Rest of U2 Survivor: The Joshua Tree - Round 1

[redhotswami]

holla

 

[pepokiss]

to hell with bullet...

 

[Diemen]

This is how it should run, folks:

1 - Running To Stand Still
2 - One Tree Hill
3 - Mothers of the Disappeared
4 - Exit
5 - Bullet
6 - In God's Country
7 - Red Hill Mining Town
8 - Trip

I would also accept a switch of numbers 1 & 2. No other substitutions acceptable, I'm afraid.

Feel free to print this list out and refer to it in the subsequent rounds.

 

[corianderstem]

I have to admit that I'm also a little baffled that so many hold Running to Stand Still so high on the list here.

Don't get me wrong - it's a beautiful song, great stuff. But to me it's still behind One Tree Hill and Red Tree Hill. Maybe even In God's Country, which I love.

 

[Rob33]

haha that really is weird, never realized it had no votes at all...wtf?!

 

[the tourist]

Running to Stand Still is my favourite of the listed songs. Why? Because it's the best poetry Bono's ever written.

 

[phillyfan26]

This is how it should run, folks:

1 - Running To Stand Still
2 - One Tree Hill
3 - Mothers of the Disappeared
4 - Exit
5 - Bullet
6 - In God's Country
7 - Red Hill Mining Town
8 - Trip

I would also accept a switch of numbers 1 & 2. No other substitutions acceptable, I'm afraid.

Feel free to print this list out and refer to it in the subsequent rounds.

1. One Tree Hill
2. Running to Stand Still
3. Mothers of the Disappeared
4. Exit
5. Bullet the Blue Sky
6. Red Hill Mining Town
7. In God's Country
8. Trip

(Funny note: the first 7 listed there are all better than ISHFWILF.)

 

[Axver]

(Funny note: the first 7 listed there are all better than ISHFWILF.)

Honestly, I think ISHFWILF is the second worst song on the album; Trip obviously is dead last.

I'm surprised to see RHMT (Red Tree Hill, cori? ) placing so poorly on many lists. I think it's one of the most powerful, memorable experiences on the entire album. I wish it had been a single. I'd rather hear this song over and over again in concert than ISHFWILF.

 

[the tourist]

1. Running to Stand Still
2. Exit
3. One Tree Hill
4. In God's Country
5. Bullet The Blue Sky
6. Red Hill Mining Town
7. Trip Through Your Wires
8. Mothers of the Disappeared

 

[Diemen]

I think Red Hill sounds a little sloppy. Edge cuts notes short in nearly every bar. I love Bono's performance on it, but it seems like overall maybe they should've ran through it a few more times beforehand.

 

[coolian2]

Maybe even In God's Country, which I love.

Not enough In God's Country appreciation.

 

[Diemen]

I have to admit that I'm also a little baffled that so many hold Running to Stand Still so high on the list here.

Don't get me wrong - it's a beautiful song, great stuff. But to me it's still behind One Tree Hill and Red Tree Hill. Maybe even In God's Country, which I love.

I think Running To Stand Still is easy to overlook because it is a fairly simple song. But it's damn near perfect. The gorgeous melody, the sparse instrumentation, the restrained crescendo to the end, the harmonica outro, not to mention some of Bono's finest lyrics. It's a song that is more than the sum of its parts.

 

[CTU2fan]

Honestly, I think ISHFWILF is the second worst song on the album; Trip obviously is dead last.

I'm surprised to see RHMT (Red Tree Hill, cori? ) placing so poorly on many lists. I think it's one of the most powerful, memorable experiences on the entire album. I wish it had been a single. I'd rather hear this song over and over again in concert than ISHFWILF.

True true, but c'mon Ax, if RHMT was scrapped as a single because B couldn't sing it every night in '87 imagine what he'd do to it now?

 

[Axver]

True true, but c'mon Ax, if RHMT was scrapped as a single because B couldn't sing it every night in '87 imagine what he'd do to it now?

Couldn't possibly be worse than present day Pride, One, or WOWY.

 

[SeattleVertigo]

Red Hill Mining Town is a decent song, but Bono's pretty hyper on it. It feels quite overstated.

Running To Stand Still is worlds better.

 

[corianderstem]

Red Tree Hill.

Oh my god!

 

[xaviMF22]

Oh my god!

laughing at your own jokes

does it get any lower?

 

[corianderstem]

Yeah, I could make lame insults like you.

 

[xaviMF22]

Yeah, I could make lame insults like you.

damn