Random Music Talk CII: Brazilian Style, the longer it takes, the closer it gets.

[Hewson]

Are you going to complain that someone just put free tickets in your mailbox without you asking for them?

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

those bastards

 

[bono_212]

Currently Listening: I Am the Cosmos

Incidentally,

Currently Really Enjoying: I Am the Cosmos

 

[martha]

I kind of want these.

Thanks for the recs, guys. Maybe someone will be buying these for me for Christmas.

 

[martha]

I get asked this a lot.

This made me chuckle more than once this morning.

 

[lazarus]

Spoiler

Seriously though, there are lots of earbuds on the market with interchangeable tips. I'm sure you could find one with a small enough tip to fit your ears.

I wonder if they sell something similarly flashy that one could plug into his or her auxhole.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Im on the viewing deck of the vip hospitality tent about to see The National sipping on red wine. Now I know how NSW feels.

 

[Hewson]

Im on the viewing deck of the vip hospitality tent about to see The National sipping on red wine. Now I know how NSW feels.

Wouldn't it be better to see the National play music rather than watch them sip wine?

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Well, Matt is kind of entertaining when he drinks

 

[david]

10 years old this Sunday.

 

[gump]

I feel fucking old now. I still remember getting the one-sided Wake Up 7 inch single like it was yesterday.

 

[cobl04]

Major fucking lols at the Ghost Stories thread in EYKIW. Some people in there are seriously talking about how bad a lyricist Chris Martin is, apparently forgetting how bad Bono's lyrics have been of late.

I get asked this a lot.

I agree the 5 was the perfect size, and have no interest in the super-size model, but the new one is only a slight increase. As long as I can still do operate it with one hand I'm fine. But I feel bad for people with smaller hands who are going to have more trouble.

I said the 5 is too big. Whenever I'm typing and the send button is I. The top right corner (so twitter, this app, fb, gmail) I have to stretch my thumb to hit send. I know that's the biggest first world problem whinge ever, but it's annoying. And the 6 will make it even further away.

 

[bono_212]

Bono's lyrics on the new album are good, so there.

 

[david]

Bono can make "butter" in a lyric sound awesome.

 

[david]

I really wish I had the LP pressing of Songs of Innocence already.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

Cobblerer at it once again.

 

[Axver]

Bono's lyrics on the new album are good, so there.

Yeah I'm slightly confused by the sudden drop in absolute clunkers.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

I'd like to think DM kept hitting him with a stick every time he wrote something really poor.

 

[corianderstem]

BAD BONO NO COOKlE.

 

[LemonMelon]

Bono's lyrics on the new album aren't amazing or anywhere near his best, but they're leagues ahead of the shit on Ghost Stories. It's like a bunch of greeting cards strung together.

 

[IWasBored]

The ghoul is soul?

 

[Danny Boy]

Bono's lyrics on the new album aren't amazing or anywhere near his best, but they're leagues ahead of the shit on Ghost Stories. It's like a bunch of greeting cards strung together.

Speaking if which, apparently Chris Martin performs uncredited backing vocals on Iris.

 

[BoMac]

Hey, that's right. Remember that time Chris Martin was seen leaving Electric Lady Studios and speculation was he'd appear on the new album? It was summer 2013, I believe.

I'm glad it was uncredited. Even happier about Lykke Li.

 

[iron yuppie]

Some of you guys were hating on that new Grimes song (Go) if I remember correctly. I heard it the other day and liked it a good deal. The thing is groovy as hell.

 

[david]

So two girls appear on Songs of Innocence.

 

[corianderstem]

Can we not do that thing where we assign feminine qualities to a guy as if that's a bad thing, because feminine qualities are weak and bad?

Because it's stupid, insulting, and we are not 12 years old.

Okay, thanks.

 

[lazarus]

I'm glad it was uncredited.

Yeah, at least the had the sense to leave him out of the liner notes.

"Sorry, bro, but as bad as our reputation already is with some people, we can't afford it getting any worse by mentioning your name."

 

[lazarus]

So two girls appear on Songs of Innocence.

Can we not do that thing where we assign feminine qualities to a guy as if that's a bad thing, because feminine qualities are weak and bad?

Because it's stupid, insulting, and we are not 12 years old.

Okay, thanks.

Yeah.

Also, considering the female chorus that occasionally appears, that would be an incorrect statement anyway.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Speaking if which, apparently Chris Martin performs uncredited backing vocals on Iris.

It's the song I've connected with the least after, I think 5 or 6 full listens now. I do still like it, though. It's nice to know the personal story behind it. If I didn't know it was about the narrator's dead mom, I wouldn't like it nearly as much.

CALIFORNIA is still my shit, though. Pretty comfortable saying it's now my favorite on the album. This can and will probably change, though.

Also, it's my 29th birthday today. Kill me.

 

[martha]

Happy birthday, old man.