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[Hewson]

(and I also think that White As Snow is a snoozefest).

Right there with you on that.

 

[HeartlandGirl]

Also was/is there any love for Go Crazy Tonight, it kinda was almost guilty pleasure of mine...

I can't remember where I got it...maybe U22? But I love the live remix of Crazy Tonight with the Frankie Goes to Hollywood snippets at the end. No guilt. I love it.

I'll also go to bat for Magnificent. It always reminds me of that epic World Cup commercial. The intro of that song is strong.

Unknown Caller's lyrics are weak, but I'm still a fan of the song.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I can't remember where I got it...maybe U22? But I love the live remix of Crazy Tonight with the Frankie Goes to Hollywood snippets at the end. No guilt. I love it.

I'll also go to bat for Magnificent. It always reminds me of that epic World Cup commercial. The intro of that song is strong.

Unknown Caller's lyrics are weak, but I'm still a fan of the song.

Wasn't it on wide awake in Europe?

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

The live version of Crazy Tonight is superior on all levels.

 

[corianderstem]

White As Snow is gorgeous. I WILL FIGHT YOU.

I think the Two Tribes snippet w/ Crazy Tonight was on the EP. I think it was a different version on U22 (maybe the Discotheque snippet?).

 

[Axver]

White As Snow is one of the best tracks on NLOTH.

And Crazy Tonight shouldn't be lumped with the songs around it. I know many here love to crap on it, but it's an inoffensive pop song and it feels more natural and unforced than, say, Best Thing or Song for Someone (even if it doesn't fully get there).

The true "shit three" of NLOTH is Boots, Stand Up Comedy, and Unknown Caller. I've even soured on the musical aspects of Unknown Caller. Where the hell is that solo going? The intro wants to be The Three Sunrises and fails. And yeah, then there's the chorus, an all-time clunker in a catalogue that has a reasonable share of clunkers. Like "refu-jesus", it's one of those moments where I can't believe nobody stopped Bono.

 

[HeartlandGirl]

I looked it up, and I have the Artificial Horizon version. Looks like it was also on Wide Awake in Europe.

 

[cobl04]

Actually, it's the shit four, and it's Get on Your Boots, Stand up Comedy, Unknown Caller and Magnificent.

 

[Rob_Christgau]

From an interview in the Sunday Times:

About Songs of Experience, Edge says “simplicity is where music is at” now, and offers Rihanna’s sparse Anti album as inspiration.

Hey, that was my second favourite album last year! Would be great to see them go in a similar direction. And always good to see someone with similar opinions as mine.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

I blow

eww tmi

Not The Girl You Think You Are is actually my favourite Crowded House song.

wrong

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Hey, that was my second favourite album last year! Would be great to see them go in a similar direction. And always good to see someone with similar opinions as mine.

Christgau, it's good to see you here. I respect your work. You ever listen to that Sex Church record, you bitch?

 

[Kieran McConville]

You spend a year of your life working on something and you get a B+ from some asshole at the Village Voice...

 

[Kieran McConville]

eww tmi


wrong

I was so far from actually serious that it's not funny, when I said that. Not sure what the other quote is from.

 

[Kieran McConville]

Robert Christgau Is Watching You Listen To Your Favourite Band

 

[Hewson]

eww tmi

Though, I'd have done it like thus:

I admit, I blow.

 

[Kieran McConville]

So funny.

 

[Diemen]

Actually, it's the shit four... and Magnificent.

#hottake

 

[phanan]

Friggin'

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Yea. Fuck magnificent.

 

[patternshirt170]

So.. Bono won't be asking Steven Wilson to remaster Pop then? A bit like the classic " very good is the enemy of great" guff and the new one about the "US being an idea and not just a country"... equally his "I hate prog" comments are beyond lame, especially for a band that used a slightly ridiculous stage show (360) that I imagine, Rick Wakeman probably had wet dreams over, while reminding us in the same breath about their "poonk rawwk" birth.

 

[DaveC]

i just saw a post in the other place that turned volcano into an acronym ("v") and nearly threw my phone across the street.

 

[Hewson]

i just saw a post in the other place that turned volcano into an acronym ("v") and nearly threw my phone across the street.

So what they're saying is that V is the track after I on SOE.

 

[patternshirt170]

Stil think the best song on W is "

 

[Hewson]

Stil think the best song on W is "

But is O or T the best song on O?
And is T the best song on B?

 

[IWasBored]

I can sympathize with this. There are some acts I have wanted to get acquainted with (Magnetic Fields)

Go do this now!

 

[Axver]

But is O or T the best song on O?

And is T the best song on B?

N is definitely the best song on Z.

 

[namkcuR]

E is the best song on A.

Yeah, that can go multiple ways.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Which is better, O or O? I happen to prefer O, personally.

 

[cobl04]

Yea. Fuck magnificent.

 

[iron yuppie]

I can sympathize with a lot of different arguments about U2, but there is no possible world where Magnificent is worse than Crazy Tonight.