Shuttlecock II: This is Where We Can Reach Around

[corianderstem]

I don't even hate it, I'm just tired of it.

On the other hand, after about half a year (give or take some months) of not really listening to U2, Walk On came up on my iPod last week and it made me really happy.

 

[Hewson]

Please allow me to admit something....

You could have also said "Let me be Frank"...

Spoiler

of course the dog would have been confused.

 

[u2popmofo]

I don't even hate it, I'm just tired of it.

That probably true of me as well. I don't hate them, I just don't think they need to still be played at every show of of every tour this many years later.

 

[corianderstem]

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyup.

 

[No spoken words]

I do still adore "When I Look at the World". I think that song is amazing but then again what the fuck do I know?

 

[u2popmofo]

I do still adore "When I Look at the World". I think that song is amazing but then again what the fuck do I know?

I like it a lot too. And Kite, sans Cate Blanchett.

 

[cobl04]

I don't hate Elevation either. The album version is boring, but the Tomb Raider mix is good. And it's great fun live, so I don't even mind that I've seen it four times, cos the crowd gets real into it. But there's about a million better rockers they could be playing.

 

[IWasBored]

i like atyclb.

 

[LemonMelon]

When I've had a really shitty day, ATYCLB is still capable of cheering me up.

Album Elevation is terrible though. Sounds more like a boy band trying to rock than whatever it is U2 thinks influenced that song.

 

[u2popmofo]

At the time it was released, many here thought it was U2's attempt at making the sort of songs they wanted to create on Pop.

 

[cobl04]

On some days it's my #3 album. I really love it that much.

 

[No spoken words]

When I hear Elevation in concert, I 100% focus on looking at the crowd, it eases the pain of having to hear it for the billionth time. I wish ATYCLB was the album they decided to ignore.

OH WELL

 

[u2popmofo]

On some days it's my #3 album. I really love it that much.

I rank it highly as well.

So does that dirty hippie, IWB.

 

[lazarus]

I probably rate it below every Shuttlecock album save for Cocktober.

 

[u2popmofo]

How anyone on the planet likes Bomb more than any other U2 album, I don't know. I feel weird even calling it an "album". Compilation of songs that have nothing to do with each other in theme or sound, but were thrown together over the course of a similar period of time?

 

[iron yuppie]

IWB liking ATYCLB seems so out of character I can barely comprehend it.

 

[cobl04]

^ I know.

By the way, how fucking great is Passengers, seriously.

 

[iron yuppie]

Ito Okashi

 

[u2popmofo]

By the way, how fucking great is Passengers, seriously.

You know that "Your Blue Room" song? I know some cool cats who were at the live debut of that song.

 

[No spoken words]

You know that "Your Blue Room" song? I know some cool cats who were at the live debut of that song.

Hell yes. That was fucking sublime.

 

[U2inUtah]

You bastards. At least sitting through another Miss Sarajevo at the SLC show lead into....

Spoiler

Zooropa

 

[iron yuppie]

It would be cool to see them do some ambient soundtrack stuff again, a la what Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been doing. Seems like Edge still has it in him, and that type of realize wouldn't require the circus the band seems to want for a typical LP.

 

[No spoken words]

You bastards. At least sitting through another Miss Sarajevo at the SLC show lead into....

Spoiler

Zooropa

I heard me some of that too. And indeed.

 

[cobl04]

You guys didn't get to hear Stingray Guitar though, so who really wins.

 

[u2popmofo]

 

[liamcool]

Man, we're spoiled, bitching about Miss Sarajevo.

 

[Diemen]

You know that "Your Blue Room" song? I know some cool cats who were at the live debut of that song.

Hell yes. That was fucking sublime.

OH GOOD FOR YOU.



I'm still mad at myself for not getting another ticket and sticking it out another night.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

You know that "Your Blue Room" song? I know some cool cats who were at the live debut of that song.

Hell yes. That was fucking sublime.

 

[lazarus]

How anyone on the planet likes Bomb more than any other U2 album, I don't know. I feel weird even calling it an "album". Compilation of songs that have nothing to do with each other in theme or sound, but were thrown together over the course of a similar period of time?

...and those songs are better.

It also has more energy.

I'm not the only one here; pretty sure NSW feels the same way.

 

[U2inUtah]

Man, we're spoiled, bitching about Miss Sarajevo.

I like Miss Sarajevo just fine... its just I've heard it at my last five U2 concerts and would have loved a "Your Blue Room" in its place.


In new album news, I'm moving "Cedarwood Road" into my top 4.