stargift
The Fly
The story goes is that Mercy got left off because U2 thought the cd would be too long. without Fast Cars it is under 50 minutes. I believe that is old school thinking. When I got my 12 song disc I burned it to cd (not mp3) and I still had about 27 minutes to fill up a cdr. I filled up every second of it. When I saw I still had 1:47 left I found some little snippet at got up to my 100%. I know the quality of my cdr isn't as good as my original cd, but I listen to the 80 minute cdr because that is what I have come to listen to with the advent of home burners. Do any of you do the same thing, or do you usually think--' 49 minutes is plenty I'll leave the rest of the cd blank?" I'll usually stick on some live versions of the same songs, or demos, etc. So, in my mind U2 could have easily stuck on Mercy, Fast Cars, alt. versions, etc.