mikal
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We could do without the insults, guys.
sorry. it's hard not to be frustrated when reading this thread.
We could do without the insults, guys.
Very disappointed. Just a flat piece of shit, like POE or COL. Why wreck such a good starting point with the original. Yes, this is just a short clip, but you can just tell its been ruined. The riff and whole atmosphere of the original got me so excited because i knew if they worked on it, it could be the new Bad. They have worked on it, and just completely ruined it. So pissed off atm, sick of this U2
not every song has to sound like "Bad". this sounds more like RTTS, The First Time, AIWIY.....also great songs.
Very disappointed. Just a flat piece of shit, like POE or COL. Why wreck such a good starting point with the original. Yes, this is just a short clip, but you can just tell its been ruined. The riff and whole atmosphere of the original got me so excited because i knew if they worked on it, it could be the new Bad. They have worked on it, and just completely ruined it. So pissed off atm, sick of this U2
not every song has to sound like "Bad". this sounds more like RTTS, The First Time, AIWIY.....also great songs.
don't be nice, niceman! We all know this song is completely ruined!
The original version sucked so much that everyone started loving it!
I like the first one waaaaaaay better. By a million miles. This just seems to be stripped of everything exciting that was on the Linear version. My opinion of course but it seems like they went too far in changing it.
Just listened for the first two times....It gave me chills BOTH times.... And I wasn't a big fan of the Linear version....
I'm disappointed. The original version really effectively sets a complex mood that fits the theme of the song (the starkness of the original intro, Edge's Mercy-like guitar line driving the journey through a far-off land, Bono's great vocal delivery on the original version, including his narration of the young man's development into manhood using the Big-Jim voice, Edge's other guitar elements including the part where he simulates the helicopter in the desert using his guitar). For me, the original music and the story told by the lyrics go hand-in-hand (the music is not just incidental in this type of song). I actually just hoped they'd rerecord Adam for the song and leave everything else alone (I didn't like the original bass part; I hoped they'd maybe also replace those strings in the original intro with something different; but that's about it). This new version sounds like Bono programmed some simple chords and a drum loop on his keyboard at home and started singing over the top (before warming-up his voice).
Have you seen the movie?
I never loved it..... The original was the weakest song we'd heard from the NLOTH sessions.... This sounds much better!
yes it does. I was just saying -after seeing the other thread about winter (linear version)- I'm surprised to see a lot of people saying they like original version when before it was just a sub-par song.
I'm not judging anyone
I wasn't going to respond earlier, but you've posted this twice now, mikal. This 90-second clip of Winter sounds nothing close to RTTS, First Time, or AIWIY (I think you used 'Heartland' as a comparison earlier instead of AIWIY)...at least not to my "stupid" ears. It goes without saying that songs can be subtle in more than one way: 1) Made subtle so that credits can roll over the top of the song as an audience leaves a movie theater (this version of Winter, and I think Hands That Built America would fall under this same category); and 2) Subtle/ethereal in a way that the song paints a scene or a situation in vivid colors (mentally) without ever needing to be attached to a movie. RTTS definitely does the latter for me - and so did the version of Winter on Linear, based on its entire combination of music, lyrics, and Bono's delivery.