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As much as I love SOI, one of the reasons I feel it wasn't nominated for Album of the Year simply boils down to the fact that there is not that one BIG song on the album. There is no 'Streets' or 'Beautiful Day' or 'Vertigo' or 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' or 'Pride' or 'One'. I think 'Every Breaking...

I feel they should combine the slowed down tempo of the acoustic version (along with the beautiful, stretched out vocal deliveries) with a full band approach. Even in the acoustic versions, you really feel the song take flight when the drums kick in (which they started doing in the BBC version...

"Zero promotion"? I know what you mean, but a free (in many cases, automatic) download to over half a billion iTunes subscribers is pretty good promotion for any of the songs on SOI, I'd say! :wink:

The part that really gets me in this song -- and where the song gets transformed into something far more interesting -- are the following lines: The stars are bright But do they know... The universe is beautiful but cold? It's the acknowledgement that we don't really know, for sure, if God is...

I loved it when Bono said: "There were a lot of people who were uninterested in U2 who are now mad at U2, which, as far as we're concerned, is an improvement!" Not only is it true, I also love the attitude behind it.

Thanks a lot!! I would also love to hear 'Every Breaking Wave' if possible! mfgriffiths99@gmail.com :)

Again, my contention is not that 'Moment of Surrender' is not a good song. As I said, it's a very nice pop gospel song. Does it really stand out? I'm not so sure. The verses do stand out, but the chorus blends right into the mainstream like butter on toast (to use Bono's not so original line...

I can see where you're coming from, and I agree to some extent. A song like 'Where the Streets Have No Name', despite it's obvious chord repetition, still has a few changes and counter melodies here and there to balance it out. I will say that I really enjoy the background vocals during the...

Shame on us if we are surprised with "playful" U2 lyrics at this point. This is the same band that wrote a song called "Big Girls Are Best" in the 90s, and penned the line, "If OJ is more than a drink, and a Big Mac, bigger than you think," from the so called "high brow 90s" album, Pop....is it...

Yes, I still remember the clip they put on U2.com of Larry drumming during 'Magnificent' before the album came out. It had Bono singing the high "Oh, Ohs" as well. I thought it was amazing, and it still is.

That's a very good point. 'Magnificent' does have an ebb & flow about it that comes off naturally, and 'New Year's Day' has this as well -- not to say the two songs sound similar, not at all. They just share that one very important attribute of everything just flowing together, without being...

That's a beautiful and cohesive album. Brian Eno was right that U2 were nuts for leaving off 'Winter'. I wouldn't even have minded them keeping a pop song like 'I'll Go Crazy' in there, as it's a nice change of pace after 'Unknown Caller' and blends in quite well. That would make it 11 songs...

Or 'Unknown Caller'? The best songs of this album were all written in Fez, and they all had a certain feel to them. If 'Winter' had been included instead of 'Stand Up Comedy', and 'Boots' totally dropped, this album would have been just about as perfect a U2 album they have ever put out. On an...

Don't let other posters dissuade your original taste. Trust your instincts. I actually love the slide guitar solo. It reminds me of the great slide guitar work in 'Wicked Game' from Chris Isaak. Say what you want about him, but that's a classic song. The guitar just creates a mood for lack of a...

I remember reading that too, but the version in the beach clips is the same version that we got on the album. It's just that it was muffled by the sound of waves and a bad recording, which gave it more of that "wall of sound" quality we missed from the old analogue recordings like Achtung Baby &...

1) I disagree about the lyrics, as most people get hooked primarily by the melody of a song they hear on the radio -- unless it's a ballad, in which case it's first the melody and then the lyrics. When I was a teenager, I didn't know the lyrics to 'Where the Streets Have No Name' for some time...

This is probably the best "club mix" of the song: U2 - Magnificent (Adam K & Soha Club Mix) - YouTube

That is true, Trev. Edge did suggest that lyric. To me, it's a worship song about God, but coming from a very personal perspective, which makes sense if Bono is saying it's about two lovers trying to turn their life into worship. Bono stated most of this album was written from the point of view...

Is the chorus not part of "the song itself"? I always thought it was :shrug: And, no, the comparisons to 'One' are not justified. One has a very unusual structure. It's like a middle 8 on repeat. The verses and the chorus are essentially part of the same chord structure. Conversely, 'Moment of...

Yes, U2girl, some people do have different opinions than you. But that's ok. People have different opinions than I do as well. That is what makes music great. We can all see something different.

No, but I'm sure Bono got into that around 1997 judging by the shift in songwriting :sexywink:

I tend to agree somewhat. I keep searching for that transcending moment that even a song like 'Unknown Caller' (during the organ buildup, and the subsequent guitar solo) is able to achieve. That's why I enjoy a song like 'Unknown Caller' more than 'Moment of Surrender'. My spirit yearns for...

I wasn't really talking about the lyrics so much as the melody lines and the U2 "wall of sound" those songs exhibit that harken back to TUF and Joshua Tree. The vocals are great as well. As for the lyrics, what has to be understood is that this album deals a lot with metaphysical subject matter...

'Moment of Surrender' was never on the level of say a 'One' or a 'With or Without You' for me (or the general public, as the charting would show) -- but I would say 'Magnificent' and 'Unknown Caller' have some spine-tingling moments. The familiar, yet elusive U2 magic comes out in those songs...

Very happy to hear that they're purposefully staying away from their comfort zones. That tells me they want to grow again. They have enough experience now to realize what not to do in order to create the right environment for the growth tension necessary to forge new (at least for them) musical...