onyourkneesboy
The Fly
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I'd like to share two thoughts with you:
1.
There's a lot of discussion here how "new" and "surprising" the new album will sound..
Imagine, now after ATYCLB an HTDAAB, you never heard STATELESS before..!
Wouldn't this be some kind of a new sound we are all hoping for and Bono is constantly promising?
The song has a weird structure, strange-not-quite-logical chords, sounds dark and a bit underground... Whether you like the song or not: one has to agree that it wouldn't fit anywhere on ATYCLB and sure as hell not on HTDAAB!
Anyway, with the latest release (HTDAAB) we got a good rocking song as a first single, Vertigo.. But like a lot of people stated here before: the song borrowed a lot from Elevation and the I Will Follow-era! I instantly liked Vertigo (and still do), but I think when U2 were to release a song like Stateless as a new single, they would live up to the promise of sounding "new" a lot more! And yes, the track is totally NOT radiofriendly but who cares? If radiofriendly is still an issue these days then we are really going the have a HTDAAB III, I fear...
2.
I think U2 really reached the "Acrobat-point". ("..what are we gonna do now it's all been said, no new ideas in the house and every book has been read..")
That's the reason why they got Lanois and Eno on board as full band-members in the writing process! (IMO)
When you listen to HTDAAB one can easily hear that new ideas and especially sound were already very rare:
70% is recycled material or clones from previous songs or fillers:
- Vertigo (Elevation/I Will Follow)
- Miracle Drug (With Or Without You)
- Sometimes (good song but no lasting power and too bombastic with in-your-face-emo.)
- Love Peace Or Else (Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode!)
- City Of ... (the worst U2-cliché ever! U2 imitating U2!)
- All Because Of You (a wanna-be-rocker but in reality just a mess with no direction or point, so: a filler..)
- One Step Closer (nice lyrics but musically a filler, too simple)
- Crumbs (the most obvious copy of a previous U2 song: Walk On)
Best songs on the album:
- A Man And A Woman (great structures, great singing by Bono, real passionate feel, new original sound!)
- Yahweh (it just works! musically hard to disect, beautiful original chord structures, very passionate, with a bit of that "Joshua-Tree-Highness", goosebumps..)
- Original The Species (good song)
So now with Eno and Lanois on board as full bandmembers I have hope that there's really something new going on!
But the more I hear Bono already using al kinds of terms like "molen metal" or "punk rock from venus" or whatever, the more I fear...
Usually, the weaker a track or an album is, the more Bono feels he has to back it up with a lot of blah-blah..!
So I just hope for not too much promises, hints or fague terms from Bono (or the band)... just give the world a BLOWAWAY-album that's NOT radiofriendly and has to appeal to everybody!
1.
There's a lot of discussion here how "new" and "surprising" the new album will sound..
Imagine, now after ATYCLB an HTDAAB, you never heard STATELESS before..!
Wouldn't this be some kind of a new sound we are all hoping for and Bono is constantly promising?
The song has a weird structure, strange-not-quite-logical chords, sounds dark and a bit underground... Whether you like the song or not: one has to agree that it wouldn't fit anywhere on ATYCLB and sure as hell not on HTDAAB!
Anyway, with the latest release (HTDAAB) we got a good rocking song as a first single, Vertigo.. But like a lot of people stated here before: the song borrowed a lot from Elevation and the I Will Follow-era! I instantly liked Vertigo (and still do), but I think when U2 were to release a song like Stateless as a new single, they would live up to the promise of sounding "new" a lot more! And yes, the track is totally NOT radiofriendly but who cares? If radiofriendly is still an issue these days then we are really going the have a HTDAAB III, I fear...
2.
I think U2 really reached the "Acrobat-point". ("..what are we gonna do now it's all been said, no new ideas in the house and every book has been read..")
That's the reason why they got Lanois and Eno on board as full band-members in the writing process! (IMO)
When you listen to HTDAAB one can easily hear that new ideas and especially sound were already very rare:
70% is recycled material or clones from previous songs or fillers:
- Vertigo (Elevation/I Will Follow)
- Miracle Drug (With Or Without You)
- Sometimes (good song but no lasting power and too bombastic with in-your-face-emo.)
- Love Peace Or Else (Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode!)
- City Of ... (the worst U2-cliché ever! U2 imitating U2!)
- All Because Of You (a wanna-be-rocker but in reality just a mess with no direction or point, so: a filler..)
- One Step Closer (nice lyrics but musically a filler, too simple)
- Crumbs (the most obvious copy of a previous U2 song: Walk On)
Best songs on the album:
- A Man And A Woman (great structures, great singing by Bono, real passionate feel, new original sound!)
- Yahweh (it just works! musically hard to disect, beautiful original chord structures, very passionate, with a bit of that "Joshua-Tree-Highness", goosebumps..)
- Original The Species (good song)
So now with Eno and Lanois on board as full bandmembers I have hope that there's really something new going on!
But the more I hear Bono already using al kinds of terms like "molen metal" or "punk rock from venus" or whatever, the more I fear...
Usually, the weaker a track or an album is, the more Bono feels he has to back it up with a lot of blah-blah..!
So I just hope for not too much promises, hints or fague terms from Bono (or the band)... just give the world a BLOWAWAY-album that's NOT radiofriendly and has to appeal to everybody!