Oh hey, BMP managed to take a shot at Hillary Clinton! Wow! Something new!
Then god forbid I point out the reality of the consumer and critical communities both finding that album to be a turkey and I get dog-piled for it.
It hasn't aged the best with me but I certainly don't hate it and I always thought the live version on the Elevation tour was pretty special, especially after 911.
Treasure (What Ever Happened To Pork The Chop?)
That chorus is abysmally adult contemporary.
My dad died 2 weeks ago.
Should make getting tickets easier
And The Hands That Built America, but most of you hate that song.
And now, for my second wildly uncool opinion of the day:
Hands is a good song muted by some really cheesy keyboard embellishments that would have been best left off entirely (thanks, William Orbit).
Also, the note that Bono misses by a hundred miles in the video at 2:09 always makes me laugh:
I have no clue why that was the take they went with.
I've always liked Hands. I loved the way it played with the credits at the end of the movie, too.
The version they did on that live TV special was really outstanding.
Hands is an awful song, but what I hate the most is how it was used as an intro to Pride in 2015. That was excruciating. Or, no, maybe I hate even more how it was used to neuter the end of Bullet on the Vertigo Tour.
Electrical Storm, in either Original Mix or Radio 1 leaked demo version, is one of the best post-Pop songs. I've always loved it. I wouldn't put it near my top 10 or 20 like I did when I joined this site all those years ago, but I still rate it really highly. I do not consider the William Orbit Mix to exist.
And the new mixes of Gone and Numb are superior, I don't care what any of you say. New mixes of Discotheque and SATS can get fucked though. And I'd love to know why MW has that one different lyric. Or why the UK and Japan versions got The Fly as a bonus track but Australia did not, despite getting the ATYCLB and HTDAAB bonus tracks.
This post will, no doubt, induce a fit for laz. Yes mate, your terrible opinions about Electrical Storm and Gone are clear to me.
I will always go to bat for the Pop version of Gone. What the new mix does is it takes the beautiful, haunting, other-worldly instrumentation(I've said this before, but Edge makes his guitar cry) of the Pop version and makes it too...I don't know...ordinary. That arrangement worked very well live, but it just doesn't in that studio take for me And the vocal is worse too, Bono's vocal on the Pop version is so good.
I like the new mix of Numb though.
Critical reaction is always subjective and thus probably shouldn't be used as some kind of evidence of the absolute value, or lack thereof, of a piece of work.
The New Mix is way more punchy than the Pop version. Those guitars sound incredible, they're a big part of why I'm posting here today.
I remember when I then got Pop. Discotheque and SATS obviously sounded much better in their original form, so I was really excited when I got to Gone. I wondered how I could love the song more, and it seemed pretty plausible it was going to get better. It doesn't. Hell, it almost feels muffled compared to how powerful the New Mix is.
The New Mix is way more punchy than the Pop version. Those guitars sound incredible, they're a big part of why I'm posting here today.
I remember when I then got Pop. Discotheque and SATS obviously sounded much better in their original form, so I was really excited when I got to Gone. I wondered how I could love the song more, and it seemed pretty plausible it was going to get better. It doesn't. Hell, it almost feels muffled compared to how powerful the New Mix is.
But on AIWIY, great post LM. That studio version is incredible. But I'll have to disagree with namkcuR that it's one of U2's few songs not better live. Some of those Lovetown versions are great, especially that night they played it as a medley with Bad. That was something else indeed, and it's a shame Sil's Australian cousin is shrieking all over the bootleg.
And even the general listeners on sites like Metacritic and RateYourMusic felt it was decidedly a cut below even their recent LPs.
for AIWIY. Listened to a few recordings of it from i+e and they nailed it, then of course played it sparsely for the rest of the tour. I think it may well be the number one U2 song I want to hear live but haven't.
You sure about that? Looking at metacritic right now and the user reviews are 63 positive, 19 mixed, and 9 negative.
I've always liked Hands. I loved the way it played with the credits at the end of the movie, too.
The version actually in the film has that long intro with the electric guitar soloing, considerably better than what's on that atrocity of a Best Of collection and that above clip.
It's still pretty weak though. So glad they didn't win an Oscar for it.