No. They shouldn't tour unless it's new material and we are all sell outs for not being upset by it.
I get it, this is something that happens to most people. They start to want the artists they love entombed and frozen at a point when it was at its best. I just thought that the people on this forum understood what set U2 apart and wanted to stand by that ethos.
Is there are more badass act in the history of rock music than a band at the height of their powers interrupting 13 of their shows for a live fucking satellite link to civilians on the ground in the middle of a civil war?
"I want to say hello to the people in Bologna, thank you Bill, U2, tonight we don't feel alone as we usually do."
And then the Bad synth loop begins.... shivers.
Fucking imagine that. No current artist alive with a comparable level of stardom would have even one-tenth the amount of balls.
It’s more badass than a band in 2019 doing a link back to 1987, that’s for sure.
It’s more badass than a band in 2019 doing a link back to 1987, that’s for sure.
I like it too. I'd rather go listen to it on its own but I always thought it was a good representation of the atmosphere the band originally intended for that album.Nobody:
Me: A good late-career U2 song is Cedars of Lebanon
No Line on the Horizon, Moment of Surrender, Fez, and Cedars of Lebanon are good songs. The rest of that album mostly sucks, in my view.
I think Crazy Tonight is a nice song. I like the music video, too.
I think Crazy Tonight is a nice song. I like the music video, too.
All of it is good/great except for the middle trio and to be honest Crazy Tonight sounds kinda good after the dogshit singles from SOE.
That's my hot take for the day.
EBW yes, Miracle no.Miracle, EBW > Crazy Tonight.
IMHO.
These are all in the bottom 2-3 of their respective albums also so it’s a little pointless to rank against each other IMO.
No Line on the Horizon, Moment of Surrender, Fez, and Cedars of Lebanon are good songs. The rest of that album mostly sucks, in my view.
I've always had a soft spot for Crazy Tonight. It's maybe the most saccharine song they've written, and the verses are shithouse, but goddamn does everything else do it for me. I love Edge's galloping guitar line and Bono's soaring vocals in the chorus. It sounds like the U2 that I fell in love with in 2004 when I heard HTDAAB and specifically COBL for the first time.
It's a lot better than Magnificent, one of Bono's worst ever performances both lyrically and vocally, Unknown Caller, maybe their dumbest song ever.
The live version was a million times better and really enjoyable.
And the first minute of Magnificent