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U2 - The Showman (Little More Better)
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Songs Of Experience (2017)
  1. One of the worst U2 songs ever, even more so than Red Light.

    That line about a birthday cake is probably the worst lyric Bono's ever come up with (and we all know he's got some right doozies). Wasn't it some already-dull 'band' that this pretty much originated from. It's like a Maroon 5 'song' (or Maroon 9, depending on how 'instrumentalists' and 'singers' are in that 'band' now) and that makes it almost as bad as Hamish Hamilton's 'directing' 'efforts'.
  2. sometimes a funny song it's better than a "serious" song... like Summer of love, between them, to hear live, i prefer The Showman
  3. I liked all of U2's poppy output.

    Not this though. The bottom? Sing along line followed by that cheesy 80s synth sound. Or The showman gives you front row to his heart
    The showman prays his heartache will chart

    The only good bit is I'll be chasing the sunlight
    That's why I'm staying up all night line.
  5. I'd rather hear Wild Honey, Crumbs From Your Table, Volcano or Stand Up Comedy over this - and I like those four songs.

    I like pop songs - but when it's so horribly sticky and sweet, you think come on. These are 50-something men singing this. Not 19 or 26 year olds singing, and even then I'd wonder. Kind of like Madonna having a constant life crisis.

    And if I heard them play Boots in place of this, I'd be happy because at least that has life, some soul, some experimental sound, something different, heavy, groovy, funky etc. This sounds like something that they thought WE MUST GET THIS ON THE RADIO. They should realise people who listen to the top whatever it is now, top 15, 40, whatever, don't care for U2. They didn't care for Best Thing, Song For Someone (and slow music is now the trend at 12bpm), American Soul (was that even a single?), Red Light, The Miracle whatever else came off SoE, SoI etcetera.

    What even was U2's last 'hit' or 'radio attempt that went somewhere'? Was it Vertigo?
  6. Originally posted by drewhiggins:I'd rather hear Wild Honey, Crumbs From Your Table, Volcano or Stand Up Comedy over this - and I like those four songs.

    I like pop songs - but when it's so horribly sticky and sweet, you think come on. These are 50-something men singing this. Not 19 or 26 year olds singing, and even then I'd wonder. Kind of like Madonna having a constant life crisis.

    And if I heard them play Boots in place of this, I'd be happy because at least that has life, some soul, some experimental sound, something different, heavy, groovy, funky etc. This sounds like something that they thought WE MUST GET THIS ON THE RADIO. They should realise people who listen to the top whatever it is now, top 15, 40, whatever, don't care for U2. They didn't care for Best Thing, Song For Someone (and slow music is now the trend at 12bpm), American Soul (was that even a single?), Red Light, The Miracle whatever else came off SoE, SoI etcetera.

    What even was U2's last 'hit' or 'radio attempt that went somewhere'? Was it Vertigo?
    Ordinary Love had a lot of airplay in Holland and is still a regular
  8. In the US, Get on your boots was technically their last song to break into the top 40. We don’t hear that one anywhere!


  9. The answer is yes despite how hard anyone may try to believe otherwise
  10. Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own - I reckon ‘technically’ that was their last ‘hit’ as it was a UK number 1.
  11. A lot of people seem to omit City Of Blinding lights when they talk about U2’s last hits but that was released after vertigo and I would say is still a very well known and liked song. I don’t think anything after the HTDAAB album can really be considered a well known hit worldwide regardless of what chart position it achieved. Doesn’t mean there wasn’t some great songs though and hit single material if they released them at a different time of their career.
  12. Originally posted by gmc:Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own - I reckon ‘technically’ that was their last ‘hit’ as it was a UK number 1.
    Then City of Blinding Lights was number 2 (I think All Because of You was number 4 remarkably), but Get On Your Boots was the beginning of the singles demise at number 12.