Interference Random Music Talk Part XV - We're using Charlie Rose tinted glasses

[corianderstem]

I don't think they could do that. They would cancel before just automatically charging people a higher amount.

If not, I will be raising an unholy stink with them. As will everyone else who ordered it.

Edit: I see what you're saying! Nah, they showed the shipping charges in the pre-order. It ain't $60.

 

[lazarus]

I remember that $50 No Net Amazon UK deal. And I remember buying another one on the release day at Best Buy so I could get it sooner, then returning the British one when it arrived for a refund. Or maybe that was just a dream I had...

 

[corianderstem]

Did you have sex with the extra box set? If so, then it was probably just a dream.

Probably.

 

[lazarus]

Sometimes a boxed set is...just a boxed set.

 

[lazarus]

But I'll bet some people watched those pre-release unpacking YouTube videos like they were porn.

 

[corianderstem]

What's the female equivalent of "fap fap fap"?

 

[lazarus]

Oh dear.

Spoiler

You asked for it:

Urban Dictionary: Sqwelch

 

[corianderstem]

Huh.

I .................... guess that works. In a gross kind of onomatopoeia.

 

[the tourist]

Oh dear.

Spoiler

You asked for it:

Urban Dictionary: Sqwelch

Spoiler

I always called it the third one down on that page.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

What's the female equivalent of "fap fap fap"?

i have smilies for everything, it seems.

Spoiler

 

[lazarus]

That is so wrong I don't even know what to say.

 

[The Sad Punk]

That is so wrong I don't even know what to say.

Just say

.

 

[cobl04]

nononononononononononono

i don't know
why you bother
nothing's ever good enough for you
i was there
it wasn't it like that
you've come here just to start a fight

 

[corianderstem]

i have smilies for everything, it seems.

Spoiler

I can't decide if I'm horrified or amused!

 

[Dalton]

I think it's awesome, BTW. From an instrumentation standpoint. Sounds like new (or at least less-covered) ground by the band.

Strings are very cool, even though they might be fake.

Why in the fuck didn't they go in this direction on the last album?

I like it.

 

[PhilsFan]

Why in the fuck didn't they go in this direction on the last album?

I like it.

Because they pussied out. Straight up.

 

[LMP]

Ambition blows.

Yeah, what a great little track.

 

[martha]

Because they pussied out. Straight up.

This.

 

[corianderstem]

Why in the fuck didn't they go in this direction on the last album?

Because they're doing it on the next album!

Spoiler

Oh god, please. Pleeeeeeeeeeeease.

Maybe after so much straight-up radio friendliness, they needed to start with baby steps back out into the other world.

 

[PhilsFan]

Because they're doing it on the next album!

Spoiler

Oh god, please. Pleeeeeeeeeeeease.

Maybe after so much straight-up radio friendliness, they needed to start with baby steps back out into the other world.

The problem is, they view NLOTH as a failure. They still think it's experimental and a "full album" (really, it isn't), and they think people don't want that.

They'll use NLOTH as an excuse to go backwards towards the ATYCLB/HTDAAB era. You watch.

 

[corianderstem]

STOP CRUSHING MY DREAMS!

The problem is, they view NLOTH as a failure.

Is that just a negative-nancy educated guess based on previous U2 activities, or was there an interview that I missed where they are already leading us down the path of backward-sliding doom?

 

[lazarus]

Yeah, they may acknowledge the album's relative lack of success, but I don't think they're going to be trashing the material. Poppycock was hurried to completion, and the (supposed) failure of the tour made it easy for them to go sour on the whole thing. Here, the sessions seemed to be too enjoyable and fruitful for an about face, plus the tour has to be considered a huge triumph, despite the recent cancellations.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Has anybody seen this yet? Check out the guy at 1:01

YouTube - Whoomp There It Is - Tag Team

 

[corianderstem]

Has anybody seen this yet?

No, I haven't seen it yet, because it's only 1992 in my universe. (Have you guys heard the new U2 yet? What the hell is that shit? The Fly? What's with the leather?)

I had to watch that moment twice to see what the hell you were making the ohmy face for ... and then yeah.

 

[cobl04]

i don't know who that was, but that is a great song and still gets played in clubs today.

 

[corianderstem]

Spoiler

Dude at 1:01 looks suspiciously like Obama.

 

[Jive Turkey]

It looks exactly like him. Look at the little bump at the top of his ear

 

[cobl04]

hmm... i reckon that's a bit of a stretch, but if it's him that's pretty cool. i thought it was Eazy-E at first

 

[corianderstem]

Eazy-E had jheri curls.

Spoiler

I think.

 

[onebloodonelife]

Yes, yes he did, Cori.

That dude in the video definitely looks more like Obama than Eazy-E.