Shuttlecock XI: Yes Virginia, You Did Save Bono's Life

[liamcool]

Ito Okashi reminds me very strongly of J. Swallo.

edit: typo

 

[cobl04]

Who's the vocalist on this track? How did she get involved?

 

[LemonMelon]

This skittering beat is fucking nasty. Larry has maybe never heard this song.

 

[cobl04]

I really like the shimmering, restrained music in the background and the creepy chimes.

 

[liamcool]

Oh, that's a great dynamic shift. From the near silence of Ito Okashi to the ass kicking tribal beats of One Minute Warning.

Who's the vocalist on this track? How did she get involved?

Maybe all of the time they spent in Tokyo after ZOO TV? Maybe?

 

[djerdap]

I've been reading a lot about Sarajevo recently, and it's just emotionally crushing. To write such a beautiful song about something so bleak is a real work of art.

It's a close song to me for many reasons, so it always makes me think and reminisce. It is pretty cool that the city got such a beautiful song.

Ito Okashi has some nice atmospherics, but it's pretty boring.

It's a beautiful moment when One Minute Warning "opens up". I can hear Edge and Eno, but I'm not sure where's Bono in those vocals.

 

[LemonMelon]

Always Forever Now will have Bono ranting at his younger self.

Bono will desperately attempt to fill in the empty spaces with as much soul as he can muster.

THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING

 

[liamcool]

I wonder who the vocoded voice on the first half of this track is. It's so processed I can't tell, which is odd, because all of the voices so far on this album are pretty distinctive.

 

[cobl04]

I'd like to join LM, I have for a very long time been a strong advocate of both One Minute Warning and Theme from Let's Go Native

 

[liamcool]

2:20 in One Minute Warning. Screaming guitar parts. God damn this is how you do it.

(Edge is really relying on the whammy and delay combination, though.)

 

[cobl04]

The amount of sonics going on in 1 Min Warning is pretty mind-blowing. So much happening

 

[kabigon]

Always Forever Now will have Bono ranting at his younger self.

The fourth dimension's not a country, it's an idea

 

[djerdap]

Always Forever Now THE FUTURE! AN IDEA! AFRICA!

 

[liamcool]

A lonesome soul
In an old black coat
A lonesome road
What a way to go

Chasing down
The strings to hold
In an old black coat
A lonesome soul

Haunting stuff.

 

[LemonMelon]

The pitch-shifted and chopped-up dialogue on OMW is utterly terrifying.

I also love how the song goes completely off the rails and then abruptly hops right back on before the vocals begin in earnest.

 

[liamcool]

I totally hear a bit of Velvet Dress in the last guitar lines in One Minute Warning.

Man, I remember always liking that song a bunch, but it's way better than I remember.

 

[Axver]

Nine songs in and this album is absolute mastery of sequencing and atmospherics. One Minute Warning has to be one of the darkest songs in U2's catalogue.

 

[martha]

I'm just waking up and there's this great discussion of Passengers. Could it be that it's so good because Lanois wasn't there?


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[liamcool]

I like Corpse a LOT. It's very restrained, which acts in contrast to the rest of the album. The marching and synths are really frightening - reminds me of old Soviet films.

 

[LemonMelon]

Time for an Edge vocal. A really dreary Edge vocal that still somehow works.

A few of things I like about this song:

-The slowly marching, pitch-shifted beat
-When the vocals get HIGH at the chaaaaains part of the track; that is a haunting harmony
-That bluesy guitar line at the end of the song

 

[cobl04]

The ending to One Minute Warning is amazing. There's some really good guitar playing around Eno's vocals, too.

A lonesome soul
In an old black coat
A lonesome road
What a way to go

Chasing down
The strings to hold
In an old black coat
A lonesome soul

Haunting stuff.

I'd never looked these up.

 

[liamcool]

I'm just waking up and there's this great discussion of Passengers. Could it be that it's so good because Lanois wasn't there?


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Pink Floyd wrote their best album because Syd Barrett wasn't there. So, I guess U2 wrote their best album because Daniel Lanois wasn't there.

Passengers is a Daniel Lanois album.

 

[djerdap]

I like Corpse. It's my least favourite of the songs I like on the record, but it's perfectly serviceable. Again, mood and atmosphere adds so much to a song.

 

[kabigon]

Corpse has this coarse sandpaper-like sound, never been able to get into it

 

[Axver]

I like Corpse a LOT. It's very restrained, which acts in contrast to the rest of the album. The marching and synths are really frightening - reminds me of old Soviet films.

Yep I'm with you here, and it's great for Edge to get a run on lead.

I know some of you don't like Van Diemen's Land but I always like it when Edge gets proper time at the mic. Doesn't happen enough.

 

[LemonMelon]

Corpse has this coarse sandpaper-like sound, never been able to get into it

The beat sounds like someone scraping sandpaper against a gravel driveway.

 

[cobl04]

I like the idea of Corpse more than the Execution. Think it would be a great interlude but at three-and-a-half minutes it's too long.

I wonder if Edge remembers it? Would love to know. Someone should ask him next time they tell him to play Acrobat.

I'm just waking up and there's this great discussion of Passengers. Could it be that it's so good because Lanois wasn't there?


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You don't like Lanois?

 

[LemonMelon]

ELVlS

 

[liamcool]

Also, when it moves from tremolo chords to single notes, it's a real effective shift. Like a gunslinger pulling out his revolver and slowly walking down the road.

 

[liamcool]