cnelson
The Fly
I've been reading more of Stokes interpretation of U2 songs. Some are right on, while others he just stretches way too far. I think Bono sometimes doesn't know what his songs are about. I think sometimes it's like a road for him. You follow it and then in the end you find out where it leads you too. Like Electrical Storm. It started out as something different and in the end Bono came to the conclusion that it was about two lovers trying to clear the air. Nial Stokes I noticed gets alot into how the song was produced and how it musically came to be, but he never finished with what the song is about. Like "Wild Honey." I wanted to know what that song was about last night and so I went reading it in Stokes book and he spent the whole time writing about the producing of it. I'd say the book isn't bad to look at and read some of the songs, but on the whole it doesn't hold water.