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If anyone has any extra tickets to the Boston shows let me know. Ideally 3 to either show, but a pair to each/one or the other would work too. Thanks! Also hello old forum friends :wave:

All of this. I'm still tinkering with my track listing, but I also left Every Breaking Wave off. It just doesn't seem to fit in with the themes. But then again, the simpler melancholy version has long had a home on my alternate NLOTH so it would be redundant here anyway.

I'm not giving #'s, you can't quantify things like this, I'll just go with what means the most to me and what I think about the music on a gut level. NLOTH, it's a frustrating experience but cut the middle and drop in the old EBW and Soon to lead things off and it's my third favorite U2 album...

Yeah I've never gotten that either. NLOTH certainly would have sold better with a better lead single, that would also have likely gotten them more play for subsequent singles. But it was released when sales had already fallen off a cliff, barely anything went platinum then, and even fewer albums...

Both JT & AB are Diamond certified, do they do individual platinum certifications beyond that?

I'll probably be banned for this, but here goes, that's the best part of the song. The rest belongs on a b-side.

I'm with you on this as well. Even if The Bomb doesn't have songs as good as Kite or When I Look at the World.

It's still a crime they didn't play that track when Bono was wearing a literal suit of lights. Can't think of a bigger hint than that.

So now that some cool people have come out to defend Pop (sorry blue crackers, we're not cool enough) will the band stop pretending it doesn't exist for this upcoming tour? Besides, they've already decided the new album that doesn't exist is NLOTH (:sad:). It would be so nice to hear Please...

Raised by Wolves is fantastic, outside the fairly weak lyrics to the chorus.

U2 still skews to crowds that buy physical releases and like albums, Jesse J is a singles artist and people already have the singles you mentioned/are more into streaming than purchasing. I think they'll be #1, though sadly Florida Georgia Line could give them a run for their money.

Yeah, 120-150 would be a win in light of the climate and the free release.

Though since making that comment I've come around to it a bit. It's at the bottom of the pile of songs Bono's written on the topic, but there's still some genuinely affecting lines buried beneath the sheen of the pop production. With a better vocal melody and no Tedder it could work a lot...

:lol: Walsh is a 2nd generation Irish immigrant, he should try to embarrass himself a little less when it comes to Ireland. Also, never in a million years would U2 play Fenway, nor should they.

Bono's admitted that the lure of the rock star for him was actually about insecurity and constantly angling U2 for the largest stage possible seems to confirm that. Sure he has an ego, but it's one that he doesn't appear to believe in himself, like if U2 were to fade away instead of going out on...

I didn't know they were doing it, I'll have to check it out. The only thing that disappointed me about their show this year was that they didn't do the title track to their new album.

This. Between what we got, and what we heard behind the scenes, I think the material for it to have been their 3rd masterwork behind AB and JT is in their vaults.

I'm with you there on Boy, and it seems a lot of the board is actually, it was ranking around there with a lot of people. Rattle and Hum gets slighted probably for taking the same track as The Joshua Tree but with much of the subtlety and originality traded in for masquerading and posturing...

They turned a gorgeous piece of melancholy into soaring pop rock and contorted the meaning of the title words by using them again in the new chorus on top of in the verses. In spite of the production sheen and overdone chorus it's still such a strong melody and set of verses that it almost works...

Yeah that's my vote. You can picture all of those things happening from a single incident.

This.

As ridiculous as it is, the intro is actually my favorite thing about that song.

No believe me I'm with you there, it's on my version of the Bomb too, "let it die" just meant stop invoking its ghost every time there's a new release. As you say, it doesn't belong on the subsequent albums. Maybe a reworked one could have worked if there ever was a Songs of Ascent, but...

Also, Happy Birthday GAF!! :hi5:

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