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  1. Yeah they were great. I'm sure we will hear some good b-sides on the next singles.
  2. Originally posted by nowiamthemaster:[..]

    I'm a bit disappointed by the B-sides to be honest. I was hoping with the plethora of songs they've been working on and the few that seem to have been dropped in the last month or two, that we'd at least have a real B-side; i.e. a song that's not on the album.

    I'm all for hearing NLOTH prior to the album release; but, since the early 1990s, U2 have been giving us all kinds of shite like remixes to the 9th degree of existing songs rather than a real alternative song a la: Walk to the Water / Sweetest Thing / Race against time / Deep in the heart / Hallelujah here she comes / Three Sunrises / Love comes tumbling / Unchained melody / Lady with the spinning head etc.

    Come on U2 - give us a proper b-side, not just a remix of an album song. Even Holy Joe had its moments!!


    They 'll not give any B-sides because of "Linear" and possibility of Zooropa-like project, I guess.



  3. Yeah, there's a few there; but since the rise of hip-hop, uber-producers and remixes by the flavour-of-the-month DJ etc, I just think there's been a general trend towards stuffing singles with such remix tripe which, for the most part, warrants only one or two listens, rather than giving fans decent songs - maybe not album quality perhaps - but decent nonetheless which they'll go back to time & again even up to 20 years later.

    It's just that U2 used to do this with every single more or less, and now it's just fork over 20,000 grand (or whatever) to some producer and let his remix be the b-side, or - what's perhaps a little bit better - just throw on a live version of some U2 song. I mean, we already know will.i.am has done a remix of Magnificent for potential future release - doh!!

    I'm not a fan of them in general, as you can see!!
  6. Originally posted by nowiamthemaster:[..]

    I'm a bit disappointed by the B-sides to be honest. I was hoping with the plethora of songs they've been working on and the few that seem to have been dropped in the last month or two, that we'd at least have a real B-side; i.e. a song that's not on the album.

    I'm all for hearing NLOTH prior to the album release; but, since the early 1990s, U2 have been giving us all kinds of shite like remixes to the 9th degree of existing songs rather than a real alternative song a la: Walk to the Water / Sweetest Thing / Race against time / Deep in the heart / Hallelujah here she comes / Three Sunrises / Love comes tumbling / Unchained melody / Lady with the spinning head etc.

    Come on U2 - give us a proper b-side, not just a remix of an album song. Even Holy Joe had its moments!!


    there'l likely be 3 singles to follow this one. More b-sides. .


  7. Hmm, a remix before the original. Don't know if that is a good thing.


  8. Yeah - I'd agree.

    Normally they put a genuine b-side on the first single with the quantity & quality of b-sides deteriorating then with further releases etc.
  9. so it's gonna be an alternate version of NLOTH. ....didn't will.i.am do a kinda remix of that song?


  10. agree, i want b-sides on the single that will resemble nothing on the album, hearing an alternate version b4 the real one can do no good imo.
  11. Originally posted by Andrew_C:[..]

    agree, i want b-sides on the single that will resemble nothing on the album, hearing an alternate version b4 the real one can do no good imo.


    who knows...maybe they wanna see how this 'strategy' works .

    Btw, what happened to ur ultimate live compilation ? *searches for the thread*
  12. Originally posted by loftarasa:[..]

    who knows...maybe they wanna see how this 'strategy' works .

    Btw, what happened to ur ultimate live compilation ? *searches for the thread*


    Doubt that - U2 know the first single will sell by the bucketload irrespective of what's on the b-side; so not much to prove in terms of "strategy".
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