Earnie Shavers
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Also, Cori isn't the only one who is underwhelmed by Beautiful Day. As someone who loved the songs on M$H I was excited to hear what they would do next, and the familiar sounds of BD were not what I was hoping for. And it's hardly the best single they've put out in the 00's; Walk On also has echoes of classic U2 but ja a much stronger track, despite the eye-rolling cliche couplet in the bridge.
Yes, Walk On is definitely my other songwriting 'stand out' of the 00s singles. When I said BD "thumps all others by some margin" I was thinking more of just its rough stable mates - Elevation, Vertigo, ABOY, Boots, Magnificent.
Its nothing to do so much with personal 'favourites' or taste as such (in as much as neither song is really to my taste, neither would feature on any Top Whatever list of mine), or about what I expected or wanted or would have liked from U2 in 2000 (MDH direction - absolutely). I just think that Beautiful Day (and definitely Walk On) = technically brilliant songwriting, a notch above, top of the 00s Singles class.
Beautiful Day ahead by a nose because I just think its ticking some slightly tougher boxes.