Stand Up Comedy: one of the worst ever?

[Jive Turkey]

Breathe makes SUC redundant. Its in a similar 'genre', rocks harder, better written, better riff, better production, better lyrics (even the cockatoo), doesnt suck

 

[zoopop]

Edge's guitar work on Crazy Tonight is so much better than on SUC, not to mention Adam's funky bass. if SUC = radio friendly, then i'm going to rip the radio out of my car. stupid rap-like verses, contrived chorus, over-hyped guitar riff, and nothing flows together well. even Babyface has a tight beat and a great bassline. ugh.

SUC (also known as suck) destroys the flow of the album. I think NLOTH would have been better with 10 tracks. Let "Fez" start after Boots.

 

[popacrobat]

I'm glad it's on the album. I enjoy it. In fact, there's not a song I dislike on the album. It helps break up some of the darkness, and it's a fun throwaway rock song to me. It's groovy, the lyrics are a bit silly- but does everything HAVE to be deep and thought provoking? i can see people having gripes with the tracklisting, having the three 'poppiest' songs in a row, but they're all in a different vein to me. Boots and SUC are pretty similar I guess but still not cut from the exact same cloth. and neither are like crazy tonight to me.

I also think it's pretty foolish to say it should be replaced with _________.... Winter is the only song we've heard from of the songs that didn't make it. I like Winter well enough, and wouldn't have minded it in addition to the album, but replacing it with SUC doesn't do a whole lot for me. We haven't heard Every Breaking Wave or whatever songs were left off. It's not like we have Native Son, Alt Aboy etc... to compare with. And I would MUCH rather have 11 songs than 10, as some people just want to cut SUC off completely. After a 4 year wait, even if the song is mediocre, i'd much rather hear it than never hear it, but that's also just me.

 

[Zoomerang96]

i'd call this "dad-rock" but i've heard wilco being described as such... and wilco are a superior band in my opinion.

i really don't like this song, easily my least favourite from the album. the riff isn't exciting, and the lyrics... wow. no.

 

[gherman]

For me its on the same level as Some Days are Better Then Others

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

I like Some Days Are Better Then Others

I think Crazy is worse than SUC but it's all relative I guess...

 

[Zoomerang96]

For me personally:

1-Wake Up Dead Man
2-Miami (my mammy...eww)
3-If you were that Velvet Dress
4-Peace on Earth
5-A man and a woman
6-Crumbs from your Table
7-The Wanderer
8-Wild Honey

The line "God is love, and love is evolutions very best day" is one of the best lines on the album.

the wanderer?

...THE WANDERER??

alright. i have no business being in this thread. wow.

 

[the tourist]

Doesn't U2 have at least one widely regarded dud on every album?

 

[zoopop]

Doesn't U2 have at least one widely regarded dud on every album?

AB might be the only exception. Don't want to start a war but JT, Pop, & even HTDAAB don't have any duds for me.

 

[schnumi]

Yes but SUC isnt a dud. It's a great song and it rocks simple as that. I just like it.

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

This song sucks.
Edge was inspired by Jimmy Page's riffs for this one, huh?
LOL.
Keep trying Edge.
What a half baked POS.


BTW, Magnificent and UC and MOS and Crazy and Cedars and NLOTH are awesome.

Let the flames roll in......

You mean "in your humble opinion" its "a half baked POS".

You've every right to not like it. It's okay that you don't like it. I'd offer that there is a huge difference in "I don't like that song, it doesn't speak to me" and the disrespectful language that you used.

 

[the tourist]

AB might be the only exception. Don't want to start a war but JT, Pop, & even HTDAAB don't have any duds for me.

AB: Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
JT: Trip Through Your Wires
Pop: The Playboy Mansion

I'm not saying personally, I'm saying generally.

 

[Jive Turkey]

You mean "in your humble opinion" its "a half baked POS".

Then every single post in every single thread should say "in my humble opinion". Its a message board, it goes without saying that its in his humble opinion, in my humble opinion

 

[sue4u2]

it's not the worst song ever, just not up to par with the rest of NLOTH.

I agree with this. Even though I like it I have the same feeling with Boots. I don't know what album they belong on.
I just don't get the same thrill from these 2 songs as the rest of the album.

Let "Fez" start after Boots.

