Rate the Song: Summer Rain

[digitize]

It is the very last stretch of this competition. Today, we begin voting on the first of three (planned) rounds of 2000s non-album songs. The list I am looking at right now 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

That is seventeen songs. If I missed anything, please let me know. Also, remember that The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fast Cars, and No Line On The Horizon 2 are all considered 2000s non-album songs, but have had their rounds earlier. Today we will vote on the first six songs, Stateless through Smile.

Please rate Summer Rain 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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHJtAscoot8

 

[trevgreg]

Verses and guitar are alright. Otherwise, it seems to lost its way a bit at the end for me. 5.

 

[corianderstem]

Dull.

 

[Nick66]

I'll always have a soft spot for Summer Rain. It was part of the edition of ATYCLB I bought (one song on a "bonus" disc!) and it was really exciting to hear what was essentially the first 00's era b-side (at least for me). I remember really liking the mood of it...but maybe I was just happy to have new U2 in general that didn't sound like recycled Kraftwerk (not including the MDH interlude).

It's not as good as I remember, but I'll still give it a 7, because it's still better than most of the era's cast offs.

 

[LadySpinHead]

Pleasant, I like it, although it is most certainly B-side material, and pretty forgettable. I give it a high 6.

 

[mama cass]

love this one, makes me giggle

 

[U2DMfan]

Straight up bad.
Sounds like they wrote and recorded this while waiting for the pizza delivery guy to show.

 

[flybabe]

Pretty bland, and generic. 5.

 

[coolian2]

better than anything on that dog turd of an album atyclb.

except maybe beautiful day.

 

[lemonfly]

I'd take Summer Rain over Wild Honey and In A Little Whine any day of the week.

 

[Diemen]

Dull.

Yup.

 

[Galeongirl]

Cheerful little ditty, nothing too serious though. 7.

 

[prbiker15]

Bland song, in my opinion, though it's below 'not bad' for sure. Nothing special. 5.

 

[FitzChivalry]

6. Only because I like the chorus.

Otherwise, milktoast.

 

[An Cat Gav]

Straight up bad.
Sounds like they wrote and recorded this while waiting for the pizza delivery guy to show.

Too true. Up until that point I didn't think U2 were capable of something so boring and cliched.
2

 

[gareth brown]

pretty good track...they should play it once or twice live I reckon but then they'd probably think OH HEY WE'RE ON TO A WINNER WITH THE FANS NOW and play it every night and turn it into another In A Little While.