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babyman said:





You really don't like these songs................don' t they belong to "your UF era"?

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They're Passengers and RAH ...
 
babyman said:
Ah, right, I mixed it with the Elvis tune of UF! Sorry..... Elvis ate America is the one with Howie B on vocals, too. Sorry
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I thought you'd done that. :wink:

I just cannot stand the vocals of that song. Truly horrid.

But Heartbreak Hotel, wasn't it a song of the UF sessions?
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Nope, not at all. It was on the Angel Of Harlem single and doesn't date back to UF.
 
TripThroughWire said:
Can any of those who did not answer Wild Honey give an explanation ???
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Beautiful, simplistic melody, plenty of energy, and the lyrics aren't nearly as cringe-worthy as they first appear once you get who the band is trying to imitate.
 
TripThroughWire said:
Can any of those who did not answer Wild Honey give an explanation ???
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The vocals on Wild Honey are not hideous like those on Elvis Ate America.
 
While we're at it, can someone please explain for me the collective bile towards New York? I think it's one of the very best moments of ATYCLB. :drool:
 
LemonMelon said:
While we're at it, can someone please explain for me the collective bile towards New York? I think it's one of the very best moments of ATYCLB. :drool:
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I don't hate the song, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it. Not really sure why, I just do :shrug:.

I like "Wild Honey", too. It's cute. And I like or at the very least don't mind the songs Hoodlem mentioned as ones they disliked...but as for the comments on the other songs in that post, amen :up:.

Angela
 
The worst piece of music U2 have recorded is The Saints!
Worst actual U2 song is without doubt Miracle Drug.
Worst live performance would be almost anything done acoustic.
 
An Cat Gav said:
The worst piece of music U2 have recorded is The Saints!
Worst actual U2 song is without doubt Miracle Drug.
Worst live performance would be almost anything done acoustic.
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I strongly disagree with every single sentence here.
 
An Cat Gav said:
The worst piece of music U2 have recorded is The Saints!
Worst actual U2 song is without doubt Miracle Drug.
Worst live performance would be almost anything done acoustic.
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Not unusually, am in agreement wi Gav (mostly). I too chose Saints as my original least favorite U2 song, but because it wasnt a U2 song.....i dropped it in favour of WITS. And as far as Live goes.........yeah, av gone on record on here over the years stating how mind numbingly dull and samey most of the acoustic u2 songs sound.
 
I don't mind acoustic songs, I'll take that over shortened versions of something like Zooropa, or the live disaster like IGWSHA or DYFL.

I know I said Is that all?, but I should probably add something for the JT-onwards, more songwriting crafty U2. Probably Some days are better (for the lyrics) than others or Miami (waste of space). Also, Numb (talk about a riff saving a song). I can't believe something like HMTMKMKM got skipped in favour of these gems.
 
For me it was, is, and forever shall be Elvis Presley and America. The first time I ever heard this song I was like, that was the biggest waste of six minutes ever!! That was in '84, and I still have absolutely no interest in this song whatsoever.

Don't care about the "atmosphere" it creates, don't care about the stream-of-consciousness lyrics, blah blah blah. Song sucks, period.
 
I like Trip through your wires, Miami, Refugee, A Room at the heartbeak hotel, peace on earth and most of the other ones mentioned here, I absolutely worship Elvis Presley and America. I EVEN mildly like Elvis Ate America(runs for cover).

I've already mentioned that I don't like Miracle Drug at all, Is That ALl is pretty crappy and Red Light is the lowest point of 80's U2. If God WIll send his angels is also one I have never liked, it has a great video, but the song just doesn't do anything for me. Can't say why though but I cannot stand Walk On, again it has a decent video, but it spoils ATYCLB for me,maybe it just sounds like paint by numbers U2.
 
Babyface
Grace
All Because Of You
City Of Blinding Lights
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
The Playboy Mansion
Miami
Mothers Of The Disappeared
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
The First Time
 
My least favourites, from the albums I've heard...

4th of July
In God's Country (really, there is no weak song on JT, but this is the weakest IMO)
TTTYATW
Some Days (awesome music, again, really no weak tracks)
Wake Up Dead Man (by far the worst song on Pop. Not bad, but still the worst. Pop is a pretty consistent album.)
Wild Honey
Crumbs From Your Table (there's a lot of bad songs to choose from here =P. I think Crumbs is like U2 in Nickelback mode or something. It does, however, contain the best verse of the album in the part that Bono wrote while drunk...)

But, in defense of some other songs:

Miami - it's beat poetry, OK? If you don't like it, fine. If you don't get it, fine, but it does what it does perfectly. Scathing, seedy, cheap, plastic, materialistic, sleazy, etc. At least one of those words I think you would agree describes it well.
Playboy Mansion - OK, the pop culture references are kinda annoying, especially as they last at least two verses. But whoever thinks U2 was trying to be sexy in this is absolutely wrong - there's nothing sexy about it. It's about the state of culture, and just waiting for life to happen to you, and the wealth of industrial nations. And trying to make a meaningful life out of money, and all that jazz. A bit like Acrobat-lite. The music is thematically suitable, I think, for the setting of places like Miami, and the backing vocals are suitably, uh, heavenly. I guess you can dislike it, but I don't think some people get it.
Numb - it's a concept. A few songs on Zooropa are concepts. If you don't like the concept, you can just leave it. Not U2's usual fare, but I appreciate it.
Window in the Skies - You might not like the verses; and I'm with you in some ways on that, but some of the lines are pretty. The chorus is what gets me, though - the 'oh, can't you see what love has done' is great, because as a phrase it's despairing and makes it sound as if love did you wrong - but the way it's sung makes you think maybe love has pushed the person to a new sense of being and freedom and release than when the lyric had been written. They can't deny the feeling of release or rejoice in oneself. I love it.
Babyface - it helps a lot if you consider the lyrics, and what Bono's trying to get across, about the emptiness of pornography. It also helps if your Zooropa cd booklet smells like crayons. Anyone else's like this?
 
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