Salome
you are what you is
Mercy is kinda bad indeed
Screwtape2 said:I don't understand the arguments about how Mercy or Fast Cars wouldn't fit musically or lyrically on Bomb because to me the album doesn't flow. Just to play devil's advocate, isn't Mercy in the same vein as Miracle Drug and SYCMIOYO. Fast Cars fits with Vertigo. The album is a jumble. I can't find a collective thread that ties the album together. If you were to put Mercy and Fast Cars in and take out two songs like OSC and AMAAW, you would have a more complete album.
ozeeko said:
Me agree, although i would remove Yahweh instead of AMAAW.
Screwtape2 said:I don't understand the arguments about how Mercy or Fast Cars wouldn't fit musically or lyrically on Bomb because to me the album doesn't flow. Just to play devil's advocate, isn't Mercy in the same vein as Miracle Drug and SYCMIOYO. Fast Cars fits with Vertigo. The album is a jumble. I can't find a collective thread that ties the album together. If you were to put Mercy and Fast Cars in and take out two songs like OSC and AMAAW, you would have a more complete album.
U2girl said:
Can you sense the two themes prevailing the album?
lazarus said:To my ears, the recording is very well fleshed out lyrically and in terms of instrumentation, and while it is a long track that takes its time to build up, it does not sound like a jam session with improved lyrics that goes nowhere. There is a distinct climax and ending to the song that is a logical and satisfying conclusion to what proceeds it.
liamcool said:Mercy is like Bad. A six and a half minute boring song that has two chords.
Peterrrrr said:
I think it has been a "cool" thing to say that the song is overrated, that some members only thinks it overrated because it is a so popular song by all members.
Danny Boy said:
IMHO, "We're binary code, a one and a zero," is sufficient evidence that the song is unfinished. No way a sophmoric metaphor like that ever makes it onto a U2 album.
Peterrrrr said:If Mercy weren't a good song it hasnt got so many threads that it have got. I don't know any other song that has so many threads on this forum.
MacPhistoPT said:
yeah...
Mercy is an amazing song. Since it's an unreleased song, people around here treat it as a gem and talk about it a lot more, and that annoys who doesn't like the song. if mercy was released on htdaab there wouldn't be so much talk about it.
AtomicBono said:
You can't really compare an unreleased song to a live classic, but I do love Mercy and think it's an absolutely brilliant song. I hope it does end up on the next album and played live.
Originally posted by discothequeLP
yikes. do you know what a chord is? because Bad and Mercy have more than two. trust me.
Harry Vest said:Being somewhat of an "expert" on BAD I have to say I disagree that MERCY is on the same grand scale.