Yap, Federated States of Micronesia Superthread

[Axver]

I have a theory that every woman who was in her young thirties at the start of the 1990s ranks MW in their top five U2 songs. Case in point: my mother.

 

[coolian2]

No matter how hard I try, I honestly cannot hear it.

You've got to be a bit loose with it.

By a bit, I mean a lot.

 

[coolian2]

I gotta say I also really liked your BACON BACON HAMMMMMMMMMMMMMM interpretation of the end of One.

Nice work.

You're in fantasyland if it isn't the first thing you hear!

Also, we have to curry each other.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

Dear TTTYAATW:
You have been replaced by The Wanderer in my musical.

Signed,
The screenwriter.

 

[Axver]

Actually, I don't find the Shamu line hard to hear at all.

Then again, Bono's so poor at enunciation that you can really make of his lyrics whatever you want.

And I love how TTTYAATW is just sounding like total elevator music that I'm not paying attention to. Proves my point about it plodding through b-side territory and doing nothing. What a worthless snoozefest.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I haven't listened to TTTYAATW in a looooooong time. wow.

 

[coolian2]

The title is too long for me to attempt to turn into an acronym, so stop now song.

Ah, good.

 

[Axver]

Does Bono sing "you've gotta make your thing sing" at some point in the latter half of TTTYAATW? Because I'd swear I just heard that; it's the only thing that's stood out.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

The best part about this song is Edge's 'whooo' at the end of the middle 8.

 

[coolian2]

Sometimes I feel like I don't know
Sometimes I feel like chicken, ow!

 

[bono_212]

WELL I DON'T LIKE THAT BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN SONG

;_;

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

Does Bono sing "you've gotta make your thing sing" at some point in the latter half of TTTYAATW? Because I'd swear I just heard that; it's the only thing that's stood out.

"You just gotta make your faith sing"

 

[Axver]

Oh fuck, here's Backstreet Bono and U'Sync.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I go back and forth on Ultraviolet. I used to adore it way back when I first heard the album.

It's lost a lot of its luster since then.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

Baby babys aside, I still love this song.

 

[coolian2]

Baby, lite my wai

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I do still think it's got great lyrics in the verses, as does the whole album really.

 

[coolian2]

I like it. Excluding the overuse of baby.

 

[The Sad Punk]

Oh fuck, here's Backstreet Bono and U'Sync.

'Baby' existed as a term for a mature woman before 1998.

I think it's one of the best songs on the album.

 

[Axver]

I do still think it's got great lyrics in the verses, as does the whole album really.

Yeah, shame the chorus has to poison it all for me.

 

[Axver]

And I hate Bono's faux-emotional over-the-top delivery around "when I was all messed up and had opera in my head".

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

I remember when we could sleep on stoooooones
Now we liiiie together in whispers and moooans
When I was all fucked up
And I had opera in my heaaaad
Your love was a lightbulb
Hanging over my bed


ZooTV 1992, live from Stockholm = best version.

 

[adrball]

How many Baby's in this song?

 

[coolian2]

Regrets, I've had a few
But then again,
Too few to mention.....


Oh.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

BABEH BABEH BABEH
BABEH BABEH BABEH
BABEH BABEH BABEH

 

[Axver]

'Baby' existed as a term for a mature woman before 1998.

I think it's one of the best songs on the album.

It's less that and more that I can totally hear Justin Timberlake & Co. harmonising the chorus. Bono gets away with 'baby' in Spanish Eyes. But not here.

It could be "cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes" and I'd still hate it.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

How many Baby's in this song?

Shit, I counted them once. Hold on.

 

[bono_212]

When it was all fucked up

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I remember when we could sleep on stoooooones
Now we liiiie together in whispers and moooans
When I was all fucked up
And I had opera in my heaaaad
Your love was a lightbulb
Hanging over my bed


ZooTV 1992, live from Stockholm = best version.

Yeah, it should have been "fucked up" instead of "messed up" on the album version, too.

Also, he should have actually said "motherfuckin rock and roll" in MOFO.