DaveC
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You've all just been trolled, I think.
My WTF moments are vertigo tour during zoo station. When Bono and edge sing 'alright, alright, alright, not alright.' Like 2 middle aged men trying to hold on to their youth, all I could think is 'Someone give me a gun!'
Also pop mart. I know it's a lot of people's favourite tour and they are welcome to their opinion but, good god those days were very bad to look back on.
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Why was North and South Of the River dropped from Pop? I think it's an awesome song and would've been great paired with Please. There's a live version I have on mp3, and it just makes me wonder why the heck songs like Playboy Mansion got on that record and not NASOTR.
I think I'm in the minority in this opinion but Playboy Mansion is one of my favorite songs on POP. Its so mellow and the "cheesy" lyrics are fine with me because they are intentional. I would rank it right behind DYFL, Disco and SATS as my 4th favorite song on that album(not sure there is a 5th though).
With that said, I also enjoyed North and South of the River and would have preferred it over WUDM(I've written before that I can't stand this song, again not a popular opinion around this place), Miami (awful song) & Mofo.
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-- Macphisto
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This was the ultimate live WTF moment(really the whole show was). It's hard to watch as that first take sounds like a group of middle schoolers meeting for the first time in one of their basements trying to play this song.
I do wish that they kept working at the full band version of this song as hit could have some real bite! Oh well....what could have been.
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It's fair to say that if you compare footage of early eighties U2 at a festival to the Glasto performance, Bono made more of an effort back then to reach out the whole crowd and engage the back as well as the front. I guess as a young band they had a lot to work for, especially pre-War when they were pretty unknown.
Also, cue "Bono was fitter back then"/"soddin' mountain goat"/"Guinness: sorry PLEBA" jokes.
My WTF moments are vertigo tour during zoo station. When Bono and edge sing 'alright, alright, alright, not alright.' Like 2 middle aged men trying to hold on to their youth, all I could think is 'Someone give me a gun!'
Also pop mart. I know it's a lot of people's favourite tour and they are welcome to their opinion but, good god those days were very bad to look back on.
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Ditto
U2 + Mary J Blige + One = Musical RAPE
U2 + Mary J Blige + One = Musical RAPE
Yeah that was egotistical and in the end had such low ratings. In hindsight it looks even worse.
Two off the top of my head:
1) Not including North and South of the River on POP. Gents, what the hell? Song is incredible and could easily replace Miami and Playboy and lead to a much more consistent and solid record.
2) Glastonbury. Just a bad performance, bad night for the band. I was actually watching some yesterday and they were just completely off. Even Streets was bad with the intro being all messed up and out of time. When Streets is bad, the song that can save any set according to Bono then things just aren't going your way.
Guy liner
Grace
The Elevation video.
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