cobl04
45:33
With my 1300th post, I thought I would say something constructive, well-thought out and above all...
something positive about 90's U2
But yes, I am loving Lemon right now. I don't know what it was...a week and a half ago I deemed it to be 6.5/10, now its somewhere in the 8s. It might have been watching the video...somehow it just all clicked.
The problem I had with it initially was that I could only hear Bono in four lines:
"slowly, slowly, slowly slipping under"
"I'm holding onto nothing"
"drifting, drifting, drifting from the shore"
"I'm swimming out to her"
I knew that the falsettos were Bono but I just couldn't recognise him. In the video it is MacPhisto (?) singing these falsettos. Seeing the facial expressions and the way MacPhisto moved his mouth when saying/singing "Lemon" and the other lines were just great. And I think that was the difference. Now when I listen to Lemon, I don't try and search for Bono's voice, because I have the picture of MacPhisto in my head. It's like they really are two completely different people, two different artists in their own right.
I also truly love The Edge and Brian Eno's verses. They just sound perfect, on top of the music, and contrast brilliantly with MacPhisto's verses. They aren't attempting to pull heart strings singing, they are just singing a mellow, flat vocal. They also contain terrific lyrics.
"A man dreams of leaving but he always stays behind,..."
"A man melts the sand so he can see the world outside,..."
That has become my favourite lyric, replacing numerous lines from One Tree Hill. That line, and many others, are just ingenius and the delievery is great.
And then we come to the chours. Again, its not your typical chorus. It isn't trying to come out strong, or just give the listener a feel of 'release' (like for example, when Bono sings 'stay' in Stay). The delievery is just a slow, soothing vocal which has great effect. It's just one line, repeated, and it is probably the most obvious lyric, but it just sounds so good, (Who is singing that line by the way?) especially combined with the piano.
Never before have I been able to listen repeatedly to a song which lasts almost seven minutes. It flys by instantly.
What I will say finally is I'm not trying to be a kiss ass here, I have just fallen in love with the song Lemon. I think this is because the song to me is just so intriguing. If I could sum up Lemon in one word, I would say intriguing (anyone else?). It never tries to build up any real momentum, but yet still sounds very good.
Grazie,
something positive about 90's U2
But yes, I am loving Lemon right now. I don't know what it was...a week and a half ago I deemed it to be 6.5/10, now its somewhere in the 8s. It might have been watching the video...somehow it just all clicked.
The problem I had with it initially was that I could only hear Bono in four lines:
"slowly, slowly, slowly slipping under"
"I'm holding onto nothing"
"drifting, drifting, drifting from the shore"
"I'm swimming out to her"
I knew that the falsettos were Bono but I just couldn't recognise him. In the video it is MacPhisto (?) singing these falsettos. Seeing the facial expressions and the way MacPhisto moved his mouth when saying/singing "Lemon" and the other lines were just great. And I think that was the difference. Now when I listen to Lemon, I don't try and search for Bono's voice, because I have the picture of MacPhisto in my head. It's like they really are two completely different people, two different artists in their own right.
I also truly love The Edge and Brian Eno's verses. They just sound perfect, on top of the music, and contrast brilliantly with MacPhisto's verses. They aren't attempting to pull heart strings singing, they are just singing a mellow, flat vocal. They also contain terrific lyrics.
"A man dreams of leaving but he always stays behind,..."
"A man melts the sand so he can see the world outside,..."
That has become my favourite lyric, replacing numerous lines from One Tree Hill. That line, and many others, are just ingenius and the delievery is great.
And then we come to the chours. Again, its not your typical chorus. It isn't trying to come out strong, or just give the listener a feel of 'release' (like for example, when Bono sings 'stay' in Stay). The delievery is just a slow, soothing vocal which has great effect. It's just one line, repeated, and it is probably the most obvious lyric, but it just sounds so good, (Who is singing that line by the way?) especially combined with the piano.
Never before have I been able to listen repeatedly to a song which lasts almost seven minutes. It flys by instantly.
What I will say finally is I'm not trying to be a kiss ass here, I have just fallen in love with the song Lemon. I think this is because the song to me is just so intriguing. If I could sum up Lemon in one word, I would say intriguing (anyone else?). It never tries to build up any real momentum, but yet still sounds very good.
Grazie,
