Best Album Survivor: Round Four

[digitize]

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb has officially been vanquished from our island! It's now time for round four of Best Album Survivor. You have 24 hours to vote for your least favorite remaining album.

The ranking as of present:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
12. Original Soundtracks 1
13. October

 

[OpenG180]

Time to eliminate all that i CAN leave behind.

 

[OpenG180]

Someone voted by mistake on that one, you know, TUF. Whoever did that you can ask digitize to change it to ATYCLB.

 

[gvox]

Hmm..I was thinking of R&H but...

Desire
Van Diemens Land
Hawkmoon 269
Silver and Gold
Angel of Harlem
Heartland
All I Want Is You
and to a lesser extent: Love Rescue Me and God Part II

wow, Rattle & Hum is NOWHERE near U2's worst album, for me.

This is getting tough. I think ATYCLB, NLOTH and Zooropa are all about the same middle of the road level for me. What to do..

 

[FlyontheHorizon]

Half of R&H is nothing new, but the rest of it barely prevents it from getting my vote.

Sorry, War.

 

[bonocomet]

War again. I like more songs on it than I like many entire albums by other artists I like, but as a whole, I like it less than most U2 albums.


Got that?

 

[U2girl]

Bomb gets off , with so many weaker efforts still around ?

Rattle and Hum again.

 

[OpenG180]

Bomb gets off , with so many weaker efforts still around ?

Rattle and Hum again.

Heartland alone is a thousand times better than the whole Bomb.

 

[OpenG180]

In one hand you got New Year's Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Drowning Man, Seconds, 40, 2 Hearts, Like a Song.

In the other hand you got Peace on Earth, Grace, Elevation, Stuck, Wild Honey, New York...

Yeah. ATYCLB is the better album.

 

[prbiker15]

I would have voted Boy again, but I think War should leave. To me, Boy was gone last round.

 

[lemonfly]

War

 

[LUNEDEMINUIT]

There are people who thinks that RAH is more relevant than War????really???

 

[OpenG180]

There are people who thinks that RAH is more relevant than War????really???

There are ppl who thinks ATYCLB is more relevant than War.

 

[U2360]

This is so hard!

 

[Nick66]

There are ppl who thinks ATYCLB is more relevant than War.

ATYCLB is more "relevant" than War. That's not really opinion, it's pretty much fact and is fairly non-debatable.

Which one is "better", on the other hand, is of course a matter of art and therefore a question of opinion. But there's no doubt that ATYCLB is more relevant, at least if we are defining "relevant" as importance to U2's career.

 

[bonocomet]

I didn't know we were voting based on relevance. That's a different ballgame I think. I'm voting on what I'd enjoy listening to most (or least) if I have only the above list available to me.

 

[popacrobat]

ATYCLB is more "relevant" than War. That's not really opinion, it's pretty much fact and is fairly non-debatable.

in what sense?

I wasn't even alive in 1983, but I have to imagine that War probably saved their careers after October. If War didn't have Sunday Bloody Sunday or New Year's Day, then what happens to U2? Do they even get a chance to do the Unforgettable Fire?

This is a fairly honest question too. I know that ATYCLB bought them a second lease on life in terms of popularity, and really still helps carry them to this day, but to write off War's relevance to the band seems pretty silly. Solid debut album, relatively lackluster follow up. Seems to me that War was a pretty crucial album for their career to me.

 

[OpenG180]

ATYCLB is more "relevant" than War. That's not really opinion, it's pretty much fact and is fairly non-debatable.

Which one is "better", on the other hand, is of course a matter of art and therefore a question of opinion. But there's no doubt that ATCLB is more relevant, at least if we are defining "relevant" as importance to U2's career.

Of course, it is.

War was only the first really major international successful album from U2, the album that cointains 2 of their best and most known songs till this day, the album that launched a tour that crystallized on ppl's minds that "white flag" U2 image that they are still known till today on many places.

And ATYCLB saved them from "Pop's disaster"
and future "irrelevance", right mate?

As i said before, better to read some stuff here than be blind!

 

[LUNEDEMINUIT]

ATYCLB is more "relevant" than War. That's not really opinion, it's pretty much fact and is fairly non-debatable.

Which one is "better", on the other hand, is of course a matter of art and therefore a question of opinion. But there's no doubt that ATYCLB is more relevant, at least if we are defining "relevant" as importance to U2's career.

I'll take Sunday bloody sunday over beautiful day anytime,anyday.

And i'll take "Under a blood red sky" show over the Elevation show.

ATYCLB is U2 trying too hard to recapture the glory days of The Joshua Tree.

 

[LadySpinHead]

War was very relavant. So was attycab. Even October was important- if they'd never had a second album, none of us would be debating any of this. Doesn't mean I enjoy listening to any of them more than I do RAH.

 

[Vlaco]

All That You Can't Leave Behind....easy voting again this time.

 

[LemonMelon]

Why did all the Boy voters shift to War?

ATYCLB until it's gone.

 

[popacrobat]

Why did all the Boy voters shift to War?

ATYCLB until it's gone.

I shifted to R&H to try to save War, which I like more than Boy. Strategy, even when frowned upon.

 

[Nick66]

Of course, it is.

War was only the first really major international successful album from U2, the album that cointains 2 of their best and most known songs till this day, the album that launched a tour that crystallized on ppl's minds that "white flag" U2 image that they are still known till today on many places.

And ATYCLB saved them from "Pop's disaster"
and future "irrelevance", right mate?

As i said before, better to read some stuff here than be blind!

I'm sorry, albeit unsurprised, that you don't understand.

Mate.

 

[OpenG180]

I'm sorry, albeit unsurprised, that you don't understand.

Mate.

Nick, you have 1679 posts.

 

[gvox]

In one hand you got New Year's Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Drowning Man, Seconds, 40, 2 Hearts, Like a Song.

In the other hand you got Peace on Earth, Grace, Elevation, Stuck, Wild Honey, New York...

Yeah. ATYCLB is the better album.

Please tell me you are being sarcastic here. Please. I beg of you.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

No Line.

 

[gvox]

I'm inclined to agree, but there's a War on right now.

eta: When does this poll end, in Eastern Standard Time?

 

[OpenG180]

Please tell me you are being sarcastic here. Please. I beg of you.

Are you kidding?? Grace, Peace on Earth, New York, etc, if released in 1983 would have launched U2 to the stratosphere.
See, ATYCLB is the relevant U2 album.
War sucks with lesser songs like NYD, SBS, and Drowning Man.

 

[iron yuppie]

All I'll say in this round is that, to my ears, War is an exponentially more organic and inspired album than either R&H or ATYCLB. The passion running through War, even on its most misguided ideas, far surpasses the blatant, often cloying efforts at mainstream radio acceptance on the other two albums I mentioned earlier. And what makes R&H even worse in that regard is that it was intended as an earnest homage to U2's influences, yet sounds nothing like it, and, at times, even descends into pastiche, as on Silver & Gold.