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U2 - Get On Your Boots
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No Line On The Horizon (2009)
  1. Improved (and final maybe) lyrics of GOYB updated in our song section.

    U2.com left out a few words, thanks to u2wanderer it's better now.
  2. Originally posted by TheLedge:[..]

    I think the only thing GOYB has in common with Zooropa is that the public en masse aren't crazy for either. I personally find pretty much every single track on Zooropa superior to GOYB, even the less creative tracks (The First Time) have a structure, emotion and a sense of involvement that GOYB just doesn't have for me. And in my opinion GOYB is nowhere near the same kind of leap forward in creativity and experimentation as Zooropa was. In fact I'd probably compare GOYB to any other U2 record EXCEPT Zooropa, as Zooropa's probably the one album they've put out which doesn't really have a straightforward-sounding rocker on the entire album.

    For me personally, GYOB reminds me back to POP more than anything else: it sounds rough, unfinished, lacking in lyrical sharpness, lacking emotion and lacking real focus and certainty. It also chickens out of moving too far away from traditional U2: it doesn't sound as if it's moved on that much from HTDAAB musically, the only real surprises being the abrupt jumps from opening to first verse and then from chorus to middle eight. I hope to God the "trance influence", "dancefloor shock" etc is yet to come on the album as there's no sign of any real progression here yet in my opinion.

    I still have faith that the album will contain much greatness, but I just don't detect any of it when I hear GOYB. Hopefully GOYB is merely there to effectively raise the tempo at a necessary point in the album, as the album would have to be the worst of their career for this song to be any kind of an album highlight in my opinion.






    I agree with your main point, it doesn't have the same kind of cohesion as those songs, the execution isn't there yet.
    And a lead single needs a far better chorus, even Zoo Station which was also a shock back in 91, had a catchy chorus. This song has too many leftovers (not the good parts either) of their last album in it, ie. the chorus and the theme are all very typical of HTDAAB.

    Simply sounding 'different' or being 'innovative' isn't a virtue in itself, there are other aspects that make a great single.

    I think it could well be the worst song on the album, judging from the Q descriptions, which is always a good thing.
  3. The single gets an Irish release on Friday 13th
  4. I would want to hear the reason of releasing this one as the first single.


  5. Hear, hear! Easily the worst leading single for mine. Maybe that will change, but not likely.


  6. The album will hold the answers
  11. Where are the girls with the boots?
  12. hmm...not sure if I like the look of that...a bit too colourfull for me...
    It doesn't fit with a) the black/white album cover b) the black/white cover of the single and c) the dark lyrics and sound

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