the tourist
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Axver said:
WUDM is the best produced song in U2's history. All the layers and detail are astonishing. They clearly spent ages on that and to pretend it's rushed is intentionally misleading.
I remember a poll a long time ago. It might've been on interference or atu2, I don't remember. But it was in '99. It asked, and I remember this word for word, "Which song would you like to best represent the direction of the next U2 album?" The options being: North and South of the River, Wake Up Dead Man, The Sweetest Thing, and Holy Joe (I believe it was Holy Joe). Most people said The Sweetest Thing. I said Wake Up Dead Man. The people who said The Sweetest Thing seem to have gotten what they wished for.
Not long after that poll, a rough, early version of The Ground Beneath Her Feet surfaced. And I remember being elated because the roughness of it really reminded me of Wake Up Dead Man. When I heard the finished product of The Ground Beneath Her Feet, I was disappointed. I thought U2 was going to continue in the vein of Wake Up Dead Man. It kinda pissed me off. They really should have gone that direction.