Gonna Run 2 U
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...is that all?
Is That All ?
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...is that all?
Zoots
Blue Crack Supplier
Love it! The bass... the guitar... and the drums
purpleoscar
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
The guitar sounds like Electric Co.
Zoots
Blue Crack Supplier
Why do you think they used it as an intro to Electric Co. on tour? lol.
DevilsShoes
War Child
This song tends to get criticised on here but I think its great. Full of frenetic energy and I love how in the last minute or so the whole thing really goes for the big climax and ends with a lonely whistle.
Bono is right, their naivety was their greatest strength in the early days, it often produced exciting and unexpected results.
Bono is right, their naivety was their greatest strength in the early days, it often produced exciting and unexpected results.
bonocomet
Blue Crack Distributor
oooh always happy to add my 
to Is That All threads. Don't care that a lot of people disagree but it's probably my favorite U2 album closer.
to Is That All threads. Don't care that a lot of people disagree but it's probably my favorite U2 album closer.
bonocomet
Blue Crack Distributor
God Part II
The Fly
Seems to always come up in polls as the worst song on OCTOBER--insane rubbish, I say! This song fuckin' ROCKS!
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
C-side.
intedomine
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
Perfect closer to October. Stunning song, probably my second favourite on October after Gloria. I'm a huge fan of the lyric. Always gets me thinking.
" Singing This Song Cause I'm Happy
I'm Not Happy With You "
Just personally, whenever I hear The Cry/Electric Co live, I always yearn for it to be a full live Is That All? and it disappoints me that it turns into Electrico.
Severely underappreciated.
" Singing This Song Cause I'm Happy
I'm Not Happy With You "
Just personally, whenever I hear The Cry/Electric Co live, I always yearn for it to be a full live Is That All? and it disappoints me that it turns into Electrico.
Severely underappreciated.
OP
OP
Gonna Run 2 U
New Yorker
I wish we could have heard/seen is that all live during JT/Lovetown with his deep screaming vocals
the tourist
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Criminally underrated.
Scarlet would be a far better closing song for October.
God Part II
The Fly
Well, even as a lover of "Is That All?", I'd have to concede that.
bonocomet
Blue Crack Distributor
I think it closes the October album perfectly.
Reggie Thee Dog
Blue Crack Addict
It's kinda the 'black sheep' of U2 album closing songs. It's very uptempo and in your face. It's a bit chaotic and/or frantic, unlike songs like 'Shadows and Tall Trees' or 'Mother's of the Disappeared'.
I don't think it's the greatest song, but when I first bought that cassette I used to play that song over and over...
I don't think it's the greatest song, but when I first bought that cassette I used to play that song over and over...
Irishteen
Blue Crack Addict
Probably in my bottom five U2 songs; just a waste of the fantastic song that is the Cry
Rob33
Rock n' Roll Doggie
Maybe, but I'm pretty sure this song was on a lot of people's top 25/top 50 lists in that recent U2 experiment that the Scientist was in charge of.
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
No doubt about that.
Remove Is That All, replace Fire with Saturday Night, and find a place for A Celebration on the tracklisting and you've got a really decent record on your hands. But at the moment, I find the album to be a mess.
EDIT: Something a bit like this...
1. Gloria
2. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
3. A Celebration
4. Rejoice
5. I Fall Down
6. October
7. Tomorrow
8. Stranger In A Strange Land
9. Saturday Night
10. With A Shout (Jerusalem)
11. Scarlet
popbellydancer
Refugee
i love it! and this thread!
God Part II
The Fly
"A Celebration" is a far better sonic match for placement on WAR than on OCTOBER...
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
You think so? Listen to it next to Rejoice.
Zoots
Blue Crack Supplier
Wish Larry could drum as fast now as he does on this track!
hasin73
Refugee
One of the top 3 songs on OCTOBER.
david
ONE love, blood, life
A Celebration could have easily replaced The Refugee.
The John Tree
War Child
Blasphemy! I love The Refugee! Now that's an underrated U2 song.
Is That All? not so much. I don't know, I just feel that October's last few songs are really what make the album suffer a bit. People around here give HTDAAB so much shit, but I think HTDAAB is leagues above October, and this song is one of the reasons why.
I feel like the lyrics don't really fit the song. Which is fitting, because the lyrics are about writer's block during a time when Bono HAD writer's block, which means he couldn't come up with anything better. Still though, I wish he had.
And "Scarlet" is the only U2 song I find unlistenable.
Is That All? not so much. I don't know, I just feel that October's last few songs are really what make the album suffer a bit. People around here give HTDAAB so much shit, but I think HTDAAB is leagues above October, and this song is one of the reasons why.
I feel like the lyrics don't really fit the song. Which is fitting, because the lyrics are about writer's block during a time when Bono HAD writer's block, which means he couldn't come up with anything better. Still though, I wish he had.
And "Scarlet" is the only U2 song I find unlistenable.
God Part II
The Fly
I stand by my statement; there is stark, punkish energy to "A Celebration" that perfectly fits WAR. In fact, either in the remastered OCTOBER's liner notes or the book U2 BY U2 (I can't remember which), Edge comments that "A Celebration" was the band's first crack at finding the sound they wanted for what was to become the WAR album. Oh yeah, and if anything is getting kicked off of WAR, it's "Red Light", not the jaunty little diddy that is "The Refugee"!
cobl04
45:33
In my revered opinion, I think it's obvious that it was rushed, not finished, blah blah blah. But it's not as bad as some say.
cobl04
45:33
Stranger in a Strange Land makes your statement null and void.
October is a great album that suffered from groupies and naivete, and could have been better.
And The Refugee is trounced by nearly any song from October, and is for me the worst on War.
major_panic
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
The Cry in a slightly weirder form.
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