Blame LV

I think I like all the songs on AB, but the sequencing is a mess. Gonna have to make my own version.

No way man.
There’s a plethora of B sides from that era that could easily sit happily on that album.
Lady with the spinning head, paint it black... Think there’s loads of off cut tracks too but it’s been a long time.

Might be worth doing a google for that stuff LV. I have a feeling yo might be more attracted to what was ommited

I don't want to swap anything out, though. It's solid front to back. I just want them in a better order.

If it does anything wrong it’s U2’s constant crime. Put the hits up front. So it can feel top heavy but in an inverted way cos you’ve heard fly/real thing/one sooooo many times you can zone out when they’re on kinda. I do anyways.


I have the remastered version of this somewhere. Must break that out again. The big book with Enos essay was a lovely thing and a great read

yeah but you're an ESL guy, you don't really know what that song's about

Dime I don't think I've never heard a single U2 B-side or outtake in my life. Could you possibly put together an album's worth of the strongest material from the AB and Zooropa era?

The funny thing is The Fly and Real Thing are not "big" songs I'm familiar with; One and Mysterious Ways are the megahits in my mind.

I think this is the version I'll be listening to from now on:

1. Acrobat
2. Even Better Than the Real Thing
3. Until the End of the World
4. The Fly
5. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
6. Love is Blindness
7. So Cruel
8. Zoo Station
9. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
10. One
11. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
12. Mysterious Ways

Course you could. You be wrong but you could. Those two exist in a perfect symbiotic state for me. I could never imagine trying to cut from either to make w best of both.
I’m fairly sure there’s loads of b sides and outtakes of AB anyways. Well worth looking up

stop it Rangi. That album missed the mark.

Bono: "What if we made a post-modern album of pop music, except it's not really pop music if we deliver the whole thing with a smirk?"

[band releases Discotheque, tours K-Marts the world over]

i don't...what? I am asking you, dimejinky, literally, not rhetorically, to curate a playlist of the strongest outtakes and B-sides from the '91-'93 era.

Also LV, your re-tracking of AB is pretty cool except you didn't open with Zoo Station. This is silly, as that opening riff is one of the best album intros of all time.

I'll admit that Pop is possibly the weakest of that three album run, but it's still pretty damn great! I hated it when it first came out, but now possibly listen to it more than the other two

It’s been years and years since I heard any of that stuff so I wouldn’t be best placed to curate such a list

Ill see you in the Disappointments thread, dime

You could just search my post history. Or link it.

You've never heard Sweetest Thing?

Dammit Chud I was Happy remembering how U2 used to be awesome...

If memory serves there is only one "Zooropa" B-side that isn't a remix ("Slow Dancing," a Bono/Edge acoustic track that sounds nothing like the stuff on the album). For the "Achtung" B-sides just listen to to CD2 of the recent deluxe reissue -- it rounds up pretty much everything and a lot of it is pretty good, though very little measures up to what is on the album.

Pop is a goddamn masterpiece.