Rate the Song Series: When Loves Comes to Town

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8. Not one of my top three on RAH or anything, but a very solid song, I enjoy it.
 
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This is one of my least favourite U2 songs. Probably the only '80s U2 song that I actively dislike. A poor blues pastiche. The live versions from Lovetown are just about listenable.
 
9 for me, Bono's voice sounds incredible, so strong like it had no top! a far cry from today, I hate to say it, but c'mon its true :( , Plus BB King on guitar!!! oh man has anyone made a guitar sound as sweet as him!?!!?! Great rockin blues tune, all the musicians are incredible on this one, especially Larry and Adam!!! how anyone can say its a bad tune is beyond me!!!!!
 
If you want B.B. King, you can buy any one of his ten million records -- or see him live, as he plays more shows at age 85 than most 25 year olds.

This track is solid, but something about it doesn't sound of a piece with the rest of the album. It's almost too attention-seeking and bombastic (and this at the most attention-seeking/bombastic period in the band's history). Anyway, it's my least favorite of all the R&H studio cuts.
 
7. i think i'm being generous. Like finance guy said, this is probably my least favourite U2 song of the 80's. I hated it at the time, don't mind it now. Shows how strong their 80s output was that there worst song still gets a 7.
 
Gave it a 6. Not Rattle & Hum's best moment, but not a bad tune. Love Bono's vocals on this one, and who could forget BB?

It actually loses some steam because of The Edge. The Edge, let's face it, is not a bluesman. And his solo here is really out of place. They should have just let BB take all 3 solos.

By the way, I saw BB King live at Pier 6 in Baltimore two years ago and he played this tune with his band. A different arrangement, but it's nice to see that B.B. still appreciates the song from the Irish lads.
 
I mean sure R&H is all over the place, but its an exploration of American music, which is going to be eclectic by nature, a little diversion into the blues with a certified legend is not something that should get people so hot under the collar (man no one uses that idiom anymore, huh?).
 
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