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shaun vox said:
hey check this out (its me playing the guitar solo to november rain!
http://forum.interference.com/t137228.html
So is that why you're playing the November Rain solo? Cos HTDAAB has no staying power?
shaun vox said:
hey check this out (its me playing the guitar solo to november rain!
http://forum.interference.com/t137228.html
innocent_eyes said:
I hate how repetitive this subject gets.
Now that I've bought headphones that actually let me hear bass instead of fuzz, I am loving it more and more................reptile said:Since i have started listening to it on the headphones i am loving it more and more................
indigo tree said:Too commerical sounding? I always laugh at this. How many rock bands are brave enough to make a song like Yahweh or Original of the Species?
indigo tree said:Too commerical sounding? I always laugh at this. How many rock bands are brave enough to make a song like Yahweh or Original of the Species?
indigo tree said:Too commerical sounding? I always laugh at this. How many rock bands are brave enough to make a song like Yahweh or Original of the Species?
Tyagu_Anaykus said:shaun vox are you jick???
about your last post, what songs do you think are decent?
Layton said:
Thanks, I was concerned that it sounded a bit sarcastic. I'm just interested in what a person like this one sees the theme to be. It's so sad that so many are caught up in this 'safe' thing. "You label me, I label you" as Metallica says.
Layton said:
You mean they were making better music when they weren't monogomous----lol. Hard to argue that, I guess---lol. Life always seems more interesting with a few extra ladies around. Problem is, U2 has began to stand up to their demons and not run from them. That's where HTDAAB's theme begins.
reptile said:Since i have started listening to it on the headphones i am loving it more and more................
LyricalDrug said:
The album's themes are well-documented: it starts out in a place of fear "Vertigo" and then arcs back to a place of hope, and homecoming "Yahweh". Just because someone "gets" the theme doesn't make it a great record.
am pretty sure that lyric cannot be properly appretiated unless you have experienced the birth of a son or daughter,LyricalDrug said:
The album's themes are well-documented: it starts out in a place of fear "Vertigo" and then arcs back to a place of hope, and homecoming "Yahweh". Just because someone "gets" the theme doesn't make it a great record.
I think the music is excellent on the album, but the lyrics are boring ('Freedom has a scent / Like the top of a newborn baby's head' is the crappiest line Bono has ever written). I'm more into music than lyrics, anyway, so I still give it 4 stars.
Layton said:
I think 'getting' the theme can enhance experiencing the album. It helps foster an understanding of why certain sounds and ideas were favored over other possibilities. This is where I think 'getting' the theme comes in handy when scrutinizing the junk labels that people insistently toss around like 'safe' and 'sales-minded'. Under close thematic scrutiny, those labels don't hold up.
Now, you're right in pointing out that 'getting' the theme doesn't make an album great. Album quality can be evaluated in 3 ways, I think. 1. Analysis of thematic content, 2. Analysis of the artist's creative vision of that content and, 3. Analysis of the delivery/execution of that content and vision. I point this out because analysis of this kind RARELY occurs when discussing HTDAAB. Admittedly, I was challenging one of the purveyors of the junk labels to think harder when I posed the theme question to them. I don't think it's gonna hurt them and MAYBE they'd make a more convincing case on why they think HTDAAB is relatively weak.
nickypiemcg said:
I think the 'theme' of an album only becomes important when you have the tunes to back it up and quite frankly U2 didn't.
LyricalDrug said:
I think the music is excellent on the album, but the lyrics are boring ('Freedom has a scent / Like the top of a newborn baby's head' is the crappiest line Bono has ever written).
Bluer White said:
It seems to me that certain phrases probably stick in Bono's head until he finds some way to shoehorn it into a song...or two. You'll find "Freedom has a scent" in the song Levitate as well. I believe that "I want the lot of what you got" comes up in a few songs. I'm sure there are other examples of identical lyrics in multiple songs.
shaun vox said:i think the album is very sugar coated!!
and its very similar to atyclb!! i wanted a new album not a prequel!!
Prequels often play on the fact that the audience knows what will happen next!
all in all i think the album has some decent songs!!
i sure think they did, and so do many others. why try and make your opinion into fact? when quite frankly it isntnickypiemcg said:
I think the 'theme' of an album only becomes important when you have the tunes to back it up and quite frankly U2 didn't.
KUEFC09U2 said:i sure think they did, and so do many others. why try and make your opinion into fact? when quite frankly it isnt
KUEFC09U2 said:i sure think they did, and so do many others. why try and make your opinion into fact? when quite frankly it isnt