BonoVoxSupastar said:Ultraviolet, without question. No contest.
New York is a perfect example of a song that could have been... And I put all the blame on Bono and bad lyrics, musically it was pretty damn good.
elevated_u2_fan said:^ what, you've got a problem with BABY BABY BABY?
Screwtape2 said:Every song on Achtung Baby (minus TTTYATW) is better than anything on ATYCLB.
xaviMF22 said:
and HTDAAB you can't forget that pos
LemonMelon said:
...And Ultraviolet's lyrics are good now? When did this happen?
Both songs have awful choruses, some of U2's worst, but at least New York's has some lift to it and isn't just Bono muttering baby, baby, baby into a microphone.
BonoVoxSupastar said:
"You bury your treasure where it can't be found
But your love is like a secret that's been passed around
There is a silence that comes to a house where no one can sleep
I guess it's the price of love
I know it's not cheap"
"I remember when we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together in whispers and moans
When I was all messed up and I heard opera in my head
Your love was a lightbulb hanging over my bed"
TTTYAATW is one of my favs on AB though.Screwtape2 said:Every song on Achtung Baby (minus TTTYATW) is better than anything on ATYCLB.
U2Man said:new york is the only turd on atyclb.
BonoVoxSupastar said:
There is a silence that comes to a house where no one can sleep
I guess it's the price of love
I know it's not cheap
LemonMelon said:
Maybe not if 5,000 other bands hadn't already done it.
LemonMelon said:
Yeah, not crazy about that at all. Call me cynical, but that sounds pretty darn cliched. And baby, baby, baby doesn't really help the song...it's just lazy. It's something that you guys would be tearing apart if it was a chorus on HTDAAB.
Oh, Axver, why hast thou forsaken me!
Indeed. A lot of people don't seem to get that. It's one of the main reasons why Achtung Baby was so damn good, they threw out rules that were preventing them from being more inventive and loose with the music and made it work like they couldn't before.Chizip said:
the babies are cool because before AB it used to be a forbidden word, one Bono refused to use in a song. but with Achtung Baby they threw out all their old rules, and went from never using baby, to using it 600 times in 1 song. it marked a shift in attitude, a tearing down of previous walls, which was pretty cool.
and the rest of the lyrics in the song are superb.