Please vote for your FAVOURITE song(s).
The top TWELVE songs from this era proceed to the Grand Final.
(The Grand Final will be Interference's top 30, with twelve 1980s songs, ten 1990s songs, and eight 2000s songs.)
Welcome to the 1980s semi final in Best Song Survivor v2! The object of this game is to find Interference's favourite U2 songs. Each album will be featured in a single round with the non-album tracks from its era. The amount of finalists from each era is based on seeding from the latest U2 Album Survivor. These rounds will last 24 hours and will be multiple choice polls where you vote for your favourite tracks (within reason). A suggestion is to vote for the amount of tracks that will proceed to the next round, although this is not a hard and fast rule.
Only original U2 songs with official studio releases will compete. Please vote solely on the basis of studio tracks. Songs with multiple versions will be listed separately; remixes will not, so if you favour a remix over the original song, vote on the basis of your favourite.
Both the early and late eighties quarter finals were extremely closely fought affairs. The early eighties quarter was so close that ninth place - the last qualifying spot - was tied and ten songs proceed to the semis. It was very nearly twelve, with Seconds and 11 O'clock Tick Tock (the highest placed non-album track of the tournament thus far) coming within a vote of ninth spot.
The Joshua Tree has greatest finals representation, getting five tracks through. Boy and The Unforgettable Fire have both achieved four, as did War thanks to its fortuitous ninth place draw. October and RAH, the two lowliest ranked eighties albums, similarly only managed two songs each.
Please note: today there will be only one round. We will return to simultaneous rounds tomorrow with Achtung Baby and Zooropa.
INTERFERENCE'S EARLY 1980S RANKING
(Songs in bold proceed to the semi finals)
1. New Year's Day - 54 votes
2. Out Of Control - 45
3. Gloria - 44
4. The Electric Co. - 43
=5. An Cat Dubh - 36
=5. Sunday Bloody Sunday - 36
7. I Will Follow - 35
8. Tomorrow - 34
=9. Like A Song - 28
=9. Drowning Man - 28
=11. 11 O'clock Tick Tock - 27
=11. Seconds - 27
13. October - 25
=14. A Celebration - 21
=14. 40 - 21
16. Rejoice - 18
17. A Day Without Me - 17
(Total votes: 72)
INTERFERENCE'S LATE 1980S RANKING
(Songs in bold proceed to the semi finals)
1. Where The Streets Have No Name - 68 votes
2. Bad - 66
3. A Sort Of Homecoming - 61
4. With Or Without You - 60
5. The Unforgettable Fire - 58
6. All I Want Is You - 55
7. Running To Stand Still - 50
=8. One Tree Hill - 46
=8. Heartland - 46
10. Pride - 40
11. Exit - 35
=12. In God's Country - 33
=12. God Part II - 33
14. Hawkmoon 269 - 31
15. Desire - 30
=16. Wire - 27
=16. Promenade - 27
18. Spanish Eyes - 24
19. Love Comes Tumbling - 18
(Total votes: 90)
The top TWELVE songs from this era proceed to the Grand Final.
(The Grand Final will be Interference's top 30, with twelve 1980s songs, ten 1990s songs, and eight 2000s songs.)
Welcome to the 1980s semi final in Best Song Survivor v2! The object of this game is to find Interference's favourite U2 songs. Each album will be featured in a single round with the non-album tracks from its era. The amount of finalists from each era is based on seeding from the latest U2 Album Survivor. These rounds will last 24 hours and will be multiple choice polls where you vote for your favourite tracks (within reason). A suggestion is to vote for the amount of tracks that will proceed to the next round, although this is not a hard and fast rule.
Only original U2 songs with official studio releases will compete. Please vote solely on the basis of studio tracks. Songs with multiple versions will be listed separately; remixes will not, so if you favour a remix over the original song, vote on the basis of your favourite.
Both the early and late eighties quarter finals were extremely closely fought affairs. The early eighties quarter was so close that ninth place - the last qualifying spot - was tied and ten songs proceed to the semis. It was very nearly twelve, with Seconds and 11 O'clock Tick Tock (the highest placed non-album track of the tournament thus far) coming within a vote of ninth spot.
The Joshua Tree has greatest finals representation, getting five tracks through. Boy and The Unforgettable Fire have both achieved four, as did War thanks to its fortuitous ninth place draw. October and RAH, the two lowliest ranked eighties albums, similarly only managed two songs each.
Please note: today there will be only one round. We will return to simultaneous rounds tomorrow with Achtung Baby and Zooropa.
INTERFERENCE'S EARLY 1980S RANKING
(Songs in bold proceed to the semi finals)
1. New Year's Day - 54 votes
2. Out Of Control - 45
3. Gloria - 44
4. The Electric Co. - 43
=5. An Cat Dubh - 36
=5. Sunday Bloody Sunday - 36
7. I Will Follow - 35
8. Tomorrow - 34
=9. Like A Song - 28
=9. Drowning Man - 28
=11. 11 O'clock Tick Tock - 27
=11. Seconds - 27
13. October - 25
=14. A Celebration - 21
=14. 40 - 21
16. Rejoice - 18
17. A Day Without Me - 17
(Total votes: 72)
INTERFERENCE'S LATE 1980S RANKING
(Songs in bold proceed to the semi finals)
1. Where The Streets Have No Name - 68 votes
2. Bad - 66
3. A Sort Of Homecoming - 61
4. With Or Without You - 60
5. The Unforgettable Fire - 58
6. All I Want Is You - 55
7. Running To Stand Still - 50
=8. One Tree Hill - 46
=8. Heartland - 46
10. Pride - 40
11. Exit - 35
=12. In God's Country - 33
=12. God Part II - 33
14. Hawkmoon 269 - 31
15. Desire - 30
=16. Wire - 27
=16. Promenade - 27
18. Spanish Eyes - 24
19. Love Comes Tumbling - 18
(Total votes: 90)
no it doesn't.
it can be kind of like how we did the last survivor, assuming streets and one would win so we just didn't include them in polls.
approximately how many do we have anyway? You could also run the winner against Mercy at the end to see how it holds up to it.
i completely forgot about that stuff being in the itunes pack. and yeah, the axtung beibi stuff would be hard since there's just so much of it. i guess we could do a quick-fire round where the top five or whatever from the whole lot gets used in the competition as a whole.
