Earnie Shavers
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Magnificent really is a bit 'emperors new clothes'. There is, in every way, pretty much nothing there - but it is very, very well polished.
On the Mercy argument - you both mean 'work in progress' vs 'finished'. The version we have might not be where they finished with it (e.g. the CD Bono handed over might have been one he was using to review tracklisting or something, capturing the songs at a certain stage while they were still being tidied up) but then it might be. It could well be the last work-in-progress version before the decision to dump it, but it is not (even given room for it being simply a very poor quality copy) what it would have sounded like had it been given the thumbs up for Atomic Bomb. There's still clearly work to go there. It's not what most people would describe as a 'demo', which is to most people a rough/raw idea put to tape, but it is clearly still at a (late) work-in-progress stage. The version we have anyway.
On the Mercy argument - you both mean 'work in progress' vs 'finished'. The version we have might not be where they finished with it (e.g. the CD Bono handed over might have been one he was using to review tracklisting or something, capturing the songs at a certain stage while they were still being tidied up) but then it might be. It could well be the last work-in-progress version before the decision to dump it, but it is not (even given room for it being simply a very poor quality copy) what it would have sounded like had it been given the thumbs up for Atomic Bomb. There's still clearly work to go there. It's not what most people would describe as a 'demo', which is to most people a rough/raw idea put to tape, but it is clearly still at a (late) work-in-progress stage. The version we have anyway.