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 Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
PostPosted: Sun December 16, 2018 11:48 pm 
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Pop is a goddamn masterpiece.

:hooray: :heartbeat:

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 Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
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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?



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.

Thanks KD.

And chud, I had no idea that Sweetest Thing was a b-side, I thought it was from a soundtrack


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This is my favorite U2 B-side, from the "Pop" era (it's on the "Staring at the Sun" single) but it sounds pretty separate from the material on the album. It might have been written for another artist? Can't remember, but it's great.


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If I remember correctly it was written by Christy Moore, an Irish folk singer. They covered it.


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Looks like they co-wrote it, with his version being released first:
http://www.u2wanderer.org/disco/moore2.html


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Jesus Christ I love “New Year’s Day”. What a stellar piece of music. Wow. I wish they had used piano like this more.

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Jesus Christ I love “New Year’s Day”. What a stellar piece of music. Wow. I wish they had used piano like this more.


its one of my favs as well. Such a wonderful song.

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Fuck, “Like a Song...” is great too. War is pretty killer.

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Ahhhhhh I love “The Refugee” too! Bono sounds FURIOUS, and that drum sound is just insane.

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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Jesus Christ I love “New Year’s Day”. What a stellar piece of music. Wow. I wish they had used piano like this more.


Great song. The yell at the beginning is one of my favorite singular moments from them.


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Yeah, it’s a 10, no doubt. And it still feels edgy and visceral today.


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I think my favorite song on "War" is "Seconds."


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War is easily the best U2 album that I've heard.


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A few early observations about Pop:

-Another album with pretty disastrous sequencing. Gonna make my own version.
-That version will not include “Discotheque”. Yeesh. “Lovey dovey stuff?” Really?
-Every song feels about 40-60 seconds too long.
-The production on this and AB does not do these songs any favors. It’s so spacey and reverby that it makes the songs feel swampy and bogged down, which makes them sort of bleed together since most are mid-tempo. A little more energy and immediacy would have been nice.

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What's wrong with "lovey dovey stuff?" I like that line, I think it sneers at itself in the way that a lot of the lyrics from their '90's songs do.


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Part of it is the way it’s sung, with that embarrassing low part of the multi-tracked vocal, but it just makes me cringe.

“Mofo”, on the other hand, is fantastic. I love those lyrics.

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This’ll work:

1. Mofo
2. Gone
3. Do You Feel Loved
4. Last Night on Earth
5. Staring at the Sun
6. The Playboy Mansion
7. If God Will Send His Angels
8. Please
9. Pop Muzik
10. Wake Up Dead Man

I think this version has a nice thematic narrative to it as well.

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Mofo is fantastic yes, but damn Discotheque is fucking good. That riff, the music, Bono´s voice....damn i love it.

Pop is so fucking bold and good.

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 Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
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"Pop Muzik" is a cool track but it's a B-side, and isn't completely U2's song -- it's a remix of another artist's recording with some Bono vocals shoehorned in. They played it as entrance music during the PopMart tour.

Some cool B-sides from the "Pop" era are "Holy Joe" (two separate mixes, very different but both good), "Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad" (torch song in the crooner mold, not at all "Pop"-like but a successful homage to that style), and "North and South of the River" (see my post above).

I even enjoy the remixes from this album. Not usually my thing but I just love how far they were willing to go into la-la land during this period. The whole thing is a mess of varying success, but the overall picture is compelling to me in a slapdash, montage-of-weirdness sort of way.


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I’m aware of PM’s origins but it’s essential to my invented narrative so IT’S STAYING

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