TTTYAATW is such a letdown after the end of MW. I feel like rocking along (well, maybe "grooving along" rather than pure rockin', but I don't say that), and this song just completely kills that with its sluggish b-sidetastic plodding style.
Ashley, U2 at the End of the World is a great read. I think I've read it 2-3 times and still love it.
I haven't even opened U2 by U2 and I got it 2 Christmases ago. I'll delve into it when I hit my U2 Peak around September/October.
"Mysterious Ways" brings the funk.
What I love about this album is the semi-narrative set up throughout. It's about a guy tempted by different things in his search for eternal love and God. When he finally realizes that he's got it all right with his original girl ("Tryin' to Throw Your Arms...") after chasing bellydancing pussy in "Mysterious Ways," it should be all fine and dandy, you know? Happy ending and what not.
Instead, you get the guy going back to his old life and finding out he fucked up a good thing and now he has to pick up the pieces (the last 3 songs). Most albums would end with the happy ending, I think, but this one goes that extra distance and that's why it's considered a masterpiece, well, one of the reasons. It's my favorite U2 album, so I've got a lot to say about it.
Yeah, all thing's must come to an end, even the 90s. I'm just ready for this current radio trend to end. I want something emotionally stirring from them again that's all I really want. I can't really think of anything on the last two albums that got me in such a way.
"Mysterious Ways" brings the funk.
What I love about this album is the semi-narrative set up throughout. It's about a guy tempted by different things in his search for eternal love and God. When he finally realizes that he's got it all right with his original girl ("Tryin' to Throw Your Arms...") after chasing bellydancing pussy in "Mysterious Ways," it should be all fine and dandy, you know? Happy ending and what not.
Instead, you get the guy going back to his old life and finding out he fucked up a good thing and now he has to pick up the pieces (the last 3 songs). Most albums would end with the happy ending, I think, but this one goes that extra distance and that's why it's considered a masterpiece, well, one of the reasons. It's my favorite U2 album, so I've got a lot to say about it.
I think that's really what I love most about this album. The fact that they successfully told a story, without seeming to push it too far.
Chass wrote an amazing narrative to go along with the album, and it made it so much more to me.
Now I really wanna listen to it...soon *steeples fingers Mr. Burns style*
I have never ever bought this story. It strikes me as Achtung fans reading too much into the album.
Definitely.
"Beautiful Day" worked as the emotional track and radio smash, and I think they've been trying to replicate the success of that song.
"Walk On," "Kite," "Sometimes...," and "Miracle Drug" get to me like the older songs, but that's about it.
I think it's plausible because of the stuff about Edge's divorce and Bono's constant angst during that time period, but I can see why people would disagree.
I can't deny Walk On Got me into the band. And I think if I were to go back to listen to the album again it would stir emotions again (God I'm just now realizing how long this U2 break has been that's another album I haven't listened to in about a year.) but...I don't know...maybe a few lines from WILATW, and Stuck reject: ) but not much else
There's stuff on Bomb that's good, but again, nothing...nothing I can just point out and say, that was good writing right there Bono.
Not like the 80s, not like the 90s. There is no RTSS for the 00s.
That's cool.
I remember trying to write a sprawling narrative story that stretches across every U2 album a few years back. I wasn't creative enough to finish it or make it any good, maybe I'm still not, but it's an intriguing idea.
I think it's plausible because of the stuff about Edge's divorce and Bono's constant angst during that time period, but I can see why people would disagree.
The main reason I don't buy into it is because of the reports of how they threw the track listing together at the last minute. No way could they have conceived a storyline like that in a couple of hours.
I definitely agree. We'll always have the older material to listen to, but I still hope there's a few that'll crop up to put next to that stuff and hold its own, you know?
The main reason I don't buy into it is because of the reports of how they threw the track listing together at the last minute. No way could they have conceived a storyline like that in a couple of hours.
I definitely agree. We'll always have the older material to listen to, but I still hope there's a few that'll crop up to put next to that stuff and hold its own, you know?
I'm surprised you guys dig SYCMIOYO. To me, it's another Stuck In A Moment - I'd actually say it's even more plodding, but the fact the mixing doesn't totally kill the sincerity negates that.
Yeah, I can see where you're coming from and it doesn't surprise me too much that people have tried to read that into the album, but it's not something that even entered my head until I saw a couple of Achtung fans here try to argue there's a story. I don't see much of a thematic connection at all between, say, UV and Acrobat. And it just doesn't strike me as something that would occur to U2 to do, especially given the way they create albums.
It wears its heart on its sleeve like Stuck, but they're not even comparable IMO. Stuck is cheesy pandering bullshit, while the other is very personal and considerably more subtle. They never should have released it as a single.