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Has anyone had a chance to listen to it yet? I have, all three discs :yikes: I think it's a gorgeous, exquisite piece of music but at 124 minutes it's really just too damn long. Eventually the lack of variety becomes a problem and I start craving for songs that pick a melody and stick with it...

So far, I've got: Goo Confusion is Sex Rather Ripped Daydream Nation Washing Machine ...all of which I enjoyed to various degrees. What should I get next?

If anyone here is into that sort of music, could they kindly recommend me any?

A movie that gets slapped by the majority of critics, but when you actually watch it you go, "Hmm... that wasn't bad at all..."? I really enjoyed "Devil's Advocate" with Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves, for example.

What are the songs that you've heard that are just so harrowing and intense either musically or lyrically they make you squirm? A few songs had a reaction like that on me: Me and the Gun - Tori Amos Heroin - Velvet Underground The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Hey You - Pink Floyd My...

I knew nothing about Lou Reed until I finally listened to the Best Of Velvet Underground, and since then I got "Transformer" and loved that, too. Can anyone please recommend other good stuff from his back catalogue?

No work and all play makes me... something something, :mad: We've had little to no jobs for the studio for the last month or so; all four of us graphic designers are twiddling our thumbs all day. We've already exhausted all possible jobs like archiving and labelling the disks. We still feel...

I've got "Yoshimi" & "Soft Bulletin" so far; can anyone tell me what else should I get my hands on from their back catalogue? (Just don't say, get them all they're all great!!!!! :))

I know that "Streets" is probably THE U2 live song in many people's view, and I love it too if only for that red glowing magic moment when Edge's guitar rises over that heavenly majestic intro. If anything this moment is so great it makes the rest of the song look like a fairly even stretch...

I've read a Q magazine article on Radiohead once which puzzled me by referring to "Creep" as being this "scathingly funny song". Now I don't know that much about their music, but I've heard "Creep" several times on the radio and I can't say it made that sort of impression on me. Does anyone know...

Let's see... Titanic - 11 times Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - 5 times Gladiator - 4 times Star Wars: Phantom Menace - 3 times (I know it's a national pastime now to bash the prequels, but I genuinely enjoyed the movie on its theatre release) The Galaxy Quest - 3 times Matrix - 3 times...

I saw them play yesterday, and I'm with Shirley Manson, Karen O (the lead singer) is -my- latest pop crush, too! I've never heard their music before and it always takes me multiple listens to come up with a verdict, but I thought that Karen was just absolutely spellbinding on stage. And I dig...

Some while ago someone here posted a pic taken from one of the Elevation shows, which showed Bono or a silhouette of Bono singing from the stage while a forest of raised hands is reaching out to him from below, and the whole scene is sort of darkish and bathed in this intense blue light. I think...

Sorry if this has been posted before... Apparently people at salon.com thought that Ben Affleck was a pathetic choice for the title of the People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, so here's what they had to say about that: "Though the Salon staff could not reach a consensus, we felt it necessary...

Just as an opposite to the "worst duets" thread, which duets do you find a manna for the ears? Here's some I enjoy: Nick Cave & PJ Harvey - Henry Lee These two are sooo like each other's doppelganger it's scary. And few do "a woman scorned" thing better than Polly Jean. Nick Cave & Kylie...

I wanna buy a book about Queen or Freddie Mercury, but I don't know which ones are actually any good and I don't want to spend my money on some dodgy cut-and-paste scrapbook. Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated.

There're a few artists whose music I either never heard or heard too little, but who I'm interested in. However, I'm not sure what album should I start with, so I'd be really thankful for recommendations: Stone Roses Liz Phair Prince Joy Division Talking Heads Sarah McLaughlan Marvin Gaye

I generally find that the songs that affect me the most are the ones with a darker feel to them, as long as they're not whiny and not wallowing in self-pity. With U2, while I can think of a few "fun" songs and many "joyful" songs, I can't really think of any outright "happy" ones... as Bono...

I don't really know much about the man or his music, but I've noticed that there seems to be plenty of detractors whose hatred goes far beyond simply not liking Sting's music, so I'm wondering why is that.

I took this quote from Independent, which featured yet another profile on Bono. I thought that it was an interesting one in the light of "integrity debates" we always have on this board: "One associate says: "Bono is a very personable and sincere man; but never forget he is a breadhead. He is...

Personally I think that nothing beats synchronised swimming.

What do the white and red stripes signify? I used to know this but I forgot...

I'll confess: I wasn't impressed with this song at all when the radio first started to play it like crazy. I still didn't think much of it when it won a bunch of Grammys last year, and I certainly didn't love it after U2 served it up on their nearly every TV appearance. But after hearing it...

[This is from the February, 2002, issue of Q magazine.] They call it "The Bono Talk." From Kurt Cobain to Stereophonics to the Strokes, successive generations of rock greenhorns have all been offered the benefit of the U2 singer's elder statesman-like advice. Pull up a pew then, for The Ten...

My picks (album versions only): Openers: 1. Streets 2. I Will Follow 3. Beautiful Day 4. Gloria 5. Discotheque 6. Helter Skelter 7. Zooropa 8. A Sort of Homecoming 9. Sunday Bloody Sunday 10. Zoo Station Closers: 1. Wake Up Dead Man 2. All I Want Is You 3. Grace 4. Mothers of the Disappeared...