Rate the Song: Wave of Sorrow (Birdland)

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I have decided to expand the list of TUF-TJT-R&H non-album songs to poll Interference on, so this will be the second of now three voting rounds on those songs. The full list is (and feel free to suggest adding some):

Disappearing Act
Love Comes Tumbling
The Three Sunrises
Bass Trap
Sixty Seconds In Kingdom Come
Boomerang I
Boomerang II
Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)
Walk to the Water
Spanish Eyes
Silver and Gold
Drunk Chicken/America
Sweetest Thing (original version)
Wave of Sorrow (Birdland)
Hallelujah Here She Comes
A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
She's a Mystery To Me
Deep in the Heart
Beautiful Ghost/Introduction to Songs of Experience
Desert of Our Love
Rise Up
Yoshino Blossom

We will address Spanish Eyes through A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel today.

Please rate Wave of Sorrow (Birdland) 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]

I do like this one. It's a bit melancholic.

 

[Nick66]

It just really doesn't work, does it? A very 2007 sounding Bono singing forced lyrics that don't connect much with the music, and the vocal is borderline annoying. Doesn't even work as well as Disappearing Act, and they should probably abandon this little music now/lyrics 20 years later experiment if the result is going to be stuff like this.

The ending is a little embarrassing.

6, I guess. It could easily be 4.

 

[cobl04]

Wow the ending is terrible. I hadn't heard it in years. I went 6 before I listened to the ending. 5 now

 

[flybabe]

I agree Nick. Trying to sing lyrics today to a song that was meant for an album 20 years earlier just doesn't work. I do like the song, but it has a lot of flaws. 5.

 

[prbiker15]

Never liked this one to such an extent, but it's not bad. Gets a 5 from me.

 

[An Cat Gav]

I really hate this.
1

 

[nielsgov]

I really like the song. At first it's a bit weird knowing that it's music from 1987 with vocals from 2007 but once I got over that, I started appreciating it as a beautiful song. The music is great. 8

 

[Aardvark747]

I love this. 10.