Shuttlecock XVII - The Best Title That Ever Happened a Thread

[Kieran McConville]

My Love Is Bigger (Than Yours)

 

[Kieran McConville]

My Love Is Like A Drunkard (Holding Up The Bar)

...that'd actually be sort of interesting, pity Paul Kelly already wrote it twenty years ago...

 

[Mack_Again]

I won't lie, I think it'd be kind of fun if Edge decided to have 20 guitar tracks layered over the top of each other in a song.

Ive heard that there is a song in Siamese Dreams (Smashing Pumpkins album, obviously) which has 40 guitar tracks, so that doesn't sound too ridiculous

 

[mikal]

Guys. You will NOT believe what someone said at Other Place today.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

You're not smart enough to understand

 

[Mack_Again]

I don't have enough (overpriced) degrees from colleges yet

 

[kabigon]

365 degrees
Burning down The Other Place

 

[Zoomerang96]

U2fan2004! Is really rocking out to these hot new U2 songs, guys. He says it puts the band firmly in same league as Jet, Imagine Dragons and The Trews.

Im less convinced

 

[Kieran McConville]

Gimme the beat boys

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

i happened to catch a blurb on npr the other day where they called tbt a catchy song you can't get out of your head. i wanted to roll out of the car.

 

[corianderstem]

They're not wrong. I've listened to the song only a few times and it's always in my head.

 

[Danny Boy]

They're not wrong. I've listened to the song only a few times and it's always in my head.

 

[mikal]

They're not wrong. I've listened to the song only a few times and it's always in my head.

My family is sick of me belting it out when I do the dishes at night so I would agree!

 

[nbelcik]

What!!! Explain!!! Cool!!!

As for there being “complete shit” on Pop... lol no. Nothing even comes close to being shit.

Since I finally have some downtime while waiting in line for San Diego I'll explain. Me and a few other people were at a bar the night before the Phoenix show and Craig Evans (U2's tour director) came and hung out with us for an hour. I left and apparently a friend of ours stayed and talked to him more and convinced him to take us backstage next day. Around 2:30 the day of the show Craig comes and gets like 15 of us and takes us to the stage. Larry's drum tech talked to us at the tree stage for a short while and let me sit at the drum set. Sunday Bloody Sunday was the first song I ever learned to play on drums so it was super cool getting to sit there at the drum set where he'll start the show with that song. Easily the coolest U2 experience I've ever had (although I'm young and haven't had very many).

 

[david]

Did anyone attend the San Diego show?

 

[kabigon]

No.

 

[lazarus]

Did anyone attend the San Diego show?

You mean where the band played a different version of TBT because they realized the one they released sucks?

 

[bono_212]

Everyone was there.


Everyone.


If everyone means me martha, Diana, Alicia, etc

 

[namkcuR]

You mean where the band played a different version of TBT because they realized the one they released sucks?

There was a surprise in the set though: You’re the Best Thing About Me was performed in acoustic style. Bono explained at the end that the band did this because the woman who inspired the song, his wife Ali, was in attendance and he wanted to sing the song directly to her.

I think it actually does work better acoustic.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

More like the worst thing about me, amirite???

 

[martha]

I think it actually does work better acoustic.

I hadn't heard the song before, and I liked the acoustic version a lot. Later Ashley, and especially Cori, told me just how wrong I was.


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[martha]

Did anyone attend the San Diego show?

Pretty much everyone but you, Laz, and Travis.


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[corianderstem]

I am a fan of the song, but the acoustic version was ... extremely mediocre.

 

[corianderstem]

I hadn't heard the song before, and I liked the acoustic version a lot. Later Ashley, and especially Cori, told me just how wrong I was.


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Damned straight.

 

[Hewson]

I am a fan of the song, but the acoustic version was ... extremely mediocre.

Which can be said of pretty much any and every U2 song that gets performed acoustically.

 

[BoMac]

I kind of like Stay acoustic. But that's about it.

 

[lazarus]

Well we don't really have a live electric Stay to compare it to. I'm sure it would be even better.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Acoustic Stuck is better. And acoustic Starting at the Sun worked well.

That's about it.

 

[namkcuR]

Well we don't really have a live electric Stay to compare it to. I'm sure it would be even better.

I think he means the B+E only acoustic versions that they've played from Elevation onwards. The ZooTV version is full-band and even though it might technically be acoustic, it sounds more like what you might label 'semi-acoustic'.

 

[namkcuR]

Also, shout out to Edge-solo SBS on Popmart, even though that guitar doesn't exactly sound acoustic.