that's exactly what I did. "Wow, this is Mercy. Whoopty-shit. Imma go listen to Discotheque nao, k?"I was never all that taken with Mercy. It sounded quite good live though.
Then again, I didn't really give it a chance. I listened to it once and was all like "why is everyone fapping over this?"
I'm gonna vomit...
By the way, Triple J's resident nerd hung all sorts of shit on U2 this morning, and the Spiderman musical. Something about how U2 is music for people who don't like music... *L*
Apparently one of the songs has been previewed, and the nerd guy thought it was pretty bad, and mentioned lyrics involving freeing your heart and flying too close to the sun and getting burned.
Cool story, bro...?
I'm just as excited, if not moreso, that they did MOTD again.
MOTHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED, people. Mercy's exciting and all, but it's not one of the best album closers U2 ever recorded.
MOTD!
What's Every Breaking Wave like?
Yeah, I always said Mercy needed a bit of judicious editing, but cutting the "ripping the stitches" pre-chorus is not what I had in mind! Will be interested to see if it changes much over subsequent live performances, like how Glasto's gone through a few changes.
Got to listen to the full band North Star. Last time I checked, Matt hadn't uploaded it but I know it's there now. Been busy working this afternoon, mentally wrestling with infuriating 1840s New Zealand newspaper editors and their self-contradictory opinions.
sucks to hear the best bits of Mercy are gone.
Yeah, I always said Mercy needed a bit of judicious editing, but cutting the "ripping the stitches" pre-chorus is not what I had in mind! Will be interested to see if it changes much over subsequent live performances, like how Glasto's gone through a few changes.
Got to listen to the full band North Star. Last time I checked, Matt hadn't uploaded it but I know it's there now. Been busy working this afternoon, mentally wrestling with infuriating 1840s New Zealand newspaper editors and their self-contradictory opinions.
On the other hand, the guitar solo seems stronger than the earlier one which sounded, weak.
I thought you were avoiding the setlists?
I'll agree with this!
And huh, Matt said full band North Star was going on YouTube ... I think his uploads might have died while he was asleep and not everything from Zurich II is up yet. It was all going fine when I checked around 11am, but nothing's gone up since UTEOTW and things were meant to.
i am. but on this occasion it was impossible to avoid.
I'll agree with this!
And huh, Matt said full band North Star was going on YouTube ... I think his uploads might have died while he was asleep and not everything from Zurich II is up yet. It was all going fine when I checked around 11am, but nothing's gone up since UTEOTW and things were meant to.
Ah, turns out the North Star full band rehearsal upload to YouTube did fail in the night ... Matt says he's going to upload it later.
Given the spoilers you know already from Europe, is there really much point avoiding any more? I mean, if they're going to make any earth-shattering changes at this stage, it'll be at the Auckland gigs before the Melbourne shows, and those should be fairly easy to avoid, rather than going spoiler-free for the better part of three months.