LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
U2girl said:Mercy deserves more than a B-side status. Luckily, it seems it will get that.
U2girl said:Mercy deserves more than a B-side status. Luckily, it seems it will get that.
Earnie Shavers said:But, given a savage run through the U2 overhaul machine
luna_lovegood said:the diffinitve U2 experience.
the tourist said:
Thank goodness. I didn't wanna see the copy'n'paste list of the great vocals of Bono in the past 3 years again....
the tourist said:
This happens to be Where The Streets Have No Name live.
the tourist said:Not if U2 is planning on doing something new. Mercy is a HTDAAB leftover. It deserves about as much as She's Gonna Blow Your House Down from the salome tapes.
AussieU2fanman said:This song has everything
-Beautiful lyrics (albeit not flowing 100%)
-Powerful/emotional vocal performance
-Some of larry's best drumming (I hope they don't change it)
-And finally some of Edge's most catchiest riffs yet. This song definately has the best Edge hooks i've heard in a long time (especially at the end)
I just hope U2 don't fuck it up, if they release it as a single they'll have to totally ruin it to make it more easily digestable, a song of Mercy's calibre has no place on the charts next to .....ummm Backstreet Boys or whatever (they still around? shit I'm out of touch)
U2girl said:It may be a leftover from Bomb but it fits there about as much as Fast cars did. (not at all, that is)
the tourist said:
Except that it did sound like Bomb. Maybe it's been too long since I heard Mercy (since I lost it when my computer crashed and didn't bother getting it back), but to me it sounded like it belonged on Bomb to me. In fact, it reminds me quite a bit of City of Blinding Lights in a way (the mixing is absolutely awful).
Needle_Chill said:
I think if they let that come out and just take it to another level with a great mix and some good decisions about song structure it could be the kind of hit that Beautiful Day was. A soaring U2 rock anthem with emotion - instead of U2 trying to do a soaring U2 rock anthem with emotion, ala COBL.
Needle_Chill said:I hope they don't turn it into a HTDAAB clone track like Miracle or OOTS. When I listen to Mercy I get a similar feeling to when I listen to Pride or Streets... it has a vulnerability and an emotion to it that all of HTDAAB was sorely lacking.
I think if they let that come out and just take it to another level with a great mix and some good decisions about song structure it could be the kind of hit that Beautiful Day was. A soaring U2 rock anthem with emotion - instead of U2 trying to do a soaring U2 rock anthem with emotion, ala COBL.
As far as fitting this song into an album of experimentation, like this album is supposed to be, I think this song contains something intangible that any U2 song from any direction or era contains. I think a good U2 song will always fit. Look at Stay on Zooropa. What if they said... "well it doesn't sound like Lemon or Zooropa, so let's scrap it from the tracklist..."? U2 on any album is U2... and you can always pick out a U2 song, regardless of new directions...
zoopop said:The mix we have is defintely a work in progress.
Needle_Chill said:I hope they don't turn it into a HTDAAB clone track like Miracle or OOTS. When I listen to Mercy I get a similar feeling to when I listen to Pride or Streets... it has a vulnerability and an emotion to it that all of HTDAAB was sorely lacking.
I think if they let that come out and just take it to another level with a great mix and some good decisions about song structure it could be the kind of hit that Beautiful Day was. A soaring U2 rock anthem with emotion - instead of U2 trying to do a soaring U2 rock anthem with emotion, ala COBL.
zoopop said:Mercy once finished will sound great. The mix we have is defintely a work in progress.
ponkine said:I really don't want ANYTHING from HTDAAB on the "new" U2 album. Otherwise, it will be yet another ATYCLB