onyourkneesboy
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Does anyone remember this:
When "POP" was about to be released, both U2 and Brian Eno talked about that it was easy for a band to write a dark, moody, melodramatic song. (Edge revered to Radiohead, who he really liked!) Much more harder it is to write a song with the centerword "joy" in it. Uplifting, hopeful, and maybe spiritual songs. U2 said they tried to capture this on POP.
Though I love most of the songs on POP and their own characteristics, I don't think there's a single song in it which has this element dominantly upfront!
But then I heard Yahweh!
(Maybe I sound like a sissy, but I don't care!) This song brought tears in my eyes and a lump in my throte! This finally was the song they tried to nail down during POP(and all their career). It has all this above elements in it: hope, faith, love, joy! This was a U2 I haven't heard for years and years!! (maybe only in "One")This song comes from another place. So, I can't believe "so-called U2 fans" don't like the song and find it boring and call it a filler at best.
For me, these people are boring winers who only like their U2 songs to be like: One (part 2), With or Without you (part 6), Beautiful Day (part 19) Streets (part 475)!
Man, it's 2005!! For example, I also love "A man and a woman"! Very new U2 with a lot of romantic atmosphere. Also an orphan-song kicked out the door by a lot of these "so-called U2 fans"!
So, my opinion is: these song are not the problem..! It's the SONAR of a lot of "U2-fans" that don't receive the new rich dimensions U2 are capturing in these songs! (Yahweh, A man and a woman)
Of course I like "Sometimes you can't..." & "Original of.."(gave me goosebums/chickenskin as high as the Himalaya!) "Vertigo" and "City.."
But Yahweh has a Highness to it that in history only John Lennon could touch. This song IS U2 from a Higher Place!!
Sorry, but I just want to stand up for these treasures of songs!!
When "POP" was about to be released, both U2 and Brian Eno talked about that it was easy for a band to write a dark, moody, melodramatic song. (Edge revered to Radiohead, who he really liked!) Much more harder it is to write a song with the centerword "joy" in it. Uplifting, hopeful, and maybe spiritual songs. U2 said they tried to capture this on POP.
Though I love most of the songs on POP and their own characteristics, I don't think there's a single song in it which has this element dominantly upfront!
But then I heard Yahweh!
(Maybe I sound like a sissy, but I don't care!) This song brought tears in my eyes and a lump in my throte! This finally was the song they tried to nail down during POP(and all their career). It has all this above elements in it: hope, faith, love, joy! This was a U2 I haven't heard for years and years!! (maybe only in "One")This song comes from another place. So, I can't believe "so-called U2 fans" don't like the song and find it boring and call it a filler at best.
For me, these people are boring winers who only like their U2 songs to be like: One (part 2), With or Without you (part 6), Beautiful Day (part 19) Streets (part 475)!
Man, it's 2005!! For example, I also love "A man and a woman"! Very new U2 with a lot of romantic atmosphere. Also an orphan-song kicked out the door by a lot of these "so-called U2 fans"!
So, my opinion is: these song are not the problem..! It's the SONAR of a lot of "U2-fans" that don't receive the new rich dimensions U2 are capturing in these songs! (Yahweh, A man and a woman)
Of course I like "Sometimes you can't..." & "Original of.."(gave me goosebums/chickenskin as high as the Himalaya!) "Vertigo" and "City.."
But Yahweh has a Highness to it that in history only John Lennon could touch. This song IS U2 from a Higher Place!!
Sorry, but I just want to stand up for these treasures of songs!!