Replace a Song on Achtung Baby!!!

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Which AB track would you vote "off the Island"?

  • Zoo Station

    Votes: 5 10.4%
  • Even Better Than The Real Thing

    Votes: 6 12.5%
  • One

    Votes: 2 4.2%
  • Until the End of the World

    Votes: 2 4.2%
  • Who's Gonna Ride...

    Votes: 6 12.5%
  • So Cruel

    Votes: 5 10.4%
  • The Fly

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mysterious Ways

    Votes: 1 2.1%
  • Tryin' To Throw...

    Votes: 12 25.0%
  • Ultraviolet

    Votes: 2 4.2%
  • Acrobat

    Votes: 3 6.3%
  • Love is Blindness

    Votes: 4 8.3%

  • Total voters
    48

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Part 1.

If you could replace 1 song on AB, which one would it be? (see poll)


Part 2.

Now, you need to replace that song with another one from the entire U2 collection - which one would that be? (answer in the thread)


I would replace EBTTRT with...

Lady With the Spinning Head
(sort of a prelude to the Fly a la Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" track scenario)
 
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I could never ever change a single note of Achtung Baby. It's the one album that is sheer perfection from start to finish.
 
Tryin' to throw.. is my least favourite song on the album... but I still really like it. I might replace it with a recording of itself played the way they do it live.
 
sulawesigirl4 said:
I could never ever change a single note of Achtung Baby. It's the one album that is sheer perfection from start to finish.

I agree, but for the sake of the poll, I would vote off Zoo Station and replace it with Salome.
 
Easy; Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses is nixed in favor of the remix, which is really the definitive version anyway, of Lady With the Spinning Head. That, or the Temple Bar Edit (which I think is the longer, complete one, oddly), of itself. I just don't care for the mix that made the album.
 
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sulawesigirl4 said:
I could never ever change a single note of Achtung Baby. It's the one album that is sheer perfection from start to finish.

i agree. don't change anything on that magic album
 
Vote off Love is Blindness and replace with Salome.

1.) Zoo Station
2.) Even Better than the Real Thing
3.) The Fly
4.) Salome
5.) Mysterious Ways
6.) Until the End of the World
7.) Acrobat
8.) Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
9.) Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
10.) So Cruel
11.) One
12.) Ultra Violet
 
The album is perfect, but if I must choose, I would get rid of Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World.
 
Who the hell voted for "One"?...Not only is that arguably U2's best song, but without it, there may have NEVER been an Achtung Baby, Zooropa, Pop, or ATYCLB!!!!!
 
YOU CAN'T VOTE OFF ONE! It was the first song, it brought everything together! Who knows what would have happened if it wasn't written? U2 may have never been able to get it together.
 
mmm, tough one
I would throw out EBTTRT, Whose's gonna ride, So Cruel, Trying to throw or Ultraviolet

I guess Ultraviolet has got to go
replacement not needed
 
These polls looked like fun but some of them are not too nice. This was bad for me, this is my favorite album. But I have always wanted to add Stay to AB so I will replace So Cruel even though that is so cruel.
 
Don't take these polls to personally Veranda!:p

It's just hypothetical!

The Bono's Hair poll is the same way - just a gauge to see what people think. Looks like most people liked his ATYCLB mullet after all! :sexywink:
 
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