After some discussion over in the New Album thread, I said I would start an Album Outtakes Thread, listing demos, working titles and unreleased tracks from each session., that are spoken of in various official articles and by the band themselves from off moments.
If anyone wants to add any songs to the list they're more than welcome. Please check first whether the titles you're adding are fake, rehearsals / soundchecks and whatever else before you submit, otherwise this list is not going to be a true list (unless you can provide a source which is even better).
Thanks to all who have helped out in this thread, and if anyone has any more, go for it, or even information (or snippets of a song) they'd like to share and expand the list, please help out.
White City (1)
Celtic Trap
Bird Whistle
Return of Sting Ray Guitar
African Sunrise / Spirits of the Rising Sun
Three Minutes To Midnight
Percussion #1 and #2
French Song
Slow Drive
(2) White City is mentioned in Issue 14 of Propaganda Magazine by Daniel Lanois.
Present Tense (1)
Wave of Sorrow (2)
The Executioner's Song
Under The Weather (Girls?) (3)
Tell Them The Story (1)
Desert Of Our Love (2)
Beautiful Ghost (2)
America (2)
Rise Up (2)
(1) Present Tense and Tell Them The Story are both from the very early stages of The Joshua Tree sessions. They also leaked to various websites as very-poor quality snippets.
(2) Later released as part of The Joshua Tree 20th Anniversary Edition.
===============================Rattle and Hum===============================
Heartland Storm (1)
She's Gonna Blow Your House Down (2)
We Almost Made It This Time
My Time Hasn't Come
Jesus Christ (3)
Tokyo
Moving Out
(1) Heartland Storm became Heartland on the final Rattle and Hum record.
(2) Played numerous times by the band in the Rattle and Hum Outtakes; most notably at the beach hut.
(3) Jesus Christ is a Woodie Guthrie cover, released in 2004 on the Unreleased and Rare digital compilation.
Down All Days (1)
She's Holding On / Bare Back / California (2)
Candy Man
Fat Boy
Sick Puppy (3)
Stay At This Time
(1) The original version of Numb.
(2) Supposed working titles and demos of Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses. California was also found on an auction site for an Island Records promotional recording.
(3) The supposed working title of Mysterious Ways.
Sinatra (1)
Piano : Poem
Jesus Drove Me
Landscape
Cry Baby
Indian Jam
The Dead Man
Sponge
Lose Control / If I Should Ever Lose Control
Johnny Cash On The Moon (2)
Wanderlust (2)
(1) Working title of Stay (Faraway, So Close) as explained in U2byU2.
(2) Working titles and original demos of The Wanderer. A third version without Johnny Cash vocals also exists, instead with Bono's vocals.
Hymn To Mr. (?) Universe / Hymn To The (?) Universe (2)
In Cold Blood (8)
Super City Mania (5)
MMFR (1)
Novelty Act
If I Should Ever Lose Control
Sparky's Left The Planet
Nosejob (7)
Untidy Life
Jesus Drove Me
Drug
Religious
Big Girls Are Best (4)
Scott Walker (3)
Oedipussy (1)
The Return of The Fly (1)
Revenge...(?) (6)
(1) Working titles and demos of Mofo.
(2) Working title and demos of The Playboy Mansion.
(3) Original elements of City of Blinding Lights.
(4) Later released on the 7EP in 2002.
(5) Super City Mania was meant to be released on a radio-only promo record but became a last-minute Island Records casualty. Supposedly it is the exact same song as Miami, but shorter in length, which indicates it could be have been a single or radio promo track as well.
(6) Several articles document this as being called Revenge of the Apple Mac, but others document it as being called Revenge.
=======================All That You Can't Leave Behind=========================
Always (1)
Bulldozer (5)
Jubilee (8)
Stir My Soul (8)
Sometimes
Peru
Again (9)
Stranded
Novelty Act (4)
Busy Bee (3)
Love Is All Around
Good Morning (4)
Helicopter
Once Upon A Time
Miracle Drug
Never Say Goodbye
Most Beautiful Girl
Could Have Fooled Me
Baby’s Got No Home
Higher Than Love
Frog Rock
If I Had You To Myself
Cowboy Miracle
Zubu House
Density Trap
High Life House
Jam Man
Lightning To Monday
Velvet Voice
Taffy Apple
Young Blood
Yet Another (?)
