Originally posted by Ross1441:It always seemed misplaced on the album. Streets needs no introduction, Still Haven't Found is sacred, and Without You comes close to song perfection. The outro of WOWY is possibly my favourite "part" of any song. Any other musician would have put a full solo there, but U2 knew better and put this beautiful strumming in instead which was just complete genius (I'll apologise now for not knowing anything about music/guitars).
The finish of WOWY is untouchable. And yet, due to the structure of the album, that euphoric, legendary finish is halted abruptly by that miserable racket that is BTBS. That's why I hated it.
You know? After 25 years of listening to the album and its singles, my mother feels exactly the opposite way. She can't barely listen to the opening trilogy anymore, she says "I must have listened to this songs a hundred thousands times in my life" and in fact she skips them most of the time (when I'm not there, then I put on Streets and then let her skip Still and WOWY) and starts the album directly with Bullet.
I agree with you on the misplacing, though. In my opinion, both Joshua & Achtung running orders are their weakest points... I have posted my perfect Achtung order several times, but I don't think I ever posted my perfect Joshua one:
Where The Streets Have No Name
In God's Country
Trip Through Your Wires
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Red Hill Mining Town
One Tree Hill
Exit
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still
With Or Without You
Mothers Of The Disappeared
This way, songs flow much better into each other I think. I even burnt a copy of this modified album and we listen to it at home sometimes.
