Canadiens1131
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Oh my God, I'm really disappointed 
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I had great expectations for U2 and LC collaborating on the last song of 'I'm Your Man', and maybe the performance fits better in the context of the end of the film, but still - I can't say anything other than it's horrible.
They had a beautiful chance to put this song on record in its stripped-down, powerful, non-new-agey-BS production form, as opposed to the instrumentation on I'm Your Man.
Edge, especially. He tosses off a crap slide solo apparently scrapped from pt. II of 'Ground Beneath Her Feet', and only falls into place wonderfully when Bono comes in.
Bono is brilliant, touching, and restrained. That is all I can say, and when he and Edge do lock into step it makes me wish that U2 would release a version with all leads done by Bono.
Whoever was playing the organ annoyed me by refusing to play just one chord for a while and fucking around in the first damn verse of the song. What - the - hell!
Gah, I suppose I had my hopes too high, but as soon as that drum machine kicked in, in the right channel, I began to feel dread.
What are your thoughts on the track?
And, if you have to comment about how annoyed you are that I'm posting something negative relating to U2, please don't complain and instead post something on-topic. The only thing worse than non-U2-praising threads are ones where people complain about the failure to meet the U2-worshipping quota for the week, mkay?
Streaming link
I had great expectations for U2 and LC collaborating on the last song of 'I'm Your Man', and maybe the performance fits better in the context of the end of the film, but still - I can't say anything other than it's horrible.
They had a beautiful chance to put this song on record in its stripped-down, powerful, non-new-agey-BS production form, as opposed to the instrumentation on I'm Your Man.
Edge, especially. He tosses off a crap slide solo apparently scrapped from pt. II of 'Ground Beneath Her Feet', and only falls into place wonderfully when Bono comes in.
Bono is brilliant, touching, and restrained. That is all I can say, and when he and Edge do lock into step it makes me wish that U2 would release a version with all leads done by Bono.
Whoever was playing the organ annoyed me by refusing to play just one chord for a while and fucking around in the first damn verse of the song. What - the - hell!
Gah, I suppose I had my hopes too high, but as soon as that drum machine kicked in, in the right channel, I began to feel dread.
What are your thoughts on the track?
And, if you have to comment about how annoyed you are that I'm posting something negative relating to U2, please don't complain and instead post something on-topic. The only thing worse than non-U2-praising threads are ones where people complain about the failure to meet the U2-worshipping quota for the week, mkay?
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