Originally posted by haytrain:[..]
I'll post something tomorrow.....still too new and fresh.
Originally posted by BonoIsTheMessiah:After two listens (next listen, on headphones), I'm pretty damn impressed. The lyrics are great, best since AB/Zooropa/Pop period and its very musically diverse, combining the best of their '80s and '90s sound and throwing in some new styles as well. Several songs are instant classics. Magnificent, Moment of Surrender, and Breathe are up there with their best songs (e.g. songs like Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pride, One and Beatiful Day). Moment of Surrender especially is just amazing, at least as good as One. It may become their signature song, as if they don't already have plenty. Crazy Tonight and Stand Up (I like the original titiles, why did they have to change them? I want to hurt Bono for that) are good but will probably need to grow on me. No Line on the Horizon, Unknown Caller, Being Born, White As Snow, Cedars of Lebanon...lights out and headphones.
My one question is the cohesiveness. What does it mean for the album to begin with No Line and end with Cedars? In the first song of the album, No Line, the character is a traffic cop who wants to get away, break out of the place he's in. By Moment of Surrender, the character is completely lost in the world and seems to have some kind of conversion experience, a state of mind which seems to be continued in the almost mystical experience of Unknown Caller. Then you have a bunch of songs in the middle about taking action to change the world, Crazy Tonight, Get On Your Boots, and Stand Up. Then, after the optimism of these songs, we end with White As Snow (about a soldier dying), Breathe (more optimistic, but with intimations of danger and chaos), and then Cebars of Lebanon, about a war correspondent who is homesick, a song which ends abruptly. You're left asking, what next???
The whole album feels like a story that is unfolding, Episode One of something. it starts with a guy wanting to get out of town and ends with a guy who wants to come home. If the next album really is about pilgrimage, as Bono said, it would seem to be a sequel of sorts.
Originally posted by BonoIsTheMessiah:After two listens (next listen, on headphones), I'm pretty damn impressed. The lyrics are great, best since AB/Zooropa/Pop period and its very musically diverse, combining the best of their '80s and '90s sound and throwing in some new styles as well. Several songs are instant classics. Magnificent, Moment of Surrender, and Breathe are up there with their best songs (e.g. songs like Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pride, One and Beatiful Day). Moment of Surrender especially is just amazing, at least as good as One. It may become their signature song, as if they don't already have plenty. Crazy Tonight and Stand Up (I like the original titiles, why did they have to change them? I want to hurt Bono for that) are good but will probably need to grow on me. No Line on the Horizon, Unknown Caller, Being Born, White As Snow, Cedars of Lebanon...lights out and headphones.
My one question is the cohesiveness. What does it mean for the album to begin with No Line and end with Cedars? In the first song of the album, No Line, the character is a traffic cop who wants to get away, break out of the place he's in. By Moment of Surrender, the character is completely lost in the world and seems to have some kind of conversion experience, a state of mind which seems to be continued in the almost mystical experience of Unknown Caller. Then you have a bunch of songs in the middle about taking action to change the world, Crazy Tonight, Get On Your Boots, and Stand Up. Then, after the optimism of these songs, we end with White As Snow (about a soldier dying), Breathe (more optimistic, but with intimations of danger and chaos), and then Cebars of Lebanon, about a war correspondent who is homesick, a song which ends abruptly. You're left asking, what next???
The whole album feels like a story that is unfolding, Episode One of something. it starts with a guy wanting to get out of town and ends with a guy who wants to come home. If the next album really is about pilgrimage, as Bono said, it would seem to be a sequel of sorts.
haven't thought about the 'journey' yet one goes through while listening to the album. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]
wierd feeling aint it?
Originally posted by haytrain:[..]
yeah, it really is.
Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]
wierd feeling aint it?
Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]
knowing every word to every song for all these years then bam, 10 new bastards you have never heard before
Originally posted by Yogi:Anyway, that was damn beautiful day, I'll remember it for the rest of my life.
Thank you, U2starters for your company.
Thank you U2, for making another brilliant part of soundtrack of our lives.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Goodnight.
