Originally posted by SJKamal:A year ago today people couldn't tell whether SOS was an April fools day joke or not.
https://twitter.com/u2songs/status/1509827053260095540?s=46&t=urfQsRgeL9jushBoIz1kCw
Originally posted by SJKamal:A year ago today people couldn't tell whether SOS was an April fools day joke or not.
https://twitter.com/u2songs/status/1509827053260095540?s=46&t=urfQsRgeL9jushBoIz1kCw
Originally posted by SJKamal:A year ago today people couldn't tell whether SOS was an April fools day joke or not.
https://twitter.com/u2songs/status/1509827053260095540?s=46&t=urfQsRgeL9jushBoIz1kCw
Originally posted by TheJoshuaSteve:First post.
So I have been following this topic from the beginning, interested in seeing peoples thoughts and hopes and disappointments as the snippets of songs were progressively released ahead of 17 March.
I was totally with the seeming consensus of fears of a long, boring, unproduced, unnecessary rehashing of songs we all love in low energy acoustic versions without Larry & Adam. So I thought this would likely be an album to skip.
Now the album is out and I think a lot of the reviews have been more positive than expected. So I have listened to every song multiple times on YouTube. Yes, a lot of the new versions don’t do a lot for me, particularly the anthems like One, Sunday, Streets etc. but some of the tracks are really growing on me and I am reassessing my initial trashing of the concept.
I think Bono’s voice is great in many songs, and Edge’s guitar, keys and other stuff is quite varied in terms of style and pace. So I do believe this will become accepted as an important part of U2’s legacy. It is not a throw away. It is not an ego exercise. It is a companion album giving a different perspective to many of the songs across pretty much the whole U2 journey.
It is not a traditional greatest hits with a few B sides covering a decade or more of historical recordings. I like that these are songs we know, sometimes from way back, but sung with Bono’s today voice. Sure, 40 songs is too much for me, but there are quite a few really interesting and worthy reimaginings.
Anyway, I have made an album playlist which I am loving.
I Will Follow
Two Hearts Beat As One
Invisible
Every Breaking Wave
Electrical Storm
The Fly
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Until the End of the World
Bad
11 O’Clock Tick Tock
Lights of Hone
AllI Want is You
(12 songs, 53 minutes)
I think I am enjoying this as much as, if not more than, SOI and SOE.
What do you think, and what is your “single album” playlist?
Originally posted by SJKamal:A year ago today people couldn't tell whether SOS was an April fools day joke or not.
https://twitter.com/u2songs/status/1509827053260095540?s=46&t=urfQsRgeL9jushBoIz1kCw
Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
A lot of people thought it was song's that hadn't made the last 2 albums and they'd gone back into the studio and reworked and finished them off, one thing U2 were for most of their career was progressive and not relying on their past too much well that's pretty much gone out the window in the last 5 years with the JT tour / ALTYCLB Boxsets and extensive vinyl and various other formats been re released, not solely the bands fault as no doubt the record company are the main driving force behind it.
Originally posted by TheRealEdge:@BloodyValentine fair comment but to me this 'abum' is just passengers part II
...and that was mostly a bore fest too
Originally posted by BloodyValentine:[..]
Yeah I get it. I started out very enthusiastic about it from the snippets and again right after the release. But, as sad as it is for me to admit it, I've never before lost interest so quickly in listening to a new U2 album. And that includes No Line On The Horizon which I haven't returned to in over a decade. Actually, maybe I need to put that one back in my queue . . . At least it has a pulse.
Originally posted by TheRealEdge:[..]
the problem with NLOH is that it plays like an album made by different bands
you've got breathe then crazy tonight
you've got GOYB then fez
the plodding predictable magnificent (which it ain't) and the good idea badly executed unknown caller
stand up comedy is just that and then you have the title track which is good and the brilliant but overly dreary moment of surrender
and with the rest, it's just an album that's impossible to play as one
they lost their way on that album and that's because edge got lost up his own ass with eno and lanois (who are usually great)
it won't have its anniversary tour that's for sure
Originally posted by bpt3:Add me to the list of those who love NLOTH but think it could've benefited immensely from a different tracklist and a more thorough embrace of the Moroccan-influenced ambience they were originally going for...
...but to bring this back to discussion of Songs of Surrender, I am curious as to others' thoughts on why NLOTH did not receive a single "re-imagined" song for SoS.
Personally, I would have loved a new Moment of Surrender, Breathe, and White As Snow.