gman
New Yorker
As you prob guess am looking for opinions on the best era for u2 b sides. Am going for 80s. There has been some great b sides in that period, original and covers. Wins hands down!!
gareth brown said:why do you count Flower Child, Love You Like Mad, Smile, Mercy and Fast Cars as B-sides??
LemonMelon said:
Because technically they were all (except Mercy) commercially released, and they weren't on a U2 album, so what would you call them otherwise?
Axver said:
Non-album tracks.
A b-side has to be on a single.
LemonMelon said:In the case you speak of, the 00's still haven't been too bad...not as good as the other two decades, but I really like AYGWF?, Big Girls Are Best, and Summer Rain, so it's not terrible at least.
Also, if you think about it, the era of CD singles is really coming to a close. CD sales are lessening, and single sales are practically dead, so why should they give special attention to them?
LemonMelon said:
Because technically they were all (except Mercy) commercially released, and they weren't on a U2 album, so what would you call them otherwise?
And I already told why I thought Fast Cars was a b-side, because Holy Joe is a b-side, and they were released under the same circumstances (Ground Beneath Her Feet doesn't count because it was eventually an a-side).
discotech said:can we count Levitate, Smile, and Flower Child?
LemonMelon said:
But you're still all wrong about 00's, that is, if you count Flower Child, Love You Like Mad, Neon Lights, Smile, Mercy, and Fast Cars (which you should, because Fast Cars was released the same way as Holy Joe, which is considered a b-side)
david said:
Was Holy Joe released as a bonus track on POP? Thats how Fast Cars was initially released... as part of the delux edition of Bomb..