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  1. Hi guys. Check out this video

    Some early mixes of several Pop songs, mixed with B-movies (and Dr. Strangelove!) footage. Really interesting stuff there.
  2. never heard these mixes! very interesting !
    some of the footage appeared in the documentary "A year in Pop"
  3. listen from around the 4:30 mark: What later became 'The Playboy Mansion' was still raw and emotional and called: 'Don't let me down' . Beautifull! I would love that song in a full version in it's original state !
  4. Very interesting ! thank you Cesar
  5. The early version of Mofo was the only standout for me. Sounds even rockier than the album cut!
  8. Mofo and Payboy Mansion were nice, I didn't recognize any of the other stuff and it really didn't sound cool
  9. Yep, basically +1. Everything besides Mofo and that early Playboy Mansion sounded too much like a deservedly-scrapped demo.
  10. + 2, that Playboy Mansion demo sounds fascinating. I can't believe I'm hearing (not here) angry fans saying "I wish U2 had the balls to release this instead of the versions in the album". Really? So, what was Pop, a safe U2 by numbers album? I understand that the novelty of the demos excites us, but that was too much. Next time we'll hear: "Give me Jitterbug Baby and I Feel Free over that One, Until The End Of The World crap".

    To me, these demos are interesting in the sense that they shed more light into the making of the Pop album, but I'm glad they evolved into the songs we know.
  11. Yes, Pop was a super safe, classical sounding album...

    As the saying goes, "you can't please all of the people all of the time"... If you get too experimental, you should polish your songs more and make them more pleasing to the ear; if you get your songs sounding soft and pleasing, you should get more experimental and release rawer versions. Oh well, we fans are a bunch of picky bastards aren't we
  12. Pop is U2´s most creative and musically developed album because it has everything from hip-pop, rock, blues, techno, pop, ballads and dancing tunes, with love, sex, drugs, anti-war song themed included. I wish they could bring back Do you feel loved, Gone, Miami (Iive was spectacular), Mofo, if god will send his angels, staring at the sun (full electric) which is a song similar as Every breaking wave, discothéque, and Playboy Mansion, with its bluesy solos. From old stuff, I only want Streets, Kite, and then all songs rarely played, and new stuff. No more bloody sundays, without you´s, prides, one, new years day, i will follow, vertigo, mysterious ways, etc...I love these songs, but having seen them live all the way since 1993, I always seem them playing the same songs each time, with few exceptions!
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