Von Schloopen
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you posted on a message board but don't want comments? That doesn't make sense.
I didn't even listen to this clip. My opinions on the song are based on the live version from the tour.
Oh noez, omg, etc.
It doesn't sound like Achtung Baby and it's not depressing, so Interference hates it already.
can i say that i think Mercy (old and, yes, new) is pretty great and EBW is on it's way to being great?
it's just this one that sounds like Diane Warren.
I could care less if it's innovative. It's one of those U2 tunes with so much terrain I'm always finding new aspects of it to dig. It's a tune we got on accident. Then that launched a reworked live version was more bonus sex.
Then again, U2 are not a band I turn to when I want innovative stuff. I want guts from them. Blood and guts.
Then again, it could morph into something completely different with danger mouse or redone...
This is why i don't see the (possibly) new studio recordings we have as any indication of where they're going - they develop, tear apart, and rebuild song ideas like lego blocks, they put one song idea in one end and it comes out as something with, as you said, an entirely new identity. If mercy, ebw and north star can be re-worked like that by danger mouse or whoever, then my perception of them could completely change - i might end up loving mercy and hating ebw.
... i'll probably still hate north star though