holyyjoe
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I really like Unkown Caller.
I think that makes us the only two
I really like Unkown Caller.
I think that makes us the only two
Whatever happened to that guy?
‘I swam across/I jumped across for you/Oh what a thing to do/‘Cause you were all yellow’, “Yellow”, Parachutes.
‘Maybe I’m in the black, maybe I’m on my knees/Maybe I’m in the gap between the two trapezes’, “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall”, Mylo Xyloto.
‘Like Moses had power over sea/So you’ve got power over me’, “Moses”, Live 2003
‘You cut me down a tree/And brought it back to me/And that’s what made me see/Where I was going wrong’, “Swallowed in the Sea”, X&Y.
The initial OMGz new UTewZ!!! .
I honestly think that this album is so good which is why it's my favorite, but I don't get why there is why so much hate for I'll go crazy and get on your boots.
Oh this topic again.
Yes, MOS could have been something to lead off with.
I took a stab at a radio friendly edit back then for fun:
Even at almost 5 min it's way too long for radio, but there's so much goodness it that song it was hard to figure out what to yank. The ATM machine lyrics were a pretty obvious choice tho lol
Listening back to it now some of the chops are a little clunky, but I literally did it in under 10 min on a shitty computer as I recall. Maybe I should do it again armed with the tricks I've learned since then
They could have done something like this. Precedent: New Year's Day
there is a lot to like about Unknown Caller but yeah, the lyrics are pretty clunky.
The initial OMGz new UTewZ!!! reaction to new material wore off quicker than any other album with No Line, and I recall it as the first U2 album I had to convince myself that I liked it.
There are some gems there, but overall it was an album that missed it's point, and the first sign that they were losing some of their sack when it came to taking bold risks with their direction.
Yes, many would say that atyclb and htdaab were those signs, but those albums were what they set out to be. No Line set out to be one thing and ended up being something entirely different out of fear that it wouldn't be accepted. That was new from this band.
But for me there's something missing on SOI that prevents the songs from jumping from the merely good to great. I don't know if it's over produced, or over thought, but it just feels to me like it's the product of a long and lengthy compromise period by a group of musicians with unlimited resources. It's technically fine, and better than pretty much what any other rock band of U2's age would be capable of producing, but it lacks spark and (ironically given the subject matter) feels uninspired. At least to me.
The band talked about the last album lacking "masculinity" because of the overproduction and those are two good examples.
SOI is obviously worse and the next step in what's been diminishing returns for over a decade now, but it also didn't really trick anybody into loving it as the bigger music fans felt unchallenged and bored by it, hence the worst reviews of their career.
I love how they spend way too long overthinking these albums, and then turn on them so quickly.
I'd have more respect for the former if we didn't keep seeing the latter.
Almost every band does the same thing though, whether we know it or not.
But almost every band out there probably does the same thing... be excited about the new music they just created, then look at it with a more critical eye as time goes along.
We'd be kidding ourselves if every band wasn't doing the same thing to some extent..
Hmmmmm. Really? Like who? I hear a lot "we don't like to look back" from most bands. But distancing themselves from their most recent work? I don't know who else of U2's profile does that on a regular basis.
Hmmmmm. Really? Like who? I hear a lot "we don't like to look back" from most bands. But distancing themselves from their most recent work? I don't know who else of U2's profile does that on a regular basis.
In any event, whether this is true or not, in U2's case it's all the worse because every record is is overhyped and the "best record we've ever made"...which makes the inevitable fall from grace all the more stark.
Ehh, I'm not sure that's the band's only criteria for success is how it's received live or if it turns into a hit. They knew very well Fez--Being Born, Cedars of Lebanon, Sleep Like A Baby would be neither. None of them have catchy choruses or were ever going to be singles or make it to a live set. So it's clear they are still interested in doing something purely for reasons of artistic expression if it feels right.
Ehh, I'm not sure that's the band's only criteria for success is how it's received live or if it turns into a hit. They knew very well Fez--Being Born, Cedars of Lebanon, Sleep Like A Baby would be neither. None of them have catchy choruses or were ever going to be singles or make it to a live set. So it's clear they are still interested in doing something purely for reasons of artistic expression if it feels right.