Let’s make U2 better

I have been pondering what would have made otherwise dismal or deficient U2 songs great with only minor modifications. To start I’d like to elect Elevation. Just a few simple tweaks would have made it a great song!

These are:

a - get a soulful female black voice to replace Bono’s awful ooohhhoooo’s

b - get someone else to replace those preposterous rhyming lyrics

c - beef up edges flaccid guitar in the chorus

Which song do you nominate and why?

Love Rescue Me. Shorten the darn thing and it would be a much better song.

Dirty Day. Very slow on the record, almost boring. The remixes were in the right direction to make it more interesting.

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Dirty Day. Very slow on the record, almost boring. The remixes were in the right direction to make it more interesting.

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Or...let Edge sing it like he did in that one rehearsal.

Love Rescue Me. Shorten the darn thing and it would be a much better song.

More importantly, remove Bob Dylan from the track. 

Quote from: riffraff on July 03, 2021, 08:31:58 AM

Love Rescue Me. Shorten the darn thing and it would be a much better song.

More importantly, remove Bob Dylan from the track.

Surely not recording it in the first place would have been better?

Quote from: julez728 on July 03, 2021, 03:23:08 PM

Quote from: riffraff on July 03, 2021, 08:31:58 AM

Love Rescue Me. Shorten the darn thing and it would be a much better song.

More importantly, remove Bob Dylan from the track.

Surely not recording it in the first place would have been better?

Maybe all of the above?

I’m pretty sure they just need me to do duets with Bono and they would reach perfection


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Quote from: Larry Lovebucket on July 03, 2021, 03:41:40 PM

Quote from: julez728 on July 03, 2021, 03:23:08 PM

Quote from: riffraff on July 03, 2021, 08:31:58 AM

Love Rescue Me. Shorten the darn thing and it would be a much better song.

More importantly, remove Bob Dylan from the track.

Surely not recording it in the first place would have been better?

Maybe all of the above?

I would replace that horrible “a baby cries on a doorstep” line in Love is all we have left. It ruins an otherwise pretty good song.

What would I replace it with? Maybe….”we wish that we could cheat death but love is all we have left” or maybe “we leave behind all the rest and love is all we have left”.  I dunno, it just seems like without even trying there are better options than the old baby left on a doorstep cliche. What’s it even supposed to mean?


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I have been pondering what would have made otherwise dismal or deficient U2 songs great with only minor modifications. To start I’d like to elect Elevation. Just a few simple tweaks would have made it a great song!

These are:

a - get a soulful female black voice to replace Bono’s awful ooohhhoooo’s

b - get someone else to replace those preposterous rhyming lyrics

c - beef up edges flaccid guitar in the chorus

Which song do you nominate and why?

Love 'Woman in Chains' from Tears for Fears.

Bit of an obvious one but, California, remove the stupid "bar-bar-barbara santa barbara" intro.  Doesn't work at all, song isn't remotely beachy or Beach Boys-y.  The rest of the song is also very good imo, a shame they spoiled this one with that.

Bit of an obvious one but, California, remove the stupid "bar-bar-barbara santa barbara" intro.  Doesn't work at all, song isn't remotely beachy or Beach Boys-y.  The rest of the song is also very good imo, a shame they spoiled this one with that.

Yes.

Quote from: riffraff on July 03, 2021, 03:44:49 PM

Quote from: Larry Lovebucket on July 03, 2021, 03:41:40 PM

Quote from: julez728 on July 03, 2021, 03:23:08 PM

Quote from: riffraff on July 03, 2021, 08:31:58 AM

Love Rescue Me. Shorten the darn thing and it would be a much better song.

More importantly, remove Bob Dylan from the track.

Surely not recording it in the first place would have been better?

Maybe all of the above?

I would replace that horrible “a baby cries on a doorstep” line in Love is all we have left. It ruins an otherwise pretty good song.

What would I replace it with? Maybe….”we wish that we could cheat death but love is all we have left” or maybe “we leave behind all the rest and love is all we have left”.  I dunno, it just seems like without even trying there are better options than the old baby left on a doorstep cliche. What’s it even supposed to mean?


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Interesting choice. I’m not bothered by the lyric particularly. What kills the magic for me is the vocoder voice effects or whatever the technical term for them is. Other than that’s it’s a great start to an album.

Bit of an obvious one but, California, remove the stupid "bar-bar-barbara santa barbara" intro.  Doesn't work at all, song isn't remotely beachy or Beach Boys-y.  The rest of the song is also very good imo, a shame they spoiled this one with that.

One of the songs on that album that i don't particularly like and not because of the bar-bar intro.

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Quote from: Pete the Chop on July 03, 2021, 01:05:18 PM

Dirty Day. Very slow on the record, almost boring. The remixes were in the right direction to make it more interesting.

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Or...let Edge sing it like he did in that one rehearsal.

I don't know about that rehearsal. The live version during zoo tv was great. In the 2018 version Bono was talking too much.

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