1. Something tells me Ahimsa and Mercy will take part of the next album
  2. I hope not, Ahimsa and Mercy both have had their moments, i would much rather fresh unheard material rather than recycled mediocre tunes, but to be honest I’m not expecting much from a new album.
  3. The studio version of Mercy is anything buy mediocre!
  4. The band don’t tend to put songs on albums after they’ve already been released, obviously aside from lead singles. HMTMKMKM, electrical storm, window in the skies, sweetest thing, a celebration all never appeared on albums that followed. Even invisible and ordinary love weren’t included on regular albums and Ground beneath her feet was but only in certain regions as more of a bonus track. Before that you’d have to go back to the very early days stuff. Mercy might be a little different with it only being released live but I think that’s all it will get unless they do a HTDAAB deluxe thing and it’s on disc 2 but I don’t think it will make a proper album. I’d only be interested if it was a version more like the outtake version we’ve heard rather than a studio attempt at the live version. Ahimsa I definitely don’t expect and I’ll be glad if it doesn’t make a u2 album, not good enough.
  5. Originally posted by deanallison:The band don’t tend to put songs on albums after they’ve already been released, obviously aside from lead singles. HMTMKMKM, electrical storm, window in the skies, sweetest thing, a celebration all never appeared on albums that followed. Even invisible and ordinary love weren’t included on regular albums and Ground beneath her feet was but only in certain regions as more of a bonus track. Before that you’d have to go back to the very early days stuff. Mercy might be a little different with it only being released live but I think that’s all it will get unless they do a HTDAAB deluxe thing and it’s on disc 2 but I don’t think it will make a proper album. I’d only be interested if it was a version more like the outtake version we’ve heard rather than a studio attempt at the live version. Ahimsa I definitely don’t expect and I’ll be glad if it doesn’t make a u2 album, not good enough.
    According to a discussion I had with Lanois a few years back, “Mercy” forms part of the backbone of “Songs of Ascent.” He said it’s part of a trilogy of songs that he would fight to keep together if there was any talk of a studio release. He didn’t share what the other two songs were. If the band does plan on going back to “Songs of Ascent” some day my guess is “Mercy” pops up there. (Bono keeps saying they will go back to it. The new album supposedly coming next year is a separate thing.)

    I’m not sure who did the original work on “Mercy” for HTDAAB. Eno and Lanois didn’t have much involvement there, but it sounds like they did work on it further with Eno and Lanois during some of the sessions for No Line.

    As for “Ahimsa” it was a one off done to help promote the tour in India, and for the Ghandi documentary, and I’m personally quite hopeful we don’t see it again. I enjoy some aspects of it, but overall I feel it is one of the weaker things they’ve done in recent years.
  6. Originally posted by u2wanderer1:[..]
    According to a discussion I had with Lanois a few years back, “Mercy” forms part of the backbone of “Songs of Ascent.” He said it’s part of a trilogy of songs that he would fight to keep together if there was any talk of a studio release. He didn’t share what the other two songs were. If the band does plan on going back to “Songs of Ascent” some day my guess is “Mercy” pops up there. (Bono keeps saying they will go back to it. The new album supposedly coming next year is a separate thing.)

    I’m not sure who did the original work on “Mercy” for HTDAAB. Eno and Lanois didn’t have much involvement there, but it sounds like they did work on it further with Eno and Lanois during some of the sessions for No Line.

    As for “Ahimsa” it was a one off done to help promote the tour in India, and for the Ghandi documentary, and I’m personally quite hopeful we don’t see it again. I enjoy some aspects of it, but overall I feel it is one of the weaker things they’ve done in recent years.
    Well I’d be open and interested to hear what they do with mercy if it did end up on songs of ascent. I know it’s looking well into the future but it would also be interesting to see if they then took whatever studio version they came up with to the live shows. But I really hope they reconsider the changes they made for the 360 version and go back to the epic song it was. I think they need to show more faith in it in that respect, not try and cut it down. I guess we’ll always have that outtake version whatever happens so that’s the consolation if nothing else lives up to it. Yeah I agree about Ahimsa being one of their weaker efforts. I’m a fan of the vast majority of their work in the songs of era starting back from ordinary love and invisible but Ahimsa doesn’t meet the standard for me.
  7. What I want is a release for Winter if they do an anniversary type thing for No line on the horizon(which I doubt) but it’s still something I’d want to see sometime
  8. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
    Well I’d be open and interested to hear what they do with mercy if it did end up on songs of ascent. I know it’s looking well into the future but it would also be interesting to see if they then took whatever studio version they came up with to the live shows. But I really hope they reconsider the changes they made for the 360 version and go back to the epic song it was. I think they need to show more faith in it in that respect, not try and cut it down. I guess we’ll always have that outtake version whatever happens so that’s the consolation if nothing else lives up to it. Yeah I agree about Ahimsa being one of their weaker efforts. I’m a fan of the vast majority of their work in the songs of era starting back from ordinary love and invisible but Ahimsa doesn’t meet the standard for me.
    I always fet that Mercy turned into part of Little Things, that they used the Mercy chorus for the Little Things chorus and end half. It's really the same chord sequence but also the same kind of beat and intensity/vibe

    Though we've seen them use the same chord sequences in more than one song before so it may not mean much, like Love Is Blindness vs Acrobat, or AIWIY vs First Time (not counting early versions like Always or Lady With The Spinning Head etc)
  9. Originally posted by Cgmorgan1986:What I want is a release for Winter if they do an anniversary type thing for No line on the horizon(which I doubt) but it’s still something I’d want to see sometime
    Winter is released on the deluxe NLOTH