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Post by ~ / % ? * on Aug 31, 2019 16:27:07 GMT
Released August 31, 1987
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 31, 2019 16:59:15 GMT
What’s not to love?
This is their peak. The shining moment when they nailed it.
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Post by *LARK* on Aug 31, 2019 17:04:24 GMT
awfy
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Post by bungo the mungo on Aug 31, 2019 18:21:23 GMT
i despise them. there's nothing there for me except something to kick against.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2019 18:24:38 GMT
It's alright, I'm not going to go on some faux rant about how dreadful it is. I can see it has a certain amount of drive, Edge's playing is pretty engaging. But it's not a record to excite me much either. It lacks dynamics and light and shade. It announces everything it's going to do in the first twenty seconds..and just continues.
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Post by *LARK* on Aug 31, 2019 18:33:36 GMT
It's actually kind of low-key, and serves as a decent album opener - but no more. There's nothing exciting about it at all (unlike, say, 'Pride' or 'Sunday Bloody Sunday').
The two tracks that follow are much more anthemic and memorable.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2019 20:05:05 GMT
I can see those fighter planes...lol
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fange
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Post by fange on Aug 31, 2019 22:21:57 GMT
I've been a fan since the early 80s. it's a damn good record, but i never play it any more. In fact, the only U2 albums i've played in their entirety over the last... shit, must be at least 15 years, are Boy and Pop. I still like a lot of their big songs and think they made very good records up to the mid 90s, i just never really want to hear them. I think in some ways, despite the bigger budgets and Labois and Eno, they never really made a better record than Boy. They equaled it but never bettered it, at least for me.
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Post by fange on Aug 31, 2019 23:30:39 GMT
I've been a fan since the early 80s. it's a damn good record, but i never play it any more. In fact, the only U2 albums i've played in their entirety over the last... shit, must be at least 15 years, are Boy and Pop. I still like a lot of their big songs and think they made very good records up to the mid 90s, i just never really want to hear them. I think in some ways, despite the bigger budgets and Labois and Eno, they never really made a better record than Boy. They equaled it but never bettered it, at least for me. If you are a vinyl lover, their reissues are some of the best in the business ala King Crimson's. (master tapes, faithful repro, etc.,) No, my original vinyl of everything is all i need. I did get the expanded reissue CD of Boy, but again that's all i'm interested in these days.
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loveless
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Bringing ballet to the masses. Sticking to the funk.
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Post by loveless on Sept 1, 2019 10:25:17 GMT
For all of my general annoyance with the franchise, this song/recording absolutely holds up. The drive, the build, the anticipatory chord at the end of every cycle once it gets going. For me, their last great moment.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 1, 2019 14:55:58 GMT
God bless you JSJ
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Post by tg on Sept 1, 2019 17:45:54 GMT
They announce at he beginning of the second video that they are at 7th & Main in Los Angeles. The song should be called Where The Streets Have Names Like 7th & Main.
And just to make it about me - I was working in downtown L.A. that day and it was a freaking nightmare. Worse that usual traffic, parking, etc. and having to hear U2 do this song over and over. I’m not a big fan.
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Post by DarknessFish on Sept 1, 2019 18:30:42 GMT
It's ok, as far as U2 and their love of echo go. Stadium skiffle, pompous and overblown.
I'm surprised by the love for Sunday Bloody Sunday, though, which had to have the blandest take on a tragedy of any such song.
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Post by *LARK* on Sept 1, 2019 19:16:43 GMT
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loveless
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Bringing ballet to the masses. Sticking to the funk.
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Post by loveless on Sept 2, 2019 13:33:45 GMT
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