If you shout... said:
I'll go with "Vertigo," myself--not the most technically profound playing, to be sure, but it's quite catchy. It reminds me that the best U2 songs are usually drum-and-bass affairs complemented--not necessarily driven--by Edge's guitar. I know that The Edge comes in with some force in that song, but much of it is really only accompanied by his minimalist playing during the verses. Good stuff all around.
I wanna' point out, though, that "A Man and a Woman" isn't a new bassline, really. It's just "Endless Deep," boys and girls. It's a fine bassline, I guess, but it's like 21 years old...if everyone really likes it so much, I think we'd have to evaluate it not as Clayton's best work on this album, but as a potential candidate for his best work during the War-era. Serious. Listen to it again.
Huh, I've listened to "Endless Deep" quite a few times, and I've heard A Man and a Woman a couple times...I'm not sure about it being the same bass line? "Endless Deep" has more pronounced bass lines though, you can really hear the bass more than on AMAAW. Well okay, because there's only a few vocals, it's more of an instrumental save those 2 sentences.
If I could get AMAAW without the vocals, (nothing to do with Bono), but just to hear only the music, maybe I could tell.
Wish I could play bass to figure out the terminology. I know a few things here and there, I can read music, can play a flute-like instrument, but doesn't he hold the bass notes longer on "Endless Deep?"
Also there are more "slides" in Endless Deep isn't there? By slide, I mean when he runs his fingers along one string. I've no idea what it's called, but I've seen him do it a couple times in some live concerts. I think there's a few things a slide can mean in a song.
That's Adam singing the vocals on "Endless Deep" though
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As a of a few listens, "City..lights" and "Original...species", are my 2 faves off this album. City's bass lines too, really like them, they accentuate the chorus, the ooh ooh parts.
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