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Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« on: July 01, 2024, 05:35:12 AM »
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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2024, 05:36:09 AM »
Personal Jesus. An epic song nothing on POP can match, despite it being the last interesting record they made
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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2024, 07:40:06 AM »
I like Personal Jesus and it's a classic but I always found the production of the track weak.
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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2024, 10:49:30 AM »
Some days PJ and some days WUDM.
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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2024, 12:50:13 PM »
I never understood the love for WUDM. Musically, it’s clumsy and disjointed. The meaning of the song is OK I guess and Bonos voice works well on it, but it never clicked for me like, for example, VD does
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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2024, 12:58:09 PM »
Both great.
WUDM has more depth, IMO.
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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2024, 01:06:27 PM »
Johnny Cash did a great cover of PJ. Much better than the wanderer, in fact.
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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2024, 01:21:40 PM »
Quote from: Larry Lovebucket on July 01, 2024, 01:06:27 PM
Johnny Cash did a great cover of PJ. Much better than the wanderer, in fact.

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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2024, 01:37:37 PM »
Quote from: So Cruel on July 01, 2024, 01:21:40 PM
Quote from: Larry Lovebucket on July 01, 2024, 01:06:27 PM
Johnny Cash did a great cover of PJ. Much better than the wanderer, in fact.



Which Cash song did van hairline cover?
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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2024, 02:25:36 PM »
Quote from: Larry Lovebucket on July 01, 2024, 01:37:37 PM
Quote from: So Cruel on July 01, 2024, 01:21:40 PM
Quote from: Larry Lovebucket on July 01, 2024, 01:06:27 PM
Johnny Cash did a great cover of PJ. Much better than the wanderer, in fact.



Which Cash song did van hairline cover?

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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2024, 02:59:43 PM »
Quote from: Larry Lovebucket on July 01, 2024, 12:50:13 PM
I never understood the love for WUDM. Musically, it’s clumsy and disjointed. The meaning of the song is OK I guess and Bonos voice works well on it, but it never clicked for me like, for example, VD does
I agree with you on WUDM. I always skip it.
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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2024, 03:00:13 PM »
Personal Jesus- this is the era of DM that i love.
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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2024, 03:12:20 PM »
Indeed.

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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2024, 05:22:11 AM »
I think that Wake Up Dead Man is one of the great, one of the last great U2 songs of the nineties.  That howling spaghetti-western outro capped an intense four- or five- song closing stretch that tied POP together and saved it, by the skin of its teeth.

So yes, Wake Up Dead Man.  It's not even close.  I don't mind the Depeche Mode song, mind you.

K, that's my unpopular U2 opinion for the week.
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Re: Personal Jesus vs Wake Up Dead Man
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2024, 05:31:13 AM »
Quote from: Rupert Pupkin on July 02, 2024, 05:22:11 AM
I think that Wake Up Dead Man is one of the great, one of the last great U2 songs of the nineties.  That howling spaghetti-western outro capped an intense four- or five- song closing stretch that tied POP together and saved it, by the skin of its teeth.

So yes, Wake Up Dead Man.  It's not even close.  I don't mind the Depeche Mode song, mind you.

K, that's my unpopular U2 opinion for the week.

I agree. Wake Up Dead Man is a great U2 song. I love the lyrics of questioning God about the meaningless suffering in the world and the arrangement might be harsh but  also beautiful. Not a song I would just put on casually, its for moments of crisis like several of U2's best.
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