What would possess someone to gather up every single take and remix of
U2's "Two Hearts Beat As One" and have it pressed to CD risking the repercussions a bootleg such as this might entail? Not sure, but despite it's inherent redundancy I'm happy
Two Hearts and Other Strange Things exists. It's certainly not the most iconic song off of
War, and for that matter it strikes me as a tad underwritten on certain listens. Nonetheless, it's a perfect snapshot of
Bono & Co's development since
Boy and
October, if not lyrically, sonically. "Two Hearts..." delights with an alluring, bittersweet chorus hook and the chiming, jagged fretwork is quintessential
Edge. There's a semblance of restraint here that would expand exponentially on future U2 records, yet it doesn't cut the line completely with the band's earlier aesthetic. In short, a downright respectable balance.
The thirteen variations of "Two Hearts" is followed up by a thirty minute extraction from a late '87 acoustic jam session with Bono and the Edge, fleshing out two new songs we never saw the finished versions of, plus previews of "Heartland" and "Van Diemen's Land" songs that would soon crop up on
Rattle and Hum.
Two Hearts Beat as One - thirteen versions
01. vocal session take
02. vocal rough take 1
03. instrumental alt take
04. alternate vocal take 1
05. alternate vocal take
06. vocal mix take
07. vocal rough take 2
08. vocal classic mix take 1
09. vocal classic mix take 2
10. instrumental classic take
11. vocal dance take
12. instrumental dance take
13. avantgarde mix take
14. acoustic jam session, Nov 1987
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