Best songs NEVER on a U2 album!!!

[TheBrazilianFly]

11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Levitate
Stateless
Where Did It All Go Wrong
Xanax And Wine
Mercy
Womanfish

 

[ultraviolet7]

Miss Sarajevo (if we don't consider Passengers a U2 album)
Lady With The Spinning Head
Salome
Silver & Gold
Summer Rain
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (it did make the UK version but not the US or rest of the world ATYCLB)

 

[ryanu23]

I'm going to give another BIG vote for 'I'm Not Your Baby' the version with vocals and 'Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)' -- great tunes. 'I'm Not Your Baby' is nasty (in a good way).

 

[Niceman]

Wild Irish Rose
I love You
Billy Boola

 

[peach]

Lady With The Spinning Head
The Ground Beneath Her Feet

 

[Undostres....]

Hello
Xanax & wine
Mercy
holdmethrillmekissmekillme
the fool
lost on adistance planet
party girl

 

[Mr Gloria]

What about WILD IRISH ROSE!!

no one ever mentions that tracK!

 

[CDragon]

Native Son

and Flower Child

 

[Party Boy]

I'm going to give another BIG vote for 'I'm Not Your Baby' the version with vocals and 'Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)' -- great tunes. 'I'm Not Your Baby' is nasty (in a good way).

There is a version of I'm Not Your Baby with lyrics??? Have never heard this! I love the instrumental!

 

[ryanu23]

There is a version of I'm Not Your Baby with lyrics??? Have never heard this! I love the instrumental!

Party Boy,
Send me your email address. I'll hook you up.
Ryan

ryanp@u.washington.edu

 

[Party Boy]

Party Boy,
Send me your email address. I'll hook you up.
Ryan

ryanp@u.washington.edu

Hi Ryan, many thanks! Email address is andrew.hudson@towersperrin.com

Thank you vvv much!!

 

[God Part III]

MERCY
That's the best B-side/outtake ever.
I'm fond of Are You Gonna Wait Forever? too.

Lady With The Spinning Head?

 

[chucky28]

And Back Mask? Unfinished but beautiful melody...

 

[Judah]

Lost Highway

and, i would've liked if they'd done their own version of In a Lifetime and put it on a b-side at least! Bono's vocals on that song are chilling and soaring.

 

[lazarus]

I'm sad that no one is mentioning North and South of the River. While the stripped down live version with the brass backing tape was more moving, that b-side is beautiful none the less.

The only reason it didn't make it on POP was probably because they already had one song on there about the conflict (Please). Other than that, this one should have been a classic. The "doo doo doo" section puts the one on Original of the Species to shame, especially as Bono and Edge are harmonizing on it.


laz

 

[LMP]

The reason they didn't put it on the album i think was because Christy Moore used it on *his or her, don't kno what gender* album 1st, so they had their "no cover rule" and didn't use it, only as the 3rd best b-side ever

after Lady with the Spinning Head and Silver and Gold

 

[BigMacPhisto]

I count the b-sides releases as albums, so....

1. Another Day
2. A Celebration
3. Always

not sure where I rank the other thirty or so tracks that haven't been released on a U2 album.......and then there's the stuff from Unreleased and Rare which I'll need a few more listens of (but I adore "Love You Like Mad" and "Levitate)

 

[Mr Gloria]

ill say it again...you guys really need to listen to Wild Irish Rose...its the type of song they will release as their last sing...a tribute track!
!

 

[MrU2Macphisto]

Spanish Eyes
Your Blue Room
Big Girls are Best

 

[the tourist]

Your Blue Room was never on a U2 album.

 

[Yahweh]

Well let me try to break it down to 10 songs, no cover songs allowed....

Slug
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Ground Beneath Her Feet
11 O'clock Tick Tock
Two Shots Of Happy One Shot Of Sad
Lady With The Spinning Head
Spanish Eyes
Holy Joe (Garage Mix)
Walk To The Water
Three Sunrises

Many more im sure I am forgetting about...but thinking about them U2 is such a masterful band to have songs as good as this not appearing on albums.

 

[the tourist]

I say switch Love Comes Tumbling in and Three Sunrises out.

 

[RickFly]

11 oclock
street mission
miss sarajevo

 

[GibsonGirl]

Xanax and Wine

Love that song.

 

[gareth brown]

As for the unreleased material (example Xanax and Wine) or the stolen material (example Heaven and Hell) - they were not even worthy to make it as a b-side in U2 standards so with more reasons they don't belong to any best non-album song list.

Cheers,

J

Totally agree...while Heaven and Hell has a good tune...it's pretty poor...and may I just ask what the hell's with putting 'Xanax and Wine' on that list...?! I personally think it's terrible...

Tripe, even...!

 

[coach]

Stay, Craig armstrong version
Slow Dancing (without willie nelson)

 

[joerags]

Luminous Times (Hold On to Love)

Lady with the Spinning Head

Salome

 

[LeafsNation]

Spanish Eyes, A Celebration and Got to Get Together...

 

[Sicy]

Lady with the Spinning Head

 

[joerags]

Why wasn't Holy Joe on the Best Of......????