I am still a little upset they did not include a DVD cd into this deluxe edition
On their HTDAAB cd they released it with a cool DVD cd, but then they stopped
doing it. Why?
It was very exciting to see that special DVD. Nothing special really, as far as
videos go, but it was a cool little extra bonus for the fans.
But I guess I can live without it, at least its a double cd package.
I think they'll do that sort of thing with SoE. Package SoI and SoE together and add in a bunch of extras (as well as offer SoE as a standard single album).
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Wish there was a way to get deluxe version off of iTunes
I saw in a Billboard article that it might not be on iTunes until November, which is strange.
Not really. This was reported back in September. Apple got the 5 week exclusive, now it's other retailers turn. This is no doubt something designed to lessen the sting for brick and mortar retailers and other digital content providers like Amazon who lost a lot of sales over the Apple giveaway.
The difference is Mercy was better than anything on HTDAAB, this would the 10th or 11th best song on SOI.
Well both those statements are absolute horseshit, but whatever.
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Well both those statements are absolute horseshit, but whatever.
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The most hyped not-quite-ready-for-the-album song in a U2 fan community since Mercy.
The difference is Mercy was better than anything on HTDAAB, this would the 10th or 11th best song on SOI.
Don't try and outthink the room, there's a very simple very obvious reason this is a B-Side and not on the album.
This is absolutely not a b side. That's like calling The Ground Beneath Her Feet a b side. It's not; it should've been on the album, not just as a bonus track.
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Wrong.
But as you said,
Whatever.
It's all opinions. And mine is the only one that matters.
This is absolutely not a b side. That's like calling The Ground Beneath Her Feet a b side. It's not; it should've been on the album, not just as a bonus track.
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The most hyped not-quite-ready-for-the-album song in a U2 fan community since Mercy.
The difference is Mercy was better than anything on HTDAAB, this would the 10th or 11th best song on SOI.
Don't try and outthink the room, there's a very simple very obvious reason this is a B-Side and not on the album.
I mean, Lucifer's Hands isn't garnering this much attention. Crystal Ballroom is a legitimately appealing track. It's appeal is clearly vast. I don't like ISHFWILF that much, but there is no denying it is a great song in the sense that it's popular. So far, amongst the ppl that have heard it, Crystal Ballroom seems to be favored over much of the album cuts.
It's really not that complicated. Adding additional content in a bid to flog different (and more expensive) formats/versions has obviously been going on forever. Usually just a track or two, or some loaded video content or something. Or the packaging itself was cool. Or whatever.
When you give your entire album away for free, the additional content over on the paid-for format had better be pretty extensive to make said format attractive to anyone. And the retailers pushed on this hard. So they whacked a couple of b-sides (generic term for 'stuff that didn't make the album cut') on there, a couple of alternate/working versions, and then what I think is a pretty weak/throwaway last minute thing to do to appease the retailers demanding more, more, more (the acoustic versions).
I don't know why that's so difficult to understand. The album starts with Miracle and ends with The Troubles. The 2nd disc is just a collection of shit cobbled together to get you to give them some money. They may well push and promote that side of it to make that point. Playing acoustic versions of the songs on tv shows. Giving Crystal Ballroom a bit of a push. They could even at some point make it a single (although, IMO, it's an extreeemely weak one). They can do whatever they want, but the overall idea is pretty simple ($$$$$).
This is absolutely not a b side. That's like calling The Ground Beneath Her Feet a b side. It's not; it should've been on the album, not just as a bonus track.
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I simply disagree. I would not classify the 11 tracks of Soi disc 2 as 11 B-sides.