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  1. Originally posted by wyn525i:

    I think the way they are playing it now is PERFECT no backing tracks, just loud guitars, a driving bass and bitchin' raw drums. It's never been better.




    Totally agree 110%
  2. A lot of talk about modern lyrics, how good the last few albums have been etc, but I still think B shows he is capable of some astonishingly beautiful lines:

    "As you enter this life I pray you depart,
    With a wrinkled face, and a brand new heart"

    "Home, hard to know what it is if you've never had one,
    Home, I can't say where it is, but I know I'm going.
    Home, that's where the hurt is"

    the simple, blunt,yet powerful:

    "Sing, you're the reason I sing,
    You're the reason why the opera is in me"

    "Like every broken wave on the shore,
    This was as far as I could reach"

    "Life is short, but it's the longest thing you'll ever do,
    The worst, the curse was that your dreams came true,
    God is a mirror in which each man sees himself,
    Hell is a place where you don't need any help,
    When i first met you your face was like stone,
    Wherever I went to, you wanted to go,
    Your face, your grace, your lipstick case,
    Your can of mace as you put it down, 8:17 on the ground,
    Your faith in a clown, don't leave me now,
    Don't leave me now."

    "You want to kill me, and I want to die,
    We were meant for each other, you and I"
  3. Originally posted by dan_smee:A lot of talk about modern lyrics, how good the last few albums have been etc, but I still think B shows he is capable of some astonishingly beautiful lines:

    "As you enter this life I pray you depart,
    With a wrinkled face, and a brand new heart"

    "Home, hard to know what it is if you've never had one,
    Home, I can't say where it is, but I know I'm going.
    Home, that's where the hurt is"

    the simple, blunt,yet powerful:

    "Sing, you're the reason I sing,
    You're the reason why the opera is in me"

    "Like every broken wave on the shore,
    This was as far as I could reach"

    "Life is short, but it's the longest thing you'll ever do,
    The worst, the curse was that your dreams came true,
    God is a mirror in which each man sees himself,
    Hell is a place where you don't need any help,
    When i first met you your face was like stone,
    Wherever I went to, you wanted to go,
    Your face, your grace, your lipstick case,
    Your can of mace as you put it down, 8:17 on the ground,
    Your faith in a clown, don't leave me now,
    Don't leave me now."

    "You want to kill me, and I want to die,
    We were meant for each other, you and I"


    Sadly a good line, a good couplet, or even a good verse doesn't make a good song. I don't know whether it's because he's being let get away with things he wouldn't have before, but there's a lot more really dodgy stuff in their more recent work. And structurally, I find a lot of the recent songs quite lazy. If I never see another AA BB rhyme scheme I'll be a happy girl.
  4. Originally posted by wyn525i:
    I think the way they are playing it now is PERFECT no backing tracks, just loud guitars, a driving bass and bitchin' raw drums. It's never been better.





    They are using backing tracks, they just are not as pronounced. I think they got The Fly right on Vertigo. The version they are doing now is "almost" Identical to that version. Although I did like the Elevation version also.
  5. Originally posted by Blue_Room:[..]


    They are using backing tracks, they just are not as pronounced. I think they got The Fly right on Vertigo. The version they are doing now is "almost" Identical to that version. Although I did like the Elevation version also.


    I agree it's practically the same but just sounds a little bit more "raw"... personally i love the elevation version also!! I just love that intro like on the Boston DVD "walk out into the sports hall, lights go down, it's a whole different scene... Light in motion.."
  6. Originally posted by dan_smee:...

    "Life is short, but it's the longest thing you'll ever do,
    The worst, the curse was that your dreams came true,
    God is a mirror in which each man sees himself,
    Hell is a place where you don't need any help,
    When i first met you your face was like stone,
    Wherever I went to, you wanted to go,
    Your face, your grace, your lipstick case,
    Your can of mace as you put it down, 8:17 on the ground,
    Your faith in a clown, don't leave me now,
    Don't leave me now."

    ...


    (We're way off topic here)

    I was wondering where those lyrics at the end of MoS came from - I didn't know if Bono ad written them himself or borrowed them (like he often does in live shows) from somewhere else. In any case, they're great.
  7. I was wondering this the other day- remastering this album is going to bring up a lot of angels and demons from that time...for example, Edge has to go back to So Cruel and stir that emotion up again to really deliver a great remastered track. There's no doubt this puts them right back in Hansa studios, feeling those things they felt when they recorded these songs...and that's got to be massively uplifting and also potentially hurtful, all at once. There's more to this one than just "listen-mix-master-next".

    I assume they'd be more disconnected if they ever did a remaster of Pop..since, well, they're just not so fond of that whole era. But they know Achtung is a big deal. To them, to their fans...its what kept them around.


  8. Indeed. If they kept making records like Rattle and Hum (or even the great Joshua Tree) they would have become dinosaurs quite quickly. The release of something "different" allowed them to stay relevant during a time when grunge was king and all sorts of rap and R&B were becoming more and more radio-friendly.
  9. curious news from amazon

    hehehe


  10. That is of no news at all. Just somebody making a page to fool people. The whole "HIGH QUALITY Import. (VERY LIMITED ON VINYL)" should throw up the flag it's not legit.
  11. Originally posted by dan_smee:A lot of talk about modern lyrics, how good the last few albums have been etc, but I still think B shows he is capable of some astonishingly beautiful lines:




    i've always liked "time won't take the boy out of this man"


  12. Bono has moments of greatness in his later lyric writing, but it´s not a full song... Many of them are not even bad, but they lack the poetic traces he used to hve mainly from 86 - 97...
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