Originally posted by gavinfriday:Why on earth is decided to put this little jewel as a bonus track on some releases of ATYCLB??? Why wasn't this put on the 'standard' album, since this would have been the one and only perfect follow-up on With Or Without You as a milestone U2-hitsingle, more than One and Beautiful Day, even combined, could have been.
My two cents...
Originally posted by drewhiggins:It's a nice song, but singles are put out to promote the album the best way possible. Probably the same reason songs like Holy Joe and Fast Cars were only put on certain region releases of those two respective albums.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet isn't that sort of song. Beautiful Day is more appealing for the general public, promotion and sales - but in no way a better song. Look at the songs put out to promote U2 albums (first singles):
Boy: Another Day
October: Fire
War: New Year's Day
The Unforgettable Fire: Pride (In The Name of Love)
The Joshua Tree: With or Without You
Rattle and Hum: Desire
Achtung Baby: The Fly
Zooropa: Numb
Pop: Discotheque
All That You Can't Leave Behind: Beautiful Day
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb: Vertigo
Would you put something like Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own or Last Night On Earth as lead singles for those albums? Perhaps for personal satisfaction, but certainly not for satisfaction of profit or sales. But singles are better for release, for the fact more people buy those - a lot just don't buy the albums anymore, because they think 50% is filler.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet would have been seen as that.
Originally posted by cqleonardo:I'm listening a lot the Rio version, I forgot the promoted ATYCLB here in Brazil (they even filmed the video for Walk On, duh) and I'm listening a lot to the bootleg of them in Rio 2000