I honestly don't feel a huge need for this vinyl. If Amazon delivers I may even give it to my U2 friend who likes Ordinary Love more than I do. It's grown on me lately though. I figured out the magic marker line, so that doesn't bother me anymore, it really did at first.
hahaha, lol. It's not that bad. It's just too different to what we're used to. Speaking about NLOTH songs, Magnificent or Crazy Tonight would have suited this acoustic approach much more than Breathe, whose biggest appeal remained in Edge's superb guitar work... Which is now gone. What a shame.
It's an interesting idea. I'm not sure I like it much, but I can understand why it exists. A great song that's become an interesting hybrid of ideas. There's nothing inherently wrong with that.
That's probably my biggest complaint about this. It caught me off guard since I was expecting the same powerful music with just the Mandela lyrics - not a completely different version altogether.
Well, at first I just heard "magic marker" and the words "cheese" and "bad" appeared in my head.
But then I thought about the following line too:
Your heart is on my sleeve
Did you put it there with a magic marker?
For years I would believe that the would couldn't wash it away
And it turns out it's quite a nice lyric in my mind. Something written with a magic marker is hard to wash away. I think it's about the love between Winnie and Nelson Mandela when he was in jail. Maybe the world started being able to wash it away during that very long time, or at least there was some doubt, since the lyric sings about the belief being in the past. I guess that's one of the things jail does.
Something like that. Maybe I was the only one who hadn't thought about it.
BTW: I think it's stupid they haven't put Ordinary Love on Spotify, only on Youtube. Very irrelevant of them, if I may. At least here in Sweden that's a place where songs really should be if you want people to listen.
