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Where the Streets Have No Name

"Where the Streets Have No Name" is a song by Irish rock band

Rock music

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U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
, from their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree

The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released 9 March 1987 on Island Records. Recording sessions took place from July to November 1986 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland....
. It was released August 1987 as the third single from The Joshua Tree. Bono was inspired to write the lyrics by the notion that it's possible to identify a person's religion by the street on which they lived, particularly in Belfast

Belfast

Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of Devolution#United Kingdom Northern Ireland Executive and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland....
, and also their income depending upon the part of the street. Amidst difficulties recording the song, producer Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
attempted to erase it.

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"Where the Streets Have No Name" is a song by Irish rock band

Rock music

Belfast

Brian Eno

Arpeggio

In music, an arpeggio is a broken Chord where the notes are played or sung in sequence, one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously....
utilizing a delay effect that is played at the beginning and end of the song.

It peaked at #14 in Canada, #10 in The Netherlands and #4 in the United Kingdom. The song became a staple of live shows, being played 645 times at 642 shows since its inaugural performance 2 April 1987 in Tempe, Arizona

Tempe, Arizona

Tempe is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, Arizona, United States, with a 2007 population of 174,091. The city is named after the Vale of Tempe in Greece....
. Its critical reception was mostly warm, praised by music critics such as Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
. In Rolling Stone issue 1054, the song was ranked 28th in the issue's list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time."

This song is played during the home introduction of the Baltimore Ravens

Baltimore Ravens

The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They compete in the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
of the NFL and the Vancouver Canucks

Vancouver Canucks

The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference , of the National Hockey League ....
of the NHL.

Writing and recording

"Where the Streets Have No Name" was conceived prior to one of the Joshua Tree recording sessions by guitarist The Edge

The Edge

David Howell Evans , more widely known by his nickname and stage name The Edge , is a British people Irish people musician known best as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist for the Ireland rock band U2....
. While recording the song as a band, however, they ran into difficulty. The song's frequent chord and time changes caused problems in playing the song correctly; the difficulty was so great that producer Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Larry Mullen Jr.

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Mullen, Jr. is the drummer for the Irish rock music band U2. He is the founder of U2, which was originally known as "The Larry Mullen Band" at its inception....
later said of the song, "It took so long to get that song right, it was difficult for us to make any sense of it. It only became a truly great song through playing live. On the record, musically, it's not half the song it is live." Originally, the third single from The Joshua Tree was meant to be the song "Red Hill Mining Town

Red Hill Mining Town

"Red Hill Mining Town" is the sixth track from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree.The song was initially intended to be the second single from the Joshua Tree album....
", but "Where the Streets Have No Name" was released instead.

The song is interpreted in different ways; a common interpretation of the lyrics is that it refers to the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland, where a person's religion is evident by the street they live on. In a 1987 interview, Bono

Bono

Paul David Hewson , also known by his stage name Bono, is the main vocalist of the Ireland rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2....
said of the song:

"Where the Streets Have No Name is more like the U2 of old than any of the other songs on the LP, because it’s a sketch - I was just trying to sketch a location, maybe a spiritual location, maybe a romantic location. I was trying to sketch a feeling. I often feel very claustrophobic in a city, a feeling of wanting to break out of that city and a feeling of wanting to go somewhere where the values of the city and the values of our society don’t hold you down. An interesting story that someone told me once is that in Belfast, by what street someone lives on you can tell not only their religion but tell how much money they’re making - literally by which side of the road they live on, because the further up the hill the more expensive the houses become. You can almost tell what the people are earning by the name of the street they live on and what side of that street they live on. That said something to me, and so I started writing about a place where the streets have no name.

He also alluded to this in a 2000 interview, saying in response to the question of what place he was referring to in the song's lyrics, "I'm not sure, really, about that. I used to think it was Belfast, you know, 'cos in Belfast you can tell somebody's religion, you know, from what street they live on. You just have to say where you're born and everybody knows if you're a Catholic

Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
or a Protestant and... I think that might have been where "Where The Streets Have No Name" started from as an idea." He said later in the same interview that the song was about "Transcendence, elevation, whatever you want to call it."

