1. Just thinking about the band saying they didn’t feel like the album was finished. I notice some fans love the album the way it is and some prefer the single edits and the live versions. Where do people stand on the individual songs on the album? What is the best version of each song live, studio or single/best of reworks? I prefer most of U2’s work live and not really fussed about reworks so for me do you feel loved, if god will send his angels, staring at the sun and if you wear that velvet dress are the songs I think are better on the album than live, SATS and velvet dress I still think are really good live just not an improvement on the album versions. The others I think are all better live but I still like most of them on the album Mofo and please are the 2 that I think have been the most improved live over album. Obviously playboy mansion we only have studio so nothing to compare.
  2. PoP definitely improved live. Just because they knew the structure of the songs better than when they were recording them. MoFo, Gone, Last Night On Earth, Please and Velvet Dress (although the live arrangement was very different from the studio version) all found their dimension live. Staring At The Sun is a curious one: I heard some really convincing electric versions but I think the acoustic one is better (with 2 guitars). If God Will Send His Angels and Do You Feel Loved are better in the studio just because they didn't develop them live and dropped, or shortened or stripped them down after a few gigs. Discothèque is another tough one: it was cool live, but in the studio it sounds "fuller". Wake Up Dead Man was nice live but we always got to hear half of the song and I am curious to know how they would have played the second half with that heavy guitar. I don't know what to say about Miami because it isn't my favourite song at all (it would have been nice live if Bono had known the words), and Playboy Mansion was never played so it's an easy one (and if they play it, it will be difficult to top the studio version). This is my opinion and nothing more, obviously
  3. Hm, interesting.

    I guess Staring At The Sun suffers from a tempo problem/challenge, which with Album production was less noticable than when they tried the bare-band-live approach. I've rarely heard musicians struggle with a song's tempo so much.. :-)

    Do You Feel Loved could have been their techno/rock kickass song if it had survived to the point Mofo did. That progressed in 2 months to some Techno/Rock hybrid that had the band practically playing to a house backing beat. The idea of DYFL I think was stellar, and if they'd "re-done" that like Mofo it could have been great (I think(.

    I recently tried "pulling apart and re-doing" DYFL with a bit of Dave Gahan on vocals. With some settings I could notice 3 different/layered drumtracks or guitar parts, which I guess shows that there's a lot burried in that mix
  4. I know you are all quite annoyed with me rn, but this should hopefully be the last time Ill be pestering you all for awhile. Does anyone have a download link to the '96 Pop sessions with this version of The Playboy Mansion in it? If so, pls pm me the link. Thank you.

  5. Pop is a wonderful album, I really wish it got more run live...
  6. U2 supposedly reworked Playboy Mansion and were set to release it as a b-side to The Hands That Built America single cd, but I don't that ever happened. So the new version of Playboy Mansion should be somewhere in the vaults. Maybe it will come out if U2 release a 25th anniversary POP album.

    Cheers,

    J
  7. Originally posted by jick:U2 supposedly reworked Playboy Mansion and were set to release it as a b-side to The Hands That Built America single cd, but I don't that ever happened. So the new version of Playboy Mansion should be somewhere in the vaults. Maybe it will come out if U2 release a 25th anniversary POP album.

    Cheers,

    J
    It's more likely that Edge grows long hair and Larry starts singing all the lead vocals in U2 than the band releasing an anniversary reissue of Pop.
  8. Never say never. I was listening to the remixed anniversary edition of Monster by R.E.M over the weekend and think that it offers something of a precedent that U2 could follow. The 25th anniversary could be the perfect excuse to "finish" Pop by remixing it differently or redoing the bits they didn't like; albeit Bono's voice now may not be the same.
  9. I think pop definitely will get a 25th anniversary release. They’re not going to do a JT35th anniversary release after the last couple so it’s opened the door up for pop this time since they fall on the same year. I think HTDAAB could even get a 20th anniversary one in 2024. I hope so anyway, as long as they come with live shows we don’t already have.
  10. Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:Never say never. I was listening to the remixed anniversary edition of Monster by R.E.M over the weekend and think that it offers something of a precedent that U2 could follow. The 25th anniversary could be the perfect excuse to "finish" Pop by remixing it differently or redoing the bits they didn't like; albeit Bono's voice now may not be the same.
    "... perfect excuse to "finish" Pop by remixing it differently or redoing the bits..." - when I remember the new mixes on The Best of 1990 -2000 album, I'd rather say no
  11. Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:Never say never. I was listening to the remixed anniversary edition of Monster by R.E.M over the weekend and think that it offers something of a precedent that U2 could follow. The 25th anniversary could be the perfect excuse to "finish" Pop by remixing it differently or redoing the bits they didn't like; albeit Bono's voice now may not be the same.
    They re-did some of these songs "only" three years later for the Best of 90-00 compilation and they already sounded too different (even though I personally love the Gone mix and I think it's even superior to the album original) so redoing them 25 years later would be a disaster.