Shuttlecock XXII: Summer of Laz
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cobl04
45:33
Incredible how good U2 are when you’re drunk and listening to their good songs.
OP
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Hewson
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I wonder if U2 will make as many stupid decisions in 2019 as they did in 2018
Depends on if they decide to tour Australia.
Fucken got it in one cunt, how good are these choons.
DaveC
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lazarus
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I memba
david
ONE love, blood, life
Memories..
Memories.....
May be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
Memories.....
May be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
Kieran McConville
ONE love, blood, life
It's probably about twenty years since I actually listened to New Year's Day on New Year's Eve/Day. Good song though.
DaveC
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pious plonker.
lazarus
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"...but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
1 Corinthians 13:11
Kieran McConville
ONE love, blood, life
shootin tvs reading corinthians thirteen
lazarus
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I really didn’t feel like creating a new Random thread, but which one of you bogans did this:
Shirtless Man Breaks into Closed Mall and Steals Cookies, Ice Cream, and Cake
Shirtless Man Breaks into Closed Mall and Steals Cookies, Ice Cream, and Cake
GirlsAloudFan
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"Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" is probably top 5 Bono lyric ever
GirlsAloudFan
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And then the very next song on the album is better! Wow, this guy was good.
mikal
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That reminds me, I need to give Achtung Baby a full spin again soon.
GirlsAloudFan
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I'm a step ahead of you my good bitch.
mikal
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DaveC
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don't necessarily want to post this in the "what's next" thread in the other place and have it be a free-for-all but the other night i made this just in case we wake up one day and interference is gone because someone stopped paying for the server or whatever: https://www.reddit.com/r/u2interference/
feel free to share it with others except for the usual dipshits (you know who they are).
i can't decide whether i'd rather gzusfrk not get the link and forget about them altogether, or try to get them to join purely so that i can have the satisfaction of perma-banning them on sight
feel free to share it with others except for the usual dipshits (you know who they are).
i can't decide whether i'd rather gzusfrk not get the link and forget about them altogether, or try to get them to join purely so that i can have the satisfaction of perma-banning them on sight
mikal
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don't necessarily want to post this in the "what's next" thread in the other place and have it be a free-for-all but the other night i made this just in case we wake up one day and interference is gone because someone stopped paying for the server or whatever: https://www.reddit.com/r/u2interference/
feel free to share it with others except for the usual dipshits (you know who they are).
i can't decide whether i'd rather gzusfrk not get the link and forget about them altogether, or try to get them to join purely so that i can have the satisfaction of perma-banning them on sight
Nice!
cobl04
45:33
Good idea mate 
DaveC
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i'm open to shameless bribery if anyone else wants to be a mod.
namkcuR
ONE love, blood, life
So, yesterday I finished a re-read of 'U2 At The End Of The World', and tonight, I listened to Achtung and Zooropa back-to-back.
What an era that was.
Zooropa is this futuristic sci-fi pop album that so captures the chaotic nature of what they must have been feeling making an album right in the middle of Zoo TV. Some of the most art-school-sounding stuff they've ever done(Zooropa, Numb, Lemon, Daddy, Some Days) standing side-by-side with more U2-classic-sounding stuff(Stay, First Time, Dirty Day) is the aural expression of that chaos, of a band that was trying on different masks, experimenting with different ideas, and seeing how far they could push their new sound, but that couldn't successfully hide their true face all the time. That is all sounds of one piece is a credit to the production team(i.e. Eno and Flood and Edge).
It's remarkable how fresh it still sounds. Even something like Numb really holds up.
As for Achtung, what can be said that hasn't been said? I don't listen to it front-to-back that often anymore, but every time I do, I'm struck not just by how good it is, but how exciting a recording it is. It is a thrilling ride for the ears(particularly if you're listening through good headphones).
Zoo Station has to be one of the great album openers, and from the big opening riff to the distorted vocals of the verses to the typical-soaring-u2-chorus-drenched-in-sleek-production to the bassline driving it to all the sound effects in between, it is an emphatic, blow-the-roof-off opening statement.
The band tends to get mocked these days whenever they refer to anything they've done recently as 'punk' anything, but EBTTRT is one of the most blistering singles they've ever released, and I think underneath all the gloss it's a punk song. It's got the fast pace, the attitude, the simplicity, the big chorus, it's got the blood-and-sweat factor, etc. And that intro riff is legendary. At least in my mind.
