Best Song Survivor v2: GRAND FINAL!

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Please select your FAVOURITE song(s)


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Please vote for your FAVOURITE song(s).
This is the VERY LAST round. The results of this round will be the forum's U2 Top 30. You may vote for as many or as few songs as you like, remembering each vote cast (or not cast) is valuable in determining the final rank order.
Note: To clarify, "No Line on the Horizon" includes all versions of the song - i.e. it encompasses NLOTH II.


Welcome to the GRAND FINAL in Best Song Survivor v2! The thirty songs represent Interference's favourites as voted over the course of the tournament - the purpose of this round will be to rank them. Whichever song receives the most votes will be crowned Interference's #1 track. This round will last 48 hours; you vote for your favourite tracks (within reason). Remember that there is a tradeoff: if you vote for more songs, the power of each of your votes is dampened, but if you vote for fewer songs, you get to spread your influence less far.

The 2000s semi-final was very closely fought and we only just avoided a tie for sixth place. The grand final receives from this era two NLOTH tracks, one each from ATYCLB and HTDAAB, and two non-album tracks. 19 of our 30 grand finalists were released as singles, while 15 have appeared on Best Ofs (16 if you count The Fly as a bonus track in some countries). Album representation in the finals is as follows:

Boy: 1
October: 1
War: 2
The Unforgettable Fire: 3
The Joshua Tree: 3
Rattle and Hum: 2
Achtung Baby: 4
Zooropa: 3
Passengers: 0 (Your Blue Room missed by a single vote)
Pop: 3
ATYCLB: 1
HTDAAB: 1
NLOTH: 2
Non-album singles: 3
B-sides: 0
Other non-album material: 1 (The Ground Beneath Her Feet)

Results from last round:

(bold = qualified for finals)
1. Beautiful Day - 37 votes
2. Moment of Surrender - 34
3. Electrical Storm - 28
4. No Line on the Horizon - 26
5. The Ground Beneath Her Feet - 25
6. City of Blinding Lights - 22

=7. Breathe - 21
=7. Walk On - 21
9. Kite - 20
10. Magnificent - 17
11. Vertigo - 16
12. Fez-Being Born - 15
13. When I Look at the World - 13
14. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own - 12
=15. A Man and a Woman - 8
=15. Cedars of Lebanon - 8
=15. Window in the Skies - 8
18. Fast Cars - 4
(Total voters: 54)
 
I'm tossing up how many songs to vote for - was thinking of voting a top ten but it's hard to cut some. However, people may be interested in knowing what songs are here that didn't make it in 2009 and vice versa.

FINALIST IN 2013 BUT NOT 2009
11 O'clock Tick Tock
Sunday Bloody Sunday
One
Lemon
Mofo
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Electrical Storm
Moment of Surrender

FINALIST IN 2009 BUT NOT IN 2013
Running to Stand Still
Acrobat
Love Is Blindness
Walk On
Kite
Magnificent
Fez
Breathe
 
Not quite a top 10; I basically just voted for the ones I want to see do really well:

Gloria
A Sort of Homecoming
All I Want is You
Until the End of the World
Zooropa
Lemon
Stay
Gone
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Moment of Surrender
 
So many great songs here. In chronological order:

New Year's Day
A Sort Of Homecoming
The Unforgettable Fire
Bad
Streets
Until The End Of The World
The Fly
Zooropa
Lemon
Please
 
Voted for a handful of underdogs like With Or Without You and One as well as some favourites. No way I'm voting for Streets or Bad even though I like them very much. They don't need my help.

I hope Streets doesn't win yet again. :yawn:
 
Lemon is leading. Won't last long but it is great for me to see this, since it's one of my top 3 U2 songs.
 
Every song on this list is so good, but I voted for the two that are above the rest: The Fly and One Tree Hill.
 
FINALIST IN 2013 BUT NOT 2009
11 O'clock Tick Tock
Sunday Bloody Sunday
One
Lemon
Mofo
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Electrical Storm
Moment of Surrender

FINALIST IN 2009 BUT NOT IN 2013
Running to Stand Still
Acrobat
Love Is Blindness
Walk On
Kite
Magnificent
Fez
Breathe

I like the 2009 version of this site better.
 
Fuck vote dilution, this is it baby, the grand finale. The big W.

In trying - mostly, in vain - to pick my "favorite" U2 songs, I can't bear to pit some songs against each other. How can I? Each of these songs save a very very few, means something very special to me.

So instead, I'm voting in the vein of "my essential U2" - songs I just can't live without. There are actually more, but in so far as the options in this final list is concerned, they are:

11 Oclock Tick Tock
New Years Day
Sort Of Homecoming
Unforgettable Fire
Bad
Streets
WOWY
One Tree Hill
Heartland
All I Want Is You
One
The Fly
Ultraviolet
Zooropa
Gone
Please
Beautiful Day
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Moment of Surrender
 
These results are oddly sinusoidal right now. I wonder if that says anything about anything.
 
F---ing balls its hard.

So far the ones I'm definitely voting for: NYD, Sort of Homecoming, OTH, Streets, Fly, Zooropa, Stay, Beautiful Day, COBL, MOS.

I'm tempted to just vote for a majority of them and knock off a few songs.
 
I actually woke up with severe sinus pressure and head pain this morning. If I listen to my picks, or the top picks at least, will that alleviate it you think?

:wink:

I'd recommend Big Girls Are Best to cure that.
 
I'd recommend Big Girls Are Best to cure that.

I'm not experiencing stomach cramps, abdominal pain or diarrhea Dr Digi..

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Streets, UTEOTW, Zooropa, Gone, ES, NLOTH II , MOS. Man this is pretty accurate for my favourite songs, only misses Acrobat.
 
This is tough. I went with ten:

New Year's Day
The Unforgettable Fire
Streets
With or Without You
The Fly
Lemon
Stay
Please
Beautiful Day
Moment of Surrender
 
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