A Bowery Cover Discovery

Digging deep into our vault of U2 covers we found what we believe to be one of the first commercially released covers of a U2 song. It was recorded live at the Bowery, Oklahoma City, November 11 1984, and released at the end of 1984 under the title “The S**t Hits The Fans.”
u2log.com is not overly proud to present to you The Replacements‘ version of I Will Follow.
Note that this is just a brief snippet of the song, as a reviewer of the show properly points out: “A great sounding, amusing show in which the Mats take requests and perform 30 second versions of a lot of hits (other people’s hits, of course).”
If you know of a U2 cover that was commercially released prior to this one, please let us know.

10 thoughts on “A Bowery Cover Discovery”

  3. Peter’s perhaps better known as ‘Crayon’ online. He’s been with U2log.com for a while now, but has not posted much (yet!).

  4. Peter’s perhaps better known as ‘Crayon’ online. He’s been with U2log.com for a while now, but has not posted much (yet!).

  7. That’s because the ‘Mats most likely never rehearsed it and were wasted!! They were notorious boozers…but were a great band. Paul Westerberg may be one of great songwriters of the last 20 years.

  8. That’s because the ‘Mats most likely never rehearsed it and were wasted!! They were notorious boozers…but were a great band. Paul Westerberg may be one of great songwriters of the last 20 years.

  9. yeah, the mats wrote a song that was supposed to be a response to “i will follow” named “kids don’t follow”. part of their drunken haze.

  10. yeah, the mats wrote a song that was supposed to be a response to “i will follow” named “kids don’t follow”. part of their drunken haze.

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