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  2. Originally posted by podiumboy:Actually, Mercy was officially released on the Wide Awake in Europe vinyl. Not exactly a widespread release, but a release nonetheless.

    Which is more than we can say for North Star. We heard a minute of a finished version in the background of a Tranformer movie, and nothing else... ever.


    I knew it was released on vinyl, that’s why I said it was released live but not to everyone. Like iTunes and more than the limited copies they made
  3. That version is the FAR inferior version tho
  6. Haha, yeah I used to hate it mainly because of the lame Song For Someone ripoff, but now I've learnt to love 13 and just despise Song For Someone
  7. just record Alll My Life again and make it the lead single, then Mercy as second single.
  8. I'd love it if All my life saw the light of day sometime
  9. Those 2 and North Star need to see the light of day!! I’d also like a U2 studio version of Boy Falls from the sky. I always really like All my life, can’t believe they never did anything with it.

    That was a strange era. It really seemed like they were gonna release a quick follow up in 2010-2011. But nothing came, and the 360 tour became kind of directionless, and it was just all about being a BIG tour. I’d like to hear what was going on behind the scenes in that era... I don’t think it was particularly good.
  10. Originally posted by podiumboy:[..]
    Those 2 and North Star need to see the light of day!! I’d also like a U2 studio version of Boy Falls from the sky. I always really like All my life, can’t believe they never did anything with it.

    That was a strange era. It really seemed like they were gonna release a quick follow up in 2010-2011. But nothing came, and the 360 tour became kind of directionless, and it was just all about being a BIG tour. I’d like to hear what was going on behind the scenes in that era... I don’t think it was particularly good.
    Yes, it was really strange. And yeah, in 2010 it really felt as if SOA was coming... well, rather soon, almost as if it could drop by the stores anytime!

    It's particullarly ironic that, from that bunch of songs, only the two worst -Glastonbury and Stingray Guitar- kind of survived and made it into SOI and SOE (Volcano+American Soul and Lucifer's Hands)... North Star, Mercy and Boy Falls totally disappeared off the map and Every Breaking Wave made it onto SOI but with a completely different arrangement and lyrics so it's almost two different songs.
  11. On a related note, I wonder, I really wonder what their workflow between tours/albums is like. Do they really save all of the tiny ideas and half-songs and then resume work on them at any future point? Who and how keeps track of these song sketches, and who and when proposes to come back to them? What if they "finalize" a song but they are in the middle of a tour and can't (or don't want to) go into the studio to record and mix it? As a songwriter myself I find it quite hard to keep track of the sketches I produce, and even harder to come back to an unfinished song x months or years later and get it properly done - and I know I'm not alone in this. You just don't feel the songs the same way as you did when you wrote them.
  12. You just don't feel the songs the same way as you did when you wrote them.

    This is why we'll probably never get album versions of songs like All my life, North Star, Boy falls from the sky and probably many hundreds of other songs they wrote throughout the years. Ryan Tedder, -who's been talked about a lot in these forums lately- has addressed this very issue which I think you're talking about. He had said in an interview something along the lines of 'I don't believe in albums anymore' or sth like that, because you write a song, then you work on it, you get various arrangements, you produce it and from the time you first wrote the song to the time it actually gets released it may be 2 - 3 years, which is strange. Like, time has gone by, you're not in the same mindset as you were when you first came up with that song and that's why, as he said, One Republic prefered to release singles rather than albums. (although they will release an album soon if I'm not mistaken) He believed it was better to release a single every few months when the song and the idea is still fresh rather that wait 2,3,4 years for the album when the songs can already feel 'old'.
    So, I think U2 will probably work on new material or revive song ideas from SOI-SOE era only if they think they have a truly powerful tune in those. And, maybe, hopefuly, release North Star or Boys Fall in a deluxe version. As for All my life, I think there's A LOT of songs the band wrote during that time and if they still feel an attachement to some of that material, maybe they'll rework on them, otherwise they'll never see the light of day, because the band might feel weird or insincere releasing songs they wrote years ago in a new album.
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