europop2005
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i've never really sat down and payed attention to this song, but it really is fantastic, such an underrated gem, its a good message, a good harmony, and it has a great solo to it. Thoughts?
No spoken words said:My favorite song on ATYCLB.
2861U2 said:
Ditto, and one of my favorite U2 songs. I love the whole story of the song- a conversation with Jesus done brilliantly.
No spoken words said:My favorite song on ATYCLB.
lazarus said:First: The Ground Beneath Her Feet is NOT "on" the album. It is a bonus track. It was PREVIOUSLY RELEASED on the Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack, and the lyrics aren't even written by anyone in the band. It may be better than anything on ATYCLB (on some days I agree with this) but that's a different argument.
Second: When I Look At the World was one of my favorites the first time I heard the album, and unfortunately it's buried in the middle of a mostly forgettable "side two". I always felt New York was a little too tongue-in-cheek to be the penultimate song on the album (esp. in comparison with former songs in that place like Acrobat, Please, Exit, Dirty Day), and that WILATW was more deserving of that spot due to being much more thematically strong. Wouldn't you know it, it HAD the #10 slot on the original tracklisting; yet another reason why they had the right idea before they rearranged everything.
Listen to the album that way and it's the showstopper it deserves to be. And I think it would have been awesome live if they would have performed a more electric guitar-based version.
Swan269 said:
what was the original tracklisting...I have forgotten