A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You

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A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« on: November 20, 2024, 08:43:21 AM »
WOWY is unquestionably great, but WTTW wins for me. Luminous times is meh.
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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2024, 10:30:39 AM »
Love Luminous Times, but With or Without You is a top 5 U2 song.
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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2024, 11:13:26 AM »
Walk Ti The Water and Luminous Times are good bsides. I enjoy listening to them more than WOWY, but WOWY is undeniably a good song, no matter how sick I am of it. Still voting Luminous Times though.
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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2024, 11:52:16 AM »
The two B sides aren’t bad songs, but come on…  ::)
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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2024, 11:57:07 AM »
I thought I’d throw them a bone
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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2024, 12:02:02 PM »
For fans of the less bombastic version of U2, WTTW wins. The usual suspects here are loving the stadium anthems
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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2024, 12:05:52 PM »
The usual suspects here are loving the stadium anthems

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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2024, 12:08:42 PM »
WOWY is one of the most unique songs in their catalog.

This poll is a bit meh.
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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2024, 01:50:25 PM »
Bought the single of WOWY. Even though TJT had already been released.

This was to hear the B sides after seeing they were new songs rather than live tracks or remixes.

TJT was so good I thought the B sides would also be classics.

Was getting carried away.

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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2024, 02:03:35 PM »
I still bought the singles of ISHFWILF & Streets. For the B sides.

My version of 'One' had 'The Lady with the Spinning Head' 'Satelite of Love' and 'Night & Day'.

All of which I like.

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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2024, 03:07:34 PM »
Well I like LT and WTTW better, but WOWY is undoubtedly a better song. I've just heard it so much more often.
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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2024, 04:08:00 PM »
WOWY is one of the most unique songs in their catalog.

This poll is a bit meh.

I don’t see you contributing any new polls or threads so I’d say my ‘meh’ poll trumps your silence.
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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2024, 04:44:23 PM »
WOWY is one of the most unique songs in their catalog.

This poll is a bit meh.

I don’t see you contributing any new polls or threads so I’d say my ‘meh’ poll trumps your silence.



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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2024, 07:28:29 AM »
When we were teenagers, my brother, my cousin and I went to the arcade. They had a jukebox.
My brother had a crush on this girl he wanted to impress. So he went to the jukebox and told her the b-side tracks of the WOWY single were as good, if not better than the a-side. Then he pressed the button to play the b-side. What he didn’t know is that, on that jukebox 7’’ single, the b-side was pressed at 33rpm. So when he played the tunes and the machine was set at 45rpm, they were played quite fast !
There was this embarrassing moment where my brother tried to salvage his statement and the girl just nodded and said « yeah, I can see how it would work at the right speed ».
A dangerous idea that almost makes sense...

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Re: A sides VS B sides: PT1: With or Without You
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2024, 10:42:28 AM »
I really adore all 3 tunes listed
In the garden I was playing the tart
I kissed your lips and broke your heart
You
You were acting like it was the end of the world