Moser
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Yikes! I hope a lot of people don't feel the same way.
The Crystal Ballroom Admiration Thread
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Yikes! I hope a lot of people don't feel the same way.
If you could please do just that? That would be great.
thavidesco
Refugee
cool story bro
Aygo
Rock n' Roll Doggie
Which is an extra reason for the band to stop trying to force hit-formulated-revival-of-eureka-moments songs.
Maybe if they start releasing unconventional songs (for their standards) as singles - which is, if they run away from a wasted formula... Maybe they'll start having hits or moderate hits.
BVS
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Numb is their only unconventional song that was a "hit", maybe Lemon. They had clout left over from AB, that's not really going to happen now.
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Aygo
Rock n' Roll Doggie
I'm talking about today's U2. You probably, most likely, disagree with me (as with every little thing I post), but to me there's a U2-'til-1997 and a U2-post-pop. You're reffering the first one, I'm talking about the former.
Boots was unconventional. It was a disaster.
What is your point?
What is your point?
Aygo
Rock n' Roll Doggie
I'm one of the few "Boots" defender here, but "Boots"... unconventional?
It's instrumentally far more interesting than its "Vertigo" older sister for instance (a better riff/bassline, the drum track in the verses, some aspects in the structure here and there...), but sonically it's not such a huge departure from the fast-pop-rockers of the past 15 years.
My point is: was "Magnificent" a hit? What about "All Because Of You"? "Crazy Tonight"? Now "The Miracle"?
My point is that maybe there's a fatigue in songs that are a pastiche of the their own soundscapes, that emulate their own traps, and maybe - even though U2 thinks that they need to hold their core audience - the radios and the general public is tired of emulation of the eureka formula.
There's some sentence in the Zoo Tv advertisement that was something like (can't remember the exact words, or maybe it's from Zooropa and not Zoo Tv) saying that you can't sell the same product to the same public over and over again.
BVS
Blue Crack Supplier
Um, no... on every front. I don't disagree with you on everything, I don't disagree with you just for the sake of. Stop playing victim.
The truth is your comment has very little backing. U2 has been "unconventional" at times, but very little when it comes to singles.
Salome
you are what you is
I do listen to the radio sometimes.
I can't say I hear any evidence of something not becoming a hit because of sounding like a pastiche of something else.
Quite the opposite really.
That's why I feel the acoustic EBW probably would do better than the album version (which I prefer). People rightfully feel it sounds like an Adele song and that can only bode well for it, if you ask me.
That's also why I don't think Crystal Ballroom would do as well as people here want to believe.
If that song is indeed what people want, then surely Broken Bells would be the biggest band in the world right now?
The only 'leftfield' song with a chance would be The Troubles.
And that's because of Lykke Li mostly.
That sort of use of female vocals does seem to do well.
thavidesco
Refugee
I´m up for that!
Aygo
Rock n' Roll Doggie
So, stop bullying. Simple as that.
My comment has very little backing. I guess you do not even read what I post, you just need to reply something for the sake of replying. And yours is good, eh? Yours is very well grounded...
mikal
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Yes, we see ABABCABCDB formatted songs all the time.
Silly me for considering it to be a departure from the normal ABABCB format that the majority of pop songs and EVERY OTHER U2 LEAD SINGLE EVER followed.
My apologies. I'll never make that mistake again.
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I think it's interesting that everybody ranks/qualifies the songs based on different things.
You're considering the structure, I never pay attention to the structure.
I've seen people comparing two songs because of the use of instruments, the chords, the tempo, whatever.
I usually pay more attention to the "mood" of the song and sort the songs in groups based on that ("angry" u2, "happy" u2, "relax" u2, "serious" u2, whatever).
mikal
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Did you feel bullied by that response?
thavidesco
Refugee
This is the structure of what U2 song exactly?
Free Bird
Clearly. I'm calling my own church.
dan_smee
ONE love, blood, life
Boots.
A - the future needs...
B - sexy boots...
A - you free me from...
B - sexy boots...
C - you don't know how...
A - that's someone's stuff...
B - sexy boots...
C - you don't know how...
D - let me in the sound...
B - sexy boots.
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thavidesco
Refugee
When you have little pre-chorus with the same harmony "Sexy Boots" musicians don´t usually consider it as a different section, so Boots are classic example of ABABCB, nevertheless it is chromatic harmony that makes it outstanding, quite rare in euroathlantic popmusic scene
To even bring up that steaming pile of horse crap of a song, one which never ever seen the light of day(boots). In an admiration thread for such a great song as Crystal is, is borderline heresy... Everyones church will be called...... and don't give me crap about context.....
Boots= a relatively low time for me as a U2 fan, the song is abysmal, an abomination a dead skunks ass that first crawled up another dead skunks ass to die.
Boots= a relatively low time for me as a U2 fan, the song is abysmal, an abomination a dead skunks ass that first crawled up another dead skunks ass to die.
What that guy said
jeevey
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And the Blue Crack for Best Use of the Church Call Meme Award goes to YBOR!
Aygo
Rock n' Roll Doggie
Dunno why so much agressiveness.
Didn't say it was silly or something like it (you said it yourself).
I only disagreed from it and justified why.
Still, there are plenty pop songs (since the beggining of pop/rock) that have pre-choruses that do not necessarily lead into the chorus until after the second verse, songs that have breakdowns like the "Let me in the sound" type that debouch into a last chorus. There's nothing groundbreaking or unusual in the song structure.
yenlard
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This is damn funny
brooklynmike
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