Best Non-Album Track Survivor - Final Pool - Round 6

[namkcuR]

The results of Round 5:

Advancing:
11 O'Clock Tick Tock - 0
A Celebration - 1
Love Comes Tumbling - 0
The Three Sunrises - 0
Luminous Times(Hold On To Love) - 1
Walk To The Water - 1
Spanish Eyes - 0
Silver And Gold - 1
Sweetest Thing - 1
Hallelujah(Here She Comes) - 1
She's A Mystery To Me - 0
Lady With The Spinning Head - 0
Salome - 1
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me - 0
Holy Joe - 1
North And South Of The River - 2
Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad - 3
The Ground Beneath Her Feet - 0
Stateless - 0
Summer Rain - 0
Electrical Storm - 0
Mercy - 0
Invisible - 0
The Crystal Ballroom - 1

Eliminated:

#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

Fast Cars 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
A Celebration
Love Comes Tumbling
The Three Sunrises
Luminous Times
Walk To The Water
Spanish Eyes
Silver And Gold
Sweetest Thing / The Single Mix
Hallelujah Here She Comes
She's A Mystery To Me(Point Depot) / Snippet of never-released studio version
Lady With The Spinning Head / UV1
Salome / Zooromancer mix
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Holy Joe(Garage Mix) / Guilty Mix
North And South Of The River / Omagh Tribute
Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Stateless
Summer Rain
Electrical Storm / William Orbit Mix / Early BBC/Radio One Version
Mercy
Invisible
The Crystal Ballroom / 12" Mix

 

[Oregoropa]

North and South of the River

#SaveSalome

 

[prbiker15]

Fast Cars has been eliminated.

About damn time. Now it gets really tough, but it's time for Two Shots to go.

 

[gareth brown]

yeah, glad to see that gone.

North and South of the river for me now..

 

[Oregoropa]

yeah, glad to see that gone.

North and South of the river for me now..

Same here. Not a very memorable track. There is some crap still on the board, but at least it is relatively creative crap.

 

[namkcuR]

Same here. Not a very memorable track. There is some crap still on the board, but at least it is relatively creative crap.

There's nothing here that deserves to be called crap.

And how one could listen to that Omagh version of NASOTR and call it unmemorable is beyond me.

 

[digitize]

There's nothing here that deserves to be called crap.



And how one could listen to that Omagh version of NASOTR and call it unmemorable is beyond me.

I was just listening to the Omagh version today. It's seriously one of my favorite things U2 have ever done.


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[Axver]

Not sure what you guys have against Fast Cars. It was by no means the best thing here, but it's a harmless bit of fun and has more going for it than similar tracks - e.g. Party Girl.

Anyway, Two Shots again.

 

[Oregoropa]

Not sure what you guys have against Fast Cars. It was by no means the best thing here, but it's a harmless bit of fun and has more going for it than similar tracks - e.g. Party Girl.

Anyway, Two Shots again.

I'm a fan of Fast Cars as well

There's nothing here that deserves to be called crap.

Very true. There is no crap on the list, as we already got rid of North Star way back when. I was starting to feel territorial, wanting to protect my favs, while eliciting a tribal council sway against NASOTR.

 

[Axver]

No crap, but Sweetest Thing didn't deserve to make it this far.

(I acknowledge Two Shots is better written. I just don't like the style at all, hence my vote. In terms of what I'd listen to sooner, it's Sweetest Thing, slight though it may be.)

 

[Oregoropa]

Sweetest Thing 98 mix is one of their best pop songs.

The first time I heard it on the radio I was like WTF as I washed dishes at my first job.

But I grew to love it. Been at weddings where it has been the first dance. Saw it live in 2001.

IALW only wishes it could come close to the gravitational sugary pull of Sweetest Thing


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[digitize]

Sweetest Thing 98 mix is one of their best pop songs.

The first time I heard it on the radio I was like WTF as I washed dishes at my first job.

But I grew to love it. Been at weddings where it has been the first dance. Saw it live in 2001.

IALW only wishes it could come close to the gravitational sugary pull of Sweetest Thing


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I honestly agree. It doesn't have an enormous amount of depth or anything, but it's really infectious and well-executed for what it is.

Disagree about IALW, though; I love that song.

Anyway, I voted for Hallelujah in a desperate attempt to keep N+S and Two Shots around.

 

[Axver]

IALW is a dumpster fire. Sweetest Thing is back when the dumpster was brand new and shiny.

 

[Oregoropa]

Interesting hypothetical. Which album tracks (if any) would you place beneath all of these?


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[Axver]

Better question with a shorter answer: which 2000s/10s tracks rank above any of these.

 

[Oregoropa]

IALW is a dumpster fire. Sweetest Thing is back when the dumpster was brand new and shiny.

Be careful. Bono might get lyric ideas about trash receptacles.

The only album track that goes below the aforementioned listed tracks is Grace.

Stand Up Comedy still has the inside track on a couple of these non-album cuts.

Love Rescue Me . . . Not as many.




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[Axver]

Every song here is better than Stuck in a Moment, In a Little While, Peace on Earth, Grace, SYCMIOYO, OOTS, Yahweh, Boots, Stand Up Comedy, Breathe, The Miracle, and Song for Someone.

Then there are some really close calls. I'd take Unknown Caller over Two Shots and Sweetest Thing. Maybe. Not sure.

In the eighties, there are just three album songs worse than anything here: Red Light, Trip, and Love Rescue Me. Perhaps I'd also vote to eliminate 4th of July and MLK before anything else here too, but that would be on the grounds of being too insubstantial to hold their ground rather than an absence of quality.

 

[cobl04]

I'd take Viva Davidoff over Invisible.

 

[kiwilad]

Namk super sorry I can't get to a laptop again... I'll give my vote to Hallelujah though.

While I can't think of many album tracks I want to slag off other than those already mentioned, I would say there's a good 3 albums worth here of decent quality that I would happily have bought. Pretty impressive.

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[namkcuR]

With kiwilad's vote-in-post(in lieu of being able to get to a laptop), that brings Hallelujah to 5 votes, one ahead of Two Shots/NASOTR.

 

[namkcuR]

If kiwilad hadn't voted, I would've voted to break the tie, but since he did, I went ahead and gave my vote to Summer Rain.