Rank Your Favorite Songs - BONUS THREAD 1: Original Soundtracks 1 - Passengers

[TheEdge25]

Hahaha, many of you predicted the "super secret bonus thread" correctly!

Yes, we are going to rank the songs from the Passengers album!

Hooray!!

Original Soundtracks 1 - Passengers

1 - Miss Sarajevo drool
2 - Beach Sequence
3 - Slug
4 - Theme from "Let's Go Native"
5 - Your Blue Room drool
6 - Always Forever Now (loved the recent snippet during Beautiful Day!)
7 - Theme from "The Swan" (surprised that this was played before Ultraviolet a few times last year, that is awesome!)
8 - United Colours
9 - A Different Kind of Blue
10 - One Minute Warning
11 - Corpse (These Chains Are Way Too Long)
12 - Plot 180
13 - Ito Otaki
14 - Elvis Ate Ameria (also known as "Vomit" )

 

[alanah]

Is this a U2 album? jk..I'll rank it later.

 

[U2girl]

Miss
Blue Room


Slug
Always forever now



Go Native
Beach sequence
Elvis ate america

The rest is a blur.

 

[the tourist]

1. Your Blue Room
2. Beach Sequence
3. Slug
4. Always Forever Now
5. Theme From Let's Go Native
6. Miss Sarajevo
7. Corpse
8. Plot 180
9. United Colours
10. One Minute Warning
11. A Different Kind Of Blue
12. Theme From The Swan
13. Ito Okashi
14. Elvis Ate America

 

[LemonMelon]

1. Beach Sequence - 9.5/10
2. Your Blue Room - 9/10
3. Always Forever Now - 9/10
4. Miss Sarajevo - 8.5/10
5. Theme From Let's Go Native - 8/10
6. Slug - 8/10
7. One Minute Warning - 7.5/10
8. A Different Kind of Blue - 7.5/10
9. Corpse (These Chains Are Way Too Long) - 7/10
10. Plot 180 - 6.5/10
11. United Colours - 6.5/10
12. Theme From The Swan - 6/10
13. Ito Okashi - 5.5/10
14. Elvis Ate America - 3/10

An absolutely thrilling sonic experience, more so than a great collection of songs. It was smart not to release this under the U2 name, as (not to sound condescending, but...) most fans who fell in love with U2 for I Will Follow and Pride will probably have a hard time wrapping their heads around this one. As a Zooropa lover, I'm entranced by this album every time I play it. You really are a passenger as you listen, traveling to all sorts of strange and awesome new locales. Best of all, we aren't the only ones traveling; U2 seems to be as fascinated by the sights as the listener.

 

[corianderstem]

I listened to this just last week and was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it as a whole (other than Elvis Ate America, which is just heinous).

I really haven't listened to it enough, though, to think about ranking it. I love Miss Sarajevo and Your Blue Room, and could pick Slug and Always Forever Now out of a lineup, but that's about it.

 

[Salome]

Miss
Blue Room


Slug
Always forever now



Go Native
Beach sequence
Elvis ate america

The rest is a blur.

yeah, something like that
though i'd put blue room first

 

[An Cat Gav]

An absolutely thrilling sonic experience, more so than a great collection of songs. It was smart not to release this under the U2 name, as (not to sound condescending, but...) most fans who fell in love with U2 for I Will Follow and Pride will probably have a hard time wrapping their heads around this one. As a Zooropa lover, I'm entranced by this album every time I play it. You really are a passenger as you listen, traveling to all sorts of strange and awesome new locales. Best of all, we aren't the only ones traveling; U2 seems to be as fascinated by the sights as the listener.[/QUOTE]

Couldn't put it better myself LM

My 5th favourite U2 record of all time after AB,TJT, TUF and Zooropa. I got into U2 in 1985 and I had no problem getting my head around this.

1. YBR- 10/10

2. Slug - 10/10

3. Miss Sarajevo 9.5/10

4. Theme From Let's Go Native 9/10

5. A Different Kind Of Blue 9/10

6. One Minute Warning 9/10

7. Theme From The Swan 9/10

8. Corpse 8.5/10

9. United Colours 8/10

10. Beach Sequence 8/10

11. Plot 180 8/10

12. Always Forever Now. 8/10

13. Ito Okashi 7.5/10

14. Elvis Ate America 7/10

 

[TheEdge25]

Poor Elvis Ate America...

Just kidding, I don't have any pity for that heinous crime of a song.

 

[theedgeu2]

Your Blue Room
Miss Sarajevo
Slug
Beach Sequence
Always Forever Now
Them From Let's Go Native
United Colours
One Minute Warning
Corpse (These Chains Are Way Too Long)
Plot 180
A Different Kind Of Blue
Theme From The Swan
Ito Okashi
Elvis Ate America

From Plot 180 on it is, like U2Girl said, a blur. The other songs before that are all great pieces of work. I like this album's ambient feel and layed back, relaxed mood. I always love listening to this on car trips and for going to sleep.

 

[Catman]

Underrated collection of material. I wouldn't quite call it a complete success, but I cherish it because I don't think U2 will ever do anything quite as "abstract" as this again. It's a peculiar record, one that I'm sure, for those who flippantly write U2 off, would be surprised to hear.

