Earnie Shavers said:
So is this 'low bass' version the best one that's out there?
And people are calling this "the best U2 song of all time?
It's such a bad recording you can barely make anything out.
What you CAN make out sounds very, very promising though.
That chorus is going to be one great singalong moment live though....
No shit, the people gushing over this I liken to the ones who heard 30 second clips from ATYCLB and said this or that song was "the best U2 song ever".
New shit is always "the greatest U2 (fill in the blank)"
it sounds very promising but I read more than one poster refer to this song as "the new Streets" or whatever. Give me a break.
It might be, but from this one particular clip, it's not. Trust me.
I give the band a lot of break here, they probably havent rehearsed this song that often, and while it sounds good as it is, it's probably much better on the album. But compare it to 'Streets'?
give me a break, seriously. It's not even the best new song of the day for a lot of people, including me, much less equal to U2's grandest live song.
Sure it's all opinion, but be reasonable with comparisons, that's all i am saying. I think ABOY sounds amazing, and intially I think it could be better than ANYTHING on ATYCLB, but I am not sure I would go around saying that, I thought the same thing about Vertigo a few weeks back and have changed my mind. It's just an emotional reaction. New shit is always more appealing.
So gush about COBL, it does sound like it could be tremendous, but spare me from reading comparisons to 'Streets' that's all, could we at least wait until the proper studio recording is out before you give this song sainthood?
Fuck it, people can do what they want, obviosuly. I am being no fun.
That's right. So it's 9. 
