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Read above.
Consider if left
Read above.
Hollow said nothing about trying to get cred from certain corners. I think you're even confusing yourself as to what your point was.
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Certain corners = traditional players. Troll
It's pointless to post here and expect anything interesting to come out of it.
It's pointless to post here and expect anything interesting to come out of it.
I can't commit the time to continually post on here like some, so I'm off for a while. Let's hope the tour corrects my negative impression. Have a good one.
Certain corners = traditional players. Troll
jeesus this place is worse than a school playground sometimes... i understood his "certain corners" comment, without all the unnecessary ensuing hoo haa
So you understood that "traditional" players will never give Edge respect? I guess your deciphering ring is better than mine because I still don't know who he's talking about.
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My hope for Songs of Experience, it it's not too late, would be for the guitar player named Edge to actually live up to his name. This is something that hasn't really been done in several albums, perhaps since PoP.
Yeah there are some good Edge moments here and there throughout the years, but it's been a while since the Edge lit the world on fire in the studio. Experience should be Edge's album.
I'd take Edge's guitar work on HTDAAB over his work on POP and Zooropa any day. I like the guitar on songs of innocence as well, especially The Crystal Ballroom.
The problem is, i think, the band keeps talking about wanting to be relevant and also be on the radio. But they seem to have their sights set on "pop" radio and not rock radio. So they are pushing songs like EBW and Song 4 Someone. Pop radio seems to be a younger crowd - to which u2 already has an uphill battle due to their age.
While i love EBW...it hasn't done anything on the radio as far as i know. Had they come out with singles such as TIWYCRMN, SLABT, or The Troubles, they might have gotten some radio play with the mainstream rock or alternative stations. Which is better than the reception they are getting from their target listening audience.
I realize im just another asscrack with an opinion here, but it seems to me they should just put out a bad ass album of fucking rock songs and blow people away and stop trying to rub sugar and honey on everything. To me at least, that is what the term 'Experience' conjures up.
Of course most of us will eat up whatever they put out like it's the best thing ever - until it's not - and then walk around in circles afterwards. And the dead horse i just kicked will live to die another day i suppose.
The problem is, i think, the band keeps talking about wanting to be relevant and also be on the radio. But they seem to have their sights set on "pop" radio and not rock radio. So they are pushing songs like EBW and Song 4 Someone. Pop radio seems to be a younger crowd - to which u2 already has an uphill battle due to their age.
While i love EBW...it hasn't done anything on the radio as far as i know. Had they come out with singles such as TIWYCRMN, SLABT, or The Troubles, they might have gotten some radio play with the mainstream rock or alternative stations. Which is better than the reception they are getting from their target listening audience.
I realize im just another asscrack with an opinion here, but it seems to me they should just put out a bad ass album of fucking rock songs and blow people away and stop trying to rub sugar and honey on everything. To me at least, that is what the term 'Experience' conjures up.
Of course most of us will eat up whatever they put out like it's the best thing ever - until it's not - and then walk around in circles afterwards. And the dead horse i just kicked will live to die another day i suppose.
, but it seems to me they should just put out a bad ass album of fucking rock songs and blow people away and stop trying to rub sugar and honey on everything. To me at least, that is what the term 'Experience' conjures up.
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When was the last time U2 was a "bad ass" band that wrote "fucking rock songs" as a general rule? Has that ever described them?
I'd rather U2 embrace being old and bring some texture back to their music, rather than writing an album full of Vertigos, Elevations, The Miracle (of Joey Ramones) and Stand Up Comedies. Sounds like a living hell.
I'd take the fuzzy outro solo of Some Days Are Better Than Others over anything he's done in the new millennium.
I'd take Edge's guitar work on HTDAAB over his work on POP and Zooropa any day. I like the guitar on songs of innocence as well, especially The Crystal Ballroom.
For the first time in my life, i guess, i do understand fully what Bono said when he meant when he said that "rage follows grief"