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Refugee
I posted something in the past that's going to be very similar to the post I'm about to make. I wish I could locate my last post but it's lost somewhere in the vault and would take me all day to find it.
ACHTUNG BABY is a great album, and does flow cohesively at times, and would've been improved drastically if U2 chose to rearrange the order of songs.
One problem is - well...the song One actually. I think it's an amazing song, and well deserving of its signature status within U2's repertoir, but the mistake they made was having it come way too early in the album.
Zoo Station and Even Better...go hand in hand with eachother. They are both of the same mold: Upbeat, fist-pumping, bass grooving rock anthems that ooze something dangerously sexual. They also belong next to each other lyrically. Zoo Station is introducing us to the whole self-aware ZooTV Age of Irony (or pretty much the chaotic aspect of life) from a child's point of view, while Even Better...is that child from Zoo Station choosing to accept all of life's bullshit, and focusing in on just the moment, because the past and the future are non-issues. Even Better Than The Real Thing is about setting your sights on something, in this case sex, and mindlessly striving to conquer it. With all of life's complexities, all that matters right now is the sex. The prize. And you're not even doing it for what it is, you're doing it for what it represents. It's the experience, and the moment. And once it's over, it's on the next big thing...that will of course be even better. Even better because it's new. At least that's what I get out of it, anyway.
From those two songs u jump immediately into One, and it totally kills the vibe.
I'm not sure where u would go from Even Better...
My original idea was to have "Until The End Of The World" take the #3 slot on the track list. But I'm not sure it flows conceptually.
You could say the object of desire from "Even Better" resurfaces in "Until The End of thE World", but this time it's an emotional, not primal, affair. That would kind of shred apart the theme they were going for in the first 2 songs.
An idea I had with "UTEOTW" is that the decadent party has ended, and there are consequences that need to be dealt with. The main character from the previous song is forced to feel emotion because of his former lover, and he regrets using her like a toy.
That's the problem with this album. There are two different themes that dont' go into eachother easily.
The Irony of Life:
Zoo Station, Even Beter Than The Real Thing, The Fly, Acrobat, Love Is Blindness, Tryin' To Throw Your Arms.
Love and Betrayal:
Who's Gonna Ride your Wild Horses, UTEOTW, Ultraviolet, So Cruel.
The song One is a mix of both these themes. "We're one but weren't not the same" - there's definite irony in that statement. And the song's also documenting an extreme break-up, with conflicting views on love, where it begins and ends "you say Love the temple, Love the higher law. You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl".
Mysterious Ways is a song that doesn't really fit anywhere. And I love it, which makes it all the more frustrating. To make it work, you could use it as a prequel to another song. Maybe "Who's Gonna Ride". Instead, maybe it could be the sequel. After all, it's about not being able to understand women.
Anyway, I gotta jet. Wish I had more time to finish my thoughts.
ACHTUNG BABY is a great album, and does flow cohesively at times, and would've been improved drastically if U2 chose to rearrange the order of songs.
One problem is - well...the song One actually. I think it's an amazing song, and well deserving of its signature status within U2's repertoir, but the mistake they made was having it come way too early in the album.
Zoo Station and Even Better...go hand in hand with eachother. They are both of the same mold: Upbeat, fist-pumping, bass grooving rock anthems that ooze something dangerously sexual. They also belong next to each other lyrically. Zoo Station is introducing us to the whole self-aware ZooTV Age of Irony (or pretty much the chaotic aspect of life) from a child's point of view, while Even Better...is that child from Zoo Station choosing to accept all of life's bullshit, and focusing in on just the moment, because the past and the future are non-issues. Even Better Than The Real Thing is about setting your sights on something, in this case sex, and mindlessly striving to conquer it. With all of life's complexities, all that matters right now is the sex. The prize. And you're not even doing it for what it is, you're doing it for what it represents. It's the experience, and the moment. And once it's over, it's on the next big thing...that will of course be even better. Even better because it's new. At least that's what I get out of it, anyway.
From those two songs u jump immediately into One, and it totally kills the vibe.
I'm not sure where u would go from Even Better...
My original idea was to have "Until The End Of The World" take the #3 slot on the track list. But I'm not sure it flows conceptually.
You could say the object of desire from "Even Better" resurfaces in "Until The End of thE World", but this time it's an emotional, not primal, affair. That would kind of shred apart the theme they were going for in the first 2 songs.
An idea I had with "UTEOTW" is that the decadent party has ended, and there are consequences that need to be dealt with. The main character from the previous song is forced to feel emotion because of his former lover, and he regrets using her like a toy.
That's the problem with this album. There are two different themes that dont' go into eachother easily.
The Irony of Life:
Zoo Station, Even Beter Than The Real Thing, The Fly, Acrobat, Love Is Blindness, Tryin' To Throw Your Arms.
Love and Betrayal:
Who's Gonna Ride your Wild Horses, UTEOTW, Ultraviolet, So Cruel.
The song One is a mix of both these themes. "We're one but weren't not the same" - there's definite irony in that statement. And the song's also documenting an extreme break-up, with conflicting views on love, where it begins and ends "you say Love the temple, Love the higher law. You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl".
Mysterious Ways is a song that doesn't really fit anywhere. And I love it, which makes it all the more frustrating. To make it work, you could use it as a prequel to another song. Maybe "Who's Gonna Ride". Instead, maybe it could be the sequel. After all, it's about not being able to understand women.
Anyway, I gotta jet. Wish I had more time to finish my thoughts.