Until The End Of The World has no pop hook or chorus, and it might be the best thing they've ever done. A first-ballot contender for 'best song they've ever written'. The instantly-recognizable shouting intro, the lyrics, the speak-singing thing(it was one of the first times he did that), and my god, the guitars. That solo. That outro. Bono is always saying that Edge is on fire these days, but on this record, he truly was. That bass guitar too, don't want to leave Adam's contribution uncelebrated.
I have no idea why Horses wasn't a bigger hit or why it's not a warhorse. They take what could've been a darn good straight pop song and make it into something majestic. Beautiful melodies and harmonies, one of Bono's more poetic lyrics, and perhaps a top 5 middle 8.
I can go on. The Fly is almost equal to UTEOTW(almost).
One is one of the most lauded ballads of the past few decades.
I'm on record with my praise of Love Is Blindness, which I think is one of their more under-appreciated moments of true greatness. One of my favorite lyrics, one of my favorite Bono studio vocal performances.
The Joshua Tree will always be their biggest record, their record with the widest degree of recognition from the general public, but I feel like among more serious music fans, particularly serious rock music fans, this is often seen as their greatest work. It's always been #1 for me.
Heavy yet sleek, dark yet bright, exciting yet soulful, danceable yet painfully intimate, it's a work of contradictions, it's ultimately moving, and it's the album of their career.
What an era that was indeed.
What an era that was.
Zooropa is this futuristic sci-fi pop album that so captures the chaotic nature of what they must have been feeling making an album right in the middle of Zoo TV. Some of the most art-school-sounding stuff they've ever done(Zooropa, Numb, Lemon, Daddy, Some Days) standing side-by-side with more U2-classic-sounding stuff(Stay, First Time, Dirty Day) is the aural expression of that chaos, of a band that was trying on different masks, experimenting with different ideas, and seeing how far they could push their new sound, but that couldn't successfully hide their true face all the time. That is all sounds of one piece is a credit to the production team(i.e. Eno and Flood and Edge).
It's remarkable how fresh it still sounds. Even something like Numb really holds up.
As for Achtung, what can be said that hasn't been said? I don't listen to it front-to-back that often anymore, but every time I do, I'm struck not just by how good it is, but how exciting a recording it is. It is a thrilling ride for the ears(particularly if you're listening through good headphones).
Zoo Station has to be one of the great album openers, and from the big opening riff to the distorted vocals of the verses to the typical-soaring-u2-chorus-drenched-in-sleek-production to the bassline driving it to all the sound effects in between, it is an emphatic, blow-the-roof-off opening statement.
The band tends to get mocked these days whenever they refer to anything they've done recently as 'punk' anything, but EBTTRT is one of the most blistering singles they've ever released, and I think underneath all the gloss it's a punk song. It's got the fast pace, the attitude, the simplicity, the big chorus, it's got the blood-and-sweat factor, etc. And that intro riff is legendary. At least in my mind.
Until The End Of The World has no pop hook or chorus, and it might be the best thing they've ever done. A first-ballot contender for 'best song they've ever written'. The instantly-recognizable shouting intro, the lyrics, the speak-singing thing(it was one of the first times he did that), and my god, the guitars. That solo. That outro. Bono is always saying that Edge is on fire these days, but on this record, he truly was. That bass guitar too, don't want to leave Adam's contribution uncelebrated.
I have no idea why Horses wasn't a bigger hit or why it's not a warhorse. They take what could've been a darn good straight pop song and make it into something majestic. Beautiful melodies and harmonies, one of Bono's more poetic lyrics, and perhaps a top 5 middle 8.
I can go on. The Fly is almost equal to UTEOTW(almost).
One is one of the most lauded ballads of the past few decades.
I'm on record with my praise of Love Is Blindness, which I think is one of their more under-appreciated moments of true greatness. One of my favorite lyrics, one of my favorite Bono studio vocal performances.
The Joshua Tree will always be their biggest record, their record with the widest degree of recognition from the general public, but I feel like among more serious music fans, particularly serious rock music fans, this is often seen as their greatest work. It's always been #1 for me.
Heavy yet sleek, dark yet bright, exciting yet soulful, danceable yet painfully intimate, it's a work of contradictions, it's ultimately moving, and it's the album of their career.
What an era that was indeed.
BoMac
Self-righteous bullshitter
Anyone going to buy the remastered 10th anniversary NLOTH?
It’s weird they’re doing this for an album they have essentially shunned, even on a tour dedicated to it, right?
It’s weird they’re doing this for an album they have essentially shunned, even on a tour dedicated to it, right?
I'll download it.
Giving my money to them once is enough for that album.
Giving my money to them once is enough for that album.
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