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I love North Star.Ummm... Wat?
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I love North Star.Ummm... Wat?
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I love North Star.
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Interesting note on the studios.. That part is new, and I'm pretty sure is correct.
The rest is pure guessing, as others have said
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This X 10.
Beautiful Day was a huge hit in the states and had nothing to do with 9/11. In fact BD was falling off the charts by the time 9/11/01 rolled around.
I mean if you go to a U2 concert, it gets just as big of a reception as the classics.
To this day I still hear the song on the radio just as often as the 80s classics.
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Lads,
I don't know if this is anything that will appear on SOE in any shape or form, could be just a jam for what we know. But this riff that Edge plays on his Signature guitar trailer is fucking killer at 0:41-0:47 !!
Larry had a botched facelift and is in hiding.
Confirmed rumor.
I agree that BD was a huge worldwide hit.
But remember the atmosphere at the time. U2 was still at a point in their career where they were looked at as the biggest band around. POP was not viewed favorably by everyone, and they successfully put a narrative out there before BD hit, that they were "returning to the basics" and people were very excited about that. That anticipation really helped to launch BD successfully.
But no one can deny the longtime success of ATYCLB was bolstered heavily by post-9/11 feelings and how people felt about some of those songs going forward, notably, Walk On. The superbowl appearance only prolonged and reinforced their popularity at the time.
U2 are no longer in that position. The general public is no longer hanging in anticipation of the next move the biggest band in the world will make.
So going forward now is much different. But I'm hoping for a surprise success for this album. I think many might swing back favorably after the hyperbolic backlash of SOI. Can't wait to find out.
I don't really know what the point here is.
Yes, 9/11 took the album to a different level; but it was massive already. They still would have had a successful and anticipated follow up album regardless of how they were embraced after 9/11, and they would still not be as popular today because they're old and popular music is a young person's game.
I'm not sure my point either. LOL. Other than to say, I know that BD was a massive hit all on its own. I just think from a sales standpoint, the album was held on the charts for a much longer period of time than it would have been without the post-9/11 embrace / superbowl moment.
At that time, if an album would stay steady in the top 50 for months, the sales would really wrack up. And sales amount does matter when looking at the importance and success of an album overall.
Back then yes...but nowadays it's no longer a metric to gauge the success of an album. Perhaps the number of Youtube Views, Twitter & Facebook followers and Concert Ticket sales...?
Concert ticket sales have nothing to do with whether or not an album was successful or not. The most attended and top grossing tour in history tells us that.
The VMAs were so unbelievably bad. I watched about 15 minutes. Each year it gets worse and worse. I don't understand a thing they say & am generally confused watching it. and lets be honest, its more dancing than singing.
I don't think there was one guitar played during the VMAs last night...
Does anyone know how to be a "band" any more?!?!?!