Rate the Song: Electrical Storm

[digitize]

This is the second-to-last round of the 2012 rate the song series! Today, we shall be voting on the second round of 2000s non-album songs. The full list of these songs is:

Stateless
Summer Rain
Always
Levitate
Love You Like Mad
Smile
Flower Child
Big Girls are Best
Electrical Storm
The Hands That Built America
Native Son
Xanax and Wine
Are You Gonna Wait Forever?
Window in the Skies
Soon
Winter
Mercy

Today's round will cover the second set of six songs, from Flower Child to Xanax and Wine.

Please rate Electrical Storm on a scale from 0 to 10, using whatever criteria you feel allows you to best evaluate the song as a whole. I will not set criteria for people to based on, but if you feel like your best evaluation of the merits of a song comes from voting only based on, say, the studio version, go right ahead and vote that way. Full information on the Rate The Song series may be found in this thread.

Have fun! This poll will close in 96 hours.

 

[Galeongirl]

One of my favourite U2 songs ever(Band remix, with the decent chorus riff), still bummed I missed out live. And shame Bono didn't audibly play guitar on it, because that way it would've worked so much better, Edge doing the riff and Bono chords during chorus.

 

[Globo14]

8. The band version is good stuff. The William Orbit mix bores me.

 

[ryancoke71]

Beautiful song. The video is amazing as well.

9

 

[Nick66]

Seems to be another one of those songs that Interference inexplicably loves and overrates...but I just can't see it. Just another of the kind of inoffensive, but fairly unremarkable, one-offs U2 throws out there from time to time.

It does have some interesting lyrics and an intriguing title.

6.

 

[theedgeu2]

One of the best of the 2000s era. I remember seeing the music video for this. Bono's vocal on this is good. I prefer the William Orbit Mix to the regular mix of it. 9.

 

[corianderstem]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE.

I prefer the Orbit mix, but like both. One of those rare U2 songs where the verses are better than the chorus. And yet that still doesn't make me love the song any less.

Love the big ol' "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYY" bit.

 

[LadySpinHead]

Love this- Bono's voice has rarely been better. Chills.

 

[ElectricalStorm]

8. I love it, but it's not at all one of my all-time favourites. Certainly one the best 00's songs though.

 

[digitize]

Electrical Storm will always be associated with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for me. I was listening to ES a lot when Deathly Hallows came out, and the two fit together really well for me, for some reason. I really like this song.

 

[The_acrobat]

Too bad this song was only played live 3 times. I feel like the final time they attempted it in Gothenburg they really nailed it.

 

[RioRhodes]

I've been waiting impatiently for this one.

My favorite song of all time, ever. No song has ever managed to move me the way this one has and I'm not sure another song will ever come close.

10 forever.

 

[lemonfly]

Marked the beginning of their truly bland, unremarkable era which led onto Bomb, and the equally snoozefest one-off single WITS. The lyrics range from being totally cliche ("Dreaming someone else's dream" - oh c'mon Bono, at least make an attempt to seem interested), to clunkers that would make even Chris Martin snigger ("The air is heavy, heavy as a truck"). I am more forgiving of experimental disasters like Miami, but there's no excuse for this lazy dreck. Zero

 

[digitize]

Marked the beginning of their truly bland, unremarkable era which led onto Bomb, and the equally snoozefest one-off single WITS. The lyrics range from being totally cliche ("Dreaming someone else's dream" - oh c'mon Bono, at least make an attempt to seem interested), to clunkers that would make even Chris Martin snigger ("The air is heavy, heavy as a truck"). I am more forgiving of experimental disasters like Miami, but there's no excuse for this lazy dreck. Zero

 

[prbiker15]

My favorite B-side from this era. The lyrics are sometimes cheesy, but the music is just incredible. The last 2 minutes of the song seal the deal for me. Amazing, amazing song. 10.

 

[mikal]

Seems to be another one of those songs that Interference inexplicably loves and overrates...but I just can't see it. Just another of the kind of inoffensive, but fairly unremarkable, one-offs U2 throws out there from time to time.

It does have some interesting lyrics and an intriguing title.

6.

wow, you really underrate this song.

 

[LemonMelon]

Weak lyrics partially hold back a very strong pop song, as do a few production elements that make the song feel a hair too bombastic. But man, what a good melody and GREAT chorus. 8.

 

[corianderstem]

Seems to be another one of those songs that Interference inexplicably loves and overrates

It's not inexplicable. Some of us love stuff you don't. That's a sufficient explanation.

 

[Nick66]

It's not inexplicable. Some of us love stuff you don't. That's a sufficient explanation.

Of course....just as I love songs that some of you don't. That's normal.

But there seems to be a hive mind mentality about certain songs here...this being one of them.

Either that, or a good number of posters are completely convinced that by clicking 10 on all these songs they'll get free porn or a million dollars.

 

[corianderstem]

But there seems to be a hive mind mentality about certain songs here....

I think you tend to put too much thought into this stuff.

 

[digitize]

Of course....just as I love songs that some of you don't. That's normal.

But there seems to be a hive mind mentality about certain songs here...this being one of them.

Either that, or a good number of posters are completely convinced that by clicking 10 on all these songs they'll get free porn or a million dollars.

Is there a hive mind mentality about how highly most of TUF was rated?

 

[Nick66]

Is there a hive mind mentality about how highly most of TUF was rated?

No.

I think you tend to put too much thought into this stuff.

Or perhaps very much the opposite.

 

[Galeongirl]

Is there a hive mind mentality about how highly most of TUF was rated?

Well duh, obviously.

 

[gvox]

A solid 8, but not a smidgeon more

 

[corianderstem]

A solid 8, but not a smidgeon more

I don't know why that made me laugh, but it did.

 

[gvox]

I don't know why that made me laugh, but it did.

Every so often a seldom used word my mom used to use creeps its way into my speech.

 

[An Cat Gav]

The soundtrack to my greatest(if greatest is the word!) heartbreak this. Sums up how I felt perfectly.
10

 

[trevgreg]

I add an 8 to this too. Always liked it.

 

[flybabe]

To be quite honest, I've never really liked this song. It's never clicked as one of those great songs, that a majority of the people seem to drool over. It's ok though. 6.

 

[ryancoke71]

Seems to be another one of those songs that Interference inexplicably loves and overrates...but I just can't see it. Just another of the kind of inoffensive, but fairly unremarkable, one-offs U2 throws out there from time to time.

It does have some interesting lyrics and an intriguing title.

6.

I still fail to see why people liking a song is inexplicalbe if you don't agree. It isn't a hive mentality. I know plenty of casual fans who like this song. This gets so tiring.