scatteroflight
Refugee
I'm in shock, ok?
Zooropa has always been my least favourite album by U2. I've never owned. I've borrowed it and listened to it many a time, but never owned. In the last few days, I bought both Pop and Zooropa--I did own Pop for a while, but got rid of it partly because I never listened to it, partly because it reminded me of stuff I wanted to forget at the time. Anyway, I've listened to both several times and will continue to do so. Some things haven't changed: I still find Babyface irritating, Stay beautiful, Discotheque a big fat mess, Gone to have some of the best U2 lyrics ever, Miami and Playboy Mansion to be appallingly bad. Some other things have changed, though, and the biggest one has to be my opinion of Lemon.
I never liked Lemon, at all. The video, with Bono's lipsticked mouth kissing the camera, freaked me out, and so did the falsetto. I've had the feeling for some time, though that I might like this song some day. I actually have liked the piano and the "Midnight is where the day begins" part for quite a long time. Now I find myself listening to it repeatedly. This is an important song, I think. It's weird, eerie, out there, entrancing, and very U2.
Maybe I'll really get into Zooropa through this song. I have my doubts, but maybe. I still find the production very flat and the whole thing tedious to listen to at one go. Pop's production has more body, and there are some songs I really like on it (and others I totally despise), but I also find it tedious to listen to at one go.
This is a work in progress, though.
Zooropa has always been my least favourite album by U2. I've never owned. I've borrowed it and listened to it many a time, but never owned. In the last few days, I bought both Pop and Zooropa--I did own Pop for a while, but got rid of it partly because I never listened to it, partly because it reminded me of stuff I wanted to forget at the time. Anyway, I've listened to both several times and will continue to do so. Some things haven't changed: I still find Babyface irritating, Stay beautiful, Discotheque a big fat mess, Gone to have some of the best U2 lyrics ever, Miami and Playboy Mansion to be appallingly bad. Some other things have changed, though, and the biggest one has to be my opinion of Lemon.
I never liked Lemon, at all. The video, with Bono's lipsticked mouth kissing the camera, freaked me out, and so did the falsetto. I've had the feeling for some time, though that I might like this song some day. I actually have liked the piano and the "Midnight is where the day begins" part for quite a long time. Now I find myself listening to it repeatedly. This is an important song, I think. It's weird, eerie, out there, entrancing, and very U2.
Maybe I'll really get into Zooropa through this song. I have my doubts, but maybe. I still find the production very flat and the whole thing tedious to listen to at one go. Pop's production has more body, and there are some songs I really like on it (and others I totally despise), but I also find it tedious to listen to at one go.
This is a work in progress, though.