Whoa whoa whoa, why is everyone suddenly hatin' on Miracle Drug? The chorus is great, the freedom line is great (ANY parent will tell you that newborn babies smell heavenly...kinda like freedom
) though I agree I wouldn't market it as a single...
I heard ABOY on our local alternative radio station last night, which got me SO excited. This "alternative" radio station plays great "alternative" bands like Hoobastank and Nickelback, and really "hard-rockin'" stuff like REM and Dave Matthews Band... but never have I heard them play U2. Ever. I thought, "surely Vertigo is good and rockin' enough to get played on X103" but was it? NO! Pissed me off... so to hear them finally succomb to the wonder of All Because of You put me in heaven. ABOY might do even better than Vertigo in the States, even without an iPod ad... U2 is now literally on every radio station (well, besides the hip hop and R&B...but maybe Fast Cars could pass as hip hop?
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The single order in the US outta be:
1. Vertigo (catchy, punky, now ubiquitous)
2. All Because of You (continue with the rockers to put more people on the U2 bandwagon)
3. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (emotional ballads do well on radio too...think Maroon 5 or Hoobastank, they released more 'rockin' songs [by their shit standards anyway] first then their [crappy] ballads which did even better than their rock singles)
4. Original of the Species (catchy as hell) OR City of Blinding Lights (a shorter single version, also catchy)
5. A Man and a Woman (adult contemporary will love it and y'never know, some of the pop stations might take to it too)
Yahweh really isn't single material simply because of the blatantly religious title (they could release it onto Christian stations though, U2 is what Christian rock SHOULD be, not the watered-down boring crap most is). One Step Closer is much too slow. MD, LAPOE, and CFYT are all potential singles imo, but probably wouldn't do as well.