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Ok, I think we all should reserve judgment on this performance until we see it live in person. From those who have actually been there and experienced it, I have heard multiple times that it is one of the highlights of the show.
I guess if you hate it so much you could just go get a beer or something? More room for me to dance and enjoy it then
I think it's funny that the people who say they'd prefer U2 to play something like Discotheque rather than this are the same people who complain about U2 doing the same "greatest hits" package. So instead of them doing something completely new and different you'd prefer them playing an old (though great) song? (Same argument applies for any song you put here, really)
Frankly, I love the new version, the end more than the start (and I think they'll fix that as things go on). And the inclusion of things like this should really make you very excited for things like Mofo, what was the last song they recorded that was even close to this? That's right...
Discotheque is a great U2 song, that they can play live and it sounds great. It's been played sparingly live and in no way falls into the 'warhorse' category.
Crazy Tonight is a remix, done by a Dirty South, where most of what you hear is pre-recorded being played over the PA.
Not debating the merits of the Remix anymore, but you can honestly not see why someone who is a fan of LIVE MUSIC would prefer to hear discotheque?
Have you even listened to the remix version? the only bit that is played over the PA is at the very end where bono sings along solo to the remix for litreally a minute or whatever, making the transition into SBS.
are you serious? there is a backing track the whole time. larry plays virtually nothing the whole song.
are you serious? there is a backing track the whole time. larry plays virtually nothing the whole song.
YouTube - U2 Barcelona 2009-07-02 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (remix version)
if you don't hear it, i don't know what to tell you.
Where is the backing track? i hear a bongo, i hear bass, and i hear guitar, and i hear a drum loop, but the main thing i am hearing is the bands instruments, i then hear the backing track come it at around 6:03,
its more than a drum loop, and its the prominent thing you hear. you can hear in that clip when adam comes in (right about :53) and larry doesn't even play half the time. he plays intermittently, most of the time when he is walking- he plays nothing.
watch the clip from 4:40-4:50 (adam plays for about 1 sec), no one in the band is playing. it gives you a pretty clear indication of how much is the backing track. its a large part of the track. the backing comes in and out at parts, but it is overall a huge part of this track live.
then compare that to 5:20-5:50 when the play as a band. its night and day different. if they played the whole song like this, it would be a cool track.
that is all i am saying. this track is built as much on what they are not playing on stage as what they are playing. it becomes clear, because there a sections, which edge, adam, and larry completely stop playing. its not that they can't play it, its so they can make it into a dance around the catwalk section of the show. lots of people here love that, i don't care for it. i would rather hear them play as a band- like they do at the end, or like they do on a track like discotheque.
Crazy Tonight is a remix, done by a Dirty South, where most of what you hear is pre-recorded being played over the PA.
I'm going to have to disagree here. KUEFC09U2 is closer to understanding what is going on in the song I'm afraid.
The examples you use, especially 4:30-4:50 there isn't much of anything going in the song except the drum loop and a shaker or hi hat. Easily programmed on a drum machine, Larry could literally hit the kick on say a Roland 4 or 8 times and the shaker/hi hat a couple of times and press loop before picking up the drum and walking out...it's pretty easy to do. I don't think he is, however, it would make more sense to be on track. Yes, there are sections where they stop playing, but those are also parts where only the drum loop is happening, there aren't any guitar or bass sounds (feel free to point out an exact part where you hear guitar or bass and see Adam or Edge not playing. Be precise pls). Edge and Adam don't stop playing to walk around, usually. Larry has to because he's carrying the drum.
It doesn't sound like much of a backing track at all until about the 6 minute mark, and even that....it *could* be Terry doing keys...but with the vocals on tape it sounds more likely a track.
Bottom line, sometimes backing tracks are nothing but one or two sounds and a count for the drummer...it doesn't always have to be complicated, and this song isn't overly.
Contrast that with Discotechque, Vertigo version. There's ALOT more going on in the backing track of that song.
So in a way, this song is more 'live' than Discotechque and that's why it flows so nicely into Larry back at the kit...although in Disco. Larry is playing the kick so there's that...but then again he's not walking around the ellipse at the same time either.
i liked the album version of the song, and at times loved it.
however, i love the new version. a lot. and it makes an okay-pretty good song into an awesome tune. i hope it gets a proper release someday.
larry adds just about nothing except for the those 30 good seconds of the song.
I'm not sure what you mean here...that's like saying if U2 does Desire with a tom and an acoustic, he's not bringing anything to the song...he's just doing something different for this song.
Many IGCIIDGCT fans, who want to hear the proper version live, will be dissapointed when they pay for a U2 gig only to discover they play a crappy remix version of it instead.
Looks like someone beat me to starting a topic about this, so I will just paste what I said:
Why are they doing this? Why do they keep playing that remix live?
U2 are supposed to be a rock band, not a remix band.
Many IGCIIDGCT fans, who want to hear the proper version live, will be dissapointed when they pay for a U2 gig only to discover they play a crappy remix version of it instead.
I know I'm gonna get flamed for this btw.
But I repeat: U2 are supposed to be a rock band, not a remix band.
how many people are we talking about here?
Yes, because the original of Crazy Tonight is such a rock song.