Rate the Song Series: Where the Streets Have No Name

[Irishteen]

So the last album we did was TUF, and here's how the results ended up. 3 songs from the album managed to break into the overall top 3, while a fourth managed to make the top 10. Love Comes Tumbling went were no other b-side has gone before with a top 10 position.

Interference's Top U2 Songs
1 The Unforgettable Fire
2 A Sort of Homecoming
3 Bad

7 Promenade

9 Love Comes Tumbling

14 Pride (In the Name of Love)
15 Wire

26 Boomerang II
27 Elvis Presley and America

31 Indian Summer Sky
32 The Three Sunrises

36 MLK

41 Boomerang I

49 Bass Trap

53 4th of July
54 Sixty Seconds in Kingdom Come


So here we go...it is the round we've all been waiting for the Joshua Tree rounds. Starting off with Where the Streets do indeed not have a name. We'll be doing 3 songs this round Streets, Luminous Times and Walk to the Water. Poll will be open for 2 days and you can vote based on whatever you want



As well guys I want to know what remixes/alt versions of songs you want to vote on in the rest of the competition so far I'm thinking of doing Lady with the Spinning Head (Extended Dance Remix), NLOTH 2 and Crazy Tonight (Live). I want to know what you guys want to vote on separately. Do not pick songs you think are better but songs that you feel cannot be counted as being the same as the original and that are popular enough to warrant their own round.

 

[nielsgov]

10. My second favourite U2 song. It's epic.
But I hope that TUF stays before it.

 

[An Cat Gav]

10. It rarely gets better than this.

 

[gman]

Has to be a 10. Its THE u2 anthem!

 

[2861U2]

Seven. I find it pretty overrated. Even live, it doesn't do much for me.

 

[digitize]

TUF and ASOH beating Bad? I'm sorry... I love all three songs, and I gave all three songs tens, but come on, Bad should have been at the top.

As far as Streets goes... nine. Great song, but not quite all it's cracked up to be. I greatly prefer Bad as U2's anthem of the 80s. Also, the title WTSHNN is grammatically problematic (shouldn't it be Where The Streets Have No Names?).

 

[Irishteen]

TUF and ASOH beating Bad? I'm sorry... I love all three songs, and I gave all three songs tens, but come on, Bad should have been at the top.

As far as Streets goes... nine. Great song, but not quite all it's cracked up to be. I greatly prefer Bad as U2's anthem of the 80s. Also, the title WTSHNN is grammatically problematic (shouldn't it be Where The Streets Have No Names?).

Bad has what many believe to be a weaker studio version though. Bad should be played at every concert, but TUF and ASOH should make any best of compilation before it in terms of studio

 

[digitize]

Bad has what many believe to be a weaker studio version though. Bad should be played at every concert, but TUF and ASOH should make any best of compilation before it in terms of studio

Ehh... I wasn't voting on studio versions only (but rather the song as a whole... I believe the quality of a song encompasses everything about it), so I guess that's where my confusion comes from.

 

[LemonMelon]

Nine, of course.

 

[Irishteen]

Ehh... I wasn't voting on studio versions only (but rather the song as a whole... I believe the quality of a song encompasses everything about it), so I guess that's where my confusion comes from.

Oh I wasn't trying to contradict you, just telling you why I believe it underperformed. Some people vote only on studio, some may vote on the average.

I love studio Bad though, people are crazy

 

[mikal]

Irishteen, i've never heard this song. could you post a YT clip?

 

[Irishteen]

Irishteen, i've never heard this song. could you post a YT clip?

Sorry it's so obscure not even youtube knows it

 

[digitize]

Wait, isn't this called The Streets With No Name? It's on the same album as In The Name Of Love, Bloody Sunday, and It's A Beautiful Day, right?

 

[LemonMelon]

Wait, isn't this called The Streets With No Name? It's on the same album as In The Name Of Love, Bloody Sunday, and It's A Beautiful Day, right?

Don't forget I Still Haven't Found What It Was That I Was Looking For.

 

[SeattleVertigo]

10. It's not my favorite U2 song, but it's high up there.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

I scored it a 9.

 

[Axver]

8. Good, but not the be-all and end-all of U2.

 

[God Part III]

U2 summed up in one song. Perhaps the greatest U2 song. It's hard to say, but it's a 10, surely.

 

[powerhour24]

Seven. I find it pretty overrated. Even live, it doesn't do much for me.

Whoa. Obviously you get all kinds of opinions on a forum, but even with all the bickering I think this is the first time I've ever seen someone say Streets was over-rated.

 

[Axver]

Whoa. Obviously you get all kinds of opinions on a forum, but even with all the bickering I think this is the first time I've ever seen someone say Streets was over-rated.

He still rated it a 7 - I know I've seen at least a couple of people around here over the years who outright disliked Streets (I don't remember screen names; don't think they were regulars).

 

[dward1]

10 without a doubt. if I was allowed one song to show someone while trying to convince them to become a fan of U2, Streets either on the 26th of Dec 1989 or at Slane would be my pick.

 

[Axver]

I'll agree that Streets from 26 December 1989 is an easy 10, or even an 11. Fucking incredible - I reckon it's the definitive live version.

I still enjoy it post-Lovetown, but especially from Popmart on, I don't think it's quite what its reputation claims it is. Slane would just be a 7 or 8 for me.

 

[blueeyedgirl]

8 for overall. Probably 9 and a half for Lovetown version though

 

[cobl04]

10. It's not my favorite U2 song, but it's high up there.

10 here too. suckily enough i think it's my favourite U2 song.

don't understand how people think the studio version of bad is ordinary... another one of these forum things where the masses start turning i guess.

 

[intedomine]

10. U2's second greatest song...

 

[xtrmx]

lolz homecoming > bad, no way

 

[cobl04]

lolz homecoming > bad, no way

you think that's bad?

look at the positions for promenade and pride

 

[Axver]

Oh no, appreciation for classic album tracks!

Whatever next!

 

[Zoots]

I suppose I didn't vote for Pride. If I had, I would've given it 10. As beautiful as Promenade is, Pride is a fucking classic! Political song with great uplifting guitar and a singalong crowd chant. Quintessential U2.

 

[Alisaura]

I guess people like this one?

7 for me... I would have gone 7.5 but couldn't, obviously. It is a great song (grrrrreat, even), I still love it live, but I think U2 has done better. It's clearly an almost perfect mass-appeal sort of track.