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The beginning of the song features Bono singing "uno, dos, tres, quatorce", which are familiar to the book of James 1,2,3 and 14, which speaks about temptation.
Zootlesque said:
The only real problem I have with the last 2 albums is the lyrics! I think the lyrics seriously went down the freaking drain with ATYCLB! I mean, look at the last few verses (fragrant/basement) of Kite! Or the stupid rhymes of Elevation! Or everything except the 'scatter of light' verse in IALW! Or parts of New York! The terrible terrible rhymes of Grace! Moving on to HTDAAB... The weak chorus of COBL! The cringeworthy 'all of this could be yours' line in Vertigo! The weak 'where is the love' of LAPOE!
Okay, I won't go on because I don't wanna come off as an ATYCLB/HTDAAB hater, because I'm not. I do like other things about these albums and they still sound better than 90% of what's out there!
But compared to EVERYTHING from Boy to Pop.... yes, everything!, the afore-mentioned lyrics sound much too inferior and uninspired to me.
onyourkneesboy said:Although U2 is my favourite band ever and has been for many years, it's getting harder and harder for me to keep loyal to them all the way.
To me, their nonchalance and their eagerness to wanting to appeal to the masses have become a problem that I can not deny.
onyourkneesboy said:Introducing HTDAAB and it's first single Vertigo, U2 used shitloads of swagger and blah-blah to be heard by the masses. It is known that they, again like with ATYCLB, wanted to be the biggest of the biggest !! Again...!
Well, of course they are! But for years now the music starts to suffer with this attitude.
First of: I know that when you have a new album you have to use some media/advertising to let people know it's out there. But the way U2 uses the media nowadays is one step away from: "Along with your Happy-Meal comes the new U2-single: Original Of The Species !!"
onyourkneesboy said:I'm getting bored with Bono's blah-blah about U2 still wanting to be the best, the biggest, and so on...Bono: shut up!!, and just MAKE great music! Don't talk about it! Get your ass FULL TIME in the studio and CREATE with the boys extraordinary music like you've done in the years before! Create landscapes, atmospheres…
onyourkneesboy said:I admire you for your spirit and effort for the good cause, but the music suffers from it! And I'm already aware that you've got life all figured out and have al lot of expensive sunglasses and friends. It’s seems all to be about posing now: looking cool, know how to look when you talk, all those little “Robbie Williams-like manners” Come on man, focus on the music! Get mysterious again, epic, poetic, ambient, take your fans on a ride like in the old days with new music!
onyourkneesboy said:I think people nowadays hunger for some imagination, getting sucked into landscapes, atmospheres in music, not only sincerity. Don't we all want to hear a band that doesn't give a shit if the new CD sells, but want to make a record that is original, experimental and is not written for the masses. Like The Unforgettable Fire, Achtung Baby and Zooropa were. Bono said about HTDAAB: "I want every song to sound like it could be released as a single.." Man, with this attitude in the songwriting-proces they tend to shift towards sounding like Bon Jovi or The Rolling Stones.
onyourkneesboy said:U2 should focus on making surprising, artistically interesting songs again that come from another place like: Tomorrow, The Unforgettable Fire, Bad, In God's Country, Love Comes Tumbling, Walk To The Water (talking about a gem!), The Fly, Acrobat, Until The End Of The World, Lemon, Heartland, Love Is Blindness, Please, When I Look At The World, Mercy…
These song are creative, emotional in a subtle way, multi-layered, spiritual, and come from places out of this world.
onyourkneesboy said:While, except for Yahweh and A Man And A Woman!, the songs on HTDAAB sound like everyday life. Down to earth, to straight-on, flat, plain lyrics, no surprises, so therefore less interesting and not long lasting as the earlier albums full of gems, and not full of "hit-singles"!
onyourkneesboy said:More and more you hear people getting bored with U2 because they don't tickle the listeners imagination anymore en don't delve into unknown territory. I'm afraid right now they've fallen into the trap of being the biggest, therefore pleasing the masses who might as well go to a Rolling Stones-concert. Come on man, I want my favourite band to sound the way that doesn't attract a Rolling Stones audience. U2 should not sell out and become they're on tribute-band !
onyourkneesboy said:Quote's from another forum:
.."Their latest album (which is a very good album btw) suffered from "lazy songwriting." C'mon, are you really going to say Vertigo is... fresh. The riff is cool... I'll say that, but it's almost like Elevation. The way the bridge takes the song down, and then busts right back into the chorus... it's Elevation verbatim, but just a different melody. How many times does Bono rhyme 'steal' and 'kneel' on 'Bomb, and let's not forget "I'll give you EVERYTHING that you want/except the THING that you want". Look, I don't care what sales have to say. 'Bomb isn't progressive. It's dried up.
Bono: Bring back the metaphors and deep lyrics. Edge: Bring back the sonic sounds and soaring guitar solos. It's time to venture into deeper, daring and perhaps darker territory on the next album."
onyourkneesboy said:I'm afraid I a have to agree on these quotes.
Further on: Miracle Drug has the sound, chords and structure of Beautiful Day, City Of Blinding Lights the most predictable, cheesy song ever by U2, All Because Of You is like Rolling Stones and still they didn’t nail this song, just boring rock-and-roll for elderly men, One Step Closer has nice lyrics but: yawn…boring, Crumbs is a straight copy from Walk On (talking about lazy songwriting!)
onyourkneesboy said:Anyway, 8 out of 11 songs have major problems!
