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RattleandHum1988

Originally posted by Genaro92U2:[..]

LOL SOO TRUE @_______@

IS THIS EVEN A U2 FORUM ANYMORE LOL it looks more like a Muse/Coldplay/Radiohead/Snow Patrol/Aaron's lovelife/Technology forum with the occasional U2 bootleg discussion thrown in AHAHAHA

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kris_smith87

12 years

Agreed. Though by fucking up the mainstream I hope that they are in the mainstream. I have started watching/rewatching the series Smallville and in the first season (which aired in 2001 I think) both Elevation and Beautiful Day were played. I think U2 needs to get their songs out to everywhere so people can hear them in different places: radio, commercials, TV shows etc.

clover68

12 years

U2 to write songs for commercials of diapers .. oh my god

Ali709

12 years

Originally posted by kris_smith87:Agreed. Though by fucking up the mainstream I hope that they are in the mainstream. I have started watching/rewatching the series Smallville and in the first season (which aired in 2001 I think) both Elevation and Beautiful Day were played. I think U2 needs to get their songs out to everywhere so people can hear them in different places: radio, commercials, TV shows etc.

Obama tried to help with that

RattleandHum1988

12 years

Originally posted by kris_smith87:Agreed. Though by fucking up the mainstream I hope that they are in the mainstream. I have started watching/rewatching the series Smallville and in the first season (which aired in 2001 I think) both Elevation and Beautiful Day were played. I think U2 needs to get their songs out to everywhere so people can hear them in different places: radio, commercials, TV shows etc.

Funnily enough I remember GOYB was in a soccer shoe commercial during the World Cup.

ahn1991

12 years

MX is Coldplay's best album, imo. I much prefer their uplifting songs to their extremely mellow/drab majority of everything else they produced.

But I think the issue with U2 is that they are going far out of their comfort zone for the sake of trying to be relevant. With Achtung Baby, they went out of their comfort zone because it was a natural progression of where the band wanted to go, not because they wanted to become more famous. I think if they simply do what they enjoy, take the direction that they as a band want to take, and not give a crap about what people who aren't fans are thinking about, they will produce a stellar album.

And then again, NLOTH wasn't a terrible album. It had a lot of great songs, some I would even call their best.

Regarding the use of their songs, I actually would rather not hear their songs used all over the place. Good music elicits an emotional response when heard, so good songs should only be used in very particular situations, otherwise those songs will lose their meaning. One example of a good song that was ruined by overuse is Coldplay's Fix Me. It's a fantastic song, an extremely emotional song. But when it got used on virtually every single elimination show ever possible, I bet it started to lose its value. I wouldn't know because I don't watch crap.

Let's take Streets for example. We don't hear it on the radio much and we don't see it used in commercials very often. But all of us know that whenever we hear it, wherever we hear it, that songs gives us a sense of excitement and anticipation. I want songs like that to maintain their magic, so please don't wear them out.

Shimitz

12 years