To whoever:
You need to fucking ask Bono why he doesn't sing it more.
I already told you why I thought he didn't but it's a sore spot for some of you and you have nothing else to say but ask more questions... so that's cool. The rehearsed it a few times and it's been documented, but believe what you like, fools.
Also, 120bpm, that's the tempo and the basic chord structure is primarily in G#, which the whole song basically revolves around.
You have the bass playing the same riff almost entirely thru the whole song, if I had said "industrial" rather than metal which I said in the span of 30 seconds I wrote that first post, I'm not sure much else would have been said.
Instead we aren't talking about the myth that I spoke of, we are talking about genre bullshit, otherwise this thread would probably be dead. So, again, go ahead and counter what I said eariler and for ther record Mofo is whatever you want it to be, a dud, a non single, whatever, claim it as whatever you want.
In fact, my err to bring up Mofo as a metal song has exposed you hilariously. It's almost like a political argument, I gave you the meat and potatoes and you talk about the silverware. Hilarious.
I don't know why the band made it a remix single, I never professed to know, all I know is that you said it wasn't a single. So I tried to help you out with some info.
And as far as "being there" in 1996, I don't know where 'there' is.
All I know is I wasn't oblivious to dance music or dance rock, whatever stupid ass genre term you want to use. And U2 were just grabbing ahold of a DJ and trying to get some loops and beats going. They'd never done it before in that way. But I'm sure they wanted to grab the share of Howie B's market, who I'd swear never dold more than 100K copies in the US, for example.
Ambition baby!!!
Yes, they were chasing disco...because at least one person was duped by the Discotheque video, "Look at them they are the Village People!" Yeah. chasing disco. And also, they had an agreement with McDonalds to use that arch and every cheesebruger sold they get a quarter. God damn.
You say that the formula they are using is their own but say they are chasing disco, or what the fuck ever the other nonsense was, the myth is that they are bandwagon jumping, okay, U2 is using their own way....
U2 either tried to make a buck by making some dance music
Or didn't.
And if they tired to make a buck with dance music, they are more than certainly doing it now, and in the last 5 years, so where does everyone stand?
Are U2 just trying to fucking capitalize on the market space onf the indistry or chasing down musical ambitions???
Let's call it like we see 'em. Maybe not a fun answer for those who care about truth rather than a fanboy montage of cotton eye joe and firestarter. For fucks sake.