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Just found this one. Pretty damn nice having that sound from Edge.
You just found this? I replaced the album version with it right after it was released and haven't looked back. This one is 5x better.
Just found this one. Pretty damn nice having that sound from Edge.
Even though U2 hasn't made a masterpiece since AB, I think they've done 3 in their career (JT, AB, & UF (close with POP)
You just found this? I replaced the album version with it right after it was released and haven't looked back. This one is 5x better.
Is it really better though,really? I don't think so anyway.Musically it's a drastic improvement...but I can't get past the lyric changes...
I'm not sure how much of that is due to the fact that I'm accustomed to the album version.
Are they throwing anyone else off?
Well I knew AB was an all-timer right from the beginning.
Why they didn't keep edges guitar like it was played here is beyond me.
I think we're gonna like this album.
I think we're gonna like this album.
Why they didn't keep edges guitar like it was played here is beyond me.
I personally thought Every Breaking Wave didnt need those 80s-soiunding big synth
I too prefer this very much to the song as it was released, and I think following this one through the finishing process provides a telling window into the failings of latter day U2.
We know Tedder re-wrote the chorus and seems to have crushed the original chorus into double time to use as a bridge. The original chorus is painful and has feeling, specifically longing -- the emotion that makes U2 U2. The double time bridge on the album recording is truly horrific, zero emotional content, rushed claptrap.
The Tedder chorus is a semi-successful pop chorus that has nothing to do with what makes U2 U2, AND was still not truly catchy enough to succeed on pure 2015 pop rock terms.
In short, they traded the original EBW, which was restrained and which was, though admittedly not classic U2, crucially a REAL SONG with real feelings and therefore a good U2 song representative of where U2 was at at the time -- for a cropped and copied and pasted pop-by-numbers bastardization of the original. Not to even mention the production, which can only have made Eno and Lanois sick to their stomachs, did they ever deign to listen.
Sorry, but I do have feelings on this subject.
Tedder needs away from this band.
To be clear, I don't HATE EBW as revised via Tedder. The piano version at least is OK. But again: they took a solid song with a strong emotional core and sacrificed it on the altar of hoping-for-singles.
i'm 31 and i could have sworn you were younger than me.
Maybe. We'll see.I think we're gonna like this album.
I like the released EBW - the chorus completed the song for mine. People are scared of the accessibility of the chorus, but not every song has to be one you have to 'work' to enjoy
I heard it Wednesday morning around 11 on 538.Hi,
Could you tell me which radio DJ's? Can't seem to find anything in a quick look..
Back on topic, so chances are that the upcoming NA & SA Legs could include the new single if released in early September
Seems like everyone who hears this stuff, likes this stuff.Anything in particular making you so sure?
Seems like everyone who hears this stuff, likes this stuff.
And when they talk about what it sounds like, they say it sounds like U2. But not SOI-style u2. Not another 80s throwback either. They cite later u2. bold u2.
..and that's fucking great by me!