Songs of Experience 36 - Now with 20% fewer acronyms

[CosmoKramer]

If you don't love Your Blue Room, Slug, Always Forever Now, and Beach Sequence, let's be honest, you don't deserve this band.

Where do I turn in my fan card?

 

[hasin73]

all this time and i'm only now finding out that i don't deserve to be a fan.

Shit. Talk about a ton of time wasted.

 

[hasin73]

Where do I turn in my fan card?

To Axver.

 

[U2girl]

I'll hold out for a full version of the BBC thing to hunt for it online. Hopefully it'll show up on U2torrents or something.

Full version? Longer version? I'm so confused as to what's aired and what's going to air later.

u2songs | U2 Live from London Special First Airing |

 

[mikal]

The best part is that the person telling us we don’t deserve this band shits on them 80% of the time. [emoji6]

 

[lazarus]

@@

*runs away*

As you should.

 

[corianderstem]

Ha!

 

[trevgreg]

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

The best part is that the person telling us we don’t deserve this band shits on them 80% of the time. [emoji6]

Meh - 73% tops

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

You're not a real fan if you can't recite the lyrics to Grace by heart. Backwards.

 

[rennowba]

That BBC special was superb. Best u2 tv show ever. If that don't sell records in the uk nothing will

The versions of one, beautiful day,with or without you and stuck in a moment where some of the best I've heard

Lights of home and get out of your own way sounded great live. Love is bigger is my least favourite on the record but this was a great version.

Still can't get my head round why summer of love, little things and red flag day aren't at the vocal point of the albums promotion. Maybe wouldn't of fitted in with a orchestral environment but should still be the main vocal point of the record

 

[KUEFC09U2]

That BBC special was superb. Best u2 tv show ever. If that don't sell records in the uk nothing will

Yep really really enjoyed that, new songs sounded great live!!

 

[wolbersu2]

Liked the special very much but..... One and With or without you.... again..... Why not Little things, 13 or Love is all that... ...

 

[rennowba]

Liked the special very much but..... One and With or without you.... again..... Why not Little things, 13 or Love is all that... ...

Theve got to play some hits on a prime time tv show. Some of the best performances of these songs that I've seen. Gave me goosebumps

 

[corianderstem]

*impatiently refereshes U2torrents to watch for an upload*

 

[CosmoKramer]

Liked the special very much but..... One and With or without you.... again..... Why not Little things, 13 or Love is all that... ...

Really they could have played Blackout, Little Things and Summer of Love with the orchestra and they all would have potentially be great(think of the violins during the Black out chorus!!)

But they need to throw in some hits for the crowd and to be honest this is a unique setting and we have never heard an orchestra version of All I want or With Or Without you and the only version of One played with an orchestra I heard back in 96 and it was beautiful so it works.

The better question is why didn’t they record for another hour!

 

[rennowba]

Really they could have played Blackout, Little Things and Summer of Love with the orchestra and they all would have potentially be great(think of the violins during the Black out chorus!!)

But they need to throw in some hits for the crowd and to be honest this is a unique setting and we have never heard an orchestra version of All I want or With Or Without you and the only version of One played with an orchestra I heard back in 96 and it was beautiful so it works.

The better question is why didn’t they record for another hour!

There's an 1 hour 20 minute version on over xmas 28th December around 11pm

 

[corianderstem]

There's an 1 hour 20 minute version on over xmas 28th December around 11pm

lol, guess I'll wait for THAT version to show up on U2torrents instead.

 

[KUEFC09U2]

Massive rise on the UK iTunes chart after that, shows what promotion can do!! Now they need to get on some talk shows etc

 

[JoRu]

The only new song they've uploaded on the BBC Music YouTube channel is GOOYOW (they've also uploaded AIWIY, WOWY and Beautiful Day)

Why are you doing this to me (and to everyone else who won't hear the best song on the album LIBTAIIW)?

 

[danm]

Have to say, incredible performance on the BBC from U2.

 

[david]

It would be cool if Bono used his lower register for WoWY.

 

[morph]

Great to hear Lights of Home.

But!

If they end the tour with that Love is Bigger gibberish we are gonna have a problem...

 

[dazzledbylight]

Is this BBC special on the 28th going to be on BBC (America) on cable?

(I don't have cable but my sis does and can ask her to tape it, if so.)

 

[redhill]

I want to see more of the afterparty.

Fuck that - I want to go to the afterparty!

 

[morph]

That DID look like a good afterparty. Where’s the uncut version!

 

[Axver]

The ambient tracks 12-14 fit the album well, but Corpse and Elvis Ate America immediately beforehand makes the end of the album feel like it drags a bit. Sometimes I'll just listen to the first 6 or 7 tracks and don't feel the need to listen any further. If Corpse / EAA were replaced by something a little more better / upbeat, it'd be difficult to top.

I deleted Elvis Ate America and immediately improved the flow of the album.

Corpse is pretty decent though.

To be fair, those are probably the listenable tracks on there for me. And Miss Sarajevo, of course.

Otherwise... yeah.

United Colours and One Minute Warning rang!

All this time and I'm only now finding out that I don't deserve to be a fan.

Shit. Talk about a ton of time wasted.

I will take this as you conceding our fight at JT30 Melbourne.

Where do I turn in my fan card?

Right here, matey.

The best part is that the person telling us we don’t deserve this band shits on them 80% of the time. [emoji6]

To be fair, current U2 don't deserve to be U2 either.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I will take this as you conceding our fight at JT30 Melbourne.

The hell you will

 

[superchuk5]

The best album since Achtung (well, since JT) is Passengers.

Don't @ me.

@tung, baby

*crawls under a bridge and never comes out

 

[kabigon]

@tung, baby

*crawls under a bridge and never comes out

Be@ on the br@ with a baseball b@