Worst Song Survivor: The 2000s

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Please select your LEAST FAVOURITE song(s)

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Please vote for your LEAST FAVOURITE song(s).
The FIVE SONGS with the most votes go to the grand final. DO NOT vote for songs you have not heard.

Welcome to Worst Song Survivor, a spinoff from Best Song Survivor v2 that shouldn't be taken too seriously. This is a quickfire tournament for shits and giggles, to see what Interference's least favourite U2 song is. The selection criteria was simple: every song that received 0-5 votes in the album rounds of Best Song Survivor v2 automatically qualified, while each album had to contribute a certain number of songs according to a seeding system - the less popular the album was in the latest Best Album Survivor, the more songs it had to contribute. Hence the appearance of some songs that exceeded five votes. These rounds will last 48 hours and will be multiple choice polls where you vote for your least favourite tracks (within reason). Remember that there is a tradeoff: if you vote for more songs, the power of each of your votes is dampened, but if you vote for fewer songs, you get to spread your influence less far.

Only original U2 songs with official studio releases will compete. However, you are free to vote on the basis of live versions, alternate versions, remixes, etc., as in the normal version of Survivor. Basically whatever you think best represents the song in your mind.

In the nineties round, Viva Davidoff emerged as the least popular track, though only fractionally ahead of Elvis Ate America. They proceed to the finals alongside Ito Okashi, Plot 180, and the only non-Passengers song to proceed from the nineties, Near the Island. Zooropa and Pop thus get to join UF with the dignity of sending no songs to the grand final.

The grand finalists so far:
Boy/Girl
J. Swallow
The Refugee
Red Light
Angels Too Tied to the Ground
Beautiful Ghost
Desert of Our Love
Drunk Chicken/America
Wave of Sorrow
Love Rescue Me
Near the Island
Ito Okashi
Elvis Ate America
Plot 180
Viva Davidoff
 
This round may have the least songs, yet it still looks the worst. What a lot of dreck - and so many bad lyrics. In prior rounds I found myself unwilling to vote for more than three or so songs. That's not a problem this time.
 
I hope that Big Girls Are Best wins (loses?) those whole contest. I don't think that there is a U2 song that I find to be more godawful.
 
digitize said:
I hope that Big Girls Are Best wins (loses?) those whole contest. I don't think that there is a U2 song that I find to be more godawful.
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I hope "Big Girls Are Best" wins the next best song poll. Which will, no doubt, be created in 2 weeks or so.

It's funky as hell.
 
Let's run a best b-sides poll. Schloop, I presume, will definitely be on board. :wink:
 
Axver said:
Let's run a best b-sides poll. Schloop, I presume, will definitely be on board. :wink:
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Are you serious? Because I was thinking it. Well, not just b-sides, but all non-album tracks.
 
I guess I'm in the minority who like Always. It doesn't come anywhere near the majesty of Beautiful Day, obviously, but I still think it's a good song. It may be cliched, but I do like the lyrics. And the "I want you" bridge is pretty cool.
 
namkcuR said:
Are you serious? Because I was thinking it. Well, not just b-sides, but all non-album tracks.
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I was being flippant, but a non-album survivor actually might be fun. I'd be willing to run it if everybody's not totally burnt out on survivor tournaments. It would be easier than working out a live survivor, much as a live survivor would be fun and is a popular idea. I think right now I'd enjoy a non-album survivor more.

Though fair to say a non-album survivor's top four will almost certainly be 11 O'clock Tick Tock, Lady With the Spinning Head, Electrical Storm, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with fifth probably Love Comes Tumbling.

Globo14 said:
I guess I'm in the minority who like Always. It doesn't come anywhere near the majesty of Beautiful Day, obviously, but I still think it's a good song. It may be cliched, but I do like the lyrics. And the "I want you" bridge is pretty cool.
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I don't understand how people can be so pro Beautiful Day and so anti Always. I don't perceive them to be that substantially different to justify such strong opposing views. Beautiful Day is better but Always has the essence of what makes the song good too.
 
Axver said:
Though fair to say a non-album survivor's top four will almost certainly be 11 O'clock Tick Tock, Lady With the Spinning Head, Electrical Storm, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with fifth probably Love Comes Tumbling.
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Let us not forget Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me.
 
