Originally posted by Alvin:All of you skip Stand Up, but I like it. Could have been great live rocker... I still love NLOTH, Magnificent, Breathe, Fez, Unknown Caller, Stand Up, Cedars, I could live without Boots, WAS, MOS, Winter and Crazy studio version (was cool in live remix version). Mercy and Soon would be nice addition.
To me it's second best album since Pop (first is SOI) and still may be in or very close to Top 5 U2 albums.
Originally posted by CMIPalaeo:I really have no problems with any of the tracks on NLOTH - even Boots and SUC. Are they U2's greatest songs ever? Nope, not by any means, but I think they're both really fun, you just have to be in the mood for them. Boots as a lead single was an absolute mistake but I can't shake the feeling people might like it better if it hadn't been the lead single, and Magnificent, the obvious single choice, or Breathe or NLOTH (which should have been singles) was instead.
On the note of MOS+UC back to back... It took me a while to warm up to it but I've come to really like the way they flow together into one narratively-linked ballad. I'd have loved to see this played live like that, if MOS wasn't such an epic closer. I like the idea of them doing a sort of 'heart of darkness' late in the set that culminates with MOS, then UC brings the light back in, and is followed by an upbeat rocker like Beautiful Day.
Additionally, Stand Up Comedy would have been an excellent live song, I'm sure of it. It's a little cheesy, yeah, but I think it's just the right amount of cheesy to be fun and lighthearted but not throwaway.
Originally posted by buzzandmusic:i love this album, i have the superdeluxe edition and the dvd of "linear" with the song "winter" is one of bst thing of u2 for me. I'm realy emotiotioned every time i watch and hear it. Love.In my opinion is one of the most expressive work of the band. When you watch the film it seems to me to understand deeply the hystory, the life, the soul of Ireland and of u2. Sorry ,it's like a book or a film, a form of art that gives to me many meanings. Hope you all understand what i feel.
Originally posted by Alvin:My preffered setlist
01 Soon
02 Breathe
03 No Line On The Horizon
04 Get On Your Boots
05 Magnificent
06 Unknown Caller
07 White As Snow
08 Crazy Tonight (live remix version)
09 Moment Of Surrender
10 Fez / Being Born
11 Stand Up Comedy
12 Cedars Of Lebanon
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I like it! Loved this opening sequence of NLOTH songs (beginning with "Soon") that they did on 360 in 2009. I'll never forget my first live show with them experiencing that. As for the rest, I might personally switch MOS and SUC so that MOS and Cedars are kind of a two-part finale, but other than that a great track list.
Also, I can't really imagine what the I&E tour last year would've been like if it had included any NLOTH songs, but I do think it's a shame that they increasingly abandoned the album from 2010-onward. Like others have said, if only they had had the courage to pursue the Moroccan-inspired sounds further.