Pictures of You
Good. Has way more life than Fast Cars and a much better chorus. Just call it Xanax and Wine though ya fuckwits.
7
Evidence of Life
Love this. It almost sounds like a Boy offcut; Bono's vocals are different and how's that jangly guitar from The Edge! Something a little bit different!
8
Luckiest Man in the World
How wonderful to have it. The lyric changes do annoy me and take me out of the song, but I wonder how I would have reacted if I'd never heard Mercy. As I said earlier, having this song 95% in tact is pretty special.
9
Treason
Fantastic. The Edge's solo rules and it's the best Bonorap since Wire.
8
I Don't Wanna See You Smile
This sounds untouched from the version we got many years ago? Fantastic song, very sweet, simple, not overworked. I love it, horrible title change though.
8
Country Mile
This has warmed on me quite a bit. I like the chorus quite a bit.
7
Happiness
I like the crunchy chorus, "I'm here for the atomic bomb." Still a mess, but warmed on me.
6
Are You Gonna Wait Forever?
I feel like this one has been touched up a bit, with re-recorded vocals? I prefer the original, but it's a terrific song. The guitar and the chorus refrain are outstanding.
8
Theme from 'The Batman'
Where is this from? It's nice.
6
All Because of You 2
This rocks hard. Prefer the original.
6
And while we're here... I listened to the original album too.
Vertigo
Still a banger.
7
Miracle Drug
Great Coldplay song. Pretty classic U2 song. Maybe not as much love for it as I once had. Lyrics are a little silly.
7
Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own
I love this song.
8
Love and Peace or Else
Some good aspects to it. Just doesn't quite hit in the way that it should. Maybe I'm scarred from those 20-minute interminable sections of the Vertigo shows where they'd play this and then turn Bullet into a boring dirge.
7
City of Blinding Lights
The song that started it all for me. Perfect. No notes.
10
All Because of You
This song whips. I think the chorus is a bit weak, and maybe the lyrics and Bono's performance for the whole song are too. Which is a shame, because listening to this I was like, goddamn, there's some amazing guitar here.
8
A Man and a Woman
Amazing song, everything about it is wonderful, from the bass to the pre-chorus to the vocals. Brilliant.
9
Crumbs From Your Table
I've always loved this song. Surprised it didn't take off a little more. Some lyrical and vocal delivery misses, but a good tune.
8
One Step Closer
Always loved this one too.
8
Original of the Species
Probably the one that's dropped the most in my estimation. Found this hard to listen to.
4
Yahweh
I think I prefer it stripped down a bit, the version that played over the U23D closing credits is great, but I think this song is really sweet and I love it.
8
Some final thoughts...
- How good is Adam's work on this album.
- I'd be quite happy to hear a bunch of the Reassembled songs live, honestly.
- You could make a really, really, really good single album from the two.
- Wish they'd given us Native Son, too.
- Anything else missing? I looked up the era and there were covers of Neon Lights by Kraftwerk and Ave Maria too. And a bunch of remixes and other alt versions.
