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You're being polite. It sucked. That's easily the worst song on the album. And they play it on SNL, first. Sometimes this band just has no awareness...

It's not auto-tune. It's a vocoder. A pitch shifter. It takes a voice and harmonizes the voice. Brian Eno uses one on A Different Kind of Blue off Passengers. Far predates auto-tune which corrects pitch. But yeah, cool to hear Bono finally use one.

Not auto-tune. It's a vocoder. P.S. Danielle Haim...so hot.

The streak continues this century. Better songs left off for inferior songs. ATYCLB, left Levitate off...and maybe another, I'd have to see a list of ATYCLB B-sides. HTDAAB, left Smile off. Oh, and one of their best songs of the last 20 years...Mercy. NLOTH...Soon. Winter as well. SOI, the...

Can anyone say whether the song from the Fender clip with Edge made it to the album?

The chord progression in the bridge is probably U2's finest classical songwriting moment in their entire catalog. The dramatic seamless shift and Bono firing on all lyrical cylinders. Punctuated by that sublime melodic segue back into the chorus Really a moment that would make Lennon and...

I hadn't heard Sometimes in years, and never cared for it much but reading the thread it dawned on me...this was about his father. Of course. I had inexplicably forgotten about that song lately. My dad died 2 weeks ago. He is/was the reason for my passion in music. I lived with him and took...

American Soul is just...sad. Pretty good verses and then just...wtf. I don't get it. If it is ever explained why they recycled that chorus, someone start a new thread that says that in the title so we don't have to dig through all the crap just to find it. I could have imagined some new lows...

Funny, I would say the only U2 album that shouldn't be associated with autumn is Zooropa. It came out in middle of the hot summer. Had a very 'bright' feeling to me, though that's the only perspective of it I've ever known. As I think about the tone of it...yeah, I can see the sorta cool or...

It's hard to extrapolate just how impressively more popular WOWY is than all the rest. Said another way, it had a solid 15 years of popularity that isn't rightfully measured by any of those digital counts...and yet still is #1 in those counts. Popularity is finite. It can end and it can...

There's no sense to have a back track for that part. Period. It's less complicated than a loop would merit (a programmed loop at that, as it was not something he played and looped right there) je could have hammered on the frets and accomplished that sparse sound. Best guess, he and Dallas are...

I see the Interference bully never changes.

Double post

Some think effects are a crutch. That's like saying beautiful visuals in a film are a crutch in lieu of story. Ridiculous but...art and taste. Effects are essential to creating interesting music for the vast majority of listeners....VAST majority. Otherwise it's a question of snobbery regarding...

I like the verses a lot but they are very reminiscent of something else. Some have said EBTTRT but I'm thinking of something else by someone else. An old pop song or something. It'll come to me. Nevertheless it's U2 doing pure pop pretty well. Feels a lot more genuine and natural to me than...