14) Elvis Ate America
13) A Different Kind of Blue
12) Theme From The Swan
11) Plot 180
10) Ito Okashi
9) Beach Sequence
8) Them From Let's Go Native
7) United Colours
6) Corpse
5) One Minute Warning
4) Always Forever Now
3) Miss Sarajevo
2) Slug
1) Your Blue Room

 

[kabigon]

1. Slug - It just grabs you and takes over
2. Beach Sequence - Probably favourite semi-instrumental, just edging out Promenade
3. Your Blue Room
4. Miss Sarajevo
5. One Minute Warning
6. Always Forever Now
7. Plot 180
8. Theme From Let's Go Native
9. Theme From The Swan
10. United Colours
11. Ito Okashi
12. A Different Kind Of Blue
13. Corpse - Not really a fan of the crackly/whip sound

















U2 wrote "Elvis Ate America"

 

[cobl04]

looks like there's a clear divide here... most people's top six or seven being the same songs, just ordered differently.

i don't particularly love Passengers, but i love that it exists and that U2 is responsible for it. i also love the booklet, and the descriptions of the movies, like the one that goes for like six hours

1. Beach Sequence
2. Your Blue Room
3. Slug
4. Always Forever Now
5. Miss Sarajevo
6. Theme From Let's Go Native
7. One Minute Warning
~
8. United Colours
9. Plot 180
10. A Different Kind of Blue
~
11. Corpse (These Chains Are Way Too Long)
12. Elvis Ate America (why. so. serious?)
13. Theme From The Swan
14. Ito Okashi

U2 wrote "Elvis Ate America"

don't mean shit to Chuck D'


now let's move on to Under a Blood Red Sky!

 

[kabigon]

now let's move on to Under a Blood Red Sky!

No, we have to rank 20 different versions of Salome first

 

[bono_212]

I am nowhere near familiar enough with this album to rank it, but of what I know well:

Love
1) Slug
2) Your Blue Room
3) Always Forever Now
4) Beach Sequence
(5. Viva Davidoff)

Like
5) Miss Sarajevo

"Heinous crime of a song"
6) Elvis Ate America

 

[kabigon]

"Heinous crime of a song"
6) Elvis Ate America

You haven't gone far enough

 

[bono_212]

You haven't gone far enough

I've heard the album like 3 or 4 times, I just can never remember which song is which. Unfortunately, my brain can never forget the disaster that is EAA

 

[Earl-Of-IMDb]

I have only heard Mrs Sarajevo and Your Blue Room from this album. and Elvis ate America from the Unforgetable Fire, i believe if i'm not mistaken..so here it goes

1. Mrs Sarajevo
2. Your blue room

love both songs, but Sarajevo wins for the opera moments..

 

[bono_212]

Elvis Ate America =/= Elvis Presley and America. Let us get this VERY straight.

 

[coolian2]

ha

 

[An Cat Gav]

I have only heard Mrs Sarajevo and Your Blue Room from this album. and Elvis ate America from the Unforgetable Fire, i believe if i'm not mistaken..so here it goes

1. Mrs Sarajevo
2. Your blue room

love both songs, but Sarajevo wins for the opera moments..

?

 

[cobl04]

Elvis Ate America is funny, stupid, etc. sometimes not all songs need to be good.

 

[coolian2]

1. your blue room
2. beach sequence
3. slug
4. always forever now
5. miss sarajevo
6. united colours
7. a different kind of blue
8. one minute warning
9. theme from the swan
10. elvis ate america
11. theme from let's go native
12. plot 180
13. corpse (this title is way too long)
14. ito okashi

it's such an amazing sonic blur it's really hard to decisively rank anything except for ito okashi, which i can still appreciate on a good day.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

1. your blue room
2. united colours
3. slug
4. beach sequence
5. always forever now
6. elvis ate america
7. a different kind of blue
8. miss sarajevo
9. one minute warning
10. plot 180
11. corpse
12. theme from the swan
13. theme from let's go native
14. ito okashi

 

[bono_212]

1. your blue room
2. united colours
3. slug
4. beach sequence
5. always forever now
6. elvis ate america
7. a different kind of blue
8. miss sarajevo
9. one minute warning
10. plot 180
11. corpse
12. theme from the swan
13. theme from let's go native
14. ito okashi

Khan...

what...

What am I seeing here?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

1. Your Blue Room
2. Miss Sarajevo
3. Slug
4. Beach Sequence
5. Always Forever Now
6. A Different Kind of Blue

This is my clear Top 6. As some others have said, the rest kind of blur together and, honestly, there are a couple there that I can't tell apart off the top of my head. I think it's a strong album, though. And can be great if you're in the right mood. And Your Blue Room is one of the best things this band's ever touched.

 

[JoRu]

1. Miss Sarajevo
2. Your Blue Room
3. Beach Sequence
4. Slug
5. Elvis Ate America
6. Theme From The Swan
7. A Different Kind Of Blue

Really hard to place the other songs in a position here so I'm leaving it at this. Not a very good album, but I'm glad they tried going full speed ahead with experimenting and not compromising with it at least once. However, now that it's done they should never go that far again.

 

[coolian2]

Khan...

what...

What am I seeing here?

i know, it's hard to believe there's 14 songs on the album!

 

[Vlad n U 2]

Elvis Ate America is a HILARIOUSLY AWESOME song. I love the backing vocals that goes "Ahhlvis" ... The first time I ever heard it I was laughing hysterically.

Spoiler

... It's probably Bono doing a shit.

RESPECT.

 

[kabigon]

I've heard the album like 3 or 4 times, I just can never remember which song is which. Unfortunately, my brain can never forget the disaster that is EAA

I meant with your commentary of EAA For some reason I don't want to see it leave this thread alive.