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U2Man said:I'm sorry, but I have to ask....how can you guys regard "The Wanderer" as a "challenging track"? To me it's no more challenging or innovative than the music from a nintendo game.
Earnie Shavers said:
I'm generalizing off the generalizations. If that makes sense.
Zootlesque said:Methinks this might be interesting cos these are really the 2 extremes of U2's career!
God Part III said:
ATYCLB an extreme???
Earnie Shavers said:
Different extreme ends of the safety scale. Zooropa is at one end as probably the most challenging and least 'U2' sounding U2 album (for those who like to box U2 into a sound they made for 4 or 5 years), and at the other end of that spectrum, ATYCLB is U2's most 'accessible to the masses' album. So yeah, Elevation is an extreme because it sits at the "mind numbingly middle of the road" end of the scale, with a song like Numb, which was one hell of a confrontational opening single for a lot of U2 fans who just wanted to hear stadium anthems, sitting at the "as far away from Pride as you can get" end of the scale.
Zootlesque said:
You perfectly said what I wanted to!
It's amazing to think about this here... that they had the fucking balls back then in 1993 to release Numb first and not Stay!!!
MrBrau1 said:
Does this mean you think it's weak U2 released "Pride", by then a very typical sounding U2 song, as the lead single from UF, instead of "4th of July"?
Zootlesque said:
Cmon now! I'm not saying that they shouldn't release a radio friendly track as first single. Just saying it's a lot more interesting and makes you sit up and take notice when they release a weird experimental track as first single! Besides, songs like Numb and Lemon pretty much defined that era! Stay has a more traditional arrangement after all.
Oh and btw, please don't compare the radio-friendly feel of Pride in 1984 (which was NOT typical U2 back then after the post punk of Boy/Oct/War thankyouverymuch!) with the radio-friendy feel of something like COBL in 2005. Cos by 2005, it's U2 by the numbers! Done several times over!
Zootlesque said:Okay, wise guy... IWF, NYD, SBS, Pride, Bad, Streets, WOWY all sound different from each other.
Zootlesque said:
Stay has a more traditional arrangement after all.
Zootlesque said:But COBL sounds a lot like Streets, doesn't it??!
Axver said:
And One and Stay follow the tried and proven WOWY formula. Your point?
Axver said:Not a contest at all. Zooropa pounds the shit out of ATYCLB, grinds it down to a fine powder, and pours it down the drain.