Don’t Steel My Heart
Frontier of The Skin
Sweat of The Sun
The Discovery
Gum Tree
Big Jesus About Town
Rock My Soul
Identity Crisis
Snow is Falling
Home (This Bird Has Flown) (?) (10)
Dangerous Key
Big Rock Ballad
A Dozen Roses
A Man And A Woman (6)
Last Week of My Life
Roll The Rocking Chair
Walk Through The Circle
Yesterday and Tomorrow
Night Shift / Harder / Love and Peace
Levitation / Levitate (2)
With My Body Thee Worship
The Sun, The Moon and The Stars
Come On / Love Is All Around
Not Supposed To Be This Way
Fallen Angel / Guardian Angel
But The Tears Will Come Soon
Love Will Never Say Goodbye
$1,000,000 Theme
Are You Going To Wait Forever
A Man's A Man (7)
Electrical Storm (7)
One Step Closer To Knowing (7)
You Can't Give Away Your Heart (7)
Try To Believe This (9)
(1) The original demo of Beautiful Day. Always was released along with Big Girls Are Best and five other unreleased songs on the 7EP in 2002.
(2) Later released as part of the Unreleased and Rare digital compilation. Bono describes Levitate as a direction the album could have gone.
(3) Busy Bee was meant to have been released on one of the Stuck In A Moment singles in 2000, but never happened. There is still talk of a digital release in a few years time, which will include the song and other outtakes from various sessions.
(4) Good Morning and Novelty Act were both seen on a whiteboard from a photo taken during the sessions.
(5) Bulldozer is described by Larry as one of his favourite songs from the entire recording sessions. When he was asked about the song by an interviewer, he said U2 would like to finish the song one day and Bono nodded. A fan later asked if it was the same song as Elevation, but Larry's reply was somewhere along the lines of ''Nope, different''.
(6) Referred to by Eno as Boomerang III.
(7) In the Jaunary 2002 issue of Spin Magazine, Bono is asked about whether he's been writing while they've been touring for Elevation. He mentions four songs that will be released; Electrical Storm, A Man's A Man for Martin Scorsese's upcoming film Gangs of New York, One Step Closer To Knowing and You Can't Give Your Heart Away.
(8) Jubilee and Stir My Soul are both seen on a whiteboard under several illegible titles in the video for Beautiful Day, filmed in Eze.
(9) Try To Believe This or Again were meant to have been released for the Tomb Raider II soundtrack.
(10) Elements from Home such as the bridge were used for Walk On.
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Smile (1)
Native Son (1)
Xanax and (Red) Wine (1)
Firefly (3)
Sky Hawk (3)
Shark Soup
Full Metal Jacket (5)
Tough (7)
Mercy (4)
North Star (2)
One Step Closer To Knowing
Lead Me In The Way I Should Go (6)
You Can't Give Away Your Heart
Jubilee (6)
Good Morning (6)
Love Is...Perfecto (6)
(1) Smile, Xanax and (Red) Wine and Native Son were all released as part of the Unreleased and Rare digital compilation. Smile was again released as part of the digital download service release of 18 Singles in 2006.
(2) Michael W. Smith collaborated with the band in 2003 on North Star at Hanover Quay Studios. He contributed his organ skills on the B3. Bono describes it as a tribute to Johnny Cash, celebrating his faith.
(3) Firefly was the original demo of City of Blinding Lights. Skyhawk was the second version of that song, but scheduled for the Spiderman and later cancelled.
(4) Mercy was one of the longest songs produced during the entire sessions, and is described by Blender Magazine as 'a six-and-a-half-minute outpouring of U2 at its most uninhibitedly U2-ish'. It was cut from the final album release, and the lyrics can be found in the special edition hardcover book.
