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U2 - Get On Your Boots
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No Line On The Horizon (2009)


  1. ya Gerard I know the feeling...im trying to like it...im getting there....i gave it a 2 on the poll.
  2. first 2 sec of drum sounds like "Two Hearts Beat As One"
  3. Originally posted by flowerchild:guys, wait until the 'let me in the sound' part is played live. I'm sure it will be frigging awesome and maybe the best part of the song (live)


    hope its sumthing like the end of vertigo in u23d
  4. This song just keeps baffling me. I really like it, but I can't pinpoint why. Every time I listen to it, I think I'm going to hear something different, but I just lose my place all over again. I hear traces of Salome, LWTSH, Vertigo, Discotheque, and XAW, but as a whole...can't quite put anything together. Regardless, I still love it
  5. Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
    I think the one thing for me that is the major hindrance is, as Jonny also brought up a while back, what the bloody hell is the song actually ABOUT? I'm not sure whether you're one to place much stock on a song by having some kind of contextual understanding, but to my mind there's no clear message to the song, there's no like background for it - it's just come straight from nowhere (in some respects) and knocked everyone over. That's probably the only thing that VAGUELY gets to me.


    i believe it may be about Bono getting back into the music.. "i dont wanna talk about wars in other nations" or whatever he says..

    just seems like getting back to his roots. back to music and not politics.. although i do feel there will be a lot of political and religious songs on the album.

  6. All I can say is, once again, I love this song. It doesn't sound U2 in the obvious sense, but if you're a u2 fan you can pinpoint the U2-ness of it. It's a very U2-ish song once you get to know it I think. I've listened to it a lot already, even listened to it during Math today when the teacher was doing exam review, and I love it.

    I think the album will be great. I have a feeling this will be maybe the upbeat, hard rock song kinda like vertigo was on HTDAAB. But I think we'll also get those atmospheric landscape type songs on it too. Where the old U2 kicks in. Which is what I'm super excited for. If not, then we'll get a whole new bag of U2 songs, and I'm sure it will be great. It will add on to their list of different approaches to music, and I can only say I'm happy about it.

    Alex
  7. I think some people are trying think about the song too much, just enjoy it for what it is, it doesn't have to sound like a particular recent U2 song, if it did, it would be boring, it lends itself to past styles, mixes the all up into a new U2 masterpiece!!!



    I have listened to it non stop, still as fresh as the first listen, still blows me away...love it.

    Thankfully only parts of the music lends itself to the 90's style, as i'm not a huge fan of Bono's voice sounding like the fly and put into some kind of effects blender.
  8. I like the song, but I doubt it will be the best one on the album, because the other three beach clips I heard sounded better. I think "Get On Your Boots" is like "The Fly," the first, fast-paced single that introduces U2's new sound -- letting us into the sound, you might say -- but is not the best song on the album it heralds.

    When I heard "The Fly" on the radio for the first time, I remember thinking "What the hell is this?" I didn't really get it until I saw how it fit into the rest of the album. I think "Get On Your Boots" is probably similar to "The Fly" in this respect, at least from the descriptions of the songs in the Rolling Stone interview.

    As of now, I think U2 started to move into a kind of paradoxically vintage-futuristic rock territory on HTDAAB with songs like "Vertigo," "War and Peace," "All Because of You," and "Fast Cars," but played it too safe. Some reviewers thought that HTDAAB was a kind of "transitional" album for the band, moving between the back-to-basics U2 sound of ATYCLB and something else. GOYB suggests that "something else" to me. Definitely not safe, and that is a very good sign. But I've got to go listen to it another 500 times and then wait until I hear the whole album.



  9. Originally posted by BonoIsTheMessiah:I like the song, but I doubt it will be the best one on the album, because the other three beach clips I heard sounded better. I think "Get On Your Boots" is like "The Fly," the first, fast-paced single that introduces U2's new sound -- letting us into the sound, you might say -- but is not the best song on the album it heralds.



    I agree totally with you there, just introducing us to the new sound, can definantly hear the morrocan influence in it or is that just me?
    Must say its growing on me quickly
  10. May be because the expectations was very high , you guys who don't like it very much feel that way
    but remember that some people didn't like "Vertigo" When it came out some people didn't like it at first
    but anyway i feel it's a great introduction to a great album to come
  11. New day, new chance - same result: if they had stopped it after 1:25, it would be an amazing track. The way it is, it is slightly above avarage.
  12. Originally posted by yeah:New day, new chance - same result: if they had stopped it after 1:25, it would be an amazing track. The way it is, it is slightly above avarage.


    1:25? That's short, if they'd gone by that you would've been pissed off with such a short single

    We'll do the same poll as this week in a month, see what people think about it then.
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