Lancemc
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I've always much preferred Vertigo as well
You dropped AMAAW
The timeline in the special edition book for Bomb shows Mercy as being the last recorded, so it wouldn't belong on a 2003 sessions only version/
The Native Son/Xanax and Wine faction on this forum is one of the most blockheaded for sure. Fast Cars is one of their best from that decade.
Really like the song, but there's no room for it on the tracklisting I put together, which collectively is an angry response to the death of Bono's father and a desire to recapture youth in the face of that passing. AMAAW is a very adult contemplation on desire and commitment and deserves a spot somewhere, just not necessarily on this album.
Fast Cars doesn't fit anywhere on any HTDAAB configuration, but it is great. Would have been a great standalone single. Xanax and Wine is a better fit overall and it's a shame they dumped it for some limp old man pop like OOTS.
"Some things you shouldn't get too good at/like smiling, crying and celebrity" is every bit as egregiously overwritten as "I woke up at the moment when the miracle occurred." Bono needs to cut that shit out.
A lot of people in The Other Place love OOTS though. Personally, I think it's one of the worst songs they ever recorded.
maybe it's because i've only listened to the miracle twice (i think i only listened to soi twice) but the line makes no fucking sense to me. it's like cut-up lyrics, except the end result is complete shit."Some things you shouldn't get too good at/like smiling, crying and celebrity" is every bit as egregiously overwritten as "I woke up at the moment when the miracle occurred." Bono needs to cut that shit out.
A lot of people in The Other Place love OOTS though. Personally, I think it's one of the worst songs they ever recorded.
maybe it's because i've only listened to the miracle twice (i think i only listened to soi twice) but the line makes no fucking sense to me. it's like cut-up lyrics, except the end result is complete shit.
i'm also fucking sick of their long and clunky song titles.
Like I said before, I'll never understand why so many of you are so relentlessly hung up on this lyric. Like seriously, it's not that big of a deal.
Is there anyone else here besides me who actually really likes the song?
It's a good song, not great but good; much better than Elevation or Vertigo as songs go. Now I'll admit those two play better live. And I'll never understand the argument that it's "overwritten", that term just doesn't apply to this song.
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Like I said before, I'll never understand why so many of you are so relentlessly hung up on this lyric. Like seriously, it's not that big of a deal.
I don't know how you manage to overlook it. Sure, the "little old lady" line of Stand Up Comedy is worse, but this one still makes me wince every time.
They're not even comparable. One is an odd analogy that doesn't really work, the other is just a case of using one or two more words than you would've liked, I just can't understand why it's so bothersome. We'll probably never see eye to eye on it.
I felt like this too back when people were making such a stink about the ATM machine thing in MOS. I thought that was an equally ridiculous hangup on a lyric.
It's not "using one or two more words than I would've liked". It's a redundant expression, like "ATM machine". It's bad writing.
Explain?
What needs explaining? The concept of redundancy? Why redundant expressions are bad writing?
No, I'm wondering what you're seeing as a redundancy in that particular Miracle lyric?
"At the moment". "I woke up when the miracle occurred" expresses exactly the same thing as "I woke up at the moment when the miracle occurred".
If your comeback is that it doesn't fit the meter, that's no excuse for throwing in three superfluous, unnecessary words to form a clunky expression. Write something better.
"At the moment". "I woke up when the miracle occurred" expresses exactly the same thing as "I woke up at the moment when the miracle occurred".
If your comeback is that it doesn't fit the meter, that's no excuse for throwing in three superfluous, unnecessary words to form a clunky expression. Write something better.