Top 10 B-Sides

[The_Pac_Mule]

What are your top favorite ten B-Sides? (Not including remixes or live songs)

Mine are:

1. Party Girl
2. Holy Joe (Garage Mix)
3. Lady With The Spinning Head
4. Silver And Gold
5. Are You Gonna Wait Forever?
6. Salome
7. Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop?)
8. Everlasting Love
9. Summer Rain
10. A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel

 

[Axver]

1. Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop?)
2. Spanish Eyes
3. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
4. Bass Trap
5. The Three Sunrises
6. Alex Descends Into Hell For A Bottle Of Milk/Korova 1
7. North And South Of The River
8. Touch
9. Boomerang II
10. Summer Rain

 

[Zoo_Fly]

My favorite (not in any particular order) are:

1. Where Did it All Go Wrong?
2. Always
3. Lady With the Spinning Head
4. Are You Gonna Wait Forever
5. The Three Sunrises
6. Holy Joe (Garage Mix)
7. Summer Rain
8. Slow Dancing
9. Fortunate Son
10. Hallelujah, Here She Comes


A nice mix of 80's and 90's and 00's, I'm noticing.

 

[Axver]

9. Fortunate Son

Your U2 fan licence has been revoked. Everyone is meant to hate that cover.



Actually, personally, I think much of the trashing of Fortunate Son should be redirected at the studio version of Party Girl. Now if ever there were a bad example of Bono singing, that's it!

 

[coolian2]

Actually, personally, I think much of the trashing of Fortunate Son should be redirected at the studio version of Party Girl. Now if ever there were a bad example of Bono singing, that's it!

I know a girl, a girl called butty, butty girl

 

[Screwtape2]

1. Walk To The Water *The best b-side and song ever made
2. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
3. Deep In The Heart
4. Love Comes Tumbling
5. Race Against Time
6. The Three Sunrises
7. Spanish Eyes
8. Boomerang 2
9. Bass Trap
10. Boomerang 1

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

This is a good thread. I'll have to think about it a little and come back

 

[LemonMelon]

B-sides...

1. Lady With The Spinning Head
2. Hallelujah, Here She Comes
3. Flower Child
4. The Three Sunrises
5. Holy Joe (Garage Mix)
6. Salome
7. Love Comes Tumbling
8. Mercy
9. Slow Dancing
10. Street Mission

 

[gman]

1. Sweetest Thing
2. A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
3. Luminous Times
4. Touch
5. Walk To the water
6. Dancing Barefoot
7. Spanish Eyes
8. Hallelujah here she comes
9. Slow Dancing
10. Silver and Gold

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

1. Dancing Barefoot
2. North and South of the River
3. She's A Mystery to Me (I know it's live, but there isn't a studio version)
4. Lady With the Spinning Head
5. Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad
6. Love Comes Tumbling
7. Big Girls Are Best
8. Slow Dancing (the version from the Stay single)
9. Pop Muzik
10. Sweetest Thing

 

[gareth brown]

No order

- The Three Sunrises
- Love Comes Tumbling
- Salome
- Lady With the Spinning Head (Original/Extended Dance Mix, whichever.)
- Boomerang I
- Things To Make And Do
- Endless Deep
- Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete The Chop?)
- Spanish Eyes
- J. Swallow

I'm sure mine changes weekly and god dammit, seeing 'Touch' in Axver's list makes me want to add it. Great track but I think I'd just be copying someone else putting it in my list or I'd replace something I'd regret...

 

[U2girl]

No order:

North and south of the river
Sweetest Thing
Silver and gold
Summer rain
Lady with the spinning head
Salome
Spanish eyes
Walk to the water
Party girl
Bass trap

 

[LemonMelon]

Your U2 fan licence has been revoked. Everyone is meant to hate that cover.

I think U2's Neon Lights cover is just dandy. Do I get to keep my license?

 

[LMP]

North and South of the River
Sweetest Thing
The Three Sunrises
Love Comes Tumbling
Lady with the Spinning Head (UV1)
Silver and Gold
Street Mission
Mercy
Xanax and Wine
Salome

 

[gherman]

1.)Lady With the Spinning Head
2.)Walk to the Water
3.)Deep in the Heart
4.)salome
5.)Big Girls are Best
6.)Love Comes Tumbling
7.)Dancing Bearfoot
8.)Silver and Gold
9.)Treasure
10.)Holy Joe

 

[Axver]

I think U2's Neon Lights cover is just dandy. Do I get to keep my license?

You never got a licence in the first place, Mr UF Heretic.

 

[U2isthebest]

1. Always
2. Summer Rain
3. Walk To The Water
4. Slow Dancing
5. Are You Gonna Wait Forever
6. Levitate
7. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
8. Flower Child
9. Spanish Eyes
10. Dancing Barefoot



Wait....are we allowed to count "Mercy"? If so, it's my number 1. Mentally erase "Dancing Barefoot".

 

[Aygo]

Salome
Holy Joe (Garage version)
Spanish eyes
The three sunrises
Hallelujah here she comes
A room at the heartbreak hotel
Always
Summer rain
Are you gonna wait forever?
Alex descends into hell for a bottle of milk / Korova 1
Lady with the spinning head
Boomerang II

[I don't know why people are including "Levitate", "Xanax & Wine", "Mercy". Those are outtakes, not b-sides. If so, they would've been comercially released... on singles.]