Composition

The album version of "Where the Streets Have No Name" opens with an instrumental section, starting with chorale

Chorale

A chorale was originally a hymn of the Lutheran church sung by the entire congregation. In casual modern usage, the term also includes classical settings of such hymns and works of a similar character....
-like synthesizer

Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequency....
notes; the guitar, bass, and drums fade in near the one-minute mark. This part, following a I-IV-I-IV-vi-V-I chord progression

Chord progression

A chord progression is series of chord s played in order. Chord progressions are central to most modern music and the principal study of harmony....
, creates a "wall of sound", as described by Mark Butler, against which the vocals finally emerge after nearly two whole minutes. The bass and drums continue in regular eighth and sixteenth notes, while Bono's vocal performance, in contrast, varies greatly in its timbre

Timbre

In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices or musical instruments....
, ("he sighs; he moans; he grunts; he exhales audibly; he allows his voice to crack") as well as timing by his usage of rubato

Tempo rubato

Tempo rubato is a musical terminology for slightly speeding up or slowing down the tempo of a piece at the discretion of the Solo or the conducting....
to slightly offset the notes he sings from the beat.

The song's signature sound is a guitar part featuring a repeating arpeggio that is played at the beginning and end of the song. This arpeggio is notable for its use of delay, as each note in the arpeggio "plays" twice, creating a rich sound. The guitar part played for the remainder of the song features the Edge strumming sixteenth notes.

This development reaches a climax during the first chorus at the line "burning down love" (A-G-F#-D); the melody progresses through a series of scale degrees

Degree (music)

In music theory, a scale degree is the name of a particular note of a scale in relation to the Tonic . The degrees of the traditional major and minor scales may be identified several ways:...
that lead to the highest note in the song, the A4 at "burning". In later choruses, Bono sings "blown by the wind" with the same melody, stretching the same note even longer.

Critical reception

"Where the Streets Have No Name" was generally warmly received by critics. Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
called it "assertive rock" in their 1987 review of The Joshua Tree. In another 1987 review by the Boston Globe, it was said of the song: "Witness the album's very first two songs, "Where the Streets Have No Name" (with bell-like tones from the Edge framing a search for heaven) and the prayerfully hypnotic "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." These show the band as pilgrims still on a quest; not preachers who claim to have found answers." It was also reviewed favorably in the San Diego Union-Tribune, with the comments "The first cut, "Where the Streets Have No Name" sets a familiar tone for Side 1. The song begins with scratching guitar notes rising from solemn chords followed by Bono's disclosure: "I want to run/I want to hide/I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside." The music charges, like someone fleeing for life."

Live performances

Since its concert introduction on 2 April 1987 in Tempe, Arizona

Tempe, Arizona

Tempe is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, Arizona, United States, with a 2007 population of 174,091. The city is named after the Vale of Tempe in Greece....
, "Where the Streets Have No Name" has been played at almost every show up until the end of the Vertigo Tour

Vertigo Tour

The Vertigo Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the Republic of Ireland Rock music band U2. Launched in support of the group's 2004 in music album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, the visited arenas and stadiums from 2005 through 2006....
. There are slight variations in the live presentation versus the recorded version; for one, the live version of the song is performed in D-flat major, rather than in D major like the album version of the song. Also, the final verse is played differently; instead of singing the final verse, which contains the line "we're beaten and blown by the wind", Bono sings a short vocalization, then sings the "burning down love" chorus once more. In addition to that, Clayton plays a particularly striking melodic bassline in the chorus, reminiscent of the style of Peter Hook

Peter Hook

Peter "Hooky" Hook is an English people bass player.He was a co-founder of the post-punk band Joy Division along with Bernard Sumner in the mid-1970s....
, along the outline of a guitar part on the record. The Edge

The Edge

Fender Stratocaster

The Fender Stratocaster, often referred to as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, George Fullerton and Freddie Tavares in 1954, and manufactured continuously to the present....
of some sort for this song. On The Joshua Tree Tour and Vertigo Tour

Vertigo Tour

Lovetown Tour

The Lovetown Tour was a concert tour by the Ireland Rock music band U2, which took place in late 1989 and early 1990....
, he used a Lace Sensor

