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Bean Skidds said:
Hmm Ive heard it a few times. I wish I just had an instrumental version to listen to, its pretty intense and rockin with lots of variation. But the lyrics and vocal style are proving to be way too candy ass pop for me. I want to like it more, but I cant. Help. :ohmy:
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Understand that the lyrics and vocals are meant to be ironic. That is why so many people didn't get U2 in the 90s.
 
Bean Skidds said:
Hmm Ive heard it a few times. I wish I just had an instrumental version to listen to, its pretty intense and rockin with lots of variation. But the lyrics and vocal style are proving to be way too candy ass pop for me. I want to like it more, but I cant. Help. :ohmy: I mean I had a similar reaction in the past with Discotheque and Elevation, but this case seems more severe. Ugh.
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Yes because a "candy ass pop song" would really feature a lyrics like "satan likes a bomb scare, but he wont scare you",

just think of what that lyric means.
 
bsp77 said:
Understand that the lyrics and vocals are meant to be ironic. That is why so many people didn't get U2 in the 90s.
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Hmm 90's U2 was never a problem for me, I loved the irony there. They were mocking trash pop without actually being trash pop. Now this single, at least the vocal, is mostly trash pop to me ears. WIthout the irony. Maybe Im missing something.
 
Just listened to it and....ITS WAS TO SHORT!:reject:

But I loved, "Let me in the sound!"...imagine that live? HOLY HELL!

It's not U2 at their best, but certainly not at their worst :hyper: I'm having a similar reaction to this little monster as I did with Elevation...I'm not sure if thats a good thing. But to be prefectly honest it ain't livin up to the hype
 
I absolutely love the fact that early popular reaction to this song seems to be negative.
 
I have an iTunes question. I've never bought a full album from iTunes (I still prefer hard copies) and I'm debating on buying the deluxe NLOTH version. Will the digital booklets and bonus material sync to my iPod, or will I only be able to view it in my iTunes?
 
First impressions after a couple of listens...

This song may have more nuanced Eno/Lanois production, but it still gives me that "silly pop song" vibe just like Elevation and Vertigo did. The "sexy boots" line doesn't help matters at all - I can think only of "a mole digging in a hole" as being worse example of Bono trying to be hip and cool.

The similarities with Vertigo are undeniable - the scatting verses, the guitar riff and especially the fact that The Edge is not trying hard enough. Repeating the same riff over and over again is such a lame way to end the song (see:Vertigo). At least Bono said "Yeah" 10 times less than Vertigo.

On the other hand, before KUEFC09U2 and others start to flame me, the Eastern "how beautiful you are" part kicks ass, although it could have benefited from a better lyric.

So, along with Numb, the most underwhelming 1st single I could think of right now. I won't say it is total crap, because parts show promise about the new album. The beach clip was by far my least favourite of the 4, so I shall remain optimisic.
 
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Haven't posted here in years and years... Just heard "Boots" and it rocked my freakin world. This is gonna be BIG. :up:
 
shart1780 said:
After a bunch of listens I'll say it's not that great (still that may very well change). The main problem is the chorus IMO. The vocals are kind of grating and annoying and the song just kind of loses energy there. It kind of loses my interest when the chorus starts up and grabs it again when the chorus ends.

Oh well.
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My thoughts exactly.. it does lose something during the "Get on your boots" chorus... the song is really good but needed some tweaking still.
 
This may have already been asked, but I'm not going to read through pages, because I'm lazy.

Is Larry using a double-bass drum pedal on those short 16th note snippets, or is that electronic effects?
 
djerdap said:
First impressions after a couple of listens...

This song may have more nuanced Eno/Lanois production, but it still gives me that "silly pop song" vibe just like Elevation and Vertigo did. The "sexy boots" line doesn't help matters at all - I can think only of "a mole digging in a hole" as being worse example of Bono trying to be hip and cool.

The similarities with Vertigo are undeniable - the scatting verses, the guitar riff and especially the fact that The Edge is not trying hard enough. Repeating the same riff over and over again is such a lame way to end the song (see:Vertigo). At least Bono said "Yeah" 10 times less than Vertigo.

