What U2 Should Have Done

[DPrinceNY]

Instead of releasing windows in the sky as a "bonus" track on U218, they should have just released Mercy! Mercy is 100x better then wits and will probably not be released on any upcoming albums and shouldn't be a wasted as a track.

What a great opportunity to promote the track ... BLOWN. I guess will never see Mercy released to the main-stream

 

[gherman]

You should have hired you for thier press agent too

 

[U2girl]

I don't think we have seen the last of Mercy.

 

[craigp]

what u2 should have done is not recorded mercy at all!!!! sorry but i just do not like the song at all, the screeching guitar at the start! ewwwwwwwwwwwww no!

 

[Chizip]

i do like Mercy better, but WITS makes a better single/hit

 

[Peterrrrr]

If you don't like Mercy, ask yourself one thing: how can a song that is bad geto so many threads? Mercy is one of their best ever.

 

[corianderstem]

Because people here are delusional.

 

[DPrinceNY]

i do like Mercy better, but WITS makes a better single/hit

Wow I don't think so. Mercy is a more interesting track then WITS. Its not as simple with a 3 part chorus and sounds a lot more original. Besides the theme of "love" runs through both tracks, with Mercy conveying this theme with more strength.

 

[BVS]

i do like Mercy better, but WITS makes a better single/hit

I agree 100%

 

[Axver]

If you don't like Mercy, ask yourself one thing: how can a song that is bad geto so many threads? Mercy is one of their best ever.

You do realise that the amount of threads on an Internet fan forum is by no means whatsoever even remotely a reliable gauge of the quality of a song, don't you?

 

[Salome]

people here seem to prefer when a song hardly has any merits going for it

mercy does fit that description

 

[vaz02]

i do like Mercy better, but WITS makes a better single/hit

aye aye captain.

 

[AtomicBono]

i do like Mercy better, but WITS makes a better single/hit

agreed. I hope Mercy shows up on an album, but I don't think it would make a good single, and certainly not a good one-off.

 

[xaviMF22]

If you don't like Mercy, ask yourself one thing: how can a song that is bad geto so many threads? Mercy is one of their best ever.

great logic

 

[Aygo]

Wow I don't think so. Mercy is a more interesting track then WITS. Its not as simple with a 3 part chorus and sounds a lot more original. Besides the theme of "love" runs through both tracks, with Mercy conveying this theme with more strength.

100% agreed.
However, WITS is a great single and Mercy wouldn't be.

 

[LemonMelon]

If you don't like Mercy, ask yourself one thing: how can a song that is bad geto so many threads? Mercy is one of their best ever.

OOTS had many threads written about it.

 

[Zoots]

Mercy doesn't have the wits to be a single. Wits should have mercy on our ears with that "oh cant you see" line.

 

[xaviMF22]

Mercy doesn't have the wits to be a single. Wits should have mercy on our ears with that "oh cant you see" line.

 

[AtomicBono]

OOTS had many threads written about it.

...and it's one of U2's best songs! Imagine that.

 

[Axver]

George Bush has had many threads written about him, thousands upon thousands more than OOTS and Mercy combined. Does that make him a good President?

 

[Chizip]

Mercy doesn't have the wits to be a single. Wits should have mercy on our ears with that "oh cant you see" line.

its a time like this when i wish i had never learned to read

 

[Caroni]

OH!!! please, every person is a different world, in one world people don´t like that song, in other they like it, please don´t figth over that

 

[AtomicBono]

its a time like this when i wish i had never learned to read

George Bush has had many threads written about him, thousands upon thousands more than OOTS and Mercy combined. Does that make him a good President?

no

I think the logic is faulty to begin with. if refined to number of POSITIVE threads, then it could be somewhat applicable. but I really don't give a shit about how many threads are written about Mercy. I like it even if this is the millionth thread.

 

[u2trinity]

Mercy will see the light of day as a B-side .

 

[Alisaura]

Clearly I missed those million other threads, and it's time to display my abysmal ignorance...

What's this song called Mercy? Never heard of it....

 

[Axver]

Clearly I missed those million other threads, and it's time to display my abysmal ignorance...

What's this song called Mercy? Never heard of it....

It's an over-hyped unreleased U2 song that was originally intended to be included on HTDAAB but was later cut. Bono called it "the best b-side you'll ever hear" (he has clearly forgotten Treasure, Bass Trap, Spanish Eyes, and Luminous Times!). It leaked onto the Internet when a member of Interference was given a CD containing the song. Despite some absurd statements on this forum, the CD was not given to the Interferencer by Bono!

I'm sure someone can upload it for you. I've no idea where my copy has gone.

 

[LemonMelon]

over-hyped....Bono called it "the best b-side you'll ever hear" (he has clearly forgotten Treasure, Bass Trap, Spanish Eyes, and Luminous Times!).

Can you say BIASED?

 

[Axver]

Can you say BIASED?

Bi- ... bier- ... biah- ... nope.

 

[Aygo]

George Bush has had many threads written about him, thousands upon thousands more than OOTS and Mercy combined. Does that make him a good President?

Wow, what a great comparison, Axver...

 

[Axver]

Wow, what a great comparison, Axver...

The point was to illustrate the absurdity of the "argument from quantity of threads".