(5) The original demo of Vertigo, and one described by Bono as 'the mother of all rock tunes', and was said by many sources and publishing outlets to be on the final How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
(6) Bono tells Grammy Magazine about a new song called Lead Me In The Way I Should Go, which ''could be a big song''.
(7) Original demo recording of Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own.
This section is written from photographs of Bono's stolen briefcase and the notes inside. The handwriting in those notes is not exactly the most legible, so I've taken a guess and put a ? next to the ones I'm not sure of. These are all demos and working titles from 1976 - 1981, but their exact years are unknown at this point.
Pop
Spring
Beatles
Beast
Talking
When I Fall Down
No Man's Land
The End of Fire
Street Mission (2)
Speed of Life (1)
Love Is A Word
False Prophet
It Just Might
Night Fright
Cars and Aeroplane
Shelter From The Storm
Concentration Cramp
Believe In Me
Inside Out
Love Is A Word
It's Just As Well
Instrumentals (?)
Christmas (?)
(1) Speed of Life was released on the 2008 Boy Remastered Edition.
(2) Street Mission was released as part of the Unreleased and Rare digital compilation.
Stand Up (2)
Breathe
One Bird
Get On Your Boots (4)
The Cedars of Lebanon
Moment of Surrender (5)
For Your Love (6)
No Line On The Horizon (3)
Unknown Title (It's Six O'Clock) (?)
If I Could Live My Life Again (1)
(1) Appears as part of the extra material from the book Bono In Conversation with Michka Assayas. In the book, Bono tells Michka that it was inspired by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borge and had started writing the song in December of 2005.
(2) Bono told Reuters Online that Stand Up was inspired by the Stand Up and Take Action campaign, which took place on October 17 - 19, and that "it's not a 'let's hold hands and the world is a better place sort of song. It's more kick down the door of your own hypocrisy".
(3) Edge and Bono are interviewed by USA Today's Anthony Breznican at Sundance. Bono interrupts the interview, at which point he finds a CD and plays it, with what Breznican describes as 'rough, weaving between brutal guitar blasts underscoring the mellow title refrain'. Edge tells Breznincan that his guitar technician got the distortion box from a recommendation by former Secret Machines guitarist Ben Curtis.
(4) Described by Edge as ''Eddie Cochran with barbershop harmonies'' when speaking to Q Magazine, and makes use of acoustic guitar overdubs. The original mix of this song has been completed as early as September of 2008. The song was also originally reported by many media outlets, particularly The Sunday Times, to be called Sexy Boots.
(5) An eight-minute-long track, to which Brian Eno says told fans outside Hanover Quay Studios in early June 2008 it is ''the best thing'' he's recorded with U2.
Tonight
An American Prayer
Hang Up
Walk Away
One Love
City At Night
Wherever You Are
In My Eyes I Cry
Gives Away Love
Something Happens
I Love The Apple Mac (?)
Control Room
Treason
Could you make clearer what exactly are you intending to collect here? Working titles, alternate versions, unreleased tracks, true demo's or a mixture of all of this, as the actual list suggests...?
Could you make clearer what exactly are you intending to collect here? Working titles, alternate versions, unreleased tracks, true demo's or a mixture of all of this, as the actual list suggests...?
Demos, working titles, alternate versions and unreleased songs. Only a list - I don't want the actual files themselves. So really, sort of a mixture of things.
I'm not interested in rehearsals or things like that, hence it would be called "Soundchecks and Rehearsals". What I am trying to find as well, was a topic which had some Brian Eno notes in it and a list of demos not here - someone posted it but I can't remember who.
Okay, you could start from adding the titles on the Salome Outtakes for AB and the three leftovers from Zooropa then.
Could you tell me something about the Pop era stuff? I know about Hymn to the Universe, MFRR”, Supercity Mania and Big Girls are Best. But the rest doesn't ring any bell at the moment.