On the other hand, before KUEFC09U2 and others start to flame me, the Eastern "how beautiful you are" part kicks ass, although it could have benefited from a better lyric.

So, along with Numb, the most underwhelming 1st single I could think of right now. I won't say it is total crap, because parts show promise about the new album. The beach clip was by far my least favourite of the 4, so I shall remain optimisic.
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I couldn't have said it better.
That and the production is bad.

Get ready for the third in the trilogy.
*ducks*
 
I pretty much like everything U2 brings out. I saw them for the first time live in 2001 (then I only knew the big staples like Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year's day, pride, etc). During the concert I became a hardcore fan right after Until the end of the world :wave: Where the streets have no name did the rest of it.

For me personal, I only remember vivid the release of HTDAAB. I thought of HTDAAB as an addition of some nice numbers to the backcatalogue. I enjoy listening to it, but not any number of it gives me the feeling as numbers on the Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby (I also like POP a lot)

I just only got to rediscover War and the sheer beauty of some songs it (next to the big hits of that) and I was wondering, will the next and new releases ever give a special feeling that I encounter in first person.

I remember the day Vertigo was released and playing it in my car over and over again. I liked (and like) it a lot, but it didn't give a certain special feeling.

To come finally to my point: hearing GOYB (even after the first time) and after some more repeats: I didn't expect ever to get so great feeling for a new release ! It is really really great. People who think it is Vertigo II or Elevation II don't know what they are talking about. I think it will be on NLOTH as some sort of Even better than the real thing number.
 
im not seeing the connection to vertigo at all. musically this song is in a totally different key and is about twice as fast in tempo, not to mention being all over the place. the lyrics in goyb are lightyears ahead of vertigo. vertigo was a straight forward rock song while goyb has much more going on.

idk, to me they sound nothing alike.

:rockon: btw
 
Bean Skidds said:
Hmm 90's U2 was never a problem for me, I loved the irony there. They were mocking trash pop without actually being trash pop. Now this single, at least the vocal, is mostly trash pop to me ears. WIthout the irony. Maybe Im missing something.
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It's because from a current point of view, 90s U2 were cool while today's U2 ... not so much. U2 could release The Fly II today and people would still not like it. Interesting considering the new song has a fair share of experimentation going on. People were gushing about Beach Clip 3 and how layered it was and how complex and how new for U2's standard it sounds. Now it seems they complain because it's too experimental or not experimental enough, I don't know. Lyrics are a real progression for Bono, still people refuse to see them as ironic and metaphorical. U2 are good at producing contradiction, just because a song sounds poppy doesn't mean it has to be light or funny. I wouldn't even consider it "poppy", I think it actually rocks quite hard.

What's surprising is that I got into the song very quickly, which isn't always the case. Most songs have to grow on me and I often find myself not liking them very much in the beginning. But when I first heard Boots, I instantly knew what I liked about it and what I maybe don't like so much.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the album now even more, because I think GOYB is a good sign. The chances that the lead single isn't among the best tracks of the album are quite good, so it can only go up from here. Everyone who is saying this sounds like a song from their last two albums should really really get their ears checked. I LOVE U2's last two albums, but that song surely sounds different. NLOTH will be a fantastic album. :up:
 
ybab gnuthca said:
It's just a song, people.
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Are you serious? I think you might be in the wrong place then!!

As for me....I'm stuck at work on night duty, so so far I've only been able to have a couple of quiet listens - I am dying to be able to crank it up LOUD - but I don't think that would be appropriate right now, so I think I'm going to have to reserve proper judgement until tomorrow sometime :)
 
Geez, with fans like these I need to find another "fan" site, apparently. I was hoping for a lot of excitement because the song rocks. I think people these days just can't really be happy about anything. Everything has to suck, right? You guys are nitpicking, seriously. "The production is bad"... WTF? Umm, no. What the hell is wrong with it?
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