Hoodlem
War Child
I'm sure this has been done before, but I don't remember it so here we go...
How would you "trim the fat" so to speak, off of Original Soundtracks 1 to make it into a release that might have been able to be called a "U2" album?
Create a version 10 tracks long using only songs from the Passengers album. (HMTMKMKM or other b-sides are not eligible!) Consider track order and give it an appropriate title. I'm curious to see what people come up with.
HERE'S MINE
U2 - Always Forever Now [1995]
1) Always Forever Now - Great opener. Title track. Starts quiet and builds and builds. Like an ambient/experimental "Streets".
2) Slug - Brilliant song. Leads perfectly into YBR as on OS1.
3) Your Blue Room - The best hidden gem in the U2 catalog? Yep. Top 3 song for me.
4) Corpse (These Chains Are Way Too Long) - I struggled with where to put this one. A dark little number, this may have been better toward the end. But I did something else at the end and this would not have fit.
5) Theme From Let's Go Native - Picks things up a bit after "Corpse"
6) One Minute Warning - How great is this song? It catches me by surprise quite often as I find myself mesmerized by it. Try out the transition from this into ADKOB. I'm telling you it works!
7) A Different Kind Of Blue - See I told you so! For tracks 7-10, I didn't want to mess with the the order that these songs originally appeared in. They all blend into each other like one continuous song.
8) Beach Sequence - Pure Beauty! So simple!
9) Miss Sarajevo - Gotta go out with a bang. This is the closer for all intents and purposes.
10) Theme From The Swan - I just recently discovered the brilliance of this song. The rain noise at the beginning and end connect it with the same noise at the beginning of MS. Have you ever noticed the dog barking in the distance? What a great mood to close the album. This could be a hidden track that kicks in after about 10-30 seconds.
So try it out and let me know what you think and let's hear your ideas!
How would you "trim the fat" so to speak, off of Original Soundtracks 1 to make it into a release that might have been able to be called a "U2" album?
Create a version 10 tracks long using only songs from the Passengers album. (HMTMKMKM or other b-sides are not eligible!) Consider track order and give it an appropriate title. I'm curious to see what people come up with.
HERE'S MINE
U2 - Always Forever Now [1995]
1) Always Forever Now - Great opener. Title track. Starts quiet and builds and builds. Like an ambient/experimental "Streets".
2) Slug - Brilliant song. Leads perfectly into YBR as on OS1.
3) Your Blue Room - The best hidden gem in the U2 catalog? Yep. Top 3 song for me.
4) Corpse (These Chains Are Way Too Long) - I struggled with where to put this one. A dark little number, this may have been better toward the end. But I did something else at the end and this would not have fit.
5) Theme From Let's Go Native - Picks things up a bit after "Corpse"
6) One Minute Warning - How great is this song? It catches me by surprise quite often as I find myself mesmerized by it. Try out the transition from this into ADKOB. I'm telling you it works!
7) A Different Kind Of Blue - See I told you so! For tracks 7-10, I didn't want to mess with the the order that these songs originally appeared in. They all blend into each other like one continuous song.
8) Beach Sequence - Pure Beauty! So simple!
9) Miss Sarajevo - Gotta go out with a bang. This is the closer for all intents and purposes.
10) Theme From The Swan - I just recently discovered the brilliance of this song. The rain noise at the beginning and end connect it with the same noise at the beginning of MS. Have you ever noticed the dog barking in the distance? What a great mood to close the album. This could be a hidden track that kicks in after about 10-30 seconds.
So try it out and let me know what you think and let's hear your ideas!
except maybe Corpse. I'm not sure whether it needs to stay or something else can replace it. 
