Interest in U2 songs tourney? (similar to the current Beatles one)

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24hrs to go for the current set of ties...get voting!

 

Winners for this set:

Window In The Skies (v Angels Too Tied To The Ground 16-3)
Discotheque (v I Believe In Father Christmas 23-6)
Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) (v Neon Lights 18-5)
With Or Without You (v Where Did It All Go Wrong? 25-3)
Endless Deep (v Vertigo [Temple Bar Mix] 18-3)

Analysis

Mostly no surprises here. I kinda like 'Angels' so was quite surprised how poor the result was in its favour. Slightly shocked that 'Endless Deep' made it through as I think it's one of U2's worst B-sides (especially with Adam's ...err...'interesting' vocal). I love that silly, off the cuff version of 'Vertigo' and I thought its charm might see it though past its older sibling. Oh well...

Next set of matches coming right up!

 

Damn. How did I miss all this already?

 

Latest set of matches:

U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 16: So Cruel v Happiness Is A Warm Gun
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 17: A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel v The First Time
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 18: Beach Sequence v I Fall Down
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 19: Stay (Faraway, So Close!) v Please
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 20: Luminous Times (Hold On To Love) v Peace On Earth

 

What determines these preliminary matches, BTW? This as there are already some heavyweights featured. And now two are even up against each other (Stay and Please). With either one not participating in the tournament proper it will devalue that tournament. So why put these two up against each other?

 

So basically you're going to flood the forum with the very maximum amount of polls by pitching one U2 song against another one and covering all of their discography and then run those hundreds of first rounds of results against eachother ad infinitum.
What if someone decides to do this with Prince's catalogue and the Rolling Stones simultaneously with fifty polls a day ?
A stupid idea.

 

Have you also put these comments in The Beatles tournament that is currently going on (apart from some individual album polls that are also being posted)?

 

I have put all Beatles threads on ignore, so don't even see them, but in general I think this kind of polling is like abusing the forum, except maybe if the artist in question only made one album.

 

That certainly makes it a lot easier to keep up with the forum!
(But yes, at times this forum moves away pretty far from music (and sound) quality discussion. Though for this particular topic I don't mind.)

 

Besides putting threads on ignore you can even ignore users, to make life even easier

 

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24hrs to go! Keep on voting.

 

Winners for this set:

So Cruel (v Happiness Is A Warm Gun 30-0 )
The First Time (v Room at The Heartbreak Hotel 18-7)
I Fall Down (v Beach Sequence 20-6)
Stay (v Please 25-8)
Luminous Times (v Peace On Earth 11-8)

Analysis:

The randomness of the draw sadly means that great big songs do clash like the 'Please' & 'Stay' tie. Sad to see the latter has gone so early but I can see why many of you love that song too (I do as well - especially the soundtrack version). Also disappointed that 'Hotel' went too - another one of my favourite B-sides of theirs. Again, I thought being against an OK album track might help this lesser-known track sneak through. On the other hand it was a nice surprise to see the opposite happen for the glorious 'Luminous Times'. Next set of ties coming.

BTW, some have asked why some big songs are appearing so early on in this competition. The draw for this round is completely random and there's literally no mercy. Otherwise I'd have to pick & choose what should be in the preliminary pool and rather that argue subjectively with you all as to what are the weakest songs, I thought a random draw from the whole pool would be a) fun and b) save time on making those subjective decisions. Hope that explains it.

 

Ouch! Will 'Please' return in different forms, please?

 

Latest set of ties:

U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 21: Another Day v Disappearing Act
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 22: New York v Race Against Time
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 23: California (Acoustic Version) v Angel of Harlem
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 24:The Playboy Mansion v Slow Dancing (Original Version)
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 25: All Because of You v Another Time, Another Place

 

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24hrs to go until end of voting...get cracking! Very, very close in a lot of these ties!

 

Winners for ties 21-25 are:

Disappearing Act (v Another Day 12-10)
New York (v Race Against Time 14-12)
Angel of Harlem (v California [Acoustic] 21-3)
Slow Dancing (v The Playboy Mansion 16-8)
Another Time, Another Place (v All Because of You 14-10)

Analysis:

Well, some really close ties here. For three of the matches here, the leads changed hands several times over the last 3 days. Good to see 'Playboy' gone early on as it's one of my least favourite U2 tracks and is a sore boil on the otherwise sublime Pop. Pretty happy it got paired against one of my favourite U2 B-sides 'Slow Dancing' (the original version, that is).

I'm going to pause on the next five and rather than do them now, I'll set them up tomorrow morning our time. Hope that's OK.

 

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Less than 24hrs to go for these 5..

U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 26: The Ballad of Ronnie Drew v Electrical Storm
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 27: Fire v A Celebration
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 28: Seconds v The Refugee
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 29: Hold Me Thrill Me... v Invisble
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 30: When I Look At The World v One Step Closer

 

For what it is worth, I'm only participating when I know the songs in question. I've seen U2 a half dozen times and I'm a fan, but some of these mixes are unknown to me. I keep waiting for this tourney to kick into high gear where I can participate in each round. That's hasn't happened for me yet.

 

Yeah, it might have been better pitching groups of songs (e.g. 6/8) against each other and taking the top 3/4 on to the next round.

The 1v1 is going to take forever, and I either don't care enough about either song to vote, or some big hitters are getting eliminated too early as they're up against another biggie.

Didn't the Beatles tourney take a similar approach until the final few rounds which were 1v1?

Don't mean to be critical, but it's a fun idea, just could be better executed.

 

Results for ties 26-30:

Electrical Storm (v... Ronnie Drew 25-3)
Fire v A Celebration - TIE (14-14)*
Seconds (v The Refugee 32-9)
Hold Me, Thrill Me... (v Invisible 33-11)
One Step Closer (v When I Look At The World 12-9)

*As it seems I can't edit the poll to run a further 24hrs to break these ties, I'm now going to change the rules by removing this step altogether (sorry). So, that means it's my casting vote to break tie #27. Luckily, in this instance it's an easy choice: 'Fire' for me is one of U2's weakest singles and I do like the proto-War energy of 'A Celebration', so the one off single just shades it. Sad to see 'Invisible' go...great song.

More ties coming very soon...

 

I would expect in case of a tie, when songs are equally appreciated, that both songs would go to the next round...

FWIW; learned recently that for the Weakest Link game in case of a tie the vote of the OP gets recalled.

 

Well, I don't vote in any of the ties...it's all up to you people!

 

24hrs to go for these ties:

U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 31: A Day Without Me v Walk To The Water
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 32: Springhill Mining Disaster (live) v Viva Davidoff
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 33: Acrobat v The Fly (Baby Version)
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 34: Love Is Bigger... v One
U2 Song Tourney Prelim Match 35: Don't Take Your Guns To Town v Crumbs..(Acoustic)

 

Results for 31-35:

A Day Without Me (v Walk To The Water 26-18)
Springhill Mining Disaster (live) (v Viva Davidoff 21-0)
Acrobat (v The Fly [Baby] 26-7)
One (v Love Is Bigger... 38-3)
Don't Take Your Guns... (v Crumbs [Acoustic] 10-8)

Analysis:

No real surprises here although I was disappointed to see WTWW go out. Most of the JT B-sides are strong tracks in their own right and WTTW is one of the strongest. Nice to see so many liked SMD that they ordered the CD!

Next set of ties coming up!

 

I'm also disappointed a bit that Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way is already out. It is a great song. But yeah, it was up again One. This matchup came too soon for it.