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| ONE love, blood, life Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Fez
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![]() not gonna flame Ultraviolet353. it's not like he's right and i'm wrong or vice versa. it's all a matter of opinion. i think NLOTH is amazing, he doesn't. | |
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| Refugee Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Belguim
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| Refugee Premium Silver Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Washington DC, formerly Buffalo NY
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Local Time: 06:20 AM | I find Boots to be a Vertigo re-write. You could sing the chorus to Vertigo over the Boots chorus and it would fit. |
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| Blue Crack Addict Premium Silver Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: between my head and heart
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I'm not sure what personal issue you have with me, I've been kind enough to answer any misconception you had of me through PM, you apologized, yet you still stir this shit every time I respond to something you say. Quote:
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| Blue Crack Addict Premium Silver Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: between my head and heart
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Local Time: 06:20 AM | U2 is good. no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! yes they are! no they're not! ![]() |
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| Acrobat Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Local Time: 03:20 AM | I agree it is all a matter of opinion--after all Pop is their best record, IMO. However, I think to say the album is too complex is laughable. If anything (and even many who love this album claim) it is the poppy stuff that ruins the album, and that is 27% of the record. Of the songs that I like on the album NLOTH, BB, MOS, COL there just seems to be something missing--I find myslef wnating something to happen in these songs, and it doesn't. Especially on MOS. one last thing about Magnificent--when I first heard this song, I thought it was an instant classic. But...again after some time, it just comes off as "thin." Almost like cotton candy, it now melts on impact--lacks any crescendo as it starts at 10 and ends at 10. It starts with such a rush, it has nowhere to go. It is also a very poppy song, IMO, which bumps the record up to 36% pop. Complex!?!?!?! I think not. |
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| War Child Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Seattle, WA
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Local Time: 11:20 AM | Bono sure has come a long way from the "we may lose some of the pop kids but we don't need them!" comment from the glorious zoo-tv days... |
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| something clever Premium Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I'm here 'cus I don't want to go home
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Local Time: 07:20 AM | not as complex as their 90's material but certianly more complex than their last two albums. |
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| Blue Crack Addict Premium Silver Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: between my head and heart
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worthy. It's the one song that could have easily been given an obvious crescendo, but's it's just implied making it a beautifully complex creature.I love how this quote gets so misused these days. | ||
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| Acrobat Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Local Time: 03:20 AM | U2 needs to realize that RELEVANCE is their currency. Not sales, not radio. If they attempt to woo sales and radio as they did with Boots/Crazy/SUC they will cease being relevant, IMO. Just last night, the reference to "new songs" made me cringe. There is a tacit lack of confidence that has been sown by the lackluster reaction to the album and the songs in a live setting. What has always set U2 apart is people come to see the new songs--they demand it. It seems less full throated this time around. Again, because I feel the songs aren't there. Even NLOTH, a song I like, doesn't sound all that great live--When I first heard that song I thought it was SURE to be the opener, and now I know why it isn't. It lacks something live. |
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| BRINGIN '88 BACK Premium Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: on TV talkin' like it's just you and me
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| Blue Crack Addict Premium Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Washington, DC
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generally, in popular music, relevant music is what is selling and played on the radio.
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| ONE love, blood, life Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Fez
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Local Time: 06:20 AM | yeah, but that was 17 years ago. i sure hope i don't act like i do now in 17 years. |
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also, that quote is probably right up there with "don't mean to bug 'ya" and "maybe, maybe too much talk" in the Top 10 Reasons Why People Hate Bono.
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