working titles of tunes

[BigCasino]

what have been some working titles of songs in the past? (I have no idea why I'm curious about this...I have a problem...) for instance, wasn't bulldozer eventually elevation...and did I hear once that down fall the days became acrobat?
just wondering...

 

[Swan269]

Bulldozer and Elevation were two different songs...Larry said so! and Down all the Days turned into Numb. Numb uses the back beat from that song. I have a list in Where the Album has No Name of all of the working titles. but here they are

from like 1990-now
Electrical Storm
Untidy Life
Nosejob
Origin of the Species
Yesterday and Tomorrow
Sun Moon Stars
Novelty Act
Sometime
Stir My Soul
Stranded
Bulldozer
Jesus Drove Me
Tough
She's gonna blow your house down
Piano: Poem
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
A Man's a Man
You can't give your heart away
I Love You
Jubilee
Landscape
Cry Baby
Indian Jam
Sponge
Lose Control
Levitation
The Hands that Built America (5/10)
All Because You (5/10)

there were a couple other ones from Ignoreland but I can't remember them.

 

[Bonochick]

I think the original title for "Stay" was "Sinatra"...I believe I remember reading that in Flanagan's book.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

She's gonna blow your house down

which became wake up dead man. i just thought i'd mention this since it's the only song title i recognized! (and i own the achtung baby boots too...for shame!)

 

[speedracer]

It's not a U2 song, but the Beatles' "Yesterday" originally started out as "Scrambled Eggs."

 

[ishkash]

Home

We all know that Home was tailored into Walk On, the outro guitar from Walk On was originally from Home.In an interview given to Channel V, in 2000 Bono said that he'd like to finish that tune.Larry noded.

 

[KingPin]

Wasn't there a song called "From the cradle to the cross"?

I'm positive that I read on a website back in 98-99 or so that they'd recorded a song with a title.

 

[Popmartijn]

Re: Home

We all know that Home was tailored into Walk On, the outro guitar from Walk On was originally from Home.In an interview given to Channel V, in 2000 Bono said that he'd like to finish that tune.Larry noded.

Are you sure about this? I once read an interview with Bono where he mentioned the song Home. He even quoted some lyrics of it, but it was nothing like anything you hear on Walk On

C ya!

Marty (who runs away to find that interview)

 

[NicaMom]

Could "Origin of the Species" be Wild Honey?

 

[Popmartijn]

Re: Re: Home

Are you sure about this? I once read an interview with Bono where he mentioned the song Home. He even quoted some lyrics of it, but it was nothing like anything you hear on Walk On

C ya!

Marty (who runs away to find that interview)

Aahh, got it! In Q 170 (November 2000) Bono talks about the song Home. "There's a song called Home that we left off the album," adds Bono, "It goes, Out of jokes, out of smokes, out of punches and on the ropes/On the canvas just inches from where you used to stand/out of fear, out of rage..."

So to me it doesn't sound like something that would fit in Walk On.

C ya!

Marty

 

[Swan269]

I don't think that She's gonna blow your house down turned into wake up dead man. Bono has been known to use choruses of other songs to try things out. Both songs don't sound anything alike at all. I also remember reading that Walk On was from two songs put together......one of them being Home and the other ?

 

[SkeeK]

I still maintain that Origin of the Species is actually called Original of the species, and I can still provide photographic proof, and still no one listens.

 

[ishkash]

Re: Re: Home

Are you sure about this? I once read an interview with Bono where he mentioned the song Home. He even quoted some lyrics of it, but it was nothing like anything you hear on Walk On

C ya!

Marty (who runs away to find that interview)

I am not sure about the lyrics, but I am pretty sure of Bono saying what I have written.It was a TV interview, so I dont think I can find the exact quote.But I am pretty positive that he said that they kind of "tailored" two songs to make Walk On.Home was one of the songs and The Edge's guitar was too good to be leaft out.

If in couple of years time I become a powerful person,I will certainly run to the Channel V offices and dig that one out.

 

[ishkash]

I also remember reading that Walk On was from two songs put together......one of them being Home and the other ?

Thanks Swan269

 

[bono_man]

I read in the U2 A Concert Documentry book that back in 1983 on the Pre-War tour during the bridge of one of their songs, Bono started singing "all I want is you" and getting the crowd to respond to the line after he sung it. Funny how he had that line but they didnt record the song until many, many years later.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

I don't think that She's gonna blow your house down turned into wake up dead man.

actually...they are the same. musically, they're almost identical. you do know i'm not talking about the pop version of wake up dead man, right?

 

[Swan269]

The reason that I don't think they are the same is that I have an acoustic version of She's gonna blow your house down recorded in 1988. The verses in both songs are from "She's" The only thing different (in both versions) is the chorus.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

The reason that I don't think they are the same is that I have an acoustic version of She's gonna blow your house down recorded in 1988. The verses in both songs are from "She's" The only thing different (in both versions) is the chorus.

hmmm...i'm just comparing the 1991-ish versions of both. i've never heard any earlier versions of this song.