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Least favourite track on Boy

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Least favourite track on Boy
« on: March 19, 2025, 01:41:13 PM »
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2025, 01:44:23 PM »
I will follow. It represents everything I dislike about u2.
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2025, 02:20:44 PM »
Probably Stories For Boys for me.
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2025, 04:27:31 PM »
I Will Follow, but I don’t hate it. Just meh.
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2025, 04:51:38 PM »
I Will Follow. A decent song but way overplayed live compared to other superior Boy tracks.
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2025, 02:31:25 PM »
SATT.

Never got into it. I don’t hate it, but to me they had a bunch of demos that had more potential, starting with this one :


I don’t understand how it didn’t make it on the reissue as well.
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2025, 02:32:28 PM »
ADWM. Trash from the opening note.
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2025, 02:35:04 PM »
Quote from: imaginary friend on March 20, 2025, 02:32:28 PM
ADWM. Trash from the opening note.

The live version redeems it for me.
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2025, 02:47:40 PM »
Quote from: Soloyan on March 20, 2025, 02:35:04 PM
Quote from: imaginary friend on March 20, 2025, 02:32:28 PM
ADWM. Trash from the opening note.

The live version redeems it for me.

Haha you said it before I could. It's wack on the album but live (especially at Red Rocks) it is fire.
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2025, 02:51:33 PM »
Quote from: The Exile on March 20, 2025, 02:47:40 PM
Quote from: Soloyan on March 20, 2025, 02:35:04 PM
Quote from: imaginary friend on March 20, 2025, 02:32:28 PM
ADWM. Trash from the opening note.

The live version redeems it for me.

Haha you said it before I could. It's wack on the album but live (especially at Red Rocks) it is fire.

If you can catch the Glasgow 1983 version you'll thank me later  ;)

The whole show is amazing but this tune... you can sense the crowd going berserk.
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2025, 05:44:42 PM »
 Shadows for me and goes into the lead of the huge number of votes. 13 :)
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2025, 08:11:35 AM »
Interesting that a lot of people going for I Will Follow and it's almost the only one from that era they insisted on regularly playing live even decades later.
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walktothewater

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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2025, 08:12:13 AM »
I don't mind Shadows and Tall Trees, it's alright. It's their most suburban song, as it were.
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"There's nothing wrong with U2. As far as I'm concerned, I've stolen from Larry Mullen's career for years. Without Larry, I wouldn't be able to stomp and sing, it'd be difficult. I mean I owe debts to the Bhundu Boys, Larry Mullen, Stewart Copeland. They're good players, and they're great songwriters" - Gary "Reni" Wren, drummer, The Stone Roses reunion press conference, 18/10/2011

"I'd just like to put on record that that's bobbins" - Ian Brown, singer, ditto

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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2025, 09:02:22 AM »
Quote from: walktothewater on March 22, 2025, 08:11:35 AM
Interesting that a lot of people going for I Will Follow and it's almost the only one from that era they insisted on regularly playing live even decades later.

The latter is a reason for the former - for me, at least.

I don’t hate IWF, it just doesn’t seem like a standout track to me, yet it’s treated that way.
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Re: Least favourite track on Boy
« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2025, 06:50:48 PM »
This thread just reminds me what a great album it was.
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