Listened to the Last Night on Earth single. That single mix, like all of the Pop single mixes, is worse than the album version. So much more polished, and aside from that wicked guitar tone Edge plays, totally lacks the grit of the album. The bridge is pretty crap in the album, but it's much worse on the single mix. So I guess this inability to assess their own music correctly, extends as far back as 1997. The Pop Muzik mix rules. I can take or leave Happiness is a Warm Gun, the Danny Saber remix is a bit better. And the Soul Assassin's mix of Numb is fun, I like Bono (or Edge?) just flatly saying "I feel numb" every now and then. First Night in Hell mix of LNOE is cool, but just a generic industrial techno song, they should have just called it First Night in Hell cos it has nothing to do with LNOE.
What I'd fucking give / have given for U2 experimenting more in this direction though, jesus. I can imagine Larry just hating all of this. I wonder if part of why ATYCLB came about was because Larry had a massive sook for half a decade in the 90s.
My Popmart show was 27 years ago yesterday and they seemed old to me as a teenager, but damn in this video Bono looks so young to me now. In some alternative timeline, this was the hit single they were yearning for on Pop.
