Rest of U2 Survivor: Boy - Round 2

[corianderstem]

Shadows and Tall Trees was eliminated last round, with 27 votes. Will The Ocean be the next to go? Will Out of Control surprise everyone by getting the boot this early?

VOTE FOR YOUR LEAST FAVORITE SONG ... and find out!

Polls will remain open for 48 hours. Don’t forget to show proper voter registration and remember to sign your ballot!

Songs in this round:

- Twilight
- An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
- Out Of Control
- Stories For Boys
- The Ocean
- A Day Without Me
- Another Time, Another Place
- The Electric Co.

 

[corianderstem]

I know some of you will question the seeming randomness of the song selection, and while I know some of it seems weird, it is what it is.

Play along if you want, we'd love to have you. The more, the merrier! But please don't gripe about it in each round.

I'd hate to see this turn into a knock-down, drag-out brawl. It's just a silly poll on the internet.

With that said, I really, really, really don't like Another Time, Another Place. Off with its head!

 

[Axver]

I know some of you will question the seeming randomness of the song selection, and while I know some of it seems weird, it is what it is.

Maybe we should briefly explain the criteria in the first post of each round, for people who missed the original thread?

 

[corianderstem]

I can do that.










What was the criteria again? Was it just "stuff that wasn't on the best ofs," or is there more I'm missing?

 

[pat132]

Still Another Time, Another Place.

 

[Axver]

What was the criteria again? Was it just "stuff that wasn't on the best ofs," or is there more I'm missing?

Yeah, anything on the regular pressings of the Best Of 1980-1990, Best Of 1990-2000, and U2:18 is excluded so that we can find which gem Interference thinks is hideously overlooked.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

I can do that.
What was the criteria again? Was it just "stuff that wasn't on the best ofs," or is there more I'm missing?

here Cori, I'll Help:

We’ve done the Best Of. We’ve done the Worst Of. We’ve done the singles. Oh, let’s face it - we’ve done ‘em all.

What happens when we cut out the hits and other prominent tracks? As Axver said, no one was surprised to see One and Streets duking it out for the title of the Best U2 Song.

Basically, anything that was on U2:18 and the two Best Of collections is off the list. What are the favorite overlooked classics on Interference?

Let’s find out!

How to play: Each album will have a series of rounds of voting. In an album's first round, all competing songs from the album will be listed and you vote for the song you think is the WORST. The song with the most votes is eliminated. This continues through the subsequent rounds until we are left with just one song from each album.

The victorious songs proceed to the final, which will be conducted in the same manner until just one song is left, which you can consider to be the Best Non-Single or Least Objectionable Non-Single, depending upon your perspective.

Polls will remain open for 48 hours, with new polls being posted every other day.

Please vote based on the studio version of the song, not the live version. I know it’s hard – we all know live is where they live! But do your best.

Below is the master list Axver created (with assistance and corrections from the peanut gallery), and the first poll will be posted very shortly!

Master List

BOY
- Twilight
- An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
- Out Of Control
- Stories For Boys
- The Ocean
- A Day Without Me
- Another Time, Another Place
- The Electric Co.
- Shadows And Tall Trees

OCTOBER
- Gloria
- I Fall Down
- I Threw A Brick
- Rejoice
- Fire
- Tomorrow
- With A Shout
- Stranger In A Strange Land
- Scarlet
- Is That All?

WAR
- Seconds
- Like A Song
- Drowning Man
- The Refugee
- Two Hearts
- Red Light
- Surrender
- 40

THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE
- A Sort Of Homecoming
- Wire
- Promenade
- 4th Of July
- Indian Summer Sky
- Elvis Presley And America
- MLK

THE JOSHUA TREE
- Bullet The Blue Sky
- Running To Stand Still
- Red Hill Mining Town
- In God's Country
- Trip Through Your Wires
- One Tree Hill
- Exit
- Mothers Of The Disappeared

RATTLE AND HUM
- Van Diemen's Land
- Hawkmoon 269
- Love Rescue Me
- Heartland
- God Part II

ACHTUNG BABY
- Zoo Station
- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
- So Cruel
- The Fly
- TTTYAATW
- Ultra Violet
- Acrobat
- Love Is Blindness

ZOOROPA
- Zooropa
- Babyface
- Lemon
- Daddy's Gonna Pay
- Some Days
- Dirty Day
- The Wanderer

PASSENGERS
- United Colours
- Slug
- Your Blue Room
- Always Forever Now
- A Different Kind Of Blue
- Beach Sequence
- Ito Okashi
- One Minute Warning
- Corpse
- Elvis Ate America
- Plot 180
- Theme From The Swan
- Theme From Let's Go Native

POP
- Do You Feel Loved
- Mofo
- If God Will Send His Angels
- Last Night On Earth
- Miami
- Playboy Mansion
- Velvet Dress
- Please
- Wake Up Dead Man

