This album I've heard, it sounds like;
Adele
Linkin Park
Arcade Fire
Killers
If anything this album has confused the shit out its fanbase.
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What track sounds like a linkin park track???
This album I've heard, it sounds like;
Adele
Linkin Park
Arcade Fire
Killers
If anything this album has confused the shit out its fanbase.
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What track sounds like a linkin park track???
It doesn't seem to make much sense to me since these tracks are very different from each other, they aren't strictly acoustic and the alternative version of SLABT doesn't seem to belong there.
I actually think the acoustic Every Breaking Wave sounds Adel-ish
Acoustic Cafifornia is very very bad..... and I love the album version a lot.... but mehhhhh!!!!
The rest is very average...... feeling no emotion at all for those acoustic tracks.
I like the groove in Lucifer's hands, but yeah the middle part is really messy. Too bad, they could have made a damn good song with it. Glad it's not included in SOI, doesn't fit.
The only 2 songs I want to hear are Crystal Ballroom and alternate SLABT but I can't open them..... anyone could send me the links please?
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Why did they leave off Invisible off SOI ? Would have made a great opener, and is a better fit thematically than Miracle.
That's just poppycock
If I hear one more it sounds like Coldplay arcade fire ______ whatever I will likely lose my shit
Lorde Lorde Lorde... I am Lorde yah yah yah
Who knew that Lorde is a 45 year old male geologist...
They both fit very well thematically, it's just that Invisible doesn't fit sonically.
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Why not ? It fits perfectly, especially if you look beyond the opening Tedder/Epworth singles-loaded first 4 songs.
I'm in love with disc 2.
Hands of Lucifer is a great song.
I can't stop listening to Crystal Ballroom over and over again. It has to be a single.
And Bono's voice sounds better on these acoustic versions than at any other time post-Lovetown. It's amazing to see him continue to get better and better after what happened to his singing in the late 90s/early oughts.
The acoustic Every Breaking Wave is U2 at their best. I keep saying it, but if an EBW single can't be a hit, then nothing U2 could ever write would ever be allowed to. It's the reason they exist. And the acoustic California is aiding me in my learning to accept the song.
This actuallyThe Crystal Ballroom is pretty, and sounds better (and more ambitious) then some of the songs on the record, but it doesn't really fit and I can see why they left it off. But I do like the song and it's in my SOI playlist. I also like the extended version of Invisible, a song which has grown on me.
The rest of the bonus CD is pretty much forgettable. Lucifer's Hands is a bit of a mess and definitely b-side material. An unfinished leftover. It actually sounds more like something you'd find in a fan club release than as a bonus track that presumably is supposed to entice people to spend extra money for the deluxe edition. U2 just doesn't do this kind of rock very well, and even when they are able to pull it off (e.g. Elevation, Vertigo), the results are merely good, not great. They're just not that kind of band, and I'm not sure why they feel the need to get their guitar rock on when it's clearly not their thing.
The alternate versions of SLABT and Troubles are interesting, but pale in comparison to the originals and aren't anything I'll be returning to.
The acoustic tracks, all of them, are completely unremarkable, as I suspected they would be. And the one song that I though would have been interesting to hear acoustically, Iris, is oddly missing. If there's one thing U2 does less well than hard guitar rock it's stripped down rock. This has always been a band that benefits heavily from layered production, and IMO whenever they do something like this it really exposes their limitations as musicians.
All in all, the bonus CD is nothing exceptional, which is fine since what we already got is pretty strong. The 11 songs proper album is almost perfectly balanced, and none of these other songs really have a place there, IMO. But I don't hear anything on the second disc that would make any non-hardcore fans, who already got the record for free, want to run out and buy it.
The rest of the album doesn't have that joy division Kraftwerk influence.
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Not that influence per se, but the album is loaded with synths none the less.
And certainly song about going off to London/spiting Bob Hewson fits more than the song about the Ramones that sounds nothing at all like the Ramones.
Yes. And the song "One" is about the number 1.
The owls are not what they seem.