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Where can I find The Blackout? Its not on Spotify.
The Blackout
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BANZAI
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IT IS... type "the blackout u2" and you'll find it.
BANZAI
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Don't know if anyone ever mentioned the Paul Simon influence on the lyrics...
Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan
Don't need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus, don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free
(50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Paul Simon)
Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan
Don't need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus, don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free
(50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Paul Simon)
Peter Parker
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Thanks!
trevgreg
Rock n' Roll Doggie
I have a feeling if a song was released today with lyrics like this, they'd probably be considered a bit odd and juvenile too...
"Johnny, take a walk with your sister the moon
Let her pale light in, to fill up your room...
Johnny, take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can't explain..."
I want to like this song. But the beginning sounds like The Miracle which gets it off on the wrong foot. And the chorus isn't fulfilling. It falls rather hollow despite my most ardent wishful thinking and attempts to convince myself otherwise. Something's missing.
This will be the opening song to the new tour. They opened with a giant lightbulb last time... started in the light... so I assume they'll start with the light on, maybe flickering, it will go pitch black and in darkness you heard this song start to play.... Light of Innocence vs Dark of Experience.... that's how I see this song... it will bring the house down live...
THE miracle
THE blackout
works
THE miracle
THE blackout
works
I just hope they abandon the "we're going back to where we started and not using the screens for 4 songs" thing.
Use that fucker from jump street.
trevgreg
Rock n' Roll Doggie
I can live with four songs. It focuses on four guys playing their instruments/singing, then brings in the big boy for the rest of the show. I can't picture Electric Co. having half the intensity it had at the beginning if it had dancing emojis (or whatever) on the screen people were all looking up and paying attention to.
Flying FuManchu
New Yorker
It has an intro like Zooropa but they add a riff along with it to make it somewhat different. Not as egregious as American Soul
Why on Earth would it have to have something corny? Why couldn't it just, oh I dunno, call me crazy here... but what if the video screen... showed the band?
BVS
Blue Crack Supplier
OMG I hope we get dancing emojis this tour!!!
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popacrobat
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
blackout is pretty dope. I think it's my favorite so far.
womanfish
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
If anyone is interested. My link with the new songs is still up. I have also done some edits/mixes in there if you want to check them out.
The latest in an "enhanced" Blackout with a little extra punch where it needs it. Subtle but works i think. Also shortened the Easy on me bits by half.
Also, an American Soul with the most offensive lyrics removed. Community, charity, blah blah refujesus... So it that is the worst part of the song for you (as it is for me) enjoy this version!
https://spectrio.egnyte.com/fl/QyoqWm6OOA
The latest in an "enhanced" Blackout with a little extra punch where it needs it. Subtle but works i think. Also shortened the Easy on me bits by half.
Also, an American Soul with the most offensive lyrics removed. Community, charity, blah blah refujesus... So it that is the worst part of the song for you (as it is for me) enjoy this version!
https://spectrio.egnyte.com/fl/QyoqWm6OOA
Scorpionac
War Child
Enjoyed your edit of Blackout, Womanfish.
I wonder if it would be possible to add the steady snare drum beat from the chorus of the Facebook "live" version to the chorus of the studio version? Perhaps using a Garageband drum sample?
I wonder if it would be possible to add the steady snare drum beat from the chorus of the Facebook "live" version to the chorus of the studio version? Perhaps using a Garageband drum sample?
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womanfish
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
Yeah, that was sort of my first idea. I added the backing of the live guitar/bass in certain "attack" areas.
The mix is just so strange. its like they have Larry playing the kick and the rest is almost non-existent.
I may be able to try that at some point, but not sure i have the right set up right now.
Scorpionac
War Child
I'll give it a try tonight. Might not sound good, but hey, who knows until you try.
That was bad... was it only 4 songs? Felt like 8 when I was with wife who doesn't love U2 and she was like "I want to see the band"... and I'm like we all do!
At least in arena, it plays better than a huge stadium. But yes, for a minute or 2... then kick up the screens like Elevation Tour right?
I imagine it was awful on JT for anyone other than those in GA or douche seats.
What's stupider is, like, what were they going for? Even if you aren't a loony like us, you knew the backdrop had a video element because they showed the opening act in the upper corner.
They actually would have gotten more of an "oh shit, the whole thing is a screen" moment if they had kept the band on the upper right like the opener, that way a lot of people would have thought that was the only part that was a screen.
And then boom, red shit son.
Come at me, Willie Williams.
womanfish
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
ok, i just went back and doubled up the snare and the attack coming out of the chorus.
now called - Blackout (womanfish extra enhanced)
enjoy
corianderstem
Blue Crack Distributor
I agree. I appreciate what they were trying to do, but in a stadium setting? Bad idea. Nobody feels nostalgia for going to a stadium show and not being able to see anything because there aren't any screens.
Scorpionac
War Child
Just FYI, there's some kind of glitch in the MP3 at approx. 23 seconds in.
Other than that, sounds great! Thanks!
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womanfish
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
Just FYI, there's some kind of glitch in the MP3 at approx. 23 seconds in.
Other than that, sounds great! Thanks!
nice catch. I just fixed it. should be good to re download in a few minutes.
Nick66
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
Absolutely.
Elevation was about as stripped down in terms of a concert experience as post-JT U2 gets...and they still had those four huge screens so people could, you know, see the band.
I think most people in the cheap seats at 360 probably went the entire concert without looking directly at the four guys on the stage once.
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kiwilad
Refugee
super fly guy
New Yorker
Anybody heard the clip of the blackout on the U2 Facebook page? No vocals,sounds cool as fuck!
kiwilad
Refugee
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