ATYCLB
- Kite
- In A Little While
- Wild Honey
- Peace On Earth
- When I Look At The World
- New York
- Grace

HTDAAB
- Miracle Drug
- Love And Peace
- City Of Blinding Lights
- All Because Of You
- Crumbs
- One Step Closer
- Original Of The Species
- Yahweh

NON-ALBUM TRACKS 1978-81
- Street Mission
- The Fool
- Boy/Girl
- Another Day
- 11 O'clock Tick Tock
- Touch
- Things To Make And Do
- J. Swallow

NON-ALBUM TRACKS 1982-84
- A Celebration
- Trash, Trampoline And The Party Girl
- Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop?)
- Endless Deep
- Boomerang I
- Boomerang II
- The Three Sunrises
- Love Comes Tumbling
- Bass Trap
- Sixty Seconds In Kingdom Come

NON-ALBUM TRACKS 1984-89
- Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
- Walk To The Water
- Spanish Eyes
- Deep In The Heart
- Silver And Gold
- Race Against Time
- Hallelujah Here She Comes
- A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel

NON-ALBUM TRACKS 1990-99
- Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk/Korova 1
- Lady With The Spinning Head
- Salome
- Where Did It All Go Wrong?
- Slow Dancing
- Viva Davidoff
- Bottoms (Watashitachi No Ookima Yume)
- Holy Joe
- North And South Of The River
- I'm Not Your Baby
- Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad

NON-ALBUM TRACKS 00-07
- Summer Rain
- Always
- Big Girls Are Best
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet
- Stateless
- Are You Gonna Wait Forever
- Fast Cars
- She's A Mystery To Me

"UNRELEASED" RELEASES 04-07
- Levitate
- Love You Like Mad
- Flower Child
- Smile
- Native Son
- Xanax And Wine
- Beautiful Ghost/Introduction to Songs of Experience
- Drunk Chicken/America
- Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland)
- Desert Of Our Love
- Rise Up

 

[corianderstem]

Got it, thanks. I'll make that edit going forward.

Did you see the last poll, where someone asked about A Man and a Woman? Was that just an oversight?

Or were you trying to pull a fast one and keep it out because you hate it?

Edit:

Elevated ...

Don't mess with the old people. We have moments.

 

[phanan]

Come on, people. The Ocean. It's two minutes of nothing.

 

[Axver]

Oh, AMAAW's non-mention was an oversight. It's in the game; I actually think it's one of HTDAAB's better songs, despite this forum's rabid hatred of it.

 

[martha]

Come on, people. The Ocean. It's two minutes of nothing.

Well said.

 

[phillyfan26]

Another Time, Another Place, Another Vote

 

[corianderstem]

Thanks, Axver. I'll throw it onto the list.

 

[Axver]

I'm surprised by the strong early polling by ATAP. By no means do I think it's one of the album's best songs, but it's a good, solid song that deserves to stick around longer than The Ocean and Stories For Boys.

 

[cruzila]

The Ocean

 

[Zoots]

I'm surprised by the strong early polling by ATAP. By no means do I think it's one of the album's best songs, but it's a good, solid song

 

[Axver]

There's also a problem with two section names:

Non-album Songs 1982-84 should be 1982-85.

Non album Songs 1984-89 should be 1987-89.

There's nothing from 1986.

 

[RavenBlue]

The Ocean

 

[corianderstem]

Got it, Axver, thanks.

Bono's voice has always bugged me in ATAP. When he sings "I'll be with you now," he sounds like he's got sinus issues.

 

[phillyfan26]

ATAP has never done anything for me, and I like this album.

Really the only songs I don't like are ATAP, The Ocean, and Stories for Boys.

 

[dr. zooeuss]

i love all this campaigning for songs, haha.

i'm listening to all my candidates right now to make sure my memory of them is accurate... and still voting The Ocean, by a hair...

 

[coolian2]

The Ocean







Another time another place
Weeeeeeeeeeeeee liiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
On the ground

 

[coolian2]

ATAP has never done anything for me, and I like this album.

Really the only songs I don't like are ATAP, The Ocean, and Stories for Boys.

The only song off Boy that doesn't click for me is Shadows and Tall Trees, and i like it too.

Fuck, Boy is such a good album.

 

[Axver]

Fuck, Boy is such a good album.

I wholeheartedly second this comment. I consider it one of U2's top four albums.

 

[coolian2]

I wholeheartedly second this comment. I consider it one of U2's top four albums.

Absolutely.

As far as an actual album goes, in terms of meshing together you'd be hard pressed to find a lot better in the U2 catalogue.

 

[Aardvark747]

The Ocean again.

 

[phillyfan26]

Fuck, Boy is such a good album.

 

[pat132]

Fuck, Boy is such a good album.

Second that

 

[gump]

^ yes!

The Ocean

 

[WCF]

Maybe I should have read the directions before voting, I voted for my favorite rather than my least favorite, Out of Control. I was wondering why The Ocean was so popular...