shart1780
Rock n' Roll Doggie
It's not really edgy at all. I know this sounds cliche'd, but they did play it safe IMO. Take the albums AB through POP for example. Songs like The Fly, Acrobat, Daddy's Gonna Pay, Please and Wake Up Dead Man screamed edge. I loved the culture commentary on these albums. Just look at Zooropa and Please and Playboy Mansion. Awesome. There's been nothing like this since POP.
While I like personal songs, I like intelligent and CLEVER songs about how they view the world. It makes their songs seem much more epic. Songs like When I look at the World, Peace on Earth and Love and Peace or Else just don't cut it. Sorry, Love and Peace is an awesome song, but it's so straight-forward. U2 can do better than "lay down your guns. all you daughters of zion, all you Abraham sons". That's just too easy! I want songs like Zooropa and Please again.
Also, I'm no goth or anything, but their newer songs need to be more depressing. Happy songs are good, but what made U2 great for me was how their songs relate to a very wide range of moods. All I want is You is romantic, The Fly is Grungy and cool, Mysterious Ways is funky, So Cruel is depressing, Acrobat is frustrated, Zooropa is a confusing and clever pop culture commentary, Daddy's Gonna Pay is edgy to the max, The First Time and Dirty Day are heartwrenching... on and on and on.
Look at the songs on HTTDAAB. Vertigo is somewhat edgy, but nothing that makes me feel dirty for listening to it. Miracle Drug is an awesome ballad, ut that's all. We've had so many of these. Sometimes is another ballad. It's great and somewhat heartwrenching, but it's been done before. Love and Peace is funky and cool, but extremely straitfoward. Mysterious Wys achieved this much more poetically. City of linding Lights is another great song, but it's the same stuff. Uplifting ballad. All Because of You? Uplifting. A Man and a Woman? It has a miniscule amount of edge, but it's uplifting. Crumbs achieves a certain level of poetic edge and commentary, this is good. One Step Closer is also a pretty emotional song. I wouldn't exactly call it depressing though. OOTS? My favorite song right now, but again it's completely uplifting ballad. No edge. Yaweh is yet another uplifting ballad. All in all there's only a few songs on the album that break the mold, while albums like AB and Zooropa broke the mold like never before.
I think this is U2's biggest problem now. I just don't think they're as exciting anymore. I'm not saying they're not being innovative enough with their sound or anything, just the mood the songs convey. It's so black and white. WAY too many uplifting ballads. Songs like Love and Peace or Else don't exactly make me wanna scream like Acrobat did.
I'm probably putting forth the impression that I don't like U2 as of late, which is completely false. ATYCLB and HTDAAB are couple of my favorite albums, but they'll never reach the heights of AB. And it's for that one reason.
While I like personal songs, I like intelligent and CLEVER songs about how they view the world. It makes their songs seem much more epic. Songs like When I look at the World, Peace on Earth and Love and Peace or Else just don't cut it. Sorry, Love and Peace is an awesome song, but it's so straight-forward. U2 can do better than "lay down your guns. all you daughters of zion, all you Abraham sons". That's just too easy! I want songs like Zooropa and Please again.
Also, I'm no goth or anything, but their newer songs need to be more depressing. Happy songs are good, but what made U2 great for me was how their songs relate to a very wide range of moods. All I want is You is romantic, The Fly is Grungy and cool, Mysterious Ways is funky, So Cruel is depressing, Acrobat is frustrated, Zooropa is a confusing and clever pop culture commentary, Daddy's Gonna Pay is edgy to the max, The First Time and Dirty Day are heartwrenching... on and on and on.
Look at the songs on HTTDAAB. Vertigo is somewhat edgy, but nothing that makes me feel dirty for listening to it. Miracle Drug is an awesome ballad, ut that's all. We've had so many of these. Sometimes is another ballad. It's great and somewhat heartwrenching, but it's been done before. Love and Peace is funky and cool, but extremely straitfoward. Mysterious Wys achieved this much more poetically. City of linding Lights is another great song, but it's the same stuff. Uplifting ballad. All Because of You? Uplifting. A Man and a Woman? It has a miniscule amount of edge, but it's uplifting. Crumbs achieves a certain level of poetic edge and commentary, this is good. One Step Closer is also a pretty emotional song. I wouldn't exactly call it depressing though. OOTS? My favorite song right now, but again it's completely uplifting ballad. No edge. Yaweh is yet another uplifting ballad. All in all there's only a few songs on the album that break the mold, while albums like AB and Zooropa broke the mold like never before.
I think this is U2's biggest problem now. I just don't think they're as exciting anymore. I'm not saying they're not being innovative enough with their sound or anything, just the mood the songs convey. It's so black and white. WAY too many uplifting ballads. Songs like Love and Peace or Else don't exactly make me wanna scream like Acrobat did.
I'm probably putting forth the impression that I don't like U2 as of late, which is completely false. ATYCLB and HTDAAB are couple of my favorite albums, but they'll never reach the heights of AB. And it's for that one reason.
