Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND

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Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« on: February 23, 2018, 06:19:36 AM »
Good song...love to see it live. Giving it a 7.

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Re: Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2018, 07:46:25 AM »
Decent track, but it is difficult to see the U2 of 2018 having any empathy with the narrator. 7.

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Re: Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2018, 07:58:11 AM »
6. It's nice. but nothing special for me
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Re: Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2018, 08:16:27 AM »
7, but it's really just a segue in a movie.
I saw Gloria live. Even if I never see the band live again, at least I saw Gloria live. :)

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Re: Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2018, 08:23:24 AM »
7. I consider it the "true" open to an album that I was just crazy about when I was a kid. Screw that Helter Skelter mess at the beginning...U2 should have started the album with VDL.
Hold on, people! The man's talking about waste management. That affects the whole damn planet.

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Re: Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2018, 10:15:33 AM »
Decent enough

And gets extra points for it's simplicity and Edge lead...

7.
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Re: Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2018, 07:53:11 PM »
7. I wish Edge took front and center on more tracks.

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Re: Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2018, 12:22:42 AM »
4

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Re: Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2018, 02:46:01 AM »
4/10

One of the album's best songs, but still one that I feel ambivalent towards.

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Re: Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2018, 06:12:22 PM »
7- i enjoy this song.

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Re: Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2018, 07:21:02 PM »
Beautiful,  short but sweet.  Quite moving actually.

7.5

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Re: Rate a song: VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2020, 08:25:23 PM »
One of my favorites, but I only gave it a 7 for being a bit of a duck out of water. Lovely, but not very U2-ish.
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