Best Non-Album Track Survivor - Final Pool - Round 19

[namkcuR]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our top 10, the ten tracks you collectively deem to tower above the rest. For the final rounds of the competition, I will be listing the advancing tracks in a more colorful and detailed manner in order to commemorate the twilight of the competition. Album art is linked to videos.

The results of Round 18:

Advancing:

11 O'Clock Tick Tock - 1
Standalone Single A-Side
1979


Love Comes Tumbling - 0
The Unforgettable Fire B-Side / Also featured on Wide Awake In America EP
1985

The Three Sunrises - 2
The Unforgettable Fire B-Side / Also featured on Wide Awake In America EP
1985
(WAIA image should be, was limited to 12)

Luminous Times(Hold On To Love) - 6
With Or Without You B-Side
1987


Spanish Eyes - 1
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For B-Side
1987


Lady With The Spinning Head - 0
Even Better Than The Real Thing B-Side / One B-Side
1992

Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me - 1
Single A-Side from Batman Forever Soundtrack
1995


The Ground Beneath Her Feet - 1
Promotional/Radio Single from Million Dollar Hotel Soundtrack
2000


Electrical Storm - 1
Single A-Side from Best Of 1990-2000 + B-Sides
2002


Mercy - 5
Unreleased outtake from How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb sessions / released in altered form on Wide Awake In Europe EP
2003-4 / 2010


Eliminated:

#11 - Stateless - 7
#12 - The Crystal Ballroom - 9
#13 - Silver And Gold - 10
#14 - Walk To The Water - 8
#15 - Holy Joe - 9
#16 - A Celebration - 7
#17 - Sweetest Thing - 5
#18 - Salome - 7
#19 - Invisible - 6
#21 - Summer Rain - 4
#21 - She's A Mystery To Me - 4
#22 - Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad - 13
#23 - North And South Of The River - 7
#24 - Hallelujah(Here She Comes) - 5
#25 - Fast Cars - 4
#27 - Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk/Korova I - 4
#27 - Party Girl - 4
#28 - A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel - 5
#29 - Disappearing Act - 4
#30 - Bass Trap - 5

Levitate - 8 / 9(tiebreaker)
Are You Gonna Wait Forever - 7
Window In The Skies - 7
Where Did It All Go Wrong - 6
Down All The Days - 6
Slow Dancing - 6
Always - 6
Smile - 6
Native Son - 6
Soon - 6
Oh Berlin - 5
I'm Not Your Baby - 4
Blow Your House Down - 3
Heaven And Hell - 1
Near The Island - 0

Endless Deep - 9 / 2(tiebreaker)
Treasure(Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop) - 9 / 6(tiebreaker)
Boomerang II - 9 / 2(tiebreaker)

Boomerang I - 8
Deep In The Heart - 8
Another Day - 5
Touch - 4
The Fool - 4
The Dream Is Over - 3
Lost On A Silent Planet - 3
Boy-Girl - 3
Things To Make And Do - 3
Street Mission - 3
Pete The Chop - 2
Cartoon World - 2

Winter - 11 / 9(tiebreaker)

The Hands That Built America - 9
Xanax And Wine - 9
Ordinary Love - 9
Lucifer's Hands - 9
Big Girls Are Best - 7
Love You Like Mad - 7
Flower Child - 6
Return Of The Stingray Guitar - 6
North Star - 3
We Love You - 2
Glastonbury - 1

Viva Davidoff - 8

Wild Irish Rose - 10
Sixty Seconds - 9
Yoshino Blossom - 9
Wave Of Sorrow - 8
Race Against Time - 6
Desert Of Our Love - 5
Womanfish - 5
Rise Up - 4
Drunk Chicken - 2
Beautiful Ghost - 1

Angels Too Tied To The Ground - 7 / 4(tiebreaker)

Saturday Night - 5
J.Swallo - 5
Be There - 5
False Prophet - 4
Speed Of Life - 3
Alone In The Light - 2
Father Is An Elephant - 2
Inside Out - 1
Carry Me Home - 1
Jack In The Box - 0

Stateless has been eliminated.

Instructions: Simple. This is a traditional survivor. You will vote for your LEAST FAVORITE track!

The poll will be open for 24 hours.

Here is a list of tracks in this poll, all linked to YT for your reference.

11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Love Comes Tumbling
The Three Sunrises
Luminous Times
Spanish Eyes
Lady With The Spinning Head / UV1
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Electrical Storm / William Orbit Mix / Early BBC/Radio One Version
Mercy

 

[LemonMelon]

Luminous Times, I guess, since it's the weakest of what was on the chopping block last time.

Honestly though, I've never been a Spanish Eyes fan. It feels very much like a b-side. Three Sunrises also does, it feels a touch underdeveloped, but it's too buoyant and sweet not to like.

 

[Oregoropa]

Electrical Storm . . . just happens to be the 10th best. Looks like it will be a tight battle as the it is pitted to be the alternative to Luminous Times. LT is too powerful to be tossed out at this time IMO.

 

[2861U2]

Luminous Times. I have a good feeling this time.

Probably my top 3:
1) Love Comes Tumbling
2) Lady With The Spinning Head
3) Electrical Storm

 

[the tourist]

Mercy. But as soon as it's gone, it'll be time to oust Electrical Storm. Fairly easily the two weakest songs remaining.

 

[prbiker15]

Mercy has to go.

 

[LadySpinHead]

Voting Mercy- it's OK, but I've never really understood the love for it, especially after the lyrics were butchered during 360.

 

[Axver]

Mercy is a good song but definitely the weakest here.

Everything else here is fucking fantastic. If Mercy departs this round, I'll probably move to The Three Sunrises and be deeply unhappy about it.

 

[namkcuR]

Electrical Storm again.

 

[digitize]

What a damn good batch of songs.

I voted for (against?) The Three Sunrises even though it doesn't have any votes. I love the other songs with votes way too much to try to choose between them. The Three Sunrises is a great song, but everything else is so strong.

 

[lazarus]

This is ridiculous.

 

[namkcuR]

This is ridiculous.

Then vote for Electrical Storm.

 

[lazarus]

I'm worried that Luminous will pick up a couple votes before the deadline and that I'll be backing the wrong one.

 

[intedomine]

Delighted that Luminous is hanging in there. It seems that Interferencers are well divided in their feelings about it.

Doesn't even appear to be on the chopping block here. Still bloody hard to confidently cast a vote.

I'll go Electrical Storm.

 

[Axver]

I know this forum has an abiding fondness for Mercy, but it really should not last longer than Electrical Storm.

 

[nielsgov]

Except that it should. I hope people are voting based on the original version. The live one is pretty crap.

 

[lazarus]

Yeah, the live abortion shouldn't even be in the conversation. Dropping the "ripping the stitches" section is the dumbest thing the band did that decade.

Voting for Electrical Storm, which never should have made it this far. The fact that generic, formulaic rock is threatening to eliminate the one time the band decided to go expansive and epic in the first half of the 00s is something that mystifies me.