BigMacPhisto
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Wow, I was just thinking to myself the other day how much U2 mirrors The Beatles........
First Third Of Their Careers: U2 and The Beatles both begin with a signature sound that slowly evolves over time.
- The Beatles most pointed to stumbling block in this era is 'Beatles For Sale', with its covers of many classic standards, it shows the band's old influences and continues on their evolution. The same can be said for U2's 'Rattle and Hum'.........both bands put out six albums in this first era.
- The first Beatles album and the first U2 album have a song with the lyrics "There's a place....." that evoke memories of childhood....
- 'Boy' also happened to be release near the time of John Lennon's death, and U2 happened to be in the New York area when it occurred.....a passing of the torch, perhaps?
Second Third Of Their Careers: Both bands end up changing the pop music scene by making albums that are more production based and less "playable" in a live setting. Achtung Baby/Zooropa are U2's Revolver/Sgt.Pepper's........the former being the band's initial sound with a lot of nicely produced tweaks, and the latter being a production heavy effort that isn't as radio friendly. Pop/Magical Mystery Tour have a bit more of the "hits" that you would expect. You could also point to some of the avant garde Beatles solo projects at this time and a bit later being similar to what U2 did with 'Passengers - Original Soundtracks I'.....
Final Third of Their Careers: The two bands focus less on production and more on a simple rock sound with great songwriting and the occasional bit of glamor. White Album/Let It Be/Abbey Road and ATYCLB/HTDAAB/?
- Strangely enough ATYCLB is mostly white, like The White Album. HTDAAB is mostly black, like LIB, which was the next album The Beatles recorded.
Luckily, Bono and The Edge don't have competing egos. And Ali is no Yoko.
First Third Of Their Careers: U2 and The Beatles both begin with a signature sound that slowly evolves over time.
- The Beatles most pointed to stumbling block in this era is 'Beatles For Sale', with its covers of many classic standards, it shows the band's old influences and continues on their evolution. The same can be said for U2's 'Rattle and Hum'.........both bands put out six albums in this first era.
- The first Beatles album and the first U2 album have a song with the lyrics "There's a place....." that evoke memories of childhood....
- 'Boy' also happened to be release near the time of John Lennon's death, and U2 happened to be in the New York area when it occurred.....a passing of the torch, perhaps?
Second Third Of Their Careers: Both bands end up changing the pop music scene by making albums that are more production based and less "playable" in a live setting. Achtung Baby/Zooropa are U2's Revolver/Sgt.Pepper's........the former being the band's initial sound with a lot of nicely produced tweaks, and the latter being a production heavy effort that isn't as radio friendly. Pop/Magical Mystery Tour have a bit more of the "hits" that you would expect. You could also point to some of the avant garde Beatles solo projects at this time and a bit later being similar to what U2 did with 'Passengers - Original Soundtracks I'.....
Final Third of Their Careers: The two bands focus less on production and more on a simple rock sound with great songwriting and the occasional bit of glamor. White Album/Let It Be/Abbey Road and ATYCLB/HTDAAB/?
- Strangely enough ATYCLB is mostly white, like The White Album. HTDAAB is mostly black, like LIB, which was the next album The Beatles recorded.
Luckily, Bono and The Edge don't have competing egos. And Ali is no Yoko.
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