Red Hill Mining Town departed from our presence in the last round, leaving eight songs competing for four songs in quarterfinals. Half of the songs in this round will progress! You have 24 hours to vote for your least favorite song, the next song to be kicked out of this contest. For anyone just joining us, rules may be found here.
Best Song Survivor: The Joshua Tree Round Four
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cobl04
45:33
Bullet. Exit has a more menacing vibe. Bullet's chorus sounds weak on record.
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
Exit just isn't that good on record. Neither is Bullet, but the only time I've ever felt any degree of negativity towards Bullet was on the Vertigo tour, where it just took up space and bored everyone.
cobl04
45:33
It definitely sucked on that tour.
popacrobat
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
i've voted for Exit each round so far. Won't stop now.
bonocomet
Blue Crack Distributor
Exit. Cool song though. 
BlueSilkenSky
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
Bullet. I just don't like that song.
An Cat Gav
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
RHMT going is a disgrace.
IGC, much as I love you the others are better.
IGC, much as I love you the others are better.
Galeongirl
Galeonbroad
Still IGC. 
LadySpinHead
Refugee
Bullet for me- Exit is a blistering work of art.
ISHFWILF is the only clunker here.
Exit is one of the top three songs on the album (and one of the top two remaining, now that RHMT is gone). I love the brooding studio version, and holy fucking shit, the live versions were incredible. Rarely has a U2 song been better live.
Exit is one of the top three songs on the album (and one of the top two remaining, now that RHMT is gone). I love the brooding studio version, and holy fucking shit, the live versions were incredible. Rarely has a U2 song been better live.
God Part III
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
I'm voting Exit to protect In God's Country 
bonocomet
Blue Crack Distributor
Clunker! 
Sorry Axver, but ISHFWILF is classic great U2... musically, lyrically, and Bono's vocals 
.And I take no points from Exit either, it's amazing in its own right.
silkensky
War Child
Bullet, again. I always skip it on the album.
Since we're talking about Exit, what is that faint noise in the very beginning of the song? It always sounded like crickets in the distance to me.
Since we're talking about Exit, what is that faint noise in the very beginning of the song? It always sounded like crickets in the distance to me.
Sorry, I just think it's a pretty shallow, boring song that doesn't reward repeated listenings at all. Once you've sung along with it once or twice in the car or at a concert, it has nothing more to give.
(Cue the flaming!)
Yeah, fairly certain it's crickets.
prbiker15
Blue Crack Addict
Red Hill Mining Town leaving early. 
Oh well, Exit for me.
Oh well, Exit for me.
intedomine
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
I used to think that ISHFWILF was one of U2's weaker singles. Over time, it's transformed into one of my favourites, and for the past two years or so I've craved to listen to it more than any other song on the album (including Streets).
That's the same sound U2 got when they played Your Blue Room in Houston!
May Houston fall into the sea.
bonocomet
Blue Crack Distributor
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
ISHFWILF shallow? What, did you google "negative descriptors" and picked the first one that popped up?
There is no shallow track on JT. Thanks to the brilliant production, I hear something new every time.
There is no shallow track on JT. Thanks to the brilliant production, I hear something new every time.
Von Schloopen
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It's not just one of U2's best songs.
It's one of the greatest songs in the annals of recorded music.
A rare and glorious triumph.
And it's still not the best song on this record.
Man, this album is so good its turds are solid gold.
djerdap
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I don't think it's a bad song, but it certainly is far from being a favorite for me. One of album's weaker tracks. And it is another rare example of a U2 song that is much better in studio, not unlike Pride. Save for the acoustic Rotterdam 1993 version with the extra verse - one time the track really worked for me.
brooklynmike
Refugee
Shit that was difficult. My first thought was bullet due to it's over play in concert (which was pretty awesome until Elevation, but flat out awful on Vertigo. Then possibly IGC which I enjoy, but it's not great. Then ISHWILF, which to me has been pretty boring on record and live (Except for the POPMART versions which I loved). Then I thought of EXIT, which I used to love then fell out with it because the album version intro is too low. Exit live is fucking powerful though.
I voted exit. Should have gone IGC.
I voted exit. Should have gone IGC.
Von Schloopen
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Why are these polls set up in the negative?
What's the advantage to that over the positive?
Deciding the best by voting for the least is kinda spirit killing.
What's the advantage to that over the positive?
Deciding the best by voting for the least is kinda spirit killing.
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
It's called a survivor because the implication is that the song failed to "survive" the voting process.
"Worst" and "least great" may be essentially the same thing, but the results would be different because some songs are simply polarizing.
"Worst" and "least great" may be essentially the same thing, but the results would be different because some songs are simply polarizing.
Von Schloopen
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that blows. Why do that? Why not just line up all the tunes and go.
Have it done in a day.
Voting for "The Song You Like Least" is kinda nihilistic?
No?
Who sits around thinking about songs they like least?
Why go there?
Go with the passion.
The gut.
The song that gets ya going.
Not the one that doesn't.
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