onyourkneesboy
The Fly
- Joined
- Sep 23, 2004
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Statement:
If Adam and Lanois would take the leading roll in the recording of the new album, it might become an album with the same BALLS as Achtung Baby had! Because:
(Adam)
* Adam brings the movement in a song, the hips, the flow, he makes a song elastic. Or to the contrary gives a song it's pumping cementlike/concrete pillars!
As in hips/flow: mysterious ways, in a little while, lemon, so cruel, trying to..., with or without you, heartland, staring at the sun, gone, wake up dead man, stay, new year's day..
As in concrete: zoo station, bullet, unforgettable fire, until the end.., the fly, acrobat, exit, miami,..
Nowadays his role is very much the serving one, i think. Except for A Man And A Woman. He plays better than ever though. But he's too much in the background.
(Lanois)
* Lanois is the man of the melody. The colour! He can bring the real sweetness in a melody. When U2 seems stuck, he's the one who still hasn't lost track and knows where the colourfull melody might be. He is of great value for U2! I guess he's the real 5th member. In the studio he is, for sure!
* Lanois is also the man of hips and flow. Achtung Baby is full of conga's, rattlers, shakers, and all other kinds of percussion! Every song is full of it.
I think U2 is at it's best striving to be something they're actually not! On Achtung Baby they tried to be more dance-orientated. Look what album came out of it! Full of percussion, great bass riffs, therefore Edge had to be more rhythmic too! And on AB he is! It's swings, and therefore it rocked! The same with Zooropa: Lemon! Is this one of their best songs or what? Furthermore on Zooropa they were NOT trying to sound like a rockband. Just capturing the moment and experiment. Great album! (I feel the same about POP, by the way...)
On HTDAAB there's hardly any percussion and great swinging Adam-riffs... And therefore not as multi-layered as AB was. It's too straight-on. Flat. Also Larry: don't you all miss Larry hitting his big tom-tom's and creating a big rumble as in Desire, God part2, The Fly, Zoo Station, Acrobat,...?
I think nowadays, with U2 thinking they're a rockband, they're selling theirself short. U2 are at their best on unknown territory. They should look for that I think. U2 should look for their hips, feet, colours and the experimental grounds again... We do have Vertigo (good song) now, so let go of the down-to-earth rock and roll... Find the rock and roll "from another place" like you've done before, in a new way. Adam and Lanois will point the way!
If Adam and Lanois would take the leading roll in the recording of the new album, it might become an album with the same BALLS as Achtung Baby had! Because:
(Adam)
* Adam brings the movement in a song, the hips, the flow, he makes a song elastic. Or to the contrary gives a song it's pumping cementlike/concrete pillars!
As in hips/flow: mysterious ways, in a little while, lemon, so cruel, trying to..., with or without you, heartland, staring at the sun, gone, wake up dead man, stay, new year's day..
As in concrete: zoo station, bullet, unforgettable fire, until the end.., the fly, acrobat, exit, miami,..
Nowadays his role is very much the serving one, i think. Except for A Man And A Woman. He plays better than ever though. But he's too much in the background.
(Lanois)
* Lanois is the man of the melody. The colour! He can bring the real sweetness in a melody. When U2 seems stuck, he's the one who still hasn't lost track and knows where the colourfull melody might be. He is of great value for U2! I guess he's the real 5th member. In the studio he is, for sure!
* Lanois is also the man of hips and flow. Achtung Baby is full of conga's, rattlers, shakers, and all other kinds of percussion! Every song is full of it.
I think U2 is at it's best striving to be something they're actually not! On Achtung Baby they tried to be more dance-orientated. Look what album came out of it! Full of percussion, great bass riffs, therefore Edge had to be more rhythmic too! And on AB he is! It's swings, and therefore it rocked! The same with Zooropa: Lemon! Is this one of their best songs or what? Furthermore on Zooropa they were NOT trying to sound like a rockband. Just capturing the moment and experiment. Great album! (I feel the same about POP, by the way...)
On HTDAAB there's hardly any percussion and great swinging Adam-riffs... And therefore not as multi-layered as AB was. It's too straight-on. Flat. Also Larry: don't you all miss Larry hitting his big tom-tom's and creating a big rumble as in Desire, God part2, The Fly, Zoo Station, Acrobat,...?
I think nowadays, with U2 thinking they're a rockband, they're selling theirself short. U2 are at their best on unknown territory. They should look for that I think. U2 should look for their hips, feet, colours and the experimental grounds again... We do have Vertigo (good song) now, so let go of the down-to-earth rock and roll... Find the rock and roll "from another place" like you've done before, in a new way. Adam and Lanois will point the way!
? Larry produced Mission Impossible iirc
