Shuttlecock! Part III - Just the Cock and the Shuttle

[phanan]

PHEBA

Nice.

 

[lazarus]

Actually, I fucked that up.

It should be PHABH, because of The Hedge and Harry Muffin.

 

[RedRocksU2]

I like the fact that you did not correct it.

 

[martha]

martha will have the answer.

:accurate:

Not to get all PHEBA in here, but has Boner ever exposed that much skin since the Cock-TV days?

I don't think so. There were chest glimpses in the last two album go-rounds, but I think that may be the most we've seen in the last decade.


Not that I would ever keep track of anything like that.

 

[corianderstem]

Dang, I wish I could see this at work. Oh well.

BareBoner will have to wait until I get home.

 

[LemonMelon]

Band performance with a lot of shit going on in the background. Definitely nothing special.

I did like the glass shattering effect.

 

[martha]

The glass bit was way cool.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

It reminds me of a James Bond movie credit sequence.

Hotness.

 

[Lancemc]

This new single and video might mark the first time I truly feel embarrassed to be a U2 fan.

I mean, shit. This band could not possibly appear any less hip or relevant as they do right now. Which wouldn't be a problem if they were so obviously trying their hardest to do so. At least in the 80s they were uncool in an earnest passionate way, and it didn't matter because they were making brilliant music. Then in the 90s they were terribly uncool in their oh-so-post-modern ironic way... again still making brilliant music. With this and the last album they just come off as lame old dudes making the same comfortable rock music they know so well.

 

[phillyfan26]

Music videos don't do much for me, but I enjoyed that. I liked how into it Adam seemed, and the glass thing was cool.

 

[phillyfan26]

This new single and video might mark the first time I truly feel embarrassed to be a U2 fan.

I mean, shit. This band could not possibly appear any less hip or relevant as they do right now. Which wouldn't be a problem if they were so obviously trying their hardest to do so. At least in the 80s they were uncool in an earnest passionate way, and it didn't matter because they were making brilliant music. Then in the 90s they were terribly uncool in their oh-so-post-modern ironic way... again still making brilliant music. With this and the last album they just come off as lame old dudes making the same comfortable rock music they know so well.

This is way better than everything to do with Vertigo.

 

[Lancemc]

This is way better than everything to do with Vertigo.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

 

[joyfulgirl]

This is way better than everything to do with Vertigo.

I agree.

 

[phanan]

Music videos don't do much for me, but I enjoyed that. I liked how into it Adam seemed, and the glass thing was cool.

I thought Adam was pretty cool, too.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

In terms of visuals, I would say this is their best video since the Pop era...

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

Vodka and Valium.

 

[phillyfan26]

Adam doesn't try too hard, I think that's why he comes off cool. He's just enjoying himself, chilling.

Bono's Bono, I wasn't shocked by anything in that video.

 

[Diemen]

Just watched it. Nice work. I'm not generally a huge fan of performance videos, but the background visuals made it interesting enough. Loved the glass thing, too.

 

[martha]

Vertigo the video creeped me out a little. All that black stuff coming off of them looked like some horror movie effect when people's souls are being sucked from their bodies. And the apocalyptic earth movements were creepyesque as well.



But I still bought it from iTunes and it's on my big ipod.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

I just didn't like it because it seemed kind of slow paced compared with the song...

 

[martha]

Well, yeah. I can see that.

 

[martha]

Check out Sicy's thread in WTAAHANANA.

It's a sticky with official news 'n' shit and no one's allowed to post in it. She's got some news articles where people have heard the record and descibe the songs. I'm 'cited!

 

[lazarus]

I just didn't like it because it seemed kind of slow paced compared with the song...

Maybe Hamish "Hot Hand" Hamilton should have directed it.

 

[u2popmofo]

I watched a bit of it on Youtube, but since Universal asked them to disable the audio, it seemed pointless. Regardless, the visuals looked more entertaining than anything they've done in quite a while music video wise.

 

[phillyfan26]

Maybe Hamish "Hot Hand" Hamilton should have directed it.

God, he is awful. I just watched a clip from ZooTV the other day, and it was filmed so much better than anything on the last two tours. I was shocked that I didn't remember how much of a difference there was.

I never saw Shuttlecock3D, but there's a clip of The Flycock on the 'Tube, and they pretty much shut Hedge out completely, even during his solo, so I automatically hate it.

 

[U2DMfan]

Apparently there is a sample from Cock on Your Boobs in Fez-Being Born.

 

[Lila64]

Check out Sicy's thread in WTAAHANANA.

It's a sticky with official news 'n' shit and no one's allowed to post in it. She's got some news articles where people have heard the record and descibe the songs. I'm 'cited!

Cock-teased?

 

[martha]

Cock-teased?

 

[martha]

I never saw Shuttlecock3D, but there's a clip of The Flycock on the 'Tube, and they pretty much shut Hedge out completely, even during his solo, so I automatically hate it.

I liked 3D, and I thought someone else directed it, not that Hamilton guy.

 

[U2DMfan]

3 big reviews on this page

http://www.u2interference.com/forum...rack-preview-all-other-reviews-192834-35.html

ETA- translation is on the next page.