Okay, you could start from adding the titles on the Salome Outtakes for AB and the three leftovers from Zooropa then.
Could you tell me something about the Pop era stuff? I know about Hymn to the Universe, Supercity Mania and Big Girls are Best. But the rest doesn't ring any bell at the moment.
Alright, trade of knowledge. What were the three Zooropa left overs?
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Alright, trade of knowledge. What were the three Zooropa left overs?
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Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me, Wake Up Dead Man and If You Wear That Velvet Dress.
I knew that list from U2station as txt file, but I thought, you might know what these are/became, like Supercity Mania became Miami, Scott Walker (is that one in the list?) became COBL, ...
damn, I've never even heard of 90% of the songs listed lol
I've heard of the songs, but not listened to them before.
quote:
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me, Wake Up Dead Man and If You Wear That Velvet Dress.
I knew that list from U2station as txt file, but I thought, you might know what these are/became, like Supercity Mania became Miami, Scott Walker (is that one in the list?) became COBL, ...
Never knew about Scott Walker before - added to the Pop section. What else is in the txt file - maybe we can dig something out from there.
After some discussion over in the New Album thread, I said I would start an Album Outtakes Thread, listing demos and unreleased tracks from each session.
If anyone wants to add any songs to the list they're more than welcome. Please check first whether the titles you're adding are fake, rehearsals and whatever else before you submit, otherwise this list is not going to be a true list (unless you can provide a source which is even better).
Boy
October
War
The Unforgettable Fire
The Joshua Tree
Present Tense
Under The Weather Girls
Tell Them The Story
Beautiful Ghost
Rattle and Hum
Heartland Storm
She's Gonna Blow Your House Down
We Almost Made It This Time
My Time Hasn't Come
Jesus Christ
Achtung Baby
The Achtung Baby Outtakes (3 CDs, too many to list here)
Zooropa
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Wake Up, Dead Man
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Pop
Hymn To Mr Universe
In Cold Blood
Super City Mania
MMFR
If I Should Ever Lose Control
Sparky's Left The Planet
Nosejob
Untidy Life
Jesus Drove Me
Cry Baby
Indian Jam
Sponge
Landscape
Drug
Religious
Big Girls Are Best
Scott Walker
All That You Can't Leave Behind
Always
Levitate
Bulldozer
Jubilee
Stir My Soul
Home (This Bird Has Flown)
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Shark Soup
Full Metal Jacket
Tough
Smile
Mercy
Native Son
North Star
Lead Me In The Way I Should Go
You Can't Give Away Your Heart
Xanax and Wine
No Line On The Horizon (TBC)
Sexy Boots
The Cedars of Lebanon
Moment of Surrender
For Your Love
One Bird
No Line On The Horizon
If I Could Live My Life Again
Love Is All We Have Left
Various / Early / Unknown Sessions
Inside Out
Tonight
Out of Control
Street Mission
Shadows and Tall Trees
The Fool
The Magic Carpet
Twilight
Another Time, Another Place
Alone In The Light
False Prophet
Boy / Girl
Stories For Boys
A Day Without Me
Another Day
The Dream Is Over
"If God Will Send His Angels" also belongs in the Zooropa outtakes section.
"Numb" was called "Down All Days" - was an outtake of the Achtung Baby sessions.
"Love And Peace" dates back to the ATYCLB sessions.
"City of Blinding Lights" in one form or another dates back to the Pop sessions.
"If God Will Send His Angels" also belongs in the Zooropa outtakes section.
"Numb" was called "Down All Days" - was an outtake of the Achtung Baby sessions.
"Love And Peace" dates back to the ATYCLB sessions.
"City of Blinding Lights" in one form or another dates back to the Pop sessions.
I've left Love and Peace with an * - I'm not sure whether it was an ATYCLB track. I would have thought and sure I read Pop, but open to further sourcing.
Edit: Got it - Sinatra. Now we need Boy / War / October / Unforgettable Fire - I don't think October or Unforgettable Fire are gonna have a lot of tracks.
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