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  1. A great album. My top five:
    Fez and Cedars, tied
    UC
    Magnificent
    MOS
    Breathe/Soon, if it was on the album

  2. Love love love this album. It was my second U2 record. It'll always be very special to me and it's got some really unfairly overlooked stuff.

    Top Five:
    1. Cedars of Lebanon
    2. Moment of Surrender
    3. No Line On the Horizon
    4. White As Snow
    5. Breathe
  3. Originally posted by LikeASong:Heartfully agree. The 1st and 3rd thirds of NLOTH are brilliant. Only GOYB and, to a lesser extent, Crazy and SUC put me down - which is still very good for an album written and recorded while the band were hitting their 50s.


    I'd say only SUC is under par compared to the rest. But if you play the record completely it fits in. It's a great, great album and hugely underrated.
  4. I just want to chime in and say that Moment of Surrender is an absolute masterpiece and I would put it on the same level of One, Bad, and Streets.
  5. Also, Stand Up Comedy has surged in a huge way for me. At first, I thought the song was totally unbearable. Now it has the same vibe to me as Lucifer's Hands. It's very light and whimsical from a musical standpoint, but lyrically it's very well done.

    "Stand up, this is comedy
    The DNA lottery may have left you smart
    But can you stand up to beauty, dictator of the heart
    I can stand up for hope, faith, love
    But while I'm getting over certainty
    Stop helping God across the road,
    Like a little old lady"

    If you stop to read the words, you'll realize how deep that verse is.
  6. I guess no love for I'll Go Crazy? I used to like the album version but I now prefer the live remix version. It kinda reminds me of Discotheque. Edge even snippeted the Discotheque riff in one of the Mexico City 360 gigs.
  7. Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:I guess no love for I'll Go Crazy? I used to like the album version but I now prefer the live remix version. It kinda reminds me of Discotheque. Edge even snippeted the Discotheque riff in one of the Mexico City 360 gigs.
    Not only there, but in many shows in the 7th leg. They even teased us with Please too. The nerve!
    I still can't make peace with the Remix. The studio version is alright, but for a different kind of album. Perhaps a B-side for GOYB.
  8. Originally posted by ahn1991:Also, Stand Up Comedy has surged in a huge way for me. At first, I thought the song was totally unbearable. Now it has the same vibe to me as Lucifer's Hands. It's very light and whimsical from a musical standpoint, but lyrically it's very well done.

    "Stand up, this is comedy
    The DNA lottery may have left you smart
    But can you stand up to beauty, dictator of the heart
    I can stand up for hope, faith, love
    But while I'm getting over certainty
    Stop helping God across the road,
    Like a little old lady"

    If you stop to read the words, you'll realize how deep that verse is.
    SUC was my favorite No Line track at one point. I love that line.
  9. I like to chime in here every once in a while and be a negative Nancy.

    I still think NLOTH is U2's worst album. It lacks drive, it lacks direction (not in a good way), and it's the sound of a band not knowing who or what they want to be at a certain stage of their career. It was U2 at the end of the diving board dipping their foot in the water of experimentation but chickening out because they didn't know how deep the water was.

    Songs of Innocence is what NLOTH should have been. It's the logical step after HTDAAB. I suppose you could argue that U2 never would have made SoI if it weren't for NLOTH though. I would trade every single song on NLOTH to hear the album they did with Rubin though. An album full of songs sounding like Window in the Skies would have been awesome to me.

    I will say however 360 was an amazing show and one of U2's best tours to date - but even then the show was best when it incorporated the least amount of NLOTH songs.

    Not to mention All My Life came from those sessions
  10. Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
    Not only there, but in many shows in the 7th leg. They even teased us with Please too. The nerve!
    I still can't make peace with the Remix. The studio version is alright, but for a different kind of album. Perhaps a B-side for GOYB.
    And I didn't (and still don't) like the album version, while the live remix version was great and really worked on the shows.
  11. Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:I guess no love for I'll Go Crazy? I used to like the album version but I now prefer the live remix version. It kinda reminds me of Discotheque. Edge even snippeted the Discotheque riff in one of the Mexico City 360 gigs.
    I like Crazy Tonight. I've come to really like the Fish out of Water mix over the past year or so. The only problem with that mix is that it repeats the verse beginning "Everybody needs to cry or needs to spit..." which is a shame. I thought it was a lot of fun live, particularly with all of the snippets and the little segue between the Redanka mix and Dirty South mix into Sunday Bloody Sunday. A highlight of the shows I attended.
  12. 7 years... !!!
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