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metalinvader
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Joe Brody said:
I don't know what you are trying to prove but..
Magnificent for me.But,I was never really that crazy about A sort of homecoming anyways...
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Joe Brody
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metalinvader said:
Just expressing an opinion. A Sort of Homecoming isn't the greatest song but a least it's sincere. On the other hand Magnificent has a nice rift . . . but the emotional pull of a Pottery Barn catalog.
Deadlock said:
He traded his mojo to halt the aging process.
Other.
Standard U2 pop song, middleing at best. It's hardly ground breaking but it's true to the bands work. Is it a miracle? Hardly. It's no "...Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" if that's what Bono was hoping.
P.S. I don't have ITunes.
Standard U2 pop song, middleing at best. It's hardly ground breaking but it's true to the bands work. Is it a miracle? Hardly. It's no "...Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" if that's what Bono was hoping.
P.S. I don't have ITunes.
Songs of Innocence
That 360° concert was bumped into 2011.
I've been to 4 (so far):
http://www.u2gigs.com/show870.html
http://www.u2gigs.com/show717.html
http://www.u2gigs.com/show1196.html
http://www.u2gigs.com/show1656.html
I'm glad to have followed a band that didn't flame out. I saw the Ramones in college on their farewell tour and was not impressed. I understand some of them had one foot in the grave, but Joey fell silent for long stretches and relied on backup vocals.
That 360° concert was bumped into 2011.
I've been to 4 (so far):
http://www.u2gigs.com/show870.html
http://www.u2gigs.com/show717.html
http://www.u2gigs.com/show1196.html
http://www.u2gigs.com/show1656.html
I'm glad to have followed a band that didn't flame out. I saw the Ramones in college on their farewell tour and was not impressed. I understand some of them had one foot in the grave, but Joey fell silent for long stretches and relied on backup vocals.
Joe Brody
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Moedred said:
I got luckier than you with the Ramones but I know what you're talking about.
I had to work hard to let go of a grudge that I held for years against Billy Bragg. First couple of times I saw him was in Pittsburgh in the late '80's he gave great, great performances. . . Then years later I caught him in New York City and it was awful. He was clearly out of sorts and bitter about something. Anyway, that show ruined his music for me for years.
Anyway, back to U2 the Miracle --thanks for linking the poll to this thread because it made me go back and read it:
Chorus from the Miracle (U2 singing about the Ramones):
Joe Brody in 2004 on U2 said:
Small coincidence but cool.
roundshort
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The Ramones were by far my favorite live band. I think I saw them almost 20 times following them like dead heads followed the Dead.
I have no issue to the tribute - it is like everything else U2 has done for the last 15 years more about PR than music.
I could be wrong, but I think in the video they flash an image of Tommy playing the drums while U2's drummer does a drum roll. Of course you know Tommy was not much of a drum roll guy and used them early. He was actually really not much into being a drummer, hence him leaving the band to take over managing them.
I have no issue to the tribute - it is like everything else U2 has done for the last 15 years more about PR than music.
I could be wrong, but I think in the video they flash an image of Tommy playing the drums while U2's drummer does a drum roll. Of course you know Tommy was not much of a drum roll guy and used them early. He was actually really not much into being a drummer, hence him leaving the band to take over managing them.
Still just 4.
November 7, 1992
September 20, 1997 (Italy, on list of biggest concerts)
November 15, 2001
June 7, 2011
Achtung Baby Live is at Sphere in Vegas through February, not gonna look at ticket prices. Will wait for concert video.
20 years later I still love U2 just as much. 'Gloria' is still my favorite U2 song. It was when they were still new, and young, and not yet corrupted by ...I don't know...whatever corrupted them....as corrupted as any other successful bands in that time....I don't know...maybe Hollywood, and all that that entails.
But I still remember putting that wonderful 'record' on to my 'turntable' in my room and rocking out to U2 in the early eighties, and knowing that I had discovered...well I guess along with the rest of the world....a GREAT Band.
But I still remember putting that wonderful 'record' on to my 'turntable' in my room and rocking out to U2 in the early eighties, and knowing that I had discovered...well I guess along with the rest of the world....a GREAT Band.
IndyBuff
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For the better part of 15 years U2 was easily my favorite band. I'm still a big fan, yet I wouldn't put them at the top anymore (Radiohead managed to take that spot). It seems these days they're more interesting in looking back than moving forward, becoming more of a nostalgia act than a creative tour de force like they used to be. I suppose that happens to many artists, especially those who have been going as long as U2 has, but that was something they always seemed intent on fighting. Now they just embrace it, which is confusing but it's easy money.
I'm sure the Sphere is an amazing show but it reminds me more of something from a theme park attraction. The band is secondary and without Larry there it just feels "off". Here's hoping they're able to churn out a new album and wow us again the near future.
I'm sure the Sphere is an amazing show but it reminds me more of something from a theme park attraction. The band is secondary and without Larry there it just feels "off". Here's hoping they're able to churn out a new album and wow us again the near future.
Bono writes towards the end of his memoir Surrender (an excellent audiobook) that the best albums come from the greatest conflict with his bandmembers, and (I'm paraphrasing here) he's not sure he wants to continue to put them through that. The last album of original material was 2017.
After Bono's health issues last decade, culminating with an aortic aneurysm in 2016, he seems content with their oeuvre.