The songs nowadays have no unpredictable chord-sequences, special atmosphere, or poetic lyrics. It’s good songs but down to the ground.
The point is: many years ago U2 was a young band who wanted to make music no one ever heard before: spontaneous, passionate, spiritual and while trying they achieved this but they weren’t aware of it at the time. They were half in the shadow, half in the light. One could hear that creating extraordinary music was their obsession. They were full-time passionately attached to this obsession. Nowadays they can’t/want seem to reach that point anymore. The last 2 albums are good, with good songs on them. But not more than that. 85% is indeed dry and one-dimensional.
onyourkneesboy said:Now that they have the attitude: “o.k., we now know how to write a good song, so listen what we got!” (with a lot of swagger). Sorry Bono, you can scream to the world that City Of Blinding Lights is one of the best songs ever, but it’s nowhere near Streets, Unforgettable or Please!! And I think he knows it. The more a song or album lacks this magic, the more he brags about it, and feels he has to back it up with a lot of noise and blah-blah…Everybody knows that by now Bono! It’s so see-through…
onyourkneesboy said:But I’m still waiting for a great return of my favourite band. And I’m convinced when they keep a few things in mind, we’ll hear them as we never heard them before, full of surprises. A few things that could help them:
1. take risks musically (like in the AB and Zooropa-era)
2. forget about wanting to be the biggest, best or whatever!
3. in songwriting: search for weird, unknown territory, dark/light sounds, dark/light landscapes
4. forget about: “how do we appeal to the largest number of listeners/audience”
5. forget about: “how do we play this live?”
6. forget the down-to-earth thing: get the passion and the poetry back
7. u2 is a 6-member band: get Eno and Lanois back for the atmosphere and special moods, the colour, the melody, the extra push for the surprises
8. Bono: be there 100% when it comes to the writing process. In the studio, FULL TIME, with the others all the time! Stimulate each other! Fight, argue, experiment, whatever but look for new grounds!
It’s going to be hard labour again for them. Like UF and AB were… But man, what a result! And I think they can pull it of again. They just need to forget their ego’s and giganticness for a while!
onyourkneesboy said:
1. take risks musically (like in the AB and Zooropa-era)
2. forget about wanting to be the biggest, best or whatever!
3. in songwriting: search for weird, unknown territory, dark/light sounds, dark/light landscapes
4. forget about: “how do we appeal to the largest number of listeners/audience”
5. forget about: “how do we play this live?”
6. forget the down-to-earth thing: get the passion and the poetry back
7. u2 is a 6-member band: get Eno and Lanois back for the atmosphere and special moods, the colour, the melody, the extra push for the surprises
8. Bono: be there 100% when it comes to the writing process. In the studio, FULL TIME, with the others all the time! Stimulate each other! Fight, argue, experiment, whatever but look for new grounds!
but what they lack is 'danger'.
Maybe this is how I wanted to say things.The band are too comfortable. They need to be 'scared' into life.
onyourkneesboy said:Could you all stick to the original topic, please?
doctorwho said:I'm sure I can rattle off a ton of songs - even U2 ones - that I adore and you hate
darbyZ said:Why you people don't get it that every single fan has the right to express his/hers own view on U2 work, songs, lyrics...............Diversity is beautiful,appreciate it! THERE IS A SUBTLE LINE THAT DIFFERS A FAN FROM FANATIC!
Zootlesque said:The only real problem I have with the last 2 albums is the lyrics! I think the lyrics seriously went down the freaking drain with ATYCLB! I mean, look at the last few verses (fragrant/basement) of Kite! Or the stupid rhymes of Elevation! Or everything except the 'scatter of light' verse in IALW! Or parts of New York! The terrible terrible rhymes of Grace! Moving on to HTDAAB... The weak chorus of COBL! The cringeworthy 'all of this could be yours' line in Vertigo! The weak 'where is the love' of LAPOE!
Zootlesque said:All of this could be yours... just gimme what I want and no one gets hurt???
I mean... WTF? It's like Bono just pulled this pseudo-cool sounding line out of his ass and just put it there in the middle of this song
Zootlesque said:See, they did a great job with Mercy!
...and The Ground Beneath Her Feet!
and Stateless!
and Fast Cars!
Then they go and leave these songs out of the albums!
So, what I'm saying is that they definitely still have it in them! They still got potential! But why don't they pick the good ones for the album? Why???
twochordcool said:
Can you tell me how / where to acquire these songs?
Are they B sides to singles?
twochordcool said:Jeez, U2Mixer...YOU GOT A LIFE OUTSIDE OF THIS?
U2mixer said:
No, but I could tell you where to download those songs that you seek!
But then again...
twochordcool said:
I don't think you can be a true fan AND criticise them - unless they REALLY screw up somehow, which they haven't.
Do you know what I mean?
U2DMfan said:No. There is a discernable difference between fanatics and fans.
The difference is rationality.
And that is actually by definition.
A fan being an enthusiastic devotee
A fanatic being an irrational enthusiastic devotee
U2mixer said:No, but I could tell you where to download those songs that you seek!
But then again...