so what's the chorus?
is it the "only love..." part, or is it the "magniiiiiificeeeeent..." part?
or is it both?
how many songs do you know start with part of the chorus, after a long intro that is unrelated to the song and sounds nothing like the rest of the song?
look i LIKE magnificent... but it is not a conventional sounding pop song. and that's not a bad thing... but it's not radio friendly. it's u2 friendly.
heck... BAD isn't radio friendly. it's still a great great great song, and it became radio friendly only because of how popular it became along the years. pride is the radio friendly hit off of unforgettable fire. doesn't mean pride is better than bad.
pearl jam's biggest radio hit is last kiss. why? radio friendly. great pop song. pearl jam's best song? not even close.
crazy tonight is by far and away the catchiest, radio friendly pop song on this album. it screams single. that statement right there does not mean that it's the best song on the album, or even that it's better than magnificent.
magnificent would have been a bigger single if they had released crazy tonight first. then the people who aren't already established u2 fans would go out and buy (coughdownloadillegaly) the album, and then they'd get into the other songs, and then when the trippier, weirder (and maybe better) songs get released later on they'd be more recognizable to our ADD society, thus would fare better.
i LOVE cedars of lebanon. absolutely love it. and i think U2 would have been bat shit crazy if they had released cedars as one of the first singles... or as a single, period.
and for your all that you can't leave behind / vertigo comment...
what's easier for a packed arena to belt out... the choruses to beautiful day and vertigo or maaaagniiiiifffieccceeeent?
the damn word magnificent is an awkward word for christ's sake.
is it the "only love..." part, or is it the "magniiiiiificeeeeent..." part?
or is it both?
how many songs do you know start with part of the chorus, after a long intro that is unrelated to the song and sounds nothing like the rest of the song?
look i LIKE magnificent... but it is not a conventional sounding pop song. and that's not a bad thing... but it's not radio friendly. it's u2 friendly.
heck... BAD isn't radio friendly. it's still a great great great song, and it became radio friendly only because of how popular it became along the years. pride is the radio friendly hit off of unforgettable fire. doesn't mean pride is better than bad.
pearl jam's biggest radio hit is last kiss. why? radio friendly. great pop song. pearl jam's best song? not even close.
crazy tonight is by far and away the catchiest, radio friendly pop song on this album. it screams single. that statement right there does not mean that it's the best song on the album, or even that it's better than magnificent.
magnificent would have been a bigger single if they had released crazy tonight first. then the people who aren't already established u2 fans would go out and buy (coughdownloadillegaly) the album, and then they'd get into the other songs, and then when the trippier, weirder (and maybe better) songs get released later on they'd be more recognizable to our ADD society, thus would fare better.
i LOVE cedars of lebanon. absolutely love it. and i think U2 would have been bat shit crazy if they had released cedars as one of the first singles... or as a single, period.
and for your all that you can't leave behind / vertigo comment...
what's easier for a packed arena to belt out... the choruses to beautiful day and vertigo or maaaagniiiiifffieccceeeent?
the damn word magnificent is an awkward word for christ's sake.