Rate The Song: Speed Of Life

[digitize]

Now begins the difficult struggle of this contest: when we rate non-album songs. Today we will rate the first seven of the thirteen non-album songs from before Boy to the War era. The whole list of thirteen is:

11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Touch
Speed Of Life
Saturday Night
Things To Make And Do
Boy/Girl
Another Day
A Celebration
J. Swallo
Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl
Endless Deep
Angels Too Tied To The Ground
Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop)

Please rate Speed Of Life (no, not the Bowie song, the U2 song that you may or may not have ever listened to) on a scale from 0 to 10, using whatever criteria you feel allows you to best evaluate the song as a whole. I will not set criteria for people to based on, but if you feel like your best evaluation of the merits of a song comes from voting only based on, say, the studio version, go right ahead and vote that way. Full information on the Rate The Song series may be found in this thread.

Have fun! This poll will close in 96 hours.

 

[The Panther]

Was this song ever recorded?

 

[digitize]

Was this song ever recorded?

It's on the bonus disc of the Boy remaster, U2's most prominent release ever.

 

[flybabe]

This is not a well know song at all, as before the Boy reissue this song was really hard to get your hands on. On a side note, it's kinda cool that both Bowie's song and this one are instrumentals. Coincidence?

5.

 

[Nick66]

Good tune but "Red Barchetta" is better.

 

[The_acrobat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3c0dqZ75lE

NOT an instrumental. Not bad either.

 

[prbiker15]

Not bad, love the speed of the song, and the guitar work, but crappy lyrics. 5 for me.

 

[cobl04]

Good tune but "Red Barchetta" is better.

pull your head in!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8viCtA4AQM