Top 10 Songs Post-POP

Quote from: The Exile on February 26, 2024, 02:31:07 PM

Quote from: This Dave on February 26, 2024, 10:11:59 AM

Quote from: The Exile on February 23, 2024, 02:39:43 PM

Quote from: Larry Lovebucket on February 23, 2024, 09:31:50 AM

UC has a decent melody. However, WTAF?

Restart and reboot yourself
You're free to go
Oh, oh
Shout for joy if you get the chance
Password, you enter here, right now
Oh, oh
You know your name so punch it in
Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak
Shush now
Oh, oh
Don't move or say a thing

Haha that's why it made my list, an utter embarrassment. I made this chantless edit years ago, it's all I could do to salvage an otherwise half-decent track:

https://mega.nz/file/ZhpEBLRK#m3Y72nUqZtLpVo5hUjk3HoTGmrRaxwdZHws87dERgms

From the first listen until today, that song always feels like an inside joke, for lack of a better term. Are these references to phone/computer terms supposed to be clever? It's obviously supposed to be analogous to one's life somehow, but "clunky" doesn't even begin to describe it.  Was there no one within the band (or production team) saying "Let's try something else"? Although I think Lanois has a lot to do with those lyrics.  MoS is also more of a Lanois song than a U2 song.

I think by that point in U2's career they had lost touch with people without knowing it. I remember Bono in concert trying to wow the crowd during Unknown Caller's preamble by recalling the chirping of the birds that made it onto the studio version's intro, and no one gave a shit or were really listening to him.

Most of U2's music post-Vertigo is incidental to their catalog and career. Like, when the definitive documentary about the band is made, it won't need to mention songs like Invisible, Crazy Tonight, or You're the Best Thing about Me.

To me, NLOTH is their worst album. Every song except for 2-3 is clunky as hell and lacks a functioning quality control both musically and lyrically. To think that this album was made by the same band with the same producers as Achtung Baby is mind-boggling. When I count, U2 have probably made 8-10 good to great songs in the past 20 years. The rest is, as you say, incidental.

Quote from: Melon on February 27, 2024, 08:34:37 AM

Quote from: The Exile on February 26, 2024, 02:31:07 PM

Quote from: This Dave on February 26, 2024, 10:11:59 AM

Quote from: The Exile on February 23, 2024, 02:39:43 PM

Quote from: Larry Lovebucket on February 23, 2024, 09:31:50 AM

UC has a decent melody. However, WTAF?

Restart and reboot