womanfish
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
Lord knows what they were trying to do with Stand Up Comedy.
Perhaps it should have been given a more glossy production, faster riff? But thinking about this, speed that riff up with a more palatable and less plodding rhythm and you've basically got The Fly haven't you Maybe I don't hate it as much because I was only 18 when it was released and in my final year of school, so maybe nostalgia is painting a different picture to the rest of you. But it is undeniably a mess of a song. Not as hateful as the Ryan Tedder teeny bop crap, but dad rawk at its finest.
I've just recently listened to No Line On The Horizon again, and it's still the album post-All That You Can't Leave Behind which has the most potential yet arguably their most disappointing. There's a really interesting album in there crying to get out before they smothered it with bland 'rawk' production. I have this feeling there's an excellent album somewhere in the vaults, a tracklist made up of the pieces that were intended for Songs of Ascent and the original versions of much of the No Line before they were massacred for a dad rock sound (much to the exasperation of Eno & Lanois). Something more mysterious and ambient. While it might not count as a stone cold classic as it would lack the iconic tunes, it could still hold up as a late career masterpiece.
I'd love them to do an Anthology of sorts, at the very least release Songs of Ascent in its original form.
Maybe one day we will get the ideal No Line On The Horizon.
Please sir. I have read some disturbing things, but placing The Fly and SUC in any sort of comparison scenario is a bridge too far.
I kid... But not really.
Went back and listened through SUC(k) again. And still horrible. Possibly about 2 short spots near the end in isolation are good. But I think the overall bad lyrics and having a 45 year old white guy talk/rapping them pretty much puts the nail in the coffin from the get go.
A waste of a good Edge riff.