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ONE
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Songs of Surrender - Discussion, reviews, impressions
Thread to discuss the recently released Songs of Surrender. Post your impressions, links to published reviews, alternate track lists etc here!
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The first 3 songs that I went back to were Bad, Desire and The Miracle - each for slightly different reasons.
__________________![]() Bad is the early standout for me, it was the first one that brought a smile to my face. In my opinion, they preserved it’s “epicness” while slightly changing it around. Desire was probably the most surprising one. It’s funky and the “fat lady” voice gives it a nice touch. As for The Miracle, the lyric changes towards the chorus caught me off guard. Interesting, to say the least. Need to spend a little more time with the others. |
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I’m trying to capture EBW so I can add it to the zip file, and I’ll post it here soon.
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Well, I fell asleep during the first listen. It didn't keep my attention and some songs I found them quite boring.
My feeling is that a lot of the fire and urgency of the original songs have disappeared in these stripped down reinventions ... when I hear WOWY, SHWILF, Streets, Stay, Dirty Day (and many others)... I long for the original versions. I also don't get the idea of this whole concept and besides for me it's just another chapter of the big Bono & The Edge show.. Some songs got an interesting edit, but for me it would have been enough (and nice!) if they would have dropped them every other week during the times of the lockdowns... what we need now, after this COVID-period is new hard rocking U2 songs! |
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Most songs feel like nice B-sides ...
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For anyone so inclined:
https://www.sendspace.com/file/io5dhr Zip file contains: BBC Piano Room NPR Tiny Desk A Sort of Homecoming Soundtrack I captured all the audio, mixed it together into a seamless track with audience transitions, and then split them out so it sounds like one thing: - All live performances - EBW "Bono does Radiohead" studio take - 40 Foot Man |
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I've cut the album in half. But I'm still working on it (and will probably end up including "40" in the the end as well)
1. Stories for Boys 2. I Will Follow 3. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock 4. Out of Control 5. Invisible 6. Song for Someone 7. Two Hearts Beat As One 8. Desire 9. All I Want is You 10. Pride (In the Name of Love) 11. Walk On 12. Red Hill Mining Town 13. The Fly 14. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 15. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own 16. Vertigo 17. Bad 18. Stay (Faraway, So Close) 19. Lights of Home 20. The Little Things That Give You Away |
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I'm fascinated by how they took 40 song album which is the whole point and then made these 16 track albums and cassette at random it seems just for a cheaper entry price. But why do they do that?
Digital at 20 is the cheaper price... |
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I gotta say 11 O'Clock is rocketing up my list. May end up in the top spot. And damn this Miracle song... It keeps dragging me back to it. It seems like I will probably have a solid 15-20 that I really love/like. Then there's kind of a glut of just good but not great or anything special songs, and then a few stinkers on the bottom. |
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Sorry I wasn't clear. It's my alternate playlist. 40 songs is too many for repeat listens!
I don't know how I'd rank all of them. But my top five would probably look like this: 1. Bad 2. The Little Things That Give You Away 3. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock 4. Invisible 5. Red Hill Mining Town 11OTT is really great. That song never clicked with me in any other form but I love it here. Along with SFS, POE, and Stuck it's one of the only ones I prefer here to the original. I like The Miracle reimagining a lot. The new tempo and more mellow vibe helps it a lot, goes to show how wrong they produced it. And the original's chorus did need some work... but unfortunately I like the new chorus even less. |
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My long review: TL;DR: “Stories for Boys,” “Desire, “Stay” and “Dirty Day” are great. “Two Hearts Beat as One” and “Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own” are very good. Many others are good, and just as many don't land, but overall the album is better than I expected, and it's a generous retrospective for fans. |
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*I like The Killers music, haven't seen them live. |
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When you have run out of creative ideas then the answer is not to go back and see if you can destroy your back catalogue. Boring versions that start the same way, Edge strumming an acoustic guitar, that go nowhere. Amazing to think this is the same band that gave us Achtung Baby, Zooropa and Pop. How 'bad' does it have to get for this band to realise that maybe it's time to call it a day.
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My casual friends have listened to a few a d are very, “meh, I prefer the original.” Which is fair enough. This is for the die hards who have these songs in our blood. These versions at their best open up new meaning for me.
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