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Love this song. I probably gave it a higher rating than it truly deserves. I just think this is a really good composition (again, I don't focus on lyrics pretty much at all). I'm a fan of this album in general and I think this is the standout track.
I’m the highest on this one. It’s not a very melodic song, but it has a frenetic energy that gives it urgency and authenticity that connected with me in a big way during my angsty Christian rock teen years.
I’ve always thought of it similarly to Tomorrow, so I probably would have ranked it similarly had I kept going past 80.
I'm at 50 on When I Look at the World. It's got a good tempo to it, the intro is compelling. I do feel like it falls apart a bit at the end, but I enjoy it.
Huge fan. I was the high rank here. Probably too high in retrospect but don’t care!
I'm the high ranker on Into the Heart. Obviously it's a pretty notable tune from their early days. Looking at the track listing for Boy, wow what a great album IMO.
I'm surprised and displeased with myself for not ranking "I Threw a Brick". Not sure how I missed it.
It made my ranking (68) and I really like the intro guitar riff, but it is too disjointed for me to rank much higher.
This is very surprising. Is it that she never liked the song, or just that it was so overplayed that she’s come to dislike it? For a fan of old U2, I can understand the latter but would be shuked by the former. Put another way, if a U2 fan in the mid-80s put War on the turntable and upon hearing New Year’s Day said “this song blows” or even “meh” that would absolutely blow my mind.
It’s not weird that folks live it. It’s odd (to me) that out of all the famous U2 songs, NYD is the only one that 40 people ranked.
Well, her list only included 30 songs (
) out of sheer laziness paired with stubbornness. So she had it at 26. Still high. She likes the song a lot — she just loves U2 so much overall that it’s a tough list to crack. And she’s more of a UF/JT fan.
As I mentioned when we did this the first time, I took all the remaining live songs from the RAH DVD, the songs on the official album, the B sides, the covers, and some other live recordings between TJT and AB and threw them all in a folder together. I play those songs the most out of all things I have U2 (which is a pretty expansive amount of material).
After the dust fell on my song rankings, I calculated each album's average rating and then looked back to see how the albums ranked based on their songs. Boy was my #3 but just a hair behind number 2 Joshua Tree.
Damn. Were we supposed to rank songs off Rattle and Hum? I thought it was a novelty record.
We do have one ranker who has already spoken about the exclusion of Bad, One, Pride and WTSHNN to name a few.
Funny how rankings work. When I did LZ, every song but one had at least 10+ people that didn't rank it. Only one had 7 non-rankers. Granted, that was different because people could only rank 25 songs. Since I think you required people to rank at least that many, what would the results look like if you only took the Top 25 U2 songs from all the rankers? Maybe you could post that at the end. That one should be pretty easy to figure out with a 25-points to 1-point scoring system.
Maybe. Depends how sick of this I am. I know myself if I was limited to 25 I would include some songs i ranked at eg 28, 32 and boot out some at eg 23, 24.
A whole bunch of meh. I can't envision why anyone would think this is a top 25 U2 song.
I'm the 22. I love it live AND studio. "He was my BROTHER, there is no OTHER way out of here" always makes my hair stand on end, and IMO the main guitar riff is one of Edge's most powerful. I still think you're way off on calling it filler, it's pretty clearly the second-best song on October.
Not only is it one of the best U2 songs, it doesn't really have anything that people don't like about U2 (overemoting Bono, overstuffed lyrics, repetitive guitar parts, etc.)
This didn't make my top 80 but probably would have shown up soon after. If we were allowed to rank An Cat Dubh -> Into the Heart as one, I probably would have had that VERY high. By itself, Into the Heart feels like a postscript, but considered together with An Cat Dubh, it's an exciting musical journey.
I probably should have made room for this. I bet it's one of 40 songs about which I'll say "this would have been in my 81 to 100."
Nyah nyah nyah, it was my 22.krista4 said:
I agree. I listened to it today after Alex's post, and although it is in my top 10, I thought to myself I should have had it higher. It is just one of their songs I have always loved. I hadn't listened to their music in a long time except for in our drafts when I would draft a song, and then I'd listen to it over and over, cause it had been so long since I had heard it. It was fun revisiting their music for the rankings.
Love it, too. And I've been playing a lot of U2 as background while I cook or something.
The veggie songs have been the good ones. The vegan songs are the ones the hardcore fans know and think are good.
Glad you’re back. The best way to participate in FFA music threads is not to go in to the politics forum!
