Originally posted by MissVelvetDress_75:
yeah, I love the elevation remix. I got so excited to hear it while I was driving home last night. I got little goose bumps and started dancing in my seat. Besides hearing it at the concert, I have never heard this version of the song before. I have heard all of the others and love them all. I am very pleased with my purchase. And yes, the guys do look hot on the cover.
BTW, here is the information about "Always" and "Big Girls Are Best". It is from Niall Stokes "U2 - Into The Heart: The Stories behind every song"
Big Girls Are Best:
From the Pop sessions, 'Big Girls Are Best' didn't surface until the release of the 'Stuck In A Moment' single. It has the sound of a track-in-the-making- something that hasn't been afforded the time or attention necessary to get it finished to album standard.
It's understandable. The idea had been explored elsewhere on Pop, on 'Miami' and on 'Mofo', Bono's most open appeal to the spirit of his departed mother. He's at a related game here, referring lovingly to the motherlode, and collapsing into incoherent homage to mama,mama,mama ('She's got a baby at her breast').
The melody owes more than a bit to John Lennon, and the sentiment too. While the title hardly sounds politically correct and the familiar U2 image of the man on his knees is accompanied in this instance by the equally inviting prospect of the woman on her back, it's actually a reassuringly wholesome little number.
"I wouldn't be too much into the lyric but it's a great rock'n'roll vibe," Edge says. "I think when Bono talks about big girls-not big-breasted, or anything like that. He's talking about women who aren't stick insects. We managed to find 15 minutes in Los Angeles to finish it - and it came together. It's pretty tongue-in-cheek and throwaway."
Always
'Always' is the original band jam that gave birth to 'Beautiful Day'. Daniel Lanois feels that it's inspirational. Edge is a little less convinced. "It was a tune that we thought had a pretty good title from day one," he says. "We thought it had potential. But it really wasn't that unique or special and so when we finished 'Beautiful Day', we went back and said 'that's a B-side.' It doesn't really stand up." But as a prism through which to view the metamorphoses are involved in going from the idea for a U2 song to the finished article, it's well worth hearing.
