t8thgr8
War Child
I secretly wish i could produce the next U2 album
I just can't see Edge as a frontman. He's too selfless. I think he is at his full potential filling up the speakers from his spot next to the BMan.t8thgr8 said:
Ok, but what if they changed it up and shocked the world. What would the mass reaction be? Try to wrap your head around the concept and think of the outcome. It's the most extreme change i think they could make that would actually work and set them apart from all bands before them.
This supposed tour ep in 2006, which appears quite possible, could afford to go out to left field a bit and try something like this. It doesnt necessarily have to be all edge all the time but think of the possibilities? Rock Zooropa, what? It could be somewhere around 9 or 10 songs. Edge singing lead on 6, Bono on 2 and a shared song or two. Edge is the media whore this time around. And he has been on his fair share of magazines lately.
LemonAid said:all 4 members get sex changes.
that would be pretty radical.
except for larry, he works either way.
U2DMfan said:just more Edge harmonies ON THE ALBUM
that would have made the last two albums that much better.
the Walk On harmonies are my favorite part of that entire album.
of course they are barely audible in the revisionist history single version, which does add the excellent hallelujahs, but that was such a beautiful part I can't belevie they botched it.
COBL has tremendous harmonies live, yet on the album they barely surface. All Because of You needed some harmonies as well during the chorus. How about the. Crumbs chorus with Bono and Edge singing, among other possibilities. What's done is done, I just hope for the next album they TRULY rediscover Edge's voice.
It's like having a kick ass instrument on the shelf, ready to go, ready to improve the sound and just saying eh, leave it. I blame the producers mostly
U2 needs to be pushed in that direction, somebody needs to have the balls to say to the band that the vocals need the harmonies because Bono doesn't want to sing into processed mikes anymore like the 90's and doesn't have the powerful voice that he had in the 80's. It sounds more full and more interesting than what has become Bono's half/speak/talk during the verses and the choruses are almost anti-climatic in several cases.
I really think it's the best weapon they aren't using enough in the studio. Think about The Beatles and think about Queen, and hw many songs drop off in depth if you subtract the harmonies. In this case, I am saying some songs would really benefit. Not through the whole song, mind you, but to bring changes to the songs that seem to float along without much dynamic.
Canadiens1160 said:I just can't see Edge as a frontman. /B]
namkcuR said:That's my two cents anyway. [/B]
namkcuR said:
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That's my two cents anyway.
namkcuR said:
That's my two cents anyway.
namkcuR said:And Bono would do all sorts of things with his voice - he'd distort it(Zoo Station, The Fly, Discotheque), he'd sing in whispers and hushes(Velvet Dress, Wake Up Dead Man), he'd sing with a country twang(Trip Through You Wires, Desire, Love Rescue Me, Jesus Christ), he'd sing like a standards singer(Love Is Blindness, Two Shots Of Happy One Shot Of Sad, Jools Holland version of Velvet Dress), he'd sing with skillfully restrained emotion(Please, North And South Of The River), and as we know, he can even *almost* do opera sometimes.