It is lined up differently on my copy. But SUC and Boots are still there.

For me its on the same level as Some Days are Better Then Others

No way. I loved Some Days from the the first time I heard it.

Yes but SUC isnt a dud. It's a great song and it rocks simple as that. I just like it.

That's the thing, it really does rock and I like the lyrics. Same with Boots.

 

[super fly guy]

SUC is great and so is boots,especialy the long intro version! In my opinion.

 

[Layton]

My problem right now with Stand Up is that the brand of funk they're bringing, particularly on the early verses isn't all that convincing. To me, Adam is the problem. Dude just doesn't bring a great funky piece to those verses. Thus, Bono's vocal sounds off as some have pointed out. A rap/funk vocal needs a great line to flow off of. It isn't there on those verses. The second half of the tune almost redeems the generic qualities of the first half, though.

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

Stand Up Comedy =

Can't wait to hear this one burn it up live...

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I like it for the stand up to rock stars part-bonus points for that

I don't know if it's one of their worst ever, I don't know exactly what constitutes worst ever criteria

 

[Jive Turkey]

I don't know exactly what constitutes worst ever criteria

all the rest are better

 

[Slapnutz]

Dad rock is never a good thing. They were probably all wearing denim when they recorded it.

 

[Tyagu_Anaykus]

Stand Up Comedy =

Can't wait to hear this one burn it up live...

 

[partygirl43]

I'm going to stand up for SUC...

I think it will rock live.

And while some may think it is a 'silly' song, I don't think that at all---in fact I think it is one of the more spiritual/Christian songs on the album.

I love it

 

[bono_man]

yes... u2 should have eliminated every radio friendly, catchy song from the album and included nothing but pompous experimental crap.

then they could be like radiohead

honestly... some of you are strange.

its not about them eliminating radio friendly songs. its about them eliminating crap songs from the album. this is most definately one of them.

i skip the whole sequence of 5-7 on the album every time.

 

[gweeps]

I don't care for the "love love love" part. It's choppy as hell.

 

[ultraviolet353]

SUC sucks--2nd worst song on the album next to Crazy. And one of maybe 4-5 U2 songs I do not like (out of their whole catalog).

So cheesy--has that really trite aging rocker feel to it.

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

i wasn't crazy about this song at first. But i do like it now.

Its kind of funny how that works.

 

[LemonAid]

The Led Zeppelin guitar riff seems like a pointless garnish on an otherwise pretty standard and safe sounding dad-rock song. It's not like The Edge took the Zeppelin influence and really ran with it, following it to some crazy dimension...to me it seems almost like an afterthought, like the song was so uninspiring and faceless, they needed something to wake you up every minute or so. Why not inject a cliched sounding Zepellin riff. I mean, that riff sounds like Jimmy Page warming up on stage. It's a boring riff that doesn't go anywhere. It doesn't excite me. It doesn't make me want to ROCK OUT! It's just like "ohhhh that's The Edge referencing Led Zepplin, this is what passes for 'edge branching out' these days."

Now it's time for a little pretensiousness:

If i was in that room the day Edge came up with that riff, I would've said: "okay, you done having fun? Good! Now I want you to REALLY fucking get down with it!!"

And then i would've slipped Bono some drugs, and said "forget about who you are, take this pen, take this paper, and write, dammit! Give us something intense! "Little old lady???!?!?!?" (i taze him until he is drained of all cornball lyrics)

Possiblty the best post ever.


Couldnt agree more.

 

[david]

I think it is waaaaaay better than Babyface.

oh, okay then. It's the "refugee" of the album.

 

[ahittle]

It could have been okay. I generally like the chorus and the bridge and the outro. The verse's combination of pretty flaccid funk and "Stand Up!" doesn't work for me. It feels like a latter-day Aerosmith attempt to rock out.

The good thing is that the song moves through parts pretty quickly. The bad part is that it has four verses. FOUR!

 

[mobvok]

Stand Up Comedy is currently ranked 421 out of 443 U2 songs listed on iTunes. It's less popular than Shadows and Tall Tress [sic] from Boy, but! manages to beat Vertigo (Radio Edit) from Now That's What I Call Music vol. 18.

Operation "radio-friendly" is running all according to plan, right? SUC's all over the airwaves....