Originally posted by Bloodraven:Thanks to the U2start's Top List 2017 thread, I've been enjoying Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees.
And that led me into a rabbit hole that ended up in "What if that was a U2 song?", like for practical purposes just replace Thom's voice with Bono's...
I have a feeling people (fans and otherwise) would be complaining that it's U2 trying to sound like Adele or Coldplay (Fix You?) or whatever, in the n'th attempt to get into the radio.
And then I thought... is it just that the world is "tired" of Bono's voice? In a different approach... if in any recent U2 song you replace Bono's voice with someone else's, would it sound less commercial?
Originally posted by cesar_garza01:Anyone has tried listening to NYD on Dec 31st minutes before midnight? I did that with the Popmart DVD and it was awesome.
Originally posted by CMIPalaeo:[..]
Interesting idea. I think you're sort of on the right track... I'd say it's something like we fans are so spoilt by their back catalogue that anything they've done in the later act of their career has to be measured up against that immense body of work so it'll be criticised more harshly than it probably deserves rather than interpreted on its own merits (hardly a novel idea around here, right?), and to the wider public U2 can't win for losing and everything they do has to be derided (which I've never understood but there ya go). I guess maybe it's a similar thing?