Globo14 said:
Let us not forget Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me.
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Oops, yeah, terrible omission. That'd be top five in lieu of Love Comes Tumbling.

I guess it could be pretty close what wins though.
 
Axver said:
I was being flippant, but a non-album survivor actually might be fun. I'd be willing to run it if everybody's not totally burnt out on survivor tournaments. It would be easier than working out a live survivor, much as a live survivor would be fun and is a popular idea. I think right now I'd enjoy a non-album survivor more.

Though fair to say a non-album survivor's top four will almost certainly be 11 O'clock Tick Tock, Lady With the Spinning Head, Electrical Storm, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with fifth probably Love Comes Tumbling.
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I could even run it if you want. I wouldn't mind.

I don't understand how people can be so pro Beautiful Day and so anti Always. I don't perceive them to be that substantially different to justify such strong opposing views. Beautiful Day is better but Always has the essence of what makes the song good too.
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Yeah, I've always liked Always.
 
Big Girls Are Best
All Because Of You
Love and Peace Or Else
Stand Up Comedy

They're all garbage.
 
Globo14 said:
I guess I'm in the minority who like Always.
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Me too.


And this concludes my venture into the U2 relate parts of the board for this decade. What can I say, I was drawn to the thread by the negativity implied by "worst song" in the title. Because otherwise, I dread this place.

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Whoooooo I'm overwhelmed by the crapola on show here. If U2 had formed in 2000 (I.e AttyClub, Hutub and NLOTH were their only three albums to date) I'd probably -nay, definitely - think they were a mostly shit band and ridiculously overrated :reject:
 
LemonMirrorSky said:
Boots needs to have a lot more votes. It is one of the worst over here!
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Oh, I did. That song is terrible. I'm glad I haven't heard a bunch of these, and never heard of a ton from the list ax posted in the initial post. Wtf is drunk chicken. Is there really a song called drunk chicken? I mean, I almost want to hear that just because of the title. I can't imagine it would be good, because if bono wrote it, it's probably a festival of cliches about baby head smells and grace and love, rather than a comical number about a chicken's night in the town with a bottle of whiskey.
 
this thread's made me put on ATYCLB for the first time in a while so that's made me happy! it's been a long time since I gave it a proper listen....but more importantly, reading the title 'Always' in the poll put that godawful track in my head and made me so fucking mad so I had to exorcise it by putting on Beautiful Day. :doh:

I actually really like Big Girls Are Best. I'm not gutted it was never played live or wish it had made the album or anything...but I like it! I assume it currently matches Viva Davidoff's votes (15) because more people have heard it and (fair enough) don't like it...
Because of it's relative obscurity it seems the victims of VD, if you'll pardon the expression, are thankfully very few.

Get On Your Boots i've moaned about way too many times so I think it's wise I say very little more on it. I just wish that more people felt the same way some of us felt for Boots as they do about Stand Up Comedy. That song gets fucking crucified by a great number of people here at any given opportunity but somehow Get On Your Boots is tolerated?! :wink: I feel a bit of a hypocrite when I think Stand Up Comedy isn't as bad as Boots and actually sit through it instead of skipping sometimes. But I'd be an idiot to ignore the fact that the pair of them, not just Boots, break up what would have been a much better album without them.

Wouldn't have put Winter on the album instead of them both though, that song's bloody awful as well :huh:

every time i write a really long post it either gets ignored or the thread dies instantly, which I always feel a bit embarrassed about - so let's hope that doesn't happen because these polls have started some pretty interesting debates. and if someone quotes this and the blue text shows up then hey guys! boy, is my face red
 
gareth brown said:
every time i write a really long post it either gets ignored or the thread dies instantly, which I always feel a bit embarrassed about - so let's hope that doesn't happen because these polls have started some pretty interesting debates. and if someone quotes this and the blue text shows up then hey guys! boy, is my face red
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I'm willing to fight you over hating Always and liking BGAB. What the fuck is wrong with you??








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lemonfly said:
Whoooooo I'm overwhelmed by the crapola on show here. If U2 had formed in 2000 (I.e AttyClub, Hutub and NLOTH were their only three albums to date) I'd probably -nay, definitely - think they were a mostly shit band and ridiculously overrated :reject:
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I sometimes think the same thing, though not quite as harsh.:wink:
 
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