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yeah basically everything about Mofo is awesome
That, pretty much. Though I really enjoy the added guitar parts live.
yeah basically everything about Mofo is awesome
"White dopes on punk staring into the flash" is one of Bono's very best lines. Self-depreciating and self-aggrandizing and entirely accurate all at the same time.
yeah basically everything about Mofo is awesome
Mofo could be a minute shorter.
the "been around back" line i'll never hear as anything other than "lil red vette....lil red vette". i want to hear the been around lines but i just can't.
I anticipate that line will come with their midlife crisis album, due in April, apparently.
Mofo could be a minute shorter.
But it has a lot going for it.
Mofo could be a minute shorter.
I'm glad we've confirmed U2's superiority to Madonna. I was staying up at night, worrying about that.When I recently got into Madonna, and I saw they both had 12 albums .I decided to sit down and compare album vs album. So pop matched up with her American life album. POP completely demolished it. Not only is it light years better but u2 had better dance beats. A experimental album for both and u2 ate Madonna's lunch. Although she pulled out a last second victory on the next round .Confession s on the dancefloor beat the interference's album of the century ATYCLB. Because "grace" stinks.
I've been listening to Lemon a great deal lately and am utterly astounded by everything that happens in it. The bass line is arguably Adam's best, the vocal is spectacular, Edge's guitar tone...how the fuck did he come up with that? Where did that sense of adventure go after Pop? His guitar has never sounded anywhere near that dreamy or psychedelic since. He colors that track as skillfully as he did so much of TUF. Say what you want about his lack of technical prowess, but that song would be a shell of itself without him. And once you know the story behind the lyrics, they're heartbreaking.
Lemon is a glorious song.
I'm glad we've confirmed U2's superiority to Madonna. I was staying up at night, worrying about that. Any word yet on how they compare to One Direction?
The Cyrus fiasco, however, is symptomatic of the still heavy influence of Madonna, who sprang to world fame in the 1980s with sophisticated videos that were suffused with a daring European art-film eroticism and that were arguably among the best artworks of the decade. Madonna’s provocations were smolderingly sexy because she had a good Catholic girl’s keen sense of transgression. Subversion requires limits to violate.
Young performers will probably never equal or surpass the genuine shocks delivered by the young Madonna, as when she sensually rolled around in a lacy wedding dress and thumped her chest with the mic while singing “Like a Virgin” at the first MTV awards show in 1984. Her influence was massive and profound, on a global scale.
But more important, Madonna, a trained modern dancer, was originally inspired by work of tremendous quality — above all, Marlene Dietrich’s glamorous movie roles as a bisexual blond dominatrix and Bob Fosse’s stunningly forceful strip-club choreography for the 1972 film Cabaret, set in decadent Weimar-era Berlin. Today’s aspiring singers, teethed on frenetically edited small-screen videos, rarely have direct contact with those superb precursors and are simply aping feeble imitations of Madonna at 10th remove.
http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/27/pops-drop-from-madonna-to-miley/
While Madonna and U2 do very different things, they do merit lots of comparisons
And don't ever compare Madonna to a boy bad like One Direction. She's genuinely changed the culture (more profoundly than U2), and she's who most female pop singers want to be.
No one has to like her music (though she's written some of the most effortless, exhilarating pop songs ever) but she's one of the most influential figures of the past 30 years. And having been to a concert, she genuinely tried to push the artistic envelope by juxtaposing shocking violence with religious imagery, genuinely innovative art design, and a constant desire to sound fresh with each album. In that way, she and U2 are peers -- they are the only 80s mega acts still pushing forward (and pissing off parts of ther audience ... She plays even fewer of the war horses than U2).
I would if I was allowed.
What an awesome photo, thanks for sharing that.
Oh, and sorry for stealing your avatar haha, I'll find something else.
A few years back, in DC (during the ‘Vertigo Tour’) – I had the chance to chat with Bono a bit before his show. I had the chance to ask him why “Pop (the album) gets slagged off so much” … he went on for a bit about it wasn’t as polished, etc etc… [I'm paraphrasing a bit here] then I said to him – but that’s what gave “your electronic album” a degree a humanity that would have been completely absent…
then Bono’s mouth dropped in a total sense of shock, put his hands on my shoulders – stared me dead in the eye said “oh my God, you HAVE to tell the Edge that. I’m not sure if he’s going to come by now, but tell him exactly what you told me”
… there’s a bit more to the story, but I did get to see Bono doing a SPOT ON Monty Python Impression (the ‘blessed are the cheesemarkers part in “the Life of Brian”) – and I was invited to the ‘after party’ that was at his hotel.
…what was nuts about the ‘after party’ (after the concert) was how much Bono remembered about specific performances from tours (and well, how much he clearly didn’t want to do the Bono-schtick with the ‘movers and shakers’ at this other event). He asked what shows I’ve seen before, one of them was Baltimore (on the ATYCLB Tour) – as soon as I mentioned that show, he was like “oh yea, we played a different version of “Please” then)…
this went on through the night, until I was like OK – I have to leave now, before I say something stupid.