U2 - Sweetest Thing - Non-Album Tracks (1987)

I just posted an album of U2 stray tracks from 1986 and 1987. They released one of the greatest albums of all time with "The Joshua Tree" in 1987. But they were so productive that I have another album of stray tracks from that period to present here.

Maybe it would have been smarter to make one really strong album of all the best stray tracks from this era. But I've decided to be more inclusive and make two, because they're pretty much all good songs. Perhaps you could merge them into one album of your favorites if you want to go that route.

The other album I made had some odd things from solo efforts and collaborations, as well as a couple of cover songs. This is much more straightforward, with just one collaboration (poet Allen Ginsburg on "Drunk Chicken - America") and one cover (of Hank Williams' "Lost Highway"). The rest are all vintage U2 originals.

In my opinion, the song "Sweetest Thing" should have been included on "The Joshua Tree," or at least released as a single, and should have been a hit. U2 eventually wised up to how good a song it was by recording a nearly identical version in 1998 and having a hit with it then.

01 Sweetest Thing (U2)
02 Silver and Gold (U2)
03 Race Against Time (U2)
04 Moving Out (U2)
05 Beautiful Ghost - Introduction to Songs of Experience (U2)
06 Wave of Sorrow [Birdland] (U2)
07 Desert of Our Love (U2)
08 Rise Up (U2)
09 Drunk Chicken - America (U2 with Allen Ginsberg)
10 Springhill Mining Disaster (U2)
11 Lost Highway [Acoustic] (U2)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701190/UTWO1987b_SwetstThng_atse.zip.html

The album cover I made this time is almost identical to the last one I just posted. All I did differently was swap out the photo and change the text. I did that because the band was so extremely consistent with the artwork for all their releases during this time period.