Best Song Survivor: Rattle and Hum Round Two

[digitize]

While everyone is online and fuming, I thought I'd start a new voting round! The last round rescued us from Love Rescue Me. Eight songs now compete for three slots in quarterfinals from Rattle and Hum. You have 24 hours to vote. And no, I will not be retroactively eliminating Pride from quarterfinals in protest.

You have 24 hours to vote for your least favorite song, the next song to be eliminated from this contest. For anyone just joining us, rules may be found here.

And sorry about the botched poll.

 

[bonocomet]

Hmm...

 

[popacrobat]

Van Diemen's land until it's gone. Worst track on the CD to me. Well, studio one.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Am I the only one who doesn't think God Part II is the shit?

 

[corianderstem]

I like it, but I don't think it's amazing or anything.

 

[intedomine]

The problem with this album for me is that if I were to create a Worst of U2 compilation, 3 or even 4 Rattle and Hum tracks would feature on it. That doesn't reflect well on a 9 song album. The b-sides are very average as well.

God Part II. A pest of a song.

 

[djerdap]

When a Crappy Song Comes to an Interference Survivor

God Part II. A pest of a song.

This deserves a ban.

 

[lemonfly]

VDL is the reason Edge never made a solo album. What a stinker.

 

[cobl04]

This deserves a ban.

inte's opinions are almost as strange as Axver's sometimes.

Btw inte, unrelated, but Swedish House Mafia just announced a Melbourne show.

 

[gvox]

Who the fuck votes Heartland?

That deserves a ban!

 

[bonocomet]

vdl

 

[God Part III]

This deserves a ban.

Username aside and all that, it is one of the weaker songs on R&H. Not that there are that many strong ones.

 

[Axver]

I love God Part II in the studio, but live it became exceptional - and a harbinger of some of Achtung's darker, more rockin' side too.

inte's opinions are almost as strange as Axver's sometimes.

I must admit, I've always thought of inte as the one person on this forum who consistently outdoes me for unpopular or atypical opinions.

VDL is the reason Edge never made a solo album. What a stinker.

Except for the fact that he had already released a solo album, Captive, and some of it's pretty damn good. Rowena's Theme and Heroine in particular.

 

[BlueSilkenSky]

God Part II. Aw, why Van Dieman's Land so early?

 

[liamcool]

Y'know, it puzzles me as to why four tracks from this album made the Best Of, and yet nothing off October was deemed worthy for the main tracklisting.

And of COURSE they pick the four bad ones, too.

 

[bonocomet]

I really like VDL, but these are all good! When ranking these songs with each other, it's pretty difficult for me. I like a lot of them equally.

 

[gvox]

Digitize, if the unthinkable should happen and VDL gets tied with WLCTT, reallocate all the votes for every other song over to WCLTT.

k? k. thx.

 

[digitize]

Digitize, if the unthinkable should happen and VDL gets tied with WLCTT, reallocate all the votes for every other song over to WCLTT.

k? k. thx.

I'll activate my drone accounts to get nearly that result. Don't be surprised when WLCTT has over a thousand votes.

 

[digitize]

I must admit, I've always thought of inte as the one person on this forum who consistently outdoes me for unpopular or atypical opinions.

Oh you hipster you. But he's not quite the only one.

 

[Axver]

Oh you hipster you.

I think the Melbourne posters will know what I mean when I say I've become a total Brunswick hipster.

But that's he's not quite the only one.

How could we forget! Truly, the only person capable of defying the hive mind.

 

[digitize]

I think the Melbourne posters will know what I mean when I say I've become a total Brunswick hipster.

The Wikipedia page for Brunswick has a picture of an establishment called "Solidarity Salon" with a subtitle of "Home of Radical Women & Freedom Socialist Party". Am I getting an accurate depiction here?

 

[cobl04]

Ayup.

 

[bonocomet]

Oh you hipster you. But he's not quite the only one.

nickrolled!

digitize.

 

[An Cat Gav]

WLCTT, never been a fan of this.

 

[Axver]

The Wikipedia page for Brunswick has a picture of an establishment called "Solidarity Salon" with a subtitle of "Home of Radical Women & Freedom Socialist Party". Am I getting an accurate depiction here?

Haha, oh yes. I'm disappointed the Wikipedia articles about Northcote and Fitzroy, the other serious hipster suburbs, don't deliver on the Incredibly Apt Picture front.

Though let's not single out suburbs too much here; the entirety of inner north and inner east Melbourne is now a total hipster stronghold quite unlike anything else in Australasia. As long as it means good cafes/pubs, obscure craft beer, even more obscure bands, and left-wing politics, I can dig it.

 

[intedomine]

I'm a Chapel-ian myself. Don't feel all that home in the North, although I have had some memorable nights there, and I could certainly live in Carlton or Parkville.

 

[Axver]

I very rarely head south of the river. Not really by design - it's just there's so much awesome stuff to explore in the inner north that I don't feel much of a need to travel further for amazing food and drink, and the live music scene is centred around here.

I do like South Yarra/Prahran/Windsor though, and would certainly enjoy spending more time there. Been to some incredible places on/just off Chapel St.

Love it when tourists visit and think St Kilda's the place to be, though. There's a suburb that's past its glory days (though I would be very happy to live in Elwood or Middle Park).

 

[cobl04]

Revolver is on Chapel

Y'all needa come to Wezzzzz

 

[Axver]

Next you're going to tell me my life is incomplete without a night at Mynt.

 

[cobl04]

Well it is. For my 19th I got a $40 drink card.

Also, the Shit Farm.