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  1. can anyone send me a winter? i don´t listen yet!

    joaoclaudiobh@hotmail.com


    thanks!!
  2. Great song this, it definitely needs to be finished and see the light of day. (like Mercy)

    The way the guitar and strings come together are absolutely beautiful, now this is 'gorgeously melodic' not MoS anodyne backdrop.

    And the operatic vocalisations in the end are really classy, unlike some of the other 'ohhhs' on the record.

    The only thing that really needs to be changed, is the way Bono sings ' broken and the bruised' at the start of the chorus, sounds totally rough now. And some of the lyrics could be better (but the first two verses are perfect).
  3. Amen to Vanquish.
  4. I love the bass and the electronic drum (?) bridge after the spoken word part

    Very atmospheric

    It's quite new sonic territory for them instrumentally.

    Has anyone posted lyrics?

    I'll have a go ( it's a bit hard to decipher some of them though):

    The yellow sun
    Well it took the hand
    Of a country boy
    To a city in a far off land

    We made no mark
    No shadow at all
    On the ancient holy streets
    Where I learned to crawl

    The broken and the bruised
    The young and the used
    The sure and confused, all here

    Words (? maybe wars/birds) will land on me
    Then abandon me
    Mangle, untangle me
    Leave me on the floor

    Rhymes they sprang in me
    Summer sang in me
    But summer sings in me no more

    Now I'm 25
    And trying to stay alive
    In a corner of the world
    With no clear enemies to fight

    It's hot as hell
    We're like butter on toast
    But there's no army in this world
    That can fight a ghost.

    The broken and the bruised
    The young and the used
    The sure and confused, all here

    Words would land on me
    Then abandon me
    Leave me stranded
    ????? (I hear something like 'guardium door')

    Rhymes began in me
    Summer sang in me
    But summer sings in me no more

    (SPOKEN WORD)
    Listen to the cries, the (changes ?)
    The silence in the foreign ground
    Listening to the thunder
    The sky stretched
    Stretched over everyone
    Listening to the tanks
    The ? shells
    ???
    Listening to our calls (?)
    ? (shirt?)
    Obsession (?)

    At 21
    I was born a son
    And on that day I knew
    I could kill

    To protect the ones
    We put bullets in guns
    Or anything it takes
    To take a life
    To kill and still (?)
  5. Originally posted by vanquish:
    I love the bass and the electronic drum (?) bridge after the spoken word part

    Very atmospheric

    It's quite new sonic territory for them instrumentally.

    Has anyone posted lyrics?

    I'll have a go:
    [..]


    Already up on the song pages Though not complete yet.


  6. Great lyrics.

    It would be an injustice if this didn't end up on an album.


  7. Agree, they can't do this to both Mercy AND Winter



    Ahh, I picked up some changes though, in my version. All the lyrics without question marks, are the ones I'm pretty certain are accurate. eg. it's 'we put bullet in guns' not 'who'.


  8. I really like this song - it reminds me of what I love about U2 - that b-side excellence they sometimes come up with. It also reminds me of a lot of the JT b-sides with the muted tom-tom drumming, the throbbing bass, Edge's noodling guitar & the sheer unusualness of it all - nothing at all like most of the crap you hear on the radio these days. I actually thought U2 couldn't make songs like this anymore - imo they seem too obsessed with making chiming, formulaic radio-friendly songs in the ilk of All because of you etc. More of this please on Songs of Ascent!!
  9. Originally posted by nowiamthemaster:[..]

    I really like this song - it reminds me of what I love about U2 - that b-side excellence they sometimes come up with. It also reminds me of a lot of the JT b-sides with the muted tom-tom drumming, the throbbing bass, Edge's noodling guitar & the sheer unusualness of it all - nothing at all like most of the crap you hear on the radio these days. I actually thought U2 couldn't make songs like this anymore - imo they seem too obsessed with making chiming, formulaic radio-friendly songs in the ilk of All because of you etc. More of this please on Songs of Ascent!!


    Do you actually think NLOTH had any of the chiming, forumulaic, radio-friendly songs that you speak of? I thought NLOTH is appealing because it has almost none of this style of song, except for maybe Boots and Crazy.

    I agree with you one Winter. Beautiful track that doesn't actually deserve to be relegated to a B-side. It's better than that.
  10. Originally posted by aussiemofo:[..]

    Do you actually think NLOTH had any of the chiming, forumulaic, radio-friendly songs that you speak of? I thought NLOTH is appealing because it has almost none of this style of song, except for maybe Boots and Crazy.

    I agree with you one Winter. Beautiful track that doesn't actually deserve to be relegated to a B-side. It's better than that.


    No, I really like NLOTH for those same reasons - it's obvious that they weren't blatantly trying to come up with a whole host of radio-friendly songs on this latest album, whereas it's something you could accuse them of doing with Bomb, for example (and All because of you is a really annoying example of that IMO).

    What I meant with my original comment was that, even though the songs on NLOTH are good in their own way, there isn't really any one of them (except perhaps Cedars) that reminds me of the loose abandon with which they used to record some of their b-sides; and Winter kind-of reminds me of that vibe. I just wish they'd have the courage to put something like this or even Mercy, which has a similar kind-of feeling, on an official release.

    At the back of my mind, I still have a niggling feeling that some form of "quality control" was applied to NLOTH and they ditched a lot of the more atmospheric, ambient-type songs later on in the recording process in favour of the more straightforward rocking ones (Eno more or less confirmed this in the Q article in December, when he said that they had reworked the title track from being a more ambient piece to a more straightforward rock-n-roll kind-of piece, which he was a small bit annoyed with - my reading anyway).

    As I said, I hope that the next album (Songs of Ascent) does contain some more songs of this ilk - I just happen to love this more brooding side of U2; and the proposed title is at least giving me some kind-of hope!!
  11. Do we have any reason to think they are going to rework and release Winter on Songs of Ascent given that it has already been "released" on the film Linear? Any precedent for releasing a "finished" version of a song after releasing the "unfinished" one?
  12. I think this song is really good! ive been listening to it all day and added it as a bonus track to NLOTH. Its not album material cuz it doesnt fit but its not B-side either. its a companion to the era i think. just like Window in the Skies is a companion to the 5th leg of the Vertigo tour and stuff.
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