Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread

Lament · Post by **Lament** » Thu February 20, 2014 12:39 am

I probably didn't word my Stuck criticism well enough. The best U2 songs contain what actually amount to pretty subtle musical shifts. They're far more about texture and rhythm and implied chord changes than an actual concrete structure. Stuck is a departure in that the production seems to dumb things down to the point of trying to hammer home every time there's a chord change. This would work with a subdued vocal performance, but Bono tries to take this song to the woodshed, which only works when he's not fighting against everyone else trying to take the music to the woodshed as well. It makes a song about consoling a friend who wants to take his own life sound like a war of enthusiasm.

verb_to_trust · Post by **verb_to_trust** » Thu February 20, 2014 2:09 am

digster · Post by **digster** » Thu February 20, 2014 4:41 am

cutuphalfdead wrote:I know I'm a couple of pages late but REM over U2 every single fucking time.

Yeah...I like U2 quite a bit but to me it's not really close.

Post by **Jorge** » Thu February 20, 2014 6:52 am

Look, we know who the cows prefer, so.

Post by **stip** » Thu February 20, 2014 12:01 pm

I love that song Orinoco flow by Celtic woman

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Thu February 20, 2014 3:40 pm

What other songs do cows prefer?

I Heard It Through The Bovine

McParadigm · Post by **McParadigm** » Thu February 20, 2014 4:27 pm

I read once that they do better with Mozart than with Kiss.

Any cow that looks down on God of Thunder is no cow of mine.

surfndestroy · Post by **surfndestroy** » Thu February 20, 2014 4:31 pm

stip wrote:a country mile was too extreme. It is close. It's sometimes easy to forget just how good U2 is at their best moments.

I thought it was decided in the REM thread that the answer is Van Halen or Aerosmith.

Bob Loblaw · Post by **Bob Loblaw** » Thu February 20, 2014 5:07 pm

In no order, my top 10 U2 songs:

Gone
Please
Running to Stand Still
Love is Blindness
Bad
Zooropa
Stay
The Fly
All I Want is You
The Wanderer

And witnessing the intros to Zoo Station and Streets live is a pretty much unparalleled concert-going experience.

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Thu February 20, 2014 5:23 pm

Can't resist a top 10.

Angel of Harlem
Running to Stand Still
Lemon
Stay
Until the End of the World
A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
Miss Sarajevo
A Sort of Homecoming
The Playboy Mansion
City of Blinding Lights

surfndestroy · Post by **surfndestroy** » Thu February 20, 2014 6:16 pm

Gloria
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Pop tour version, acoustic with Edge on vocals espcially, or R&H or Live at Slane
Gone
Bad
Streets
Stay
Kite
One - I think this is a top ten song of all time.
Acrobat
The First time

McParadigm · Post by **McParadigm** » Thu February 20, 2014 6:46 pm

These are the eleven drawing me in recently.

The Unforgettable Fire
Where the Streets Have No Names
Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Red Hill Mining Town
One
the Fly
Acrobat
Love is Blindness
Lemon
Stay
Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own

Bob Loblaw · Post by **Bob Loblaw** » Thu February 20, 2014 7:03 pm

Kevin Davis wrote: City of Blinding Lights

Great call.

Post by **stip** » Thu February 20, 2014 8:17 pm

Bob Loblaw wrote:
Kevin Davis wrote: City of Blinding Lights
Great call.

I'm a big fan of that album. It's a good example of how to do derivative well. Best song on that record.

Stay and Gloria were close to my top 10, and I kind of forgot to include Acrobat, which should probably be there.

Maybe that version of Gone from the GH, which I like more than the one on Pop.

Post by **stip** » Thu February 20, 2014 8:17 pm

man, it's so much easier to enjoy a band in a thread than in a forum.

EJ · Post by EJ » Thu February 20, 2014 8:29 pm

I'd really have a hard time just plucking 10 songs from JT, Achtung, and Zooropa alone. Achtung itself is nearly flawless in my opinion.

I'd also echo Bob Loblaw about some of those opening chords in concert, and add the intro to Even Better Than The Real Thing. I love how they draw that out in concert. Pretty amazing.

Lament · Post by **Lament** » Thu February 20, 2014 9:09 pm

Bob Loblaw wrote:In no order, my top 10 U2 songs:

Gone
Please
Running to Stand Still
Love is Blindness
Bad
Zooropa
Stay
The Fly
All I Want is You
The Wanderer

And witnessing the intros to Zoo Station and Streets live is a pretty much unparalleled concert-going experience.

I like your style. I like it a lot.

Rangi Guy · Post by **Rangi Guy** » Thu February 20, 2014 9:19 pm

In no particular order....

One Tree Hill
With or Without You
Love is Blindness
Zooropa
Zoo Station
Bullet the Blue Sky
Love is Blindness
Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
Discothèque
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

Lament · Post by **Lament** » Thu February 20, 2014 9:21 pm

The amount of love being shown to tracks from Zooropa in this thread has made my heart grow three sizes.

Post by **stip** » Thu February 20, 2014 9:27 pm

I love Zooropa, Lemon, and Stay. I like Dirty Day and the first time. The rest of that album is kinda ehhh for me.

The johnny cash song is cool, but I don't really think of it as a u2 song.

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