exists... and there are so many other great songs on Boy! I guess the majority doesn't agree.

 

[digitize]

I'm realizing now that I meant to vote for Zooropa and didn't. Obviously too late to change my vote, but damn.

 

[LemonMelon]

Holy shit don't tell me that

With you and Nam it could have WON

 

[digitize]

I'm really sorry. I don't know why I botched my vote so badly. I forgot both Zooropa and UTEOTW, although Axver corrected for the latter.

 

[gvox]

Streets + Zooropa???

All is right in the world. Excellent result.

 

[gareth brown]

add that vote :O

 

[gvox]

No vote adding after the closing of the poll

 

[gvox]

Where The Streets Are Shit #FuckStreets

I've saved this for the upcoming compilation post where I illustrate your avowed hatred for Streets.

 

[Globo14]

The Fly only got one less vote than Streets. I can live with that. Surprised at how well New Year's Day did.

 

[popacrobat]

Good to see the best song continues to win.

 

[PennyLanePHINS]

Should do a poll of their released Live songs (UABRS, Wide Awake, Paris, ZooTV, Slane, U22, Edge's Picks). Certain songs would probably do better in their live versions than their studio ones.

 

[Nick66]

Should do a poll of their released Live songs (UABRS, Wide Awake, Paris, ZooTV, Slane, U22, Edge's Picks). Certain songs would probably do better in their live versions than their studio ones.

I'd really love to see this.

 

[digitize]

I'd really love to see this.

You've expressed interest in this before, and I think it could be interesting. Might you want to run it at some point?

 

[the tourist]

I find it kind of telling that the top vote-getter has only 55% of the vote.

 

[Nick66]

Should do a poll of their released Live songs (UABRS, Wide Awake, Paris, ZooTV, Slane, U22, Edge's Picks). Certain songs would probably do better in their live versions than their studio ones.

You've expressed interest in this before, and I think it could be interesting. Might you want to run it at some point?

Yeah. As I said before, I'd do it myself, except I lack the organizational, technical and statistical skills for the task. Well, that plus general laziness.

Anyway, I'm not even sure if it's been done yet, but it would be fun to see which are people's live favs. And yeah, as much as I love HQ bootlegs, you'd have to limit such a poll to official live releases (including CD's, DVD's, and even one off b-sides if you wanted), since a lot of people don't collect the bootlegs. In addition to the concerts videos, I also think if you include the live b-sides and other officially released "rarities" a lot of people might be exposed to versions they didn't even know existed.

At the end, you'd have a "Interference's Picks" concert of all the best (official) live versions.

Something like this:

POLL: What is the best officially released live version of "Where The Streets Have No Name"?

1. Rattle & Hum, Tempe
2. Lovetown, Point Depot
3. ZOOTV, Sydney
4. Popmart, Mexico City
5. Popmart, Rotterdam (Please B-Side)
6. Elevation, Boston
7. Elevation, Slane Castle
8. Vertigo, Chicago
9. 360, Rosebowl
10. 360, Stadion Slaski, Chorzow (U22)

Etc.

You could eliminate the multiple versions from the same tour if you wished, since within a tour a different performances of the same song pretty much sound the same. And any version someone hasn't heard could easily be found on Youtube.

 

[PennyLanePHINS]

I was thinking of doing it, but not quite as well as this one. Basically the top 4 tracks from:
UABRS, Hasta La Vista, Zoo TV Live, Slane Castle, Live from Paris, U22, Edge's Picks & both Bad & ASOH automatically from Wide Awake in America. That makes a final 30, a pretty simple way of doing it.

And maybe something where only one version of a song could make it...like if the SBS from UABRS wins, then the other versions aren't included. Bad & ASOH from Wide Awake are pretty much the definitive live versions of those two anyway.