hasin73
Refugee
Gone is an amazing song with a great rhythm section. It would be a monster as a lead single and would make POP a hit chart-wise. But Discotheque, although great, killed POP with its bizarre video.
If Zooropa had 5 singles, what do you think would work?
I'd say:
Stay, Numb, The First Time, Lemon, Dirty Day.
If Zooropa had 5 singles, what do you think would work?
I'd say:
Stay, Numb, The First Time, Lemon, Dirty Day.
it is interesting how seemingly awkward titles suddenly make much more sense once we get a little context, and those so quick to mock Mr. "love/knee/feel" in an attempt to appear smarter than Bono look a little silly afterwards.
The Gone new mix is the definitive version. I've never thought the live version improved much on the studio and the Pop version is not nearly as crisp or sharp.
Can't fathom you people who think it's too slow or whatever. That wailing guitar is amazing and it has one of the band's best choruses.
I'm not saying he's above mockery -- he's Bono. He's been mocked for almost 40 years. It's just tiresome to read post after post sneering at songs/titles/lines they've never heard. SDABTO and ISHFWILF seem trite and cliche in this light. Rolling eyes at such tedium (omg, TBT sucks? Tell us again), especially when we have no context yet, and that everything inevitably makes more sense when we actually hear the song, and perhaps giving Bono a shred of the benefit of the doubt after 40 years, isnt at all suggesting anyone is above criticism.
Dirty Day isn't very catchy, I don't think it would be a good choice. Worked great in the live setting but not a radio song. The First Time is way too downbeat and barely has a chorus.
By contrast, I think Some Days is along with Babyface the poppiest thing on there. Great bassline, jangly guitar work on the chorus, and then that Beatlesque backwards guitar solo. I could easily imagine a lot of people getting into that one.
And I know a lot of people dislike Babyface and think it's the weakest thing on the album, but it's very catchy and has an innovative sound that's representative of the album; the production on that one is fantastic.
It's just tiresome to read post after post sneering at songs/titles/lines they've never heard. SDABTO and ISHFWILF seem trite and cliche in this light.
It is a travesty that
-Gone wasn't a single off of Pop
-Gone wasn't the LEAD single off of Pop
-Gone has been completely ignored since the Elevation tour, especially
-Gone wasn't played on a tour where the guy wore a fucking suit of lights
It is a travesty that
-Gone wasn't a single off of Pop
-Gone wasn't the LEAD single off of Pop
-Gone has been completely ignored since the Elevation tour, especially
-Gone wasn't played on a tour where the guy wore a fucking suit of lights
It is a travesty that
-Gone wasn't a single off of Pop
-Gone wasn't the LEAD single off of Pop
-Gone has been completely ignored since the Elevation tour, especially
-Gone wasn't played on a tour where the guy wore a fucking suit of lights
I’m still pissed Holy Joe was not the lead single from POP! In all seriousness how Gone was never released as a single is personally my biggest U2 wtf?!?!?
Gone is in my top 2 from POP, and as I think we can almost all agree here, would have been the best choice for the first single, or at least A single.
The New Mix is good. I really like the first half or so. Where it loses me is at about the 3:20 mark. The "No emotional good night... and after.
It just doesn't hold the emotion of the album version. And overall, the album vocals are just more loose and real to me.
Lots of what makes U2 songs great is that intangible feeling you get. And the album version just has that feeling that i don't fully get on the new mix.
Either way, the song would have KILLED as the first single, either mix.
- From VenusPunk Rock Supremes
Gone albumversion much better imo. Lot more of emotion in that version. I like Bono singing like that.
Bring on SOE!
And oh by the way, they also chose not to play the song when they had a set where he could have literally be above the stage "up with the sun"
If they use the same set up this go around, by all means close the first set with Gone... with Bono in the stage above the crowd, and the intermission starting with him somehow "gone" from the screen. Put some curtains up again that makes it hard to see the song for someone carriage thing taking him down so he can sip some Perrier during the break. Or hell, leave him up there for a few. Feck em
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