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Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
I can't find the scene from From the Sky Down I'm referring to online - but it's when they're back in Dublin in the studio and there's a quick scene of Lanois, Eno and Flood jamming to a One backing track, and Lanois is playing that guitar part - and then in the proceeding scene when the band are listening back, Edge says something about Lanois' guitar part - making me think he wrote it, not Edge.

Originally posted by domsi:[..]

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Daniel Lanois is the fifth member of U2 - no doubt at all!

Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Yeah that's crazy, although I guess it's like how so many of Adam's awesome bass lines were later confirmed to be written by Edge

I listened to Achtung Baby yesterday in full, I hadn't in a long time. I obviously don't need to tell you guys this, but it's fucking insane just how good that album is. Every song could be a single, every song has some of Bono's best lyrics, Edge's best guitar parts, Larry's most interesting drumming, Adam's catchiest basslines, and so on. Making Zooropa right after made complete sense because you can just hear on that album how much creative juice they had built up and ready to use. And the album just keeps on giving, man. You get to TTTYAATW and you're like "alright it's starting to peter out now" but nah, the last three songs on the album are just total chaos and pure musical bliss. It's sad how much Achtung Baby gets overshadowed by the Joshua Tree to pretty much anyone outside the U2 fandom, because it really is a masterpiece.

And that's not even taking into consideration how the whole project was a masterclass in reinvention. It's a 10/10 album on its own, but when you understand the context, the band before that album, all of it - it becomes a 100/10 album. I wish I was old enough at that time to have been around for it, to get completely mind-fucked by it. I love hearing stories of those U2 fans who were.

Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Yeah that's crazy, although I guess it's like how so many of Adam's awesome bass lines were later confirmed to be written by Edge

I listened to Achtung Baby yesterday in full, I hadn't in a long time. I obviously don't need to tell you guys this, but it's fucking insane just how good that album is. Every song could be a single, every song has some of Bono's best lyrics, Edge's best guitar parts, Larry's most interesting drumming, Adam's catchiest basslines, and so on. Making Zooropa right after made complete sense because you can just hear on that album how much creative juice they had built up and ready to use. And the album just keeps on giving, man. You get to TTTYAATW and you're like "alright it's starting to peter out now" but nah, the last three songs on the album are just total chaos and pure musical bliss. It's sad how much Achtung Baby gets overshadowed by the Joshua Tree to pretty much anyone outside the U2 fandom, because it really is a masterpiece.

And that's not even taking into consideration how the whole project was a masterclass in reinvention. It's a 10/10 album on its own, but when you understand the context, the band before that album, all of it - it becomes a 100/10 album. I wish I was old enough at that time to have been around for it, to get completely mind-fucked by it. I love hearing stories of those U2 fans who were.

Originally posted by jasvan:[..]
Bass lines written by Edge - Not New Years Day

Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
And of all of them - that’s the one that matters.

Originally posted by jasvan:[..]
Bass lines written by Edge - Not New Years Day