Why I love Pop Chapter 19
I could and have written forever about why I love Pop. I'd rank AB & JT above it every time, but after that it's a dog fight for positions- Pop holds its own. I think AB & JT are *that good* to be ranked in top 1&2, I don't think Pop is *that bad* that it's ranked after it, if u know what I mean.
Anyway some of my favorite lyrics come from Pop. The music is another factor entirely- purely rockin and abrasive and in your face attitude, guts and grime. I love it.
But if you don't even like the SOUND- read the lyrics. Read the pain in them, read the confusion, the inaction, the blame. Now as I'm going over this and after studying more of JT lyrics i'm getting scared that Bono's really strayed from this and I pray it's not permanant or for the wrong reasons!!
MOFO
For bono to make such an addmission this is a song that could sum him up more than any other.. raw and rough!!
Looking for to fill that God shaped hole
IGWSHA
*ouch* OUCH! what a song- much more bitter than WUDM imo!! In WakeUP at least he's giving Jesus the benifit of the doubt, to be sleeping. Here:
Would he even pick up if he could. Then u got the living room scene with the fab line (really, in ATYCLB bono's lines have been thinning..)
Does love...light up your Christmas Tree
SATS
good glory what don't I like about this song?? He's still wrought with spiritual confusion- will God listen? Intransigence IS all around in this song/album.. self doubt
I'm nearly good but there's somethin' missin and
the gorgouesss imagery opening the song:
Summer stretching on the grass
GONE
Smashing, simply smashing.
You hurt yourself, you hurt your lover then you discover what you thought was freedom was just greed whoaa! can't you see the story he's telling here? It ain't pretty- it ain't all pop and disco and "bubble gum" - HE knows what it is, but he still wants some....
VELVET DRESS
I love everything about this song. I love every single lyric, not ONE do i have a problem with, not one word. I
love love the bass thank you very much Adam.. it's damn sexy, damn yearning, damn scary..
Please
Up there with the Best LIVE moments. Up there with the Best U2 video ever! another one with superior lyrics.
Love is hard, and love is tough. But love is not what you're thinking of. OUCH. wow. The first stanza is stunning.
WUDM
Possibly the best "cataloguing" U2's ever done after Numb, which wins perhaps on length.
Listen to your words they'll tell you what to do
Listen over the rhythm that's confusing you
Listen to the reed in the saxophone
Listen over the hum of the radio
Listen over sounds of blades in rotation
Listen through the traffic and circulation
Listen as hope and peace try to rhyme
Listen over marching bands playing out their time
DYFL
I freaking love love loveeeeee this song!!
I love the SOUNDS of it, I love the
grunting in it, I love the smell and taste and shoving sense of it. terrific song. Top 10.
Take the colours of my imagination
Take the scent hanging in the air
Take this tangle of a conversation
And turn it into your own prayer who hasn't felt this before????
And my tongue to tell you the sweetest lies
ok i'm done for now.