NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated

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NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« on: June 21, 2024, 07:42:14 PM »
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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2024, 07:46:58 PM »
Cedars, easily.
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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2024, 09:15:57 PM »
Moment Of Surrender is a top three U2 song for me so it wins, but there's some good competition here. Unknown Caller and Fez are also among U2's very finest output IMO.
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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2024, 09:29:08 PM »
I picked Fez. Shoutout to MOS and Cedars.
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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2024, 09:32:55 PM »
MOS.

Arguably their finest song of the past 20 years.
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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2024, 09:58:08 PM »
I picked Fez. Shoutout to MOS and Cedars.

Same, reminds me of Boomerang 2.
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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2024, 12:17:12 AM »
Magnificent beating MOS by a narrow margin. 

I always enjoyed the beach clip of it that leaked. 

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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2024, 02:14:43 AM »
MOS. However, like the strings on U2’s AIWIY and the Pavarotti cameo of Miss Sarajevo, the stadium singalong bit at the end should have been dropped.
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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2024, 10:33:16 AM »
MOS.

Arguably their finest song of the past 20 years.

Easily.  And i do quite like Magnificent and Cedars as well.  Overall a good album save for the middle 3 disaster.



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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2024, 10:46:31 AM »
Fez. The only great song on the album.

I like Magnificent just fine and MoS is ok I guess although I find it clunky. The rest I would rate from boring to terrible. Cedars gets my vote for most overrated song on this forum. 

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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2024, 11:20:28 AM »
Winter is OVERRATED. A song so boring, watching grass grow is more interesting.
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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2024, 02:33:25 PM »
Magnificent beating MOS by a narrow margin. 

I always enjoyed the beach clip of it that leaked.

Yeah it was listening to this track on the night of the leak that got me excited for this album. I remember hearing that its working title was "French Disco," and it definitely had that feel when I first heard it. I know this song gets a bad rap, but I love it and think it's a top-3 track on NLOTH.
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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2024, 02:40:44 PM »
Winter is OVERRATED. A song so boring, watching grass grow is more interesting.

Yeah it is kind of boring. I used to think it should have been included on NLOTH, but it’s really no better than the average filler track from Bomb. Not terrible, but not amazing.
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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2024, 02:47:53 PM »
I hate those forced keyboard fills in Magnificent. Completely ruins the song for me.
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Re: NLOTH / BEST: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2024, 06:44:48 PM »
Moment of Surrender.

Lots of songs I like on this album but this one stands out as perfect for me.
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