Edge is now a space cowboy
Some people call him the space cowboy
Some call him the gangster of love
Some people call him Maurice
Edge is now a space cowboy
I love Shadows and Tall Trees and Another Time, Another Place. Boy is remarkably consistent.
Some people call him the space cowboy
Some call him the gangster of love
Some people call him Maurice
Agreed. I actually heard it at a bar last summer which was very odd. It actually sounded great in a public setting. Just makes me furious that it was placed on what was supposed to be an atmospheric album.Crazy Tonight was playing at my gym today and it's a happy song. Love Edge's Irish jingle guitar solo. It's just out of place on NLOTH.
Crazy Tonight was playing at my gym today and it's a happy song. Love Edge's Irish jingle guitar solo. It's just out of place on NLOTH.
B-sides were B-sides for a reason.
I actually don't hate Boots either, it's actually not bad it just suffers from a weird lyric.
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I've got submarine you got gasoline, I don't want to talk about wars between the nations . . . AT LEAST RIGHT NOW
I cringe at that lyric. Bono's self-awareness just comes across as being super pretentious
Going chronologically, here's a U2:18 that would make you want to rip your ears off:
1. Red Light
2. Trip Through Your Wires
3. Love Rescue Me
4. A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
5. So Cruel
6. Babyface
7. Elvis Ate America
8. Miami
9. Stuck in a Moment
10. In a Little While
11. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
12. Original of the Species
13. Yahweh
14. Get on Your Boots
15. Stand Up Comedy
16. Breathe
17. The Miracle
18. California
I disagree with every single pre-2000 entry on your list. In fact if I'd never heard of U2 in my entire life, 'So Cruel' could put me halfway on the track to finding out more.
I think (setting side Miami etc), you maybe just don't like slow-burn ballads.
Kabigon makes a good call with Drunk Chicken/America. Also, I completely forgot about Song For Someone, which surely says something. Replace The Miracle with it on my list.
Hard to call those ballads slow-burning when nothing, in fact, burns. Something like WOWY, which isn't exactly fast-paced, is in my top thirty (despite its over-exposure). A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel is completely unbearable, especially with the backing vocals; So Cruel I concede has good lyrics but it manages to be simultaneously over-wrought and boring; Babyface is flat-out creepy; Elvis Ate America was the most cringe-inducing thing U2 had ever done until, oh I don't know, "stop helping god across the road like a little old lady" or thereabouts.
And, for the record, I enjoy both When Love Comes to Town and Hallelujah Here She Comes. Neither is especially notable, but nor do they deserve derision. I've always been surprised by the hatred for WLCTT on here. I recall it doing rather well and lingering for quite a while on radio.
Normally I'd be with you that a song actually about something would be superior to Bono's Davos napkin notes, but when the result is Elvis Ate America I'll take the napkin notes. I've long considered Elvis the worst song with which U2 are associated. Yes, even ahead of all their 2000s drivel.
But to be fair if you told me I had to cut eight songs from my list, probably only a couple of the pre-2000s songs would remain. There's no doubt that most of the Worst of U2 1980-2015 can be found in the last fifteen years of that period.