elevated_u2_fan
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I don't know did anybody hear Beautiful Day or Vertigo the first time and think - wow, that's going to be a huge hit? I didn't...
I don't know did anybody hear Beautiful Day or Vertigo the first time and think - wow, that's going to be a huge hit? I didn't...
The more I listen to everything in the "double album" (aside from the acoustic session, can't listen to that again), it seems to me there is one song that sounds like it could have been a traditional U2 type anthem hit in the vein of "Beautiful Day", and that song is/was "Invisible". Had all the ingredients and didn't register a blip on radio in February. Don't see them garnering much airplay from anything else (still failing to see why so many are clamoring for The Crystal Ballroom to be a single).
Its a pretty good album as a whole, but just don't see it as likely to get a ton of play. Of course radio isn't what it once was, and they should do fine selling concert tickets which is the main platform of the business model these days, so in that light I'm sure it'll be a success, but just don't see anything from Songs of Innocence having the lasting effect on public consciousness that so many U2 songs of the past have.
"All those people who were uninterested in U2 are now mad at U2. As far as we are concerned, it's an improvement."
California?
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I don't know...if Invisible didnt take off, don't see that taking off either.
Could just be me, we'll see.
Yes a lot of people might hate it but it's infectious. Just look at how many people here were like WTF?? when they first heard it but came around to it after a few listens.
I don't know did anybody hear Beautiful Day or Vertigo the first time and think - wow, that's going to be a huge hit? I didn't...
Beautiful Day, absolutely.
Beautiful Day was huge from day 1 though, it was immediately (on Australian radio anyway) on super high rotation from the moment it debuted. Different times. Point being - didn't really have time to guess, it just took off.
Vertigo, I wasn't so sure. I remember thinking that while it clearly sounded like a big single, I wasn't sure if it would find it's place out there, that kind of song from this kind of band. Thought it might have been a song some types of U2 fan might reject, while a lot of the fans of punchy riffy rock might reject it for being U2, and it kinda falls down a crack in between.
Compared to everything else that's changed in terms of music consumption methods since atyclb came out, seems like fm radio--at least in the us--has changed the least. It sort of amazes me, to be honest, that it hangs on despite how horrible it is. The entire format is stuck in the past (much of the music is, too), and in a scale of 1 to omfg so much music to discover, it's like a negative number given all the pandoras and spotifys and iTunes and amazon prime and groovesharks and bandcamps and... You get the idea.. That are on the smart phones of even the least musically varied individuals. I'm personally in a shitty place as far as fm radio is the only thing that currently works in my car that plays music, but you're telling me that I'm not in the minority anymore? Or that there is really a big audience for those shitty local morning bullshit talking shows? The American public has not gotten enough of the same 5 Nirvana songs over the last two decades?
Given that record stores met the grizzly end everyone was predicting would come, and that there are probably almost as many legal ways to obtain music digitally as there are illegal ones, it just seems really crazy to me that fm radio is still hanging on the way it does.
So, at the end of the day, when all else fails, I have 20 radio stations, covering about 8 or 9 different genres to flip through and that keeps me entertained during my 20 minute commute each day.
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so it's probably a regional issue. i've got a fraction of that in numbers, and even smaller amount in variety. it's horrible.
I never listen to the radio.
I never listen to the radio.
What I'd like is a solid state harddrive and a deck that'll use voice recognition to play ehatever I say into the mic. Now that would be cool.