Broomrape Lane, Lake Havasu City, Arizona Superthread

[Axver]

btbs is like bits, even though there's another b

Never tried to pronounce that, partly because I never use BTBS. I just abbreviate it as Bullet.

 

[coolian2]

Studio Bullet has nothing on any 90s version.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

Still, it has absolutely nothing on the ZooTV version, with Edge's fuckin' rockin' guitar and Bono's sheer anger.

Bono's like a possessed man in that performance. It's awesome

 

[Axver]

Confession time: I don't like the start of RTSS with the twangy guitar. It has no point and sounds awful!

 

[Axver]

Bono's like a possessed man in that performance. It's awesome

11 August 1993, London is one of his most insane performances ever.

Outside it's America
Yeah, America! Where the fuck are you?
United Kingdom, where the fuck are you?
Fuck you, France!
Fuck you, Germany!
Zoonited Nations! ZOONITED NATIONS!

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

Never tried to pronounce that, partly because I never use BTBS. I just abbreviate it as Bullet.

it's weird, the songs i abbreviate and the ones i shorten to one word

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

Confession time: I don't like the start of RTSS with the twangy guitar. It has no point and sounds awful!

yeah, it reminds me of a part in a dana carvey skit

 

[bono_212]

if Shellfish isnt' my leaset favorite track, then it's Bullet, but I still like those songs.

I think RTSS benefitted most fom the remaster, because I enver heared those tinkly bells befre it.

God I vucking lvoe this sng.




and Anna I like your reminiscings. Really the only msusical intrrsts I got from my parents were Pink Floyd's The Wall from my dad, and Black Sabbith from his as welll, and my obession with the 80s from my mum

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

Confession time: I don't like the start of RTSS with the twangy guitar. It has no point and sounds awful!

They could've just as easily started the song at 23 seconds in.


Also, RTSS is my freaking song. I'm liable to start weeping right here, I haven't listened to it in a while, but it's very close to my heart. ZooTV broken hallelujahs for the fucking win.

 

[bono_212]

When I was youner and SUPER obessesed with U2, I watched Bono on Charlie Rose, and they cut to a video of RTSS showing Bono acting out shooting up Heroin. I 'd laways wanted to see that performance again, and it only awned on my last year that i was watching the performance from ZooTV ausieland, evnen though I've seen taht video a bajillion times.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

She will...
Suffer the needle chill
She's running to stand... still.

Ah, halle, hallelujah
halle, halle, hallelujah

 

[Axver]

Nah, I missed it. I don't think I understood concerts until I got my first tickets to a show with The X Factor tour with INXS. And HOLY SHIT WAS THAT THE BEST FIRST CONCERT!!!

Oh, good then, because I'd be hideously jealous of you if you'd seen Lovetown.

My mum had the hugest vinyl collection on the planet and she got us into everything with a passive positive approach. Music was always on and we never really gave it much thought.

Yeah, that was generally the deal with my parents. Mum especially liked playing Dire Straits and Talking Heads, two bands forever connected in my mind even though there isn't exactly a connection between them! And then my father digs Queen.

But I really latched onto The Shadows, my Grandad's favourite band. I fucking LOVED them. Still do. Hank Marvin is my favourite guitarist, and really, The Shadows are why I listen to music at all. I get incredibly nostalgic listening to some songs; they bring back the most vivid mental images of childhood in New Zealand.

 

[bono_212]

Red HIll Mining Town sounds like the only song on this album thats from the 80s, but I know el mel disagrees with me.

 

[coolian2]

Confession: I missed most of RTSS but don't care.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

Know what sucks about this song? The video. Jesus Christ.

 

[bono_212]

Apparently I really need to listen to a The Shadows album, any suggestions Ax?

 

[Axver]

She will...
Suffer the needle chill
She's running to stand... still.

Ah, halle, hallelujah
halle, halle, hallelujah

I've always favoured the "still running" ending, personally. It was great when I saw U2 in Boston, at the first show. I was up in the nosebleeds, and randomly, the guy beside me and I both just burst into "Still running! Still running! Still running, yeah!" at the end of RTSS. We just looked at each other and shared this "fuck yeah" sort of grin.

 

[coolian2]

I love Red Hill Mining Town, but the video has really hurt it for me.

 

[bono_212]

*let's a canary go*

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

Confession: I missed most of RTSS but don't care.

 

[Axver]

RHMT is the second best song on the album. OTH being the best. Fuck, this song is great.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

HANGING ON
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'M STILL WAITING
I'M HANGING OOOON
You're all that's left to hold on to

 

[coolian2]

I'm hangin' ooooon!

*hangs off a chain*

 

[U2MaNaIcWeIdO]

 

[coolian2]

I wish they'd play this live. They don't want to play it because it would be half arsed, but that hasn't stopped them from playing other songs half arsed.

 

[Axver]

Apparently I really need to listen to a The Shadows album, any suggestions Ax?

No. They come from the early sixties era when singles, not albums, were where it was at. So compilations are the way to go. Songs you'd want on a compilation include Apache (their signature song), Kon-Tiki, Shadoogie, Wonderful Land, and Quartermaster's Stores. I know I've used some of their tracks in DI; Kon-Tiki is in DI V, so see if you like that. If you dig that song, you'll dig the other ones I've named.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

I watched the video two or three times when it first hit the internet.

And then I was like "This is fucking terrible."

 

[Alisaura]

What's up? Still doing indecent things with household objects?

ooh, is someone drunk? Is there listening party? Should I stop listening to Monty Python?

 

[bono_212]

Guys, let's go out on Red Hill

 

[Axver]

Know what sucks about this song? The video. Jesus Christ.

I love Red Hill Mining Town, but the video has really hurt it for me.

I really don't think the video was that bad. Sure, it wasn't good, but have you guys seen ... pretty much every video they've done this decade? Much worse.