Grace is a precursor to Unknown Caller, in that it combines a lovely musical piece with a lyrical dumpster fire.
Anyone actually like Grace?
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I'm fine with IALW on the album. The reason people hated it on the 360 tour was that it was one (unnecessary) mid tempo, adult contemporary song in the set. Here they were with the most revolutionary stage production EVER, and they underutilized it with shit like that. I was lucky enough to miss it at all 3 of my 360 shows. It's like paying a porn star to come over and cuddle!
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Grace is actually one of my all-time favourite songs - it is stunning in its understatedness
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And it's understated in its stunningness!
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pah!
Fine. Fight scheduled for just before the Melbourne JT30 show.
popacrobat
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Grace is fine.
re: In a Little While on 360. I am sort of bummed I didn't see it once on 360. I got to 10 shows and missed it every time. Granted, I agree with everybody - not the right venue for it, but still, I like the song and I would've liked to have seen it at one of those shows.
re: In a Little While on 360. I am sort of bummed I didn't see it once on 360. I got to 10 shows and missed it every time. Granted, I agree with everybody - not the right venue for it, but still, I like the song and I would've liked to have seen it at one of those shows.
IALW isn't one of my favourites on ATYCLB, but not one of the worst either. I'm mostly indifferent to it, but I really like the lyrics.
The greats on ATYCLB IMO are Walk On, Kite, SIAMYCGOO, BD, and WILATW. And if it counts, TGBHF.
Elevation is catchy and memorable, was a song I initially didn't like, but it really grew on me.
Then comes the rest of the album, POE, IALW, and WH.
Then New York.
Then an enourmous gap.
Then Grace.
The greats on ATYCLB IMO are Walk On, Kite, SIAMYCGOO, BD, and WILATW. And if it counts, TGBHF.
Elevation is catchy and memorable, was a song I initially didn't like, but it really grew on me.
Then comes the rest of the album, POE, IALW, and WH.
Then New York.
Then an enourmous gap.
Then Grace.
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corianderstem
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I like its simplicity, and the lyrics don't bother me, but I really don't care for the way Bono sings it.
So I don't like it.
So I don't like it.
womanfish
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Simply put - NO
Catman
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Not my favorite album closer from the band, but it occupies a certain space in U2's sonic discography that I can, once in a blue moon, certainly appreciate.
Nick66
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Those last lines are all U2, as far as I know. The relevant bits from Psalm 40...
I waited patiently for the Lord
And He inclined to me and heard my cry
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction
Out of the miry clay
And He set my feet upon a rock, making my footsteps firm
He put a new song in my mouth
A song of praise to our God
Many will see and fear and will trust in the Lord
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kiwilad
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This is the thing. It's not just a song in isolation. It's a closer. Some of my fave U2 songs are closers. Mothers of the Disappeared. Shadows. All I Want is You. Love is Blindness.
With their album closers they've often pushed the boat out a little with length, tone, style.
With Grace they pushed the boat out but didn't bring any engine, or oars. Or a sail. It just floats their aimlessly.
Nick66
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Of course, that's what it's all about!
If you want an echo chamber with a bunch of people bobbing their heads in agreement, head over to the US politics thread.
gweeps
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Grace is filler, but pretty filler.
I'll have you defeated in time to enjoy A Sort of Homecomi- oh.
Nailed it.
Strikes me as a bit trite.
MrPryck2U
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I've always regarded Grace as a fitting coda for ATYCLB.
silkensky
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My favorite thing about Grace is the atmosphere and the guitar parts, which to me really sounds more like Daniel Lanois playing than Edge. Some cringeworthy lyrics but the song does have lots of soul to it. I like it.
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RockNRollDawgie
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I like the song a lot. When I saw U2 during the "Elevation Tour," (post 9/11) "Grace" was played on
the PA system as the audience was leaving the venue. Not sure if U2 did that at all their shows?
the PA system as the audience was leaving the venue. Not sure if U2 did that at all their shows?
popacrobat
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i believe so.
Nick66
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Yes, a recorded Grace was the outro.
While the set lists could sometimes have been better, in terms of raw performance Elevation was one of the best tours U2 ever did, and certainly the best post-2000.
While the set lists could sometimes have been better, in terms of raw performance Elevation was one of the best tours U2 ever did, and certainly the best post-2000.
Ah yes, the sudden OCD hate for IALW by some during 360.
Yet virtually no one hated arguably their worst setlist call...putting that rock on song, anthem of a tune, greatest hit --- Your blue room - in the set.
People bash Your Blue Room being in the set all the time. The fuck you talkin' 'bout?
It's a decent enough song, pleasant on the ears. Musically, I don't have much issue with it, but lyrically...yikes. I knew a girl named Grace in college, so it reminds me of her too. Yes, that's corny I realize, but it's fitting hehe, because so is the song.
ATYCLB is an album I like, though I'll chalk it up to nostalgia as it was my first U2 album. Still, I'll take Grace over Yahweh anyday. But Cedars of Lebanon and The Troubles easily crush both (some of their finest post-2000s work too IMO).
ATYCLB is an album I like, though I'll chalk it up to nostalgia as it was my first U2 album. Still, I'll take Grace over Yahweh anyday. But Cedars of Lebanon and The Troubles easily crush both (some of their finest post-2000s work too IMO).
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Would not say I love it but I always find these lyrics touching:
What once was hurt
What once was friction
What left a mark
No longer stings
Because Grace makes beauty
Out of ugly things
That makes the song worthwhile for me.
What once was hurt
What once was friction
What left a mark
No longer stings
Because Grace makes beauty
Out of ugly things
That makes the song worthwhile for me.
Yeah, I'm one of that song's biggest fans and even I was perplexed by its selection for 360 rather than, you know, indoor legs of Vertigo or IE, not to mention how it was clumsily combined with the astronaut stuff.
Performing Your Blue Room was a good idea. They just chose the wrong time and wrong style. I'd love it to be revisited on a more intimate tour, when it might have the opportunity to not completely suck the life out of the venue.
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