Moment of Surrender - All discussions

Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

Nah, doing the same thing and expecting different results is foolish.
They know that and they'll change their tack, the next album will have stronger singles

Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

Not if the songs are weak to begin with.

Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

I mean they'll write better singles for the album

Originally posted by aussiemofo:[..]

In my opinion, it's not that. It was the awful choice of singles for NLOTH.

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]The only thing that should segue into Streets is Unknown Caller. And here's my own demonstration of it:

http://www.goear.com/listen/8d32487/Unknown-Caller---Where-The-Streets-Have-No-Name-u2

Originally posted by Janus02:There is no live version that beats the studio version (like With or Without You)

Originally posted by aussiemofo:[..]

In my opinion, it's not that. It was the awful choice of singles for NLOTH.

Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

I think Crazy was a good single choice, Magnificent too was justifiable. I don't know what they were thinking by not releasing Breathe or No Line 2 though.

And Unknown Caller would have been good with a shorter single edit.

Originally posted by vanquishI mean they'll write better singles for the album

Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

Breathe should have been the first single and then MoS, Crazy Tonight and Stand Up.



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Does a band really write singles? Bon Scott in 1979 said ''AC/DC aren't really a singles band...we don't write singles...songs specifically for a single...'' AC/DC are much like U2 in which their songs should be heard as part of a full album, not one cut-down song because there's so much more to them - especially the longer ones. So should U2 abandon singles, especially considering the remix-after-remix situation?

The b-sides don't have to be amazing (Neon Lights) but the single has to give me incentive to buy and get it noticed. Remixes don't do that in 2009. How long would it take to release one song from the sessions that they were only going to throw away, give it a quick clean-up, make sure it sounds decent and throw it out there.

Levitate was almost going to be thrown away. It shows even if the song you didn't think was any good can be a very good song with others.

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]I agree with MOS, but strongly disagree with WOWY. The WOWY from Dublin 1989-12-30 is probably the most inspired performance ever, and Zoo TV and Joshua Tree Tour have a few ones too (Vancouver 1992-04-23, Tampa 1987-12-20.......)

PS. Thanks, Andrew