How about a whole album of Velvet Dress/Stateless-style crooning?
I can dig that.
I like those songs, and the vocal, I just can't imagine U2 sticking to that type of music for an entire record. They always mix it up on the albums: rockers, anthems, ballads, slow songs...
I could see Bono making a croon album on his own someday though.
Mercy is a great song.
yeah music is subjective, and yeah everyone's entitled to their own opinion.
but sometimes people are just wrong.
Mercy is a great song.
yeah music is subjective, and yeah everyone's entitled to their own opinion.
but sometimes people are just wrong.
^My comment will cover yours: Mercy is the worst thing I've ever heard from this band, really. I pretty much hate every aspect of the song. Not even as a b-side I would like it unless they... well, unless it's another song with the same name.
And that's really rare for me... I pretty much at least enjoy and like almost every U2 song.
I think if it were to make a Best Of it would likely sound similar, as per what the finished Bomb version would have been like - big, bombastic, loud etc. They'd keep it in line with that kind of era of sound. If it's going to sit alongside those Bomb and NLOTH singles, it's got to have all the subtlety of a bull in a china shop with a red hot poker up it's clacker. Which is what it has now.
If it gets another look in for a future album, it will change, likely dramatically. They don't just pick up old songs as they were and give them a spit and shine, they completely overhaul them.
In my view, the bones of Mercy are okay-ish, but the version we have is representative of an era I sincerely hope they are done with, with a few of those NLOTH tracks representing it's final death shudders.
I don't think they're going to need more than one leg to test the songs out.
And to be honest, I'm glad the European fans are going to be the judge before North America, considering the tepid reaction to POP over here. Perhaps the more experimental tracks will have a better chance overseas and convince the band to use them.
And to be honest, I'm glad the European fans are going to be the judge before North America, considering the tepid reaction to POP over here. Perhaps the more experimental tracks will have a better chance overseas and convince the band to use them.
Electrical Storm is an autopilot wannabe anthem, so I'm not sure what you mean by that. It's certainly not "experimental", unless you're just referring to the experimentation of putting non-album tracks in the setlist. Regardless, I'm glad I didn't have to suffer through that garbage at a show.
I wonder if Your Blue Room would have fared better had it been ready on the first leg.
I don't think so. I think that part of the YBR problem is not only on the fact that the song is not that popular. I think that the arrangement they made for the song was pretty poor and it doesn't make justice (not even close!) to the original version.Electrical Storm is an autopilot wannabe anthem, so I'm not sure what you mean by that. It's certainly not "experimental", unless you're just referring to the experimentation of putting non-album tracks in the setlist. Regardless, I'm glad I didn't have to suffer through that garbage at a show.
I wonder if Your Blue Room would have fared better had it been ready on the first leg.
Edited for not caring.
I don't think so. I think that part of the YBR problem is not only on the fact that the song is not that popular. I think that the arrangement they made for the song was pretty poor and it doesn't make justice (not even close!) to the original version.
It worked with Miss Sarajevo last tour, it definitely doesn't work with YBR.
Electrical Storm is by far not one of my favorite songs, but to call it a "wanna be anthem" is a huge stretch.
It doesn't have any characteristics of wanting to be an "anthem".
How about the bridge sounding like a generic Oasis effort? I don't mean anthemic in the epic, WTSHNN sense, but in the catchy pop gem sense.
The guitar work reminds me of Oasis as well, and even if Crumbs From Your Table appears to have borrowed the same approach and sound I think it's a better track.
Wow, I think it's a great song. Moody and atmospheric, and while there are a few clunky phrases in there (the sea it swells like a sore head; the air is heavy, heavy as a truck), I think what he does lyrically well in it more than makes up for those. I'm really sorry they didn't leave it in the setlist.