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  1. Originally posted by Macphistfly:[..]

    The whole album just feels gray, so you have to be in a certain mood for it.
    Still say if they mastered what they had in Fez we'd have had a 3rd Masterpiece.


    wow i was just thinking that about FEZ, the atmophere and the originality in the track is amazing.
  2. Bono's lyrics kind of suck on Fez. instrumentaly the song is perfect but Bono does not deliver imo.


  3. Could not disagree more. I think there's a palpable sense of escape, of driving all night to the place you need to be, in those few lines that works like few other tracks on NLOTH. It's a gorgeous little track very much in the mould of songs like Unforgettable Fire.
  4. in regards to Fez/being born i rekon the lyrics of the song, especially the last six lines, are describing child birth.
  5. There are times when I think that NLOTH is what happens when you pike at the last moment. I think they were set on a creative path, and at some point close to the end, started thinking too hard, got scared and talked themselves out of it. For artists like U2, too much rational thought is absolute creative death. The piecemeal disconnectedness of the album feels like the band is trying to please everyone. Everyone liked Vertigo, right? So let's have Get On Your Boots. Everyone liked With or Without You, right? So let's have Moment of Surrender out of the same mould. And so on and so forth. There's nothing there they haven't done before and better. It's like a buffet selection of U2 hits, though the tastiness of each individual dish is a little hit and miss.

    Don't get me wrong, I think there are some killer songs on NLOTH, but they've written killer songs before. What I think NLOTH isn't is a killer album, worthy of the creative talents of the people who worked on it.

    At some point I hope they just stop giving a shit what anyone thinks, or about how the work will be received, or how well it will sell, and just go for it, balls out and middle finger raised. Because that would be fucking awesome.
  6. Originally posted by Andrew_C:in regards to Fez/being born i rekon the lyrics of the song, especially the last six lines, are describing child birth.


    I've always thought of it as a metaphorical birth/rebirth. Driving all night into the blood-red dawn to the place you call home. It's a very pretty verse.
  7. Originally posted by sonia_lastrega:[..]

    I've always thought of it as a metaphorical birth/rebirth. Driving all night into the blood-red dawn to the place you call home. It's a very pretty verse.


    never thought of it like that, u cud be onto sumthing.

    and id love for the band to not give a fuck either. but atm they seem to measure success in terms of sales, airplay and wheather or not they are 'hip'.
  8. Originally posted by sonia_lastrega:
    At some point I hope they just stop giving a shit what anyone thinks, or about how the work will be received, or how well it will sell, and just go for it, balls out and middle finger raised. Because that would be fucking awesome.


    like they did till the 90s

  9. 00's not the 90's, they didn't care what people thought up until after Pop

  10. I'd like to see a return to something similar to Passengers. Fez is a short reminder of that period, but there wasn't enough of it.

    What would be truly awesome from the NLOTH sessions would be a massive box-set or at least reminiscent of Unreleased And Rare, put out a disc of the very best stuff from those sessions, completely untouched, put some videos on a DVD to accompany it, do an interview and a nice book and put it out. Easy done.

    Bon Jovi have an incredible boxset out there with four discs of unreleased and alternate stuff from 1984 onwards. Whether you like Jovi or not isn't the point; I'd like to see four albums as they go on about (or at least Bono) with unreleased tracks. Wouldn't be hard, do a little mixing, couple of studio and band shots and pop it out.

    As for NLOTH itself, it stands up and with the exception of the middle three 'so-called-rock songs' and Magnificent, it's not bad at all. It stood up and it works for me. Now instead of a 7/10 I'd probably score it a 7.5 - it's improved a bit over time. MoS, Fez and Breathe are where it's at for me.
  11. Please no!! Those songs are one of the worst they've ever done... If you talk about melody, EBW is very promising...

  12. Originally posted by Alvin:[..]Please no!! Those songs are one of the worst they've ever done... If you talk about melody, EBW is very promising...

    But both very melodic, surely.
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