Interference's Top U2 Songs (NLOTH Redux) Voting Thread

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Irishteen

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I'm sure we all remember The Scientist's "epic" results thread for our last top 100 U2 songs competition that went on for hours and hours and hours and hours and made a fair few of us act a little crazy. Well in the time since then we've had a bunch of new members and a brand new album so I think it's time we redo that thread.

For anyone who doesn't know how it works. Basically, you put together a list of your favourite 50 U2 songs and preferably PM it to me. Alternatively you can post it in this thread however, that means that people can see what others are voting and that partly ruins the surprise of the final list.

The final scores that the songs get will be based on three things
1. The number of lists it appears on
2. How high it appears on each list
3. The number of people who enter lists

Rules:
1. Any song by the band can be used, I don't care if it's been released. So Mercy, Street Mission, Cartoon World, are all good. However if it's just a one off live cover or snippet it doesn't count. So covers only count if they've been released.
2. You can base your votes on whatever you want studio, live version, or whatever. It should be your overall opinion of the song.
3. For alternative versions and remixes play it by ear. If you think U2's best song is a remix of Beautiful Day no one knows then you're better off just saying Beautiful Day. However if it's NLOTH 2 or Lady With the Spinning Head (Extended Dance Mix) you can say them as they are pretty popular. However try to only use one version of each song in your lists as for example if a remix only gets 1 or 2 votes it'll probably just be combined with the original.
4. Lists do not strictly have to be ranked, although it is preferable. You can mix ranking and non-ranking in your lists as much as you wish. All songs that are unranked will receive the same number of points but the number of points overall for your list will be lower than if everything is ranked. Alternatively you can use tiers, which leaves all unranked songs in one tier with an equal number of points, and other songs in lower tiers with lower but again equal number of points each.

I'm hoping with a different system of how votes are counted and with some new blood in the voting we can hopefully see some different results than last time and that it can hopefully be shaken up a bit overall.

I'm not sure how long I'll leave this to run for, I'll base it on the number of lists I get and when entries start to dry up.

If anyone has any questions go ahead and ask

Oh and I promise the results thread won't go on as long as the Scientist's one...maybe :wink:
 
Wow, 50 songs, thats going to take a while. Will try to make a list when i have nothing to do.
 
ok here goes. my top 50, in no particular order (my top 6 are in bold):

40, A sort of Home, Electric Co, Unforgettable Fire, Bad, Streets, Red Hill, With or Without you, Bullet, In Gods country, Running to stand still, Exit, Mothers of the diss, Spanish eyes, Even better than the real, One, Until the end of the world, Whos gonna ride, The Fly, Mysterious Ways, Ultraviolet, Acrobat, Love is blindness, Zooropa, Stay, Lemon, Hold me thrill me kiss me, Dirty Day, Your Blue room, Slug, Mofo, The wanderer, Gone, Staring at the sun, Please, Kite, Wake up dead man, Beautiful day, Miss sarajevo, in a little while, electrical storm, City of blinding lights, No line on the horizon, Magnificent, Moment of surrender, Unknown caller, the ground beneather her feet, Fez-Being born, Breathe, Cedars of lebanon

:love::love::love::love:

What do you guys think of my list?
 
This is going to take me an absolute age to choose... :hmm:
 
what i did with my list (which i posted above) is I dragged my favorites from each album onto a seperate playlist, and then narrowed that playlist down to 50. the hardest part is narrowing your favorites down to 50, but I gotta say I am really happy with my list. In my opinion, the best 50 songs ever written.
 
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1.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]One Step Closer :)heart:)
2.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Miracle Drug
3.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]When I Look At the World
4.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]City Of Blinding Lights
5.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Walk On (Single Version)
6.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Until the End of the World
7.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Last Night On Earth
8.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Crumbs from Your Table
9.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Electrical Storm
10.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Original of the Species
11.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]With or Without You
12.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Beautiful Day
13.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
14.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Kite
15.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Where the Streets Have No Name (Live)
16.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Elevation
17.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Staring at the Sun
18.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]If God Will Send His Angels
19.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]The Unforgettable Fire
20.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]An Cat Dubh / Into the Heart
21.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Lemon
22.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Wild Honey
23.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Levitate
24.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
25.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Running to Stand Still
26.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]MLK
27.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Bullet the Blue Sky
28.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Heartland
29.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Window in the Skies
30.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]One Tree Hill
31.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Ultraviolet
32.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]The Fly
33.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]White as Snow
34.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Yahweh
35.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
36.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Out Of Control
37.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Angel Of Harlem
38.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out
39.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Magnificent
40.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]In a Little While
41.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]New York
42.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Babyface
43.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Love and Peace or Else
44.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Red Hill Mining Town
45.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Discothèque
46.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Peace on Earth
47.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Fast Cars
48.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Smile
49.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Desire
50.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]The Electric Co.
 
