Rate the Song Series: Boy/Girl

[Irishteen]

So check out the I Will Follow Thread for more information on how this is gonna work but basically rate the song on a scale of 1-10.

The songs we'll be doing for the Boy part of this series are

1.I Will Follow
2.Twilight
3.An Cat Dubh
4.Into The Heart
5.Out Of Control
6.Stories For Boys
7.The Ocean
8.A Day Without Me
9.Another Time, Another Place
10.The Electric Co.
11.Shadows And Tall Trees
12.Boy/Girl
13.Another Day
14.11 O'clock Tick Tock
15.Touch
16.Things To Make And Do
17.Speed Of Life
18.Saturday Night
19.The Fool
20. Street Mission
21. Cartoon World (Live)


If I'm missing any please let me know

 

[Rosebud]

I give it a 7.

And thanks, I love a good poll.

 

[Irishteen]

I gave it a 5, it's a very meh song for me. I mean it's early U2, there's something going on about it I like but in the end it doesn't deliver much

 

[2861U2]

One. I wanted to give it more, but I just can't.

 

[thelaj]

I gave a 3. The vocal is just horrible, though I do like Edge's guitar breakdown in the middle.

 

[Salome]

I've got a soft spot for this one and Touch

 

[digitize]

Three, and that's generous.

 

[Axver]

6. Not a remarkable song, and definitely one of the weaker tracks from the era, but I'm a sucker for early U2.

 

[Jarvio]

I am not afraid to admit that I gave it a 1. It is clearly a weak song. We all love U2 here. This is early U2 and some early U2 is really good, but I am not kidding myself here, Boy/Girl is just not a good song. It's poor songwriting. But yeah, no biggie as this is where they began

 

[Axver]

Who'll be first to give this a 10?

 

[secretly alone]

^ Me

There's something about it I've always loved. So much in fact that it is on my license plate

 

[intedomine]

Something very cute about this song, they should play it live again.

6

 

[LemonMelon]

Wow, I actually really dig this song. Always have. Solid melody, never really goes off the rails...I consider it an early gem. 7.

 

[SeattleVertigo]

Don't know this song, can't rate it.

 

[LemonMelon]

Don't know this song, can't rate it.

YouTube - U2- Boy-Girl (COMPLETE version from Three-LP)

 

[SeattleVertigo]

Ah, thank you sir, I'll check it out.

 

[SeattleVertigo]

I'll be generous and give it a 5, just because it's U2, and they were just getting started. But I won't need to listen to it again for a long while.

 

[digitize]

The more I think about/listen to this song, the more I realize that that I overrated it at 3.

Bono was generally awful before 1980.

 

[coolian2]

two. a generous two at that.

 

[An Cat Gav]

3, not a great song. Not in the same class as Touch.

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

7...

I like early U2 style for almost all songs, but this one is weaker.... like the energy though