 

[Clawgrabber]

[I don't know why people are including "Levitate", "Xanax & Wine", "Mercy". Those are outtakes, not b-sides. If so, they would've been comercially released... on singles.]

sigh. here we go again.

People are including them because they aren't nitpicking High Fidelity-ers. In conversational discussion a B Side isn't as rigid a term as everyone makes it out to be.

And because they are great songs and technically, if you don't include Live tracks or remixes, U2 has only released 5 B Sides this decade.

A fan's gotta do what a fan's gotta do. I count Mercy, Levitate and Smile as B Sides the band just wasn't smart enough to include on a single.

Not that singles really ever come out anymore.

My favorite b-sides are

Red Light *
Two Hearts Beat As One **
4th Of July #
MLK ##
Running To Stand Still %
Bullet The Blue Sky %
Love Is Blindness +
Your Blue Room ++

*(from Japan 7' of Sunday Bloody Sunday)
**(Fron German "40" single)
# (From Pride Single)
## (From The Unforgettable Fire Australia 7")
% (From In God's Country US Single / One Tree Hill New Zealand Single)
+ (From Numb Video Single)
++ (From Staring At The Sun Single)

 

[Axver]

My favorite b-sides are

Red Light *
Two Hearts Beat As One **
4th Of July #
MLK ##
Running To Stand Still %
Bullet The Blue Sky %
Love Is Blindness +
Your Blue Room ++

*(from Japan 7' of Sunday Bloody Sunday)
**(Fron German "40" single)
# (From Pride Single)
## (From The Unforgettable Fire Australia 7")
% (From In God's Country US Single / One Tree Hill New Zealand Single)
+ (From Numb Video Single)
++ (From Staring At The Sun Single)

Hahaha, win.

 

[Joey788]

Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad
Holy Joe
Lady with the Spinning Head
Spanish Eyes
Salome
Summer Rain
Levitate
Alex Decends Into Hell for a Bottle of Milk
Hallelujah Here She Comes
Sweetest Thing

 

[cobl04]

Actually, personally, I think much of the trashing of Fortunate Son should be redirected at the studio version of Party Girl. Now if ever there were a bad example of Bono singing, that's it!

The studio version of that song is gawd-awful. I like to treat it as our Revolution 9

Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop?) is my favourite.

 

[An Cat Gav]

In no particular order



Treasure

Lady With The SPinning Head

Salome

Spanish Eyes

The Sweetest Thing

Satellite Of Love/ Unchained Melody

A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel

Boomerand 2

The Three Sunrises

Holy Joe

 

[Snowlock]

1. Lady Spins (Extended Dance)
2. Always
3. Halellujah
4. Are You Gonna Wait Forever
5. Treasure
6. Salome'
7. North & South Of The River
8. Three Sunrises
9. Love Comes Tumbling
10. Slow Dancing (Numb)

Best Live B-Sides

1. Bad/40/Streets - Electrical Storm B Side
2. Kite - Windows B Side
3. Please - Please Popheart (tenuous I know)
4. SATS - Ditto
5. Bullet - Stay B Side
6. Love Is Blindness - Stay B Side
7. One - Miss Sarajevo B Side
8. Out Of Control - I Will Follow B Side
9. Stay - Walk On B Side
10. Last Night On Earth - Beautiful Day B Side

 

[LPU2]

1. Walk To The Water *The best b-side and song ever made

Thank you! I read through the first few of these and thought "who are these people!!??" Walk to the Water is not just my favorite B-side, it might be my favorite U2 song ever. Certainly in the top 3. The lonely people on the streets, the bubbly instrumentation, the aching desparation in Bono's voice. It's absolutely gorgeous.

 

[LemonMelon]

You never got a licence in the first place, Mr UF Heretic.

Seven actual songs and three fillers does not a classic U2 album make.

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

Seven actual songs and three fillers does not a classic U2 album make.

You'd better not think Elvis Presley & America is filler

 

[LemonMelon]

You'd better not think Elvis Presley & America is filler

It's another, far greater song played backward with an obviously sloshed Bono attempting to be coherent. I call 'em as I see 'em.

 

[bono_212]

LemonMelon! I had no idea you felt this way about U2's greatest album...I think a little piece of me just died *singletear*


my top b-sides (I think, and in no particular order)

Walk To The Water
Lady With The Spinning Head
Slow Dancing
Treasure
Bass Trap
Levitate
Are You Gonna Wait Forever
Love Comes Tumbling
Alex...
Luminous Times

Whoops! Forgot about Can't Help Falling in Love *erases Alex*

 

[eddieg710]

1. Walk To The Water *The best b-side and song ever made
2. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
3. Deep In The Heart
4. Love Comes Tumbling
5. Race Against Time
6. The Three Sunrises
7. Spanish Eyes
8. Boomerang 2
9. Bass Trap
10. Boomerang 1

bingo! with a slight tweek

1. Walk To The Water *The best b-side and song ever made
2. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
3. Deep In The Heart
4. Two Shots of Happy
5. Race Against Time
6. Two Shots of Happy (Yes twice - It deserves it!)
7. Spanish Eyes
8. Boomerang 2
9. Touch
10. Alex descends to hell for a bottle of milk