1. HMTMKMKM

2. Acrobat

3. MOS

4. All I Want Is You

5. The Fly

6. NYD

7. NLOTH

8. Lemon

9. WTSHNN

10. Zooropa


11. Tomorrow
12. Your Blue Room
13. Magnificent
14. Unknown Caller
15. SATS
16. Wake Up Dead Man
17. TUF
18. WOWY
19. Please
20. Exit

21. Zoo Station
22. Two Hearts Beat As One
23. SBS
24. Walk On
25. Fast Cars
26. Vertigo
27. MW
28. UTEOTW
29. IWF
30. Levitate

31. Bad
32. Bullet The Blue Sky
33. Breathe
34. One
35. Stay
36. WAS
37. MOFO
38. BD
39. Drowning Man
40. When I Look At The World

41. LAPOE
42. Slug
43. Gone
44. Discotheque
45. GOYB
46. FEZ-BB
47. So Cruel
48. Electrical Storm
49. OOC
50. Wire
 
Alright, here's my list:

1. The Fly
2. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
3. Last Night on Earth
4. Dirty Day
5. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
6. Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
7. Discothèque
8. Until The End of The World
9. Lady With The Spinning Head
10. When I Look At The World
11. Surrender
12. Electrical Storm
13. Even Better Than The Real Thing
14. Babyface
15. Take You Down
16. Seconds
17. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
18. Breathe
19. Vertigo
20. Exit
21. Mothers of the Disappeared
22. One Step Closer
23. Love is Blindness
24. Zooropa
25. Magnificent
26. Numb
27. Some Days Are Better Than Others
28. Two Hearts Beat As One
29. Elevation
30. City of Blinding Lights
31. Another Time, Another Place
32. Things To Make and Do
33. I Feel Free
34. Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
35. Holy Joe
36. Cartoon World
37. Window In The Skies
38. Love and Peace Or Else
39. Sunday Bloody Sunday
40. Drunk Chicken
41. Acrobat
42. Big Girls Are Best
43. Kite
44. So Cruel
45. The Refugee
46. Twilight
47. In God’s Country
48. Desire
49. Where The Streets Have No Name
50. Angel of Harlem
 
Alright, here's mine.

1) Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
2) Beautiful Day
3) One
4) Native Son
5) Your Blue Room
6) Electrical Storm
7) Bad
8) Until The End Of The World
9) Stand Up Comedy
10) I Will Follow


11) In A Little While
12) Cedars Of Lebanon
13) Elevation
14) Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around The World
15) No Line On The Horizon- alternate version
16) Gone
17) Magnificent
18) The Fly
19) The Unforgettable Fire
20) Lemon


21) Love Is Blindness
22) Breathe
23) Please
24) Salome- Zooromancer Mix
25) Staring At The Sun
26) Vertigo
27) Hallelujah Here She Comes
28) New Year’s Day
29) With Or Without You
30) Mysterious Ways


31) Get On Your Boots
32) I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
33) Unknown Caller
34) Window In The Skies
35) Wild Honey
36) Lady With The Spinning Head- Extended Dance Mix
37) Mercy
38) Angel Of Harlem
39) Original Of The Species
40) Zoo Station


41) Even Better Than The Real Thing
42) The Refugee
43) City Of Blinding Lights
44) Miracle Drug
45) All I Want Is You
46) Discotheque
47) Ultraviolet
48) Van Diemen’s Land
49) Desire
50) Promenade
 
#1) Elevation
#2) Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
#3) Levitate
#4) So Cruel
#5) Zooropa
#6) Get on Your Boots
#7) Hawkmoon 269
#8) Bad
#9) In God's Country
#10) Mothers of the Disappeared
#11) Even Better Than the Real Thing
#12) Lady With the Spinning Head (Extended Dance Remix)
#13) Unknown Calller
#14) The Playboy Mansion
#15) A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
#16) MOFO
#17) Moment of Surrender
#18) Big Girls Are Best
#19) Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix)
#20) When I Look at the World
#21) If God Will Send His Angels (Single version)
#22) Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
#23) Original of the Species
#24) Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
#25) Miss Sarajevo
#26) Desire
#27) With or Without You
#28) One Step Closer
#29) Jesus Christ
#30) City of Blinding Lights
#31) Where the Streets Have No Name
#32) Fast Cars
#33) Window In the Skies
#34) I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
#35) God Part II (Hard Metal Dance Mix)
#36) Until the End of the World
#37) The First Time
#38) Your Blue Room
#39) Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
#40) Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
#41) Mysterious Ways
#42) Slow Dancing ('93 version)
#43) The Ground Beneath Her Feet
#44) No Line on the Horizon
#45) MLK
#46) All I Want Is You
#47) Running to Stand Still
#48) If You Wear That Velvet Dress
#49) Discothèque (Hexadecimal Mix)
#50) Trip Through Your Wires




I'm not sure though. :reject::reject::reject:
 
All lists given in so far have been added up, if it stays like this we'll have some really surprising results
 
1. SBS
2. One Tree Hill
3. Mysterious Ways
4. Stuck in a moment
5. Bad
6. Zooropa
7. In a little while
8. Angel Of Harlem
9. God part 2
10. I still haven't found what i'm looking for
11. One
12. The Fly
13. Desire
14. New Years Day
15. Pride
16. A day without me
17. Streets
18. Walk On
19. With or without you
20. Out of control
21. Red Hill mining town
22. The unforgettable Fire
23. Zoo Station
24. In gods country
25. Running to stand still
26. October
27. All i want is you
28. Magnificent
29. Elevation
30. Stay
31. Even better than the real thing
32. An Cat Dubh
33. City of blinding lights
34. Kite
35. Like a song
36. Until the end of the world
37. Trip through your wires
38. Crazy tonight
39. Desert of our love
40. Electric Co.
41. Numb
42. Bullet the blue sky
43. Beautiful Day
44. Last night on earth
45. Lemon
46. Tomorrow
47. I fall down
48. 40
49. Seconds
50. I will follow
 
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