Some personal thoughts on No Line On The Horizon, 6 months after release
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ozeeko
Refugee
Hahaha! He totally got you! Zing! Don't you get it????????
He was hooked up to a lie detecting machine.
ozeeko
Refugee
And he also swore on God, Ali, the band, all the dying aids vicitms in Africa
Niceman
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ozeeko
Refugee
Oh, he's not lying! You don't get it do you????????
Yea, he's not lying about the wish to rerecord it.
Niceman
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No, he's not lying - he's fucking with you!!!!!!
(Otherwise he would have re-recorded his vocal for the single release....)
ozeeko
Refugee
No, he's not lying - he's fucking with you!!!!!!
(Otherwise he would have re-recorded his vocal for the single release....)
He wanted to re-record it but decided against it because he doesn't want his fans to think he's ashamed of his performance, just yet. Said he'd rather wait until the next greatest hits cd where the band will record the "new and improved" versions like they did with the POP tracks.
Niceman
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
Oooooh please please don't bring up that painful memory! If I've ever been ashamed of U2 it was then......
They took out the Boom-chas and couldn't resist mutilating even Mysterious Ways..... :O
ozeeko
Refugee
Oooooh please please don't bring up that painful memory! If I've ever been ashamed of U2 it was then......
They took out the Boom-chas and couldn't resist mutilating even Mysterious Ways..... :O
You mean the part on Mysterious Ways where he goes "and she goes whoa and uh when she goes uh wiiiild" instead of "she sees the man inside the child"?
Niceman
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
"And no question she knows why..."
I hear next he'll be changing the line in One from "We hurt each other" to we "we spend a lovely day shopping but spend too much.."
gvox
Ghost of Love
JEANNY WAS FUCKING EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish there was one song on the last two outings of U2 with such a fantastic chorus.
mikal
Blue Crack Addict
this thread sucks.
gvox
Ghost of Love
Nice try. Ever compare the beats? I don't think there's another U2 song with the same beat at that similar of a tempo.
Also, what's with the delayed response time on my part? That was 12 pages ago!
elevated_u2_fan
Blue Crack Supplier
I'm forced to agree, good job Zoots...
standrums
War Child
It's interesting to read in that Rolling Stone article that 3 out of the 4 band members now think Boots was the wrong choice of first single...anyone got the full article?
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elevated_u2_fan
Blue Crack Supplier
Bono's quote makes it sound like Edge was the only one who liked it as a first single - that is interesting and goes against the usual "Bono camp vs Larry camp" argument when it comes to decisions...
gvox
Ghost of Love
Clearly, Edge is on his way out.
Tyagu_Anaykus
New Yorker
I love reading the comments
elevated_u2_fan
Blue Crack Supplier
I love reading the comments
there are some good ones, my favourite is the dude who went for a bathroom break during "My Blue Room"
gvox
Ghost of Love
He would never do that during 11 Oclock Tick Tock or Electric Co.
elevated_u2_fan
Blue Crack Supplier
who cares if he can't even get the song title right?
gvox
Ghost of Love
There ya go.
It's more like 99% of U2's output in the 00's is wrong in the eye of interference public.
mikal
Blue Crack Addict
Fact: if you like something U2 does, you will think that 99% of Interference is against you.
Fact: if you don't like something U2 does, you will think that 99% of Interference is against you.
Fact: if you don't like something U2 does, you will think that 99% of Interference is against you.
elevated_u2_fan
Blue Crack Supplier
either that or you are paranoid
gvox
Ghost of Love
I bet the poster above you likes a lil 420 with their 360.
Earnie Shavers
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
I definitely don’t think they should have released MoS as the first single. Maybe Magnificent, but to be honest, I don’t think there’s any potentially earthshaking single on there, and I think U2 are probably beyond having them, to be honest.
What I do think they should have done is let MoS ‘leak’ out there as the first song to be heard from the new album, before Boots, but with no hype at all. It wouldn’t be something that’s going to get picked up by radio as BIG NEW U2 SINGLE! but something that’s going to get passed around and talked about all over music forums and blogs the world over. That would have gotten them a far, far better initial reaction from a more… shall we say… discerning music buyer.
I don’t mean that a cool/hipster/whatever crowd is important, I just mean the first wider buzz would have been very different. I think if MoS were the first thing to be heard, it would have given pause to the haters, whereas Boots was a quick one to shoot down as more of the same Bomb-esque stuff. Reading around the internets when it came out, it was immediately clear it was a tanker, and that does set up the album for a fall. MoS would have been undeniable as at least, if not considered great by absolutely everyone, a sign that deeper, more interesting things were coming from Camp U2.
What I do think they should have done is let MoS ‘leak’ out there as the first song to be heard from the new album, before Boots, but with no hype at all. It wouldn’t be something that’s going to get picked up by radio as BIG NEW U2 SINGLE! but something that’s going to get passed around and talked about all over music forums and blogs the world over. That would have gotten them a far, far better initial reaction from a more… shall we say… discerning music buyer.
I don’t mean that a cool/hipster/whatever crowd is important, I just mean the first wider buzz would have been very different. I think if MoS were the first thing to be heard, it would have given pause to the haters, whereas Boots was a quick one to shoot down as more of the same Bomb-esque stuff. Reading around the internets when it came out, it was immediately clear it was a tanker, and that does set up the album for a fall. MoS would have been undeniable as at least, if not considered great by absolutely everyone, a sign that deeper, more interesting things were coming from Camp U2.
Zoocoustic
War Child
Isn't that the problem with NLOTH? There is NO good first single. Hey, I love this album front to back, but unfortunately today you need a big, radio-friendly lead single to make your album sell and be seen by 90% of the mindless masses as a "good album". NLOTH doesn't have any good radio single on it. Maybe the closest is Crazy Tonight, but even that one I don't think would have been a good lead single. A band this age needs something with a punch a la Vertigo, Beautiful Day.
I think HTDAAB was U2's worst album by far, but look what a radio-friendly lead single did for that album. Most casual radio listeners don't know anything else off that record. But they know Vertigo, and that was enough to make the album sell and be seen by the masses as a good one.
It sucks, but that seems to be the way it works.
I think HTDAAB was U2's worst album by far, but look what a radio-friendly lead single did for that album. Most casual radio listeners don't know anything else off that record. But they know Vertigo, and that was enough to make the album sell and be seen by the masses as a good one.
It sucks, but that seems to be the way it works.
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