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U2 - Get On Your Boots
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No Line On The Horizon (2009)
  1. Kinda weird hearing Boots on the album. I have listened to it so many times in the last month, that it feels as familar as any U2 song. I still like it though.
  2. Originally posted by drewhiggins:You guys up for another review? Of course you are.

    Get On Your Boots. Where would we be without the sexy, the boots, Satan, the kids, ghosts, as well as letting you in the sound? We'd have an incomplete album, that's what. Yes, it seems odd to put something like this in the middle of the album, but for good reason.

    Try placing it next to Magnificent, Breathe or White As Snow. It doesn't work, does it?

    Anyway, what we've got is probably the funkiest track on No Line, with a real message behind it. I'll leave it to you to find out what that message is - whole lines give it away - but 'you get it, you don't get it, or do you?' I personally like, not love, but like, the song as a whole. It goes by so quick, yet it leaves an impression on you. It's a complete distraction from the rest of the album, and that's what great about it.

    For all that three minutes and 25 seconds, it's a great introduction to the next song, not necessarily (or at all) to the next 23 minutes of the album, and for that, I give it 7 / 10.


    Funny thing - to me it's the complete opposite. You might be right placing it next to Magnificent, Breathe or White... doesn't work. But kicking it out does. I miss nothing. I even think Fez gets better with not having Boots in mind.
    I do think it's an okay track... but it doesn't fit the album imho. And to me the 3 minutes feel like 10, while Moment of surrender's 7 feel like 3.

    But maybe I just didn't get the message yet.
  3. Omg. GOYB is now on 27 now in the Dutch Top 40. Last week it was on 16. People here have a bad taste for music :

    Clocks is chosen as the best song until now from 2000....and Viva La Vida 2nd. Beautiful Day ended 7th, Vertigo somewhere around the 20th place.
  4. Originally posted by dieder:Omg. GOYB is now on 27 now in the Dutch Top 40. Last week it was on 16. People here have a bad taste for music :

    Clocks is chosen as the best song until now from 2000....and Viva La Vida 2nd. Beautiful Day ended 7th, Vertigo somewhere around the 20th place.


    Ah..the U2-bashing in Holland is growing with every day. Of every U2-fan I know in my inner social circle..I can't think of one who likes Get On Your Boots.
  5. Dutch people don't like bands (or persons) who are too succesfull. We are almost always in favour of the underdog. If you discuss with anyone about U2 they will be saying that Bono annoys them because he is in every news item. Yesterday I spoke someone and he said that after The Unforgettable Fire U2 haven't made anything different than TUF. I was like wtf really.
  6. I am liking it more and more, and always find myself twitching/dancing to it. LET ME IN THE SOUND
  7. Only got to number 12 in the UK chart today


  8. I'm not really suprised it hasn't been a big radio hit a la vertigo or beautiful day. Frankly while i personally like it alot, i think i like it as an album track moreso than as a single. It's really not as catchy for radio as the other two were, its a little heavy. I think chart success from this album will be coming in due time


  11. Emile Laurac

    THE lead single from U2's much-hyped new album last night failed to breach the UK Top Ten, with the band hitting the charts at their lowest point in over a decade.

    'Get On Your Boots' was the highest new entry of the week in the UK, but fans were bitterly disappointed that it only charted at 12.

    This is in contrast to the Irish charts, where the first single from album 'No Line On The Horizon' shot straight to the top spot.

    Online U2 fan forums last night blamed a host of factors for the relatively low UK placing, ranging from the changed nature of the charts to internet leaks.

    Certainly the changed attitudes of the record-buying public mean that album sales will be the true barometer of the band's popularity. But unless the single rises up the charts in the coming weeks it will mark U2's worst performance since 1997's 'If God Will Send His Angels'.

    That song was the fifth single from the 'Pop' album and was not aggressively hyped or marketed in the way 'Get On Your Boots' has been. And while number 12 is a respectable position for most bands, the world-conquering might of U2 has only failed to dent the UK top 10 four times in 25 years.

    The band have enjoyed a remarkable run of success since their very first number 10 hit 'New Year's Day' in 1983.

    Elsewhere in the charts, last week's Brit Awards had a huge impact on the record-buying public.

    International

    Double Brit award winners Kings of Leon knocked Lily Allen off the top of the album charts with 'Only By The Night', which won the group the best international album prize.

    'The Fear' kept Allen at the top of the singles chart although Kings of Leon, who also won best international group, moved up from 12 to three with 'Use Somebody'.

    (c) Independent, 2009.


  12. That's bad for a lead single from a new U2 album, I was expecting top 5. They've plugged it enough. The Fly, Discotheque, Beautiful Day and Vertigo were all U.K number 1's.
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