djerdap
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Listening to these clips, I get the feeling of listening those Melbourne soundcheck 1998 clips, which featured some truly amazing improvisation.
bcrt2000 said:
People wanted U2 to go in a new direction... these 4 songs *do* represent a new direction. I'm sure people who hated X&Y won't appreciate this album though.
Axver said:
OK, now this new stuff sounds like the Beatles, Bon Jovi, Christian soft rock, and will be X&Y Part II.
If I were a comedian, I'd just read Interference to get my material.
Axver said:
OK, now this new stuff sounds like the Beatles, Bon Jovi, Christian soft rock, and will be X&Y Part II.
If I were a comedian, I'd just read Interference to get my material.
ishkash said:
Sorry bcrt2000 mate, don't wanna sound like a jerk but we haven't actually heard 4 new songs yet. I mean things hear get so much blown up for nothing. Although it's been so long that these clips feel like a new song. I don't see any reason for anyone to feel upset or excited about what's to come.
I understand people are trying to assume based on what they've heard, but everyone must remember they have too big a variable to base their assumption on.
bcrt2000 said:
I'm not saying its X&Y part II (at least not in a bad way). But it has certain coldplay elements. The slow singing lyrics, the more direct "preachyness", being a lot more abstract than usual. Although, I imagined U2 would sound like this on HTDAAB (before X&Y came out). Just took them an extra album to get there
ishkash said:
Sorry bcrt2000 mate, don't wanna sound like a jerk but we haven't actually heard 4 new songs yet. I mean things hear get so much blown up for nothing. Although it's been so long that these clips feel like a new song. I don't see any reason for anyone to feel upset or excited about what's to come.
I understand people are trying to assume based on what they've heard, but everyone must remember they have too big a variable to base their assumption on.
I realized a long time ago that U2 will never again make music like my favourite band. These clips confirm that, why the hell they do what they want to do?
Salome said:I think I hear some Marilyn Manson influences
somewhere
and definitely Mozart
Axver said:
I don't see how such qualities make an album like X&Y or Coldplay in general. I mean, geez, Coldplay didn't invent any of those qualities and I'm sick of constant Coldplay comparisons. Not just in the U2 fan world either. It's bloody tiresome, and even if I didn't think they were a shit, uncreative band, I'd be tired of hearing it.
Now, if Bono were starting to write songs with lyrics like "and I will try to fix Africa", then the comparisons would have more validity - and I would be quite concerned about Bono!
U2dork said:Still nothing on the longer clips?
I think if I see the word "Coldplay" one more time my head will explode.
Axver said:
Did you catch that Bosnian 12th century folk music influence around 2:51-3:03?
djerdap said:If anybody brought the piano/pop-rock arrangement into the mainstream, it was Radiohead with their 1997 hit Karma Police.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Coldplay didn't do anything "revolutionary".
DignityPassesBy said:nope i think that chorus goes for song 3 goes something like this now
all my life i've been waiting for
hope and love (something)
and all my life i've been waiting for
this movement of you
djerdap said:If anybody brought the piano/pop-rock arrangement into the mainstream, it was Radiohead with their 1997 hit Karma Police.
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U2dork said:Still nothing on the longer clips?
I think if I see the word "Coldplay" one more time my head will explode.
bcrt2000 said:
Only hardcore music followers know of Radiohead and of their songs. Casual music listeners probably know other bands much better. The same even holds true for U2 to some extent (or at least it did before HTDAAB). All of my friends (I'm an 83 birth) really had no idea of U2 around 2001-2003.
BonoVoxSupastar said:
Are you serious?
bcrt2000 said:
No, I really am being serious.
BonoVoxSupastar said:
So you are going to speak for all music listeners because of you and your friends?
djerdap said:If anybody brought the piano/pop-rock arrangement into the mainstream, it was Radiohead with their 1997 hit Karma Police.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Coldplay didn't do anything "revolutionary".
bcrt2000 said:
I guess I'd put U2 among the likes of Nickelback for popularity currently because HTDAAB did so well, but even then, thats because U2 has an appeal across a very wide age range.
bsp77 said:
Nickelback? WTF? I realize that you are Canadian and all, but Nickelback is the worst excrement that the Canadians have thrown at us since Celine Dion.