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U2 - Moment of Surrender
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No Line On The Horizon (2009)
  1. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    And that's why I'm so interested in what you and everyone else is hearing that I'm not.

    Has anyone read my dissection of MoS yet either? If they have do they agree/disagree with my points.


    I have. I disagree. I think there's a lot of sonic backdrop (ala So Cruel). I love the emotion in the voice. Bono's best vocal for donkey's.

    Lyrics up there with One and WOWY never really made sense anyway.

    It seriously could go on longer for me. Bit like Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley).

    It's a very grown-up, soulful song. Maybe that's the issue for you?
  2. Meh, it still hasn't grown on me properly, I don't like it very much except from the solo. I thought it would be much better when it was said to be like One and WOWY
  3. Originally posted by djrlewis:[..]

    I have. I disagree. I think there's a lot of sonic backdrop (ala So Cruel). I love the emotion in the voice. Bono's best vocal for donkey's.

    Lyrics up there with One and WOWY never really made sense anyway.

    It seriously could go on longer for me. Bit like Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley).

    It's a very grown-up, soulful song. Maybe that's the issue for you?


    I like So Cruel, the piano backdrop in MoS is not as interesting as the one in So Cruel which has clear hooks.

    And I like their mature songs, basically all their dark/serious/sombre songs I like,
    eg. WOWY, One, Acrobat, LIB, RTSS, WTSHNN, ISHFWILF, Exit, TUF, AIWIY, VDL, Heartland, Hawkmoon, Stay, the Wanderer, Miss Sarajevo, Velvet Dress, Wake Up Dead Man, The Ground Beneath Her Feet.

    It's some of the lighter ones that I have a harder time liking.

  4. A great song and probably the easiest to get into, Bono's best vocal performance since save the children or gone.
  5. best song of the album( waiting too see how it would sound live)
  6. I love it more and more, it's growing from a great song to an U2 classic (in my own list of classics ).

    Today listening it for the third time I thought about this song as a concert closer, in the same line as closers Bad was in. The long outro, the "oh's" in the outro and the great music playing there. It flows so well. I would love to see this.
  7. check the explanation of Brian Eno on u2.com about the song!
    great to hear it come together!

    great song
  8. Might be the best song on the album. I still prefer Breathe but 'MOS' is second now and certainly not far behind.
  9. Originally posted by ad87:check the explanation of Brian Eno on u2.com about the song!
    great to hear it come together!

    great song


    You know I think the main reason Brian Eno likes this song so much, is because it was improvised and recorded in one take.

    This is the man behind Elvis Presley and America after all.
  10. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    You know I think the main reason Brian Eno likes this song so much, is because it was improvised and recorded in one take.

    This is the man behind Elvis Presley and America after all.


    And the man behind the Ambient series as well as a certain recent album and some of U2's greatest work.


  11. Yeah, JT and AB. Ring any bells?


  12. You're misunderstanding me, I like Brian Eno.

    I meant he is predisposed to liking songs that came about via strange/quirky circumstances.
    I bet his favourite song off VLV is Chinese Sleep Chant, because it was written under hypnosis.
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