How to Dismantle MY Atomic Bomb

[U2girl]

Originally Posted by jphelmet

don't you know this is the new thing in this forum. you take b-sides that are unfinished, intrumental, rough sketches, or otherwise totally suck etc- and then proclaim them better than the finished songs that were (in some cases) big hits and say how much better the album would have been.

this seems to happen with every album. like i read where someone was saying drunk chicken (utter crap, not even worth the tape it was recorded on) and rise up should have been on the joshua tree.

I think it's because U2 chose to release those leftovers from Bomb and ATYCLB (and bizzare stuff like adding a song only on certain editions of albums no matter how little the song fits). If no one knew they existed no one would believe they're "better".

[namkcuR]

Originally Posted by U2girl

I think it's because U2 chose to release those leftovers from Bomb and ATYCLB (and bizzare stuff like adding a song only on certain editions of albums no matter how little the song fits). If no one knew they existed no one would believe they're "better".

Wait, so you're saying that if no one ever heard a particular song or songs, that no one could have an opinion on said song or songs? You can't have an opinion on a song you haven't heard?

Revelatory.

[Salome]

I would prefer just about any song without any meaning over Native Son
Native Son sounds so contrived that it's not hard to see why they decided to ditch those lyrics completely

I like Bomb but for me it is definitely not among their strongest offerings
but it wouldn't have been better by adding ideas that don't materialize to songs like Native Son and Mercy

[Anji]

I too prefered Native Son to Vertigo!. Vertigo is over hyped IMHO and the final nail went in the coffin when they played it twice on stage in 2006. What a waste of hearing another decent song!

I play Vertigo very infrequently, just to remind me why I dislike it, I wont go into a long winded post as to why I don't like it, suffice to say it just doesn't float my boat. Whereas Native Son I played today at work along with my other fave that got abandoned - Mercy

Perhaps Mercy evokes such fondness in so many people, it's the forbidden fruit You always want what you can't have

The world would be dull if we all liked the same thing

[gareth brown]

Originally Posted by BonoVoxSupastar

Actually it wouldn't have been that bad if it weren't for Bono's pose... That kind of shot works for a magazine though. It would have been 10 times better than what we got, hell I have blurry cell phone shots that would have made better album covers.

haha it's just the whole picture itself, magazine fine but for an album, if Bono was standing up casually with his hands in his pockets it'd still look awful i mean it's just the whole swimming pool, car, mix...i really wish they'd stop appearing in covers and just do something completely different, get Stanley Donwood in or something