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Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sun December 16, 2018 7:25 pm
what on earth am I talking about
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
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
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sun December 16, 2018 7:36 pm
what on earth am I talking about
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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
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sun December 16, 2018 7:42 pm
Production Police
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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?
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sun December 16, 2018 7:43 pm
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tragabigzanda wrote:
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, Zooropa and Pop era?
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Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sun December 16, 2018 7:44 pm
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dimejinky99 wrote:
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
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
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sun December 16, 2018 7:46 pm
what on earth am I talking about
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tragabigzanda wrote:
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?
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
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sun December 16, 2018 7:49 pm
Production Police
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dimejinky99 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
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?
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
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.
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sun December 16, 2018 7:50 pm
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tragabigzanda wrote:
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'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
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Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sun December 16, 2018 8:00 pm
what on earth am I talking about
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 12:35 am Posts: 35487
tragabigzanda wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
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?
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
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.
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
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sun December 16, 2018 10:29 pm
tl;dr
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tragabigzanda wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
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?
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
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.
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.
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