Lace Sensor

The Lace Sensor is a guitar pickup designed by Don Lace and manufactured by AGI since 1985.This line of electric guitar pickups was used exclusively by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation from 1987 to 1996....
pickup-equipped yellow Stratocaster with a black pickguard. On the Zoo TV

Zoo TV Tour

The Zoo TV Tour was an elaborately-staged worldwide concert tour by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2. Launched in support of the album Achtung Baby, the tour visited arenas and stadiums from 1992 through 1993....
, PopMart

Popmart Tour

The PopMart Tour, often referred to as simply PopMart, was a worldwide concert tour by the Republic of Ireland Rock music band U2. Launched in support of the group's 1997 album, Pop , the tour's concerts were performed in stadiums from 1997 through 1998....
and Elevation Tour

Elevation Tour

The Elevation Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the Ireland Rock music band U2. Launched in support of the group's 2000 in music album All That You Can't Leave Behind, the tour visited arenas in 2001....
s, he has used a 60s-era Stratocaster that is black with a white pickguard.

During live performances, the beginning of the song has been accompanied by a red background. This background has appeared on both TV screens (The Joshua Tree Tour to Elevation Tour) and in the form of flashing lights (Vertigo Tour

Vertigo Tour

The Vertigo Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the Republic of Ireland Rock music band U2. Launched in support of the group's 2004 in music album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, the visited arenas and stadiums from 2005 through 2006....
). The red background has appeared in the beginning on all occasions save a few exceptions—most notably at the Super Bowl performance where the names of those who perished in the events of September 11, 2001 attacks scrolled behind the band and on the Vertigo Tour, where scrolling African flags took its place. But on stadium performances in the European, Latin American, and Pacific legs, the red background would appear at the end of the song.

Music video

This video was directed by Meiert Avis

Meiert Avis

Meiert Avis is an Irish music video, commercials, and feature film director, he has completed videos for artists such as U2, Bruce Springsteen, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez, and Josh Groban amongst many others....
. The song was performed to playback on the rooftop of the Republic Liquor Store at East 7th Street and South Main Street in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
on 27 March 1987. The scenes including the police shutting the video down due to traffic concerns are real, although the video was edited and heavily overdubbed to make it appear the band defied the police and kept on filming the video. In reality, they stopped performing upon being ordered to do so. In 1988, the music video won a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
for "Best Performance Music Video". At the beginning of the video, a radio broadcast of the band's song "Bullet the Blue Sky

Bullet the Blue Sky

"Bullet the Blue Sky" is the fourth track from U2's 1987 in music album, The Joshua Tree. Although never released as a single, "Bullet the Blue Sky" has been played at nearly every one of the band's live concerts since its first performance at the opening night of the Joshua Tree Tour on April 2, 1987....
" can be heard.

Track listing

"Where the Streets Have No Name" (Single Version) (4:46)
"Silver and Gold" (4:40)
"The Sweetest Thing" (3:03)
"Race Against Time" (4:03)

This was the most common 12" release. The 7" version omitted "Race Against Time". "The Sweetest Thing" made its first appearance on this single, as an outtake from The Joshua Tree. The song would later be rerecorded and released as a single from the band's 1998, The Best of 1980-1990
The Best of 1980-1990

The Best of 1980?1990 is the first greatest hits compilation by Music of Ireland rock music band U2, released in November 1998. It mostly contains the group's hit singles from the eighties but also mixes in some live staples as well as one new recording....
. The single version of "Where the Streets Have No Name" is a different mix from the album, having a shorter introduction and close, and featuring additional backing vocals from The Edge. The single version was later included on the bonus disc of the 20th anniversary edition of The Joshua Tree.

B-sides

Silver and Gold

"Silver and Gold" is one of the few U2 songs written solely by Bono. It was originally written in support of the Artists United Against Apartheid

Artists United Against Apartheid

Artists United Against Apartheid was a 1985 protest group founded by activism and performer Steven Van Zandt to protest apartheid in South Africa, that produced the song "Sun City " and the album Sun City that year....
project, which protested the South African apartheid policy. The song was featured on the Project's 1985 album, Sun City
Sun City (album)

Sun City was a 1985 album that contained several versions of the Steven Van Zandt-led Artists United Against Apartheid's "Sun City " protest song against apartheid in South Africa as well as other selections in the same vein from that project....
, in a version that included Keith Richards

Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
and Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
.

"Silver and Gold" was later recorded in the studio by U2, and released as a B-side on the "Where the Streets Have No Name" single. The song was played live on The Joshua Tree Tour several times, one performance making onto the bands 1988 album and rockumentary

Rockumentary

The term 'rockumentary' is a neologism denoting a program on television or film documentary film about Rock music or its musicians. It is a portmanteau of the words "rock" and "documentary." The term was used by Bill Drake in the 1969 History of Rock & Roll radio broadcast, and by Rob Reiner in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal...
, Rattle and Hum
Rattle and Hum

Rattle and Hum is the name of both an album and a companion motion picture recorded by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2. Both were released in 1988....
. Both the studio recording and the Sun City version were later featured on the bonus disc of the 20th anniversary edition of The Joshua Tree. The studio version also included on the limited edition B-sides bonus disk of the band's first compilation album, The Best of 1980-1990.

The Sweetest Thing

"Sweetest Thing" is a song by U2, originally released as "The Sweetest Thing" in 1987 on the "Where the Streets Have No Name" single. It was written by Bono as an apology to his wife for forgetting her birthday. The song was later renamed "Sweetest Thing", re-recorded, re-released as a single for the The Best of 1980-1990, in 1998.

Race Against Time

"Race Against Time" was the third and final B-side to the "Where the Streets Have No Name" single. The track is almost purely instrumental, the sole lyric, "Race against time", being sung only twice throughout the song. The track is the only one of the single's B-sides that was never played live. It was also used in an episode of Miami Vice
Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an United States of America television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The show became noted for its heavy integration and use of music and visual effects to tell a story....
("Child's Play"). "Race Against Time" was later rereleased on the bonus disc of the 20th anniversary edition of The Joshua Tree.

Chart positions

Chart (1987)	Peak Position
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....	4
US Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....	13
US Mainstream Rock Tracks Mainstream Rock Tracks Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music but are not modern rock stations, which are counted in the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart....	11
Canada	14

Pet Shop Boys ("I Can't Take My Eyes off You")

In 1991, UK synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave music and pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It is most closely associated with the era between the late 1970s and early to middle 1980s, although it has continued to exist and develop ever since....
duo Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English people electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main Singing, Keyboard instruments and occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
covered "Streets" to accompany "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?", the third single from their 1990 album, Behaviour
Behaviour (album)

Behaviour is the fifth album, the fourth of entirely new music, by the United Kingdom electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1990....
, as a double A-side in the UK (both singles were released separately in the U.S.). Released in March 1991, this song was the band's fifteenth consecutive Top 20 hit in the UK, peaking at #4 on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
. The band have said that they thought the guitars in the original sounded similar to a sequencer

Music sequencer

A music sequencer is software or hardware designed to create and manage computer-generated music.Originally, music sequencers did not include the ability to record audio....
. In this version, "Streets" is turned into a medley with "Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Can't Take My Eyes off You

"Can't Take My Eyes Off You", written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, was a 1967 in music single by Frankie Valli. The song was among Valli's biggest hits, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning a Music recording sales certification....
", the 1960s single by Frankie Valli

Frankie Valli

Frankie Valli is an American musician, most famous as frontman of The Four Seasons .Valli, along with Tommy_DeVito_, Nick Massi, and Bob Gaudio, the original members of The Four Seasons , were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 in music and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999 in music....
, though in an arrangement informed by the 1981 disco version of the song by Boystown Gang rather than the original.

In the liner notes for the album Discography
Discography: The Complete Singles Collection

Discography: The Complete Singles Collection is an 18 track compilation by the United Kingdom electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1991....
, the Pet Shop Boys stated that they wanted to turn "a mythic rock song into a stomping disco record."

The Pet Shop Boys version has been significantly changed in its musical arrangement from the original version. In contrast to the U2 version's instrumental build-up, the Pet Shop Boys version opens abruptly with synthesized and sampled noises and a drum machine

Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. Drum machines are very useful instruments for a wide variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music....
. The musical climax of the song is also changed in other elements; a background vocal sample of "burning down love" is played right at the start, and synthesized horns erupt with even higher notes immediately following each chorus. Singer Neil Tennant

Neil Tennant

Neil Francis Tennant is an English people musician, singer and songwriter, who, with his colleague, Chris Lowe, make up the successful electronic dance music duo Pet Shop Boys....
performs the lyrics with no vocal exertion or stresses, in contrast to Bono's performance. In addition, at the transition between "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "Can't Take My Eyes off You", Tennant sings the two lines one after the other, with no change in pitch — pointing out the similarities in the two songs. Neil claims that when this record was released, Bono of U2 heard it for the first time, and issued the statement, 'what have we done to deserve this?'

This version has been paired with "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?", a song criticizing the insincere humanitarian messages of a number of pop stars during the 1980s and the institutionalization of rock and roll.

The Pet Shop Boys have performed the medley live as recently as during their 2007 Fundamental tour, as well as at the Moscow Live 8 concert

Live 8 concert, Moscow

On 2 July 2005, a Live 8 concert was held in Red Square, Moscow, Russia. Although not on such a large scale as the concerts held at Hyde Park, London and Philadelphia, it was still a momentous occasion for Russia, and had an impressive line up....
of 2005.

Tracklisting

7": Parlophone / R 6285 (UK)

"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (7" Edit) - 4:31
"How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" (single version) - 4:10

MC: EMI USA / 4KM-50351 (US)

"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (Original 7" Mix) - 4:31
"Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend" - 4:28

12": Parlophone / 12 R 6285 (UK)

"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (Extended Mix) - 6:44
"How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" (Extended Mix) - 6:03
"Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend" - 4:28

12": Parlophone / 12 RX 6285 (UK)

"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (David Morales
David Morales

David Morales , is an internationally acclaimed Grammy winning house music disc jockey and Record producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time, transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks....
Remix) - 6:24
"How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" (Mo Mo Remix) - 6:51
"How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" (Ragga Zone Remix) - 6:27

All tracks remixed by David Morales
David Morales

David Morales , is an internationally acclaimed Grammy winning house music disc jockey and Record producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time, transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks....
Also released on CD in Holland (560-20 4266 2)

12": EMI USA / V-56217 (US)

"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (12" Dance Mix) - 7:35
"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (Sound Factory Mix) - 4:37
"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (Red Zone Mix) - 6:18
"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (Eclipse Mix) - 1:38
"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (Ska Reprise) - 2:59
"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (7" Version) - 4:33

Tracks 1-5 remixed by David Morales
David Morales

David Morales , is an internationally acclaimed Grammy winning house music disc jockey and Record producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time, transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks....

CD: Parlophone / CD R 6285 (UK)

"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" - 5:35
"How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" (Extended Mix) - 6:03
"Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend" - 4:28
"How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" (Classical reprise) - 3:05

Tracks 2, 4 remixed by Brothers in Rhythm
Brothers in Rhythm

Brothers In Rhythm is a house music duet consisting of Record producer / remixers and disc jockeys Steve Anderson and Dave Seaman. As a duo and individually, they have remixed and/or produced tracks by M People, Secret Life , Janet Jackson, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue, Garbage , Placebo , Alanis Morissette, U2 and many others....

CD: EMI USA / E2-56217 (US)

"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (Original 7" Mix) - 4:31
"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (12" Dance Mix) - 7:36
"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" (Red Zone Mix) - 6:20
"Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend" - 4:28
"I Want a Dog" (Techno Funk Mix) - 4:08

Tracks 2-3 remixed by David Morales
David Morales

David Morales , is an internationally acclaimed Grammy winning house music disc jockey and Record producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time, transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks....

Where the Streets Have No Name

Writing and recording

Composition

Critical reception

Live performances

Music video

Track listing

B-sides

Silver and Gold

The Sweetest Thing

Race Against Time

Chart positions

Pet Shop Boys ("I Can't Take My Eyes off You")

Tracklisting

See also

External links