![]() This was released to promote the compilation album U218 Singles. Seems like they were trying too hard to find a ‘hook’ with this one, although I still love it. Similar to Boy/Girl, there is a sound of uncertainty from the band, a sonic fragility that was ironed out when it came to the first album Boy and producer Steve Lillywhite. The single following Three, I’ve included purely for the selfish reasons that I own an original 7", with the sleeve and liner notes designed by Bono. Sounds a little like a band still unsure of themselves, but aren’t we all at 18? I’ve included this song, as the other two tracks are available on their debut album (albeit new recordings), so this was a real rarity before the age of the Internet. Released in 1979, the tracking order was voted by the listeners of Dave Fanning’s radio show. The b-side of the Three release, effectively the single for Out Of Control with Boy/Girl and Stories for Boys on the b-side. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. We need your consent to load this YouTube content We use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour and The White Album - bands at the peak of their greatness!Īnyway, where were we? Yes, Deep Cuts: The 20 Best U2 Songs That You Never Heard. Having said all of that, there are great moments on each record since 2000, with 2015’s Songs of Innocence a latter standout in their repertoire.īut for me, U2’s run of albums in the nineties – Achtung Baby, Zooropa, Passengers Original Soundtracks 1 and Pop – is up there with the Stones’ run of Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street and The Beatles’ Revolver, Sgt. Fuelling this ambition was the emphasis to write the ‘single,’ and this author believes that the middle section of the last three U2 records is a result of this. Unfortunately from 2000s All That You Can’t Leave Behind, this journey ended, as the ambition to retain the title as 'The Biggest Band In The World' pre-occupied far too much of the band members’ minds than was necessary. This was art, both in the studio and on the road ( ZOO TV), and I’ll speculate that writing the three singles to promote the release of an album was far from their mind. This was a band primed for experimentation, and destined to be one of the all-time greats. A journey that the fans gladly followed, and where even the most cynical, critics of U2 jumped on board. U2 surprised their fans, and the musical environment as a whole, with the direction the band took in the nineties. It was what the band did after this that was most interesting. With careful consideration I deemed this to be just plain mean, and besides the task at hand is to list twenty of the best U2 songs that the reader has possibly never heard, which rules those aforementioned middle album tracks out.įrom the beginning it was obvious that U2 had more grandiose ambitions than some of its peers, and in fact the four members had achieved megalomania by their late 20s. When tasked with the (admittedly) enviable job of listing twenty U2 songs that you’ve never heard - of course, you probably have heard them, but the title is good - I was tempted to just save time by naming the middle four tracks off the last three albums, and work from there! ![]()
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