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U2 - Magnificent
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No Line On The Horizon (2009)
  1. Best U2 song in years? No way it's a match for with Moment Of Surrender, and I think Breathe, Unknown Caller, No Line On The Horizon and Fez-Being Born are (slightly) better too.
  2. Originally posted by dieder:Best U2 song in years? No way it's a match for with Moment Of Surrender, and I think Breathe, Unknown Caller, No Line On The Horizon and Fez-Being Born are (slightly) better too.


    I mean it turns of like overall, i know people who hate U2 but love that song. It can be a single and can be a live classic and offers itself to good remixes. it is a great song overall. The othe songs are amazing as well but i think this has trhe "it" factor that Beautiful Day Vertigo The Fly One Streets all have.
  3. It will kick ass live for sure. A faster tempo and a more raw guitar from Edge will do wonders.
  4. Anyone know if the Pete Tong remix of Magnificent is available to download?

    Thanks WIRE
  5. In a couple months this could be as big as beatiful day


  6. Unless the band somehow mess it up! They messed up City Of Blinding Lights. it could have been a massive single but it was completely ignored. I hope Magnificent is promoted heavily by the band.


  7. That's a big call. Nothing has come close to matching BD's popularity this decade, but I suppose anything's possible. Some hits take people by surprise.

    I think it could rival Vertigo however, if radios take to it. It's got all the elements there to make it a massive hit.
  8. I'm not sure, Itll be twice as good live, (seems to be the case with all U2). this is a love/hate song i think. I love it, but i can see why U2 haters would hate it. fingers crossed for a bigger single anyway, get NLOTH back up the charts!!!x
  9. Originally posted by aussiemofo:[..]

    That's a big call. Nothing has come close to matching BD's popularity this decade, but I suppose anything's possible. Some hits take people by surprise.

    I think it could rival Vertigo however, if radios take to it. It's got all the elements there to make it a massive hit.


    Well said, BD was a runaway success (people seem to forget how big it was), it's up there with songs like ISHFWILF and WOWY as a U2 signature song.

    With regards to Vertigo; it had a lot of help from the Ipod crossmarketing campaign, and so Magnificent may have trouble replicating its success.
  10. Originally posted by aussiemofo:[..]

    That's a big call. Nothing has come close to matching BD's popularity this decade, but I suppose anything's possible. Some hits take people by surprise.

    I think it could rival Vertigo however, if radios take to it. It's got all the elements there to make it a massive hit.


    i wasnt a u2 fan in 2000, and cant remember how big BD was, but i do know that everyone ive ever talked to likes it, how big was it? and i rekon magnificent has the right stuff to be a classic.
  11. Originally posted by Andrew_C:[..]

    i wasnt a u2 fan in 2000, and cant remember how big BD was, but i do know that everyone ive ever talked to likes it, how big was it? and i rekon magnificent has the right stuff to be a classic.


    It was huge
    And...I even think it's their most succesfull single ever, is that possible?
    It ranked #1 in every country, the radios down here were playing it all day long. It was truly insane (if I remember right, I was 9 back then )
    And it was their first #1 hitsingle here in Holland
  12. Beautiful Day brought U2 back into the public eye in a bigger way than you could probably ever imagine - it might not be their greatest song ever, but the way it was promoted can't be underestimated with regard to its success. Vertigo probably came close, but Beautiful Day reconnected U2 with the wider world, whether you think Pop was a low point or not

    I think it's a bit much to say Magnificent will be as big as Beautiful Day or Vertigo, although I'd say it's as good a tune, if not better perhaps, but I think NLOTH has been more lowkey and whether or not you think GOYB was a good or bad choice as first single, it probably wasn't ever going to have the impact of BD or Vertigo, as I don't think any choice from NLOTH would have - U2 have been 'back', and it's not a case of trying to get themselves back to former glories, it's more a case of presenting new material for everyone to check out and making one's own mind up on them. The thing I've found with NLOTH is that nothing particularly strikes me as single material to represent the album (apart from perhaps Breathe) which I quite like - to really get a feel for the album, you need to listen to the whole thing itself, which I think speaks more for the album than any single or commercial success. It's an achievement for music over the commercial turn the music industry has taken in recent times.
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