adrball
Refugee
I love both the emotional White As Snow and Cedars. I (think) I prefer White As Snow but Cedars is still very powerful.
Hell, yes. I love the quote from NME where they mention Rolling Stone rating Edge the 24th best guitarist of all time -- Edge responds with 'silly'.
Not sure if he meant the fact guitarists were rated at all or because of the fact he was 24th. lol.
Unfortunately Edge thinks it's silly because he doesn't think he should be there at all. The thing about all of these guys is that they don't really consider themselves musicians. Both Larry and Edge in interviews during the Vertigo tour talked about not considering themselves professional musicians. They are artists and they do use instruments but they don't really think of themselves as musicians in the traditional sense of the word. I think that is actually one of their strengths because they are never bound by the rules and rote that musicians have ingrained in them from the way they learn to play.
Dana
This has become my favorite song on the album. Damn near flawless.
I love both the emotional White As Snow and Cedars. I (think) I prefer White As Snow but Cedars is still very powerful.
My interpretation of...
Cedars of Lebanon
Yesterday I spent asleep
Woke up in my clothes in a dirty heap
Spent the night tryin to make a deadline
Squeezin complicated lives into a simple headline
I have your face in an old Polaroid
Tidyin the childrens clothes and toys
You smilin back at me I took the photo from the fridge
Can't remember what Emily did
Haven't been with a woman, it feels like, for years
Thought of you the whole time, your salty tears
This shitty world sometimes produces a rose
The scent of it lingers but then it just goes
RETURN THE CALL TO HOME
The worst of us are a long drawn-out confession
The best of us are geniuses of compression
You say you're not gonna leave the truth alone
I'm here 'cause I don't wanna go home
Child drinkin dirty water from a riverbank
Soldier brings oranges he got out from a tank
Waitin on the waiter, he's takin a while to come
Watchin the sun go down on Lebanon
I got a head like a lit cigarette
Unholy clouds reflect in a minaret
So high above me, higher than everyone
Where are you in the cedars of Lebanon?
Choose your enemies carefully, 'cause they will define you
Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you
They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends
Gonna last with you longer than your friends
One of the darkest songs U2 have made. Bono sounds very much like he's been without a woman in years!
I love the drums in this song!-especially when the bass drum and splash cymbal come at the same time, really well done.
I actually liked this song a lot the first time, but I'm becoming less fond of the "return the call to home" part. I love everything but that. It just doesn't fit for me. The way the vocals are. I would have rather it just be Bono singing it in a way similar to the verses but with more a melodic voice than the out of place falsettos of whoever it is (Edge or Lanois or both)
From 3:36-3:46, right before Bono sings the last four lines, there's a little bass fill, that has a really funky/jazzy feeling to it, has a really great rhythm to it. One of my favorite moments on the record.
Edge's little solo on this is one of the best, more important -- one of the most COMPLIMENTARY -- on the album.
It really takes the mood to another level.
When I was listening to it the first time I remember thinking, "Man I hope this album ends with a more epic version of that little guitar solo."
Of course that didn't happen, which, perhaps, makes that little solo even better.
Edge is perhaps the most subtle lead guitar player of any successful band, ever.