song of the day 08/30: Lady With Spinning Head

[isabelle_guns]

song of the day 08/30: Lady With Spinning Head

1. listen to the song
2. read the lyrics
3. post your thoughts

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Here she comes
Lady luck again
Figure of eight
Six and nine again


I...I...
My lady with the spinning head


Whatever the deal
She won't let me down
Wherever I go
She's always hanging 'round


My lady with the spinning head
La la la la la la la la la la la
Lady with the spinning head
La la la la la la la la la la la
Lady with the spinning head


She's been gone
But I knew she'd be back
She's got the rent
She put me in the black


I...I...
The lady with the spinning head


Mean old men
Took away my car
Those credit guys
Have got the power


I'm on top
When she's around
She's my ticket
Out of town


La la la la la la la la la la la
Lady with the spinning head
La la la la la la la la la la la
Lady with the spinning head

 

[RademR]

to me, this is the perfect B-Side. It kind of had to be because the guitar riffs at the end are from songs that actually made it on AB (The Fly). It is just a real fun song with a lot of energy, the chorus is addictive as hell. Very good track, has the quality to have made the final cut, but is in a perfect place as a b-side.

 

[Numb1075]

Loooooove this song. I heard that it is about the Roulette Wheel at casinos.....anyone hear anything about that?

 

[Popmartijn]

No.
But it is one part of the evidence that Achtung Baby is about oral sex.

 

[Basstrap]

lyrically subpar
musically, beats The Fly

 

[mofo82]

first time i heard the extended dance mix- before it was released on best of 90-00- i was in heaven. it truly is one of the best sounding u2 songs. it has so many peaks and valleys. just when i was ready for a closing- boom- here comes edge just wailing. i believe the song is really in its own category. cant really say theres many other songs as fun as that one, considering u2 doesnt go the fun route.

 

[sue4u2]

It was actually on the juke box at a club I was in during Mardi Gras and I kept playing it. It seemed to make everyone come alive. The group I was with kept asking me what the name of the song I was playing over and over, and I told them U2's LWTSH and they couldn't believe it was U2. Oh well, some of them are wankers.
It was the extended dance mix version and I don't have it. Wish I knew where to get it.

 

[silenus]

Really nice one...
Escpecially if you hear "Take You Down" from Salome (disc3 track6)
and how "The Fly" and "LWTSH" are born out of this already good song...
3 versions of 1 idea...love all 3 off them
and all 3 are different

 

[kennerado]

Personally I think Take You Down is way better.

 

[mofo82]

its on the best of 90-00 b-sides 1st track

 

[Keocmb]

I've only heard the Extended Dance Mix but I LOVE it. It floors me.

 

[mofo82]

the original was a b-side on the 'one' single...thats all i listened to for the longest time, but ever since i heard the extended dance mix, i never go back to the original. everything from the original version is in the mix so you dont lose anything.

 

[The Sage]

The extended dance mix must be my favourite 90s u2 b-side...I can't actually listen to it anymore though, cause it always gets stuck in my head for the rest of the week every time

 

[dandy]

Personally I think Take You Down is way better.

i agree. but i do enjoy lady with the spinning head, too. both of these songs have so much energy.

 

[Layton]

Edge's AB era brilliance shines bright on this one. It's amazing how they took musical fragments from about a handful of different songs and turned this composite into a great piece of music of its own. I think that really speaks to the brilliant creative territory they (particularly Edge) were foraging around in at the time. My favorite B-side of theirs.

 

[ThatGuy]

That's backwards, Layton. They took pieces of Take You Down (an early version of Lady With the Spinning Head) and spun those off into different songs.

 

[Layton]

That's backwards, Layton. They took pieces of Take You Down (an early version of Lady With the Spinning Head) and spun those off into different songs.

You're probably right. I've never heard Take You Down. I don't really know what fragment of music originated where, but whenever I hear LWTSH I hear pieces of The Fly, Ultraviolet, UTEOTW and Night and Day in there to name what I can think of right now. An amazing composite piece.

 

[silenus]

... I've never heard Take You Down...

You can find it at http://eyeofthefly.net/
go to forum (need to subscribe)
It's disc3 track6...

And it's the source of "The Fly" and "LWTSH"

Greetz and enjoy

 

[theSoulfulMofo]

I always thought The Lady with the Spinning Head gave birth to three Achtung Babies: The Fly, EBTTRT, and Ultraviolet... or at least, maybe it was Wake Up Dead Man from the outtake.

But that's my theory on the conception of Achtung Babies.

 

[trevgreg]

Wake Up Dead Man was a phrase Bono was fooling around with during the Achtun g Baby sessions. He even used it in a version of She's Gonna Blow Your House Down.

This is probably my favorite b-side too. Catchy as heck and people are right when they say is just sticks in your head.

Just discovered Take You Down too. I'm even digging the demo version, haha.

 

[intedomine]

killer of a song. Really wanna here the version, if it exits, which is just the basic studio one, not a remix.