How to Construct the Perfect Bomb

[powerhour24]

We all know that just like with ATYCLB (when stuff like Levitate was ignored) there was some great, superior stuff left off of bomb, so taking all the material we know of now, what would you include?

Choose 11-12 tracks and your perfect order

Vertigo
Native Son
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
SYCMIOYO (alternate)
Love & Peace, or Else
City of Blinding Lights
All Because of You
A Man and a Woman
One Step Closer
Crumbs From Your Table
Original of the Species
OOTS (single)
Yaweh
Fast Cars
Xanax and Wine
Smile
Mercy
Neon Lights
Are You Gonna Wait Forever

If there's others that you think should be up here let me know, I've been working on what I think would be the right tracks, but I can't seem to get a good order down.

 

[bono_man2002]

Vertigo
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Love & Peace, or Else
City of Blinding Lights
All Because of You
A Man and a Woman
One Step Closer
Crumbs From Your Table
Original of the Species
Yahweh
Fast Cars

It looks familiar doesn't it

 

[powerhour24]

Nah, that's one innovative tracklisting you've got there.

 

[Axver]

1. Love And Peace Or Else
2. All Because Of You (Alternate Version)
3. Native Son
4. Fast Cars
5. A Man And A Woman
6. Crumbs From Your Table
7. One Step Closer
8. Original Of The Species (Single Version)
9. City Of Blinding Lights
10. Smile
11. Miracle Drug
12. Yahweh

 

[mandrake]

City of Blinding Lights
Mercy
Vertigo
Xanax and Wine
Are You Gonna Wait Forever?
Sometimes You Can't Make it on your own
Love and Peace
Crumbs from your table
All Because of You
Miracle Drug
A Man and a Woman
Yaweh


I thought it would be interesting too have some tracks segue into each other like COBL into Mercy (with Mercy being cleaned up and rearranged a bit).

 

[powerhour24]

I defintely have COBL followed by Mercy in mine.

 

[powerhour24]

Native Son
Fast Cars
Love and Peace, Or Else
City of Blinding Lights
Mercy
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Original of the Species
Crumbs From Your Table
One Step Closer
Smile
Yahweh

Something to that effect.

 

[Aygo]

HTDAAB is my fav album, but I'd reconstruct it anyway...

How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
01. Love and peace or else (4:48)
02. Vertigo (3:13) *
03. Miracle drug (3:54)
04. Sometimes you can't make it on your own (5:05)
05. Fast cars (3:44)
06. City of blinding lights (5:46)
07. All because of you (3:34)
08. Mercy (6:42) **
09. One step closer (3:50)
10. Electrical storm (4:37) ***
11. Original of the species (4:34)
12. Yahweh (4:22)
[bonus track] 13. Crumbs from your table (4:59)

*Vertigo lyrics with the instrumental of Native Son
**comparing with the version we all know, Mercy has a longer intro (more 3 seconds) and an extended outro that goes into OSC (more 7 seconds)
***I always thought that the Best Of's should've been released in the end of the respective decades. So, I "released" Electrical Storm as a non-album single in 2002 and later added in HTDAAB. It is the William Orbit mix

Singles

Electrical Storm (originally released in the EP of the same name)
October 7th 2002
1. Electrical storm (band version) / 2. The hands that built America (OST version)
1. Electrical storm (band version) / 2. New York (Nice mix) / 3. New York (Nasty mix)

Vertigo
November 8th 2004
1. Vertigo / 2. Are you gonna wait forever
1. Vertigo / 2. Neon lights / 3. Native son / 4. Vertigo (Trent Reznor mix)
1. Vertigo / 2. I will follow (live from Brooklyn Bridge) / 3. Desire (live from Brooklyn Bridge)

All Because Of You
December 13th 2004
1. All because of you (single mix) / 2. Crumbs from your table
1. All because of you (single mix) / 2. Vertigo (Redanka Power mix) / 3. Fast cars (Jacknife Lee mix)
1. All because of you (single mix) / 2. Beat on the brat / 3. All because of you (alternate)

Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
February 28th 2005
1. Sometimes you can't make it on your own / 2. A man and a woman
1. Sometimes you can't make it on your own / 2. Yahweh (alternate) / 3. Sometimes you can't make it on your own (alternate)

City Of Blinding Lights
June 6th 2005
1. City of blinding lights (radio edit) / 2. Smile
1. City of blinding lights (Phones in PDA in NYC mix) / 2. Vertigo (Jacknife Lee 10") / 3. All because of you (Killahurtz Fly mix)

Original Of The Species
October 11th 2005
1. Original of the species (single version) / 2. Love and peace or else (live from REact!)
1. Original of the species (single version) / 2. Miss Sarajevo (live from Milano)
1. Original of the species (single version) / 2. The wanderer (live from Johnny Cash tribute)

Fast cars
January 23th 2006
1. Fast cars / 2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Live8 w/ Paul McCartney)
1. Fast cars / 2. One (w/ Mary J Blige)

 

[Screwtape2]

1. Native Son
2. Smile
3. Are You Gonna Wait Forever
4. Fast Cars
5. Love & Peace or Else
6. Levitate
7. Xanax And White
8. Yahweh
9. Miracle Drug
10. OOTS (single)
11. One Step Closer
12. Mercy

 

[Justin24]

1.Native Son
2.Mercy
3.City of Blinding Lights
4.Miracle Drug
5.Crumbs on your Table
6.Man and a Woman
7.Love Peace or Else
8.Fast Cars
9.Some Times You Can't Make It On Your Own
10. Smile
11.One Step Close
12. Original of the Species
13. Yahwe
14.All Because Of You
15.Levitate.

 

[topplehatU2]

1. Mercy
2. Miracle Drug
3. City of Blinding Lights
4. Vertigo
5. One Step Closer
6. Love and Peace or Else
7. Crumbs from Your Table
8. All Because of You
9. A Man and a Woman
10. Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own
11. Original of the Species (Killahurtz Casa De Angeles Mix)
12. Fast Cars

Note the lack of Yahweh and the use of the well-done Killahurtz mix of OOTs. I also really like Fast Cars as a closer too, no idea why.

 

[powerhour24]

1. Native Son
2. Smile
3. Are You Gonna Wait Forever
4. Fast Cars
5. Love & Peace or Else
6. Levitate
7. Xanax And White
8. Yahweh
9. Miracle Drug
10. OOTS (single)
11. One Step Closer
12. Mercy

Wait, Xanax & Wine and Fast Cars on the same album?

 

[Screwtape2]

Wait, Xanax & Wine and Fast Cars on the same album?

Yeah. I wanted it to feel like two discs. The first (1-6) deals with anger and the second (7-12) deals with uncertainty. One of the many problems with Bomb is that it lacks concept. Native Son sets the tone of anger while Xanax & White is a more chaotic entry into the confusion of the second half of the album.

 

[Zoots]

City of Blinding Lights
All Because Of You (alternate)
Native Son
Sometimes
Original Of The Species (single)
Yahweh (alternate)
Love And Peace (with better lyrics)
Fast Cars
Crumbs (acoustic)
Are You Gonna Wait Forever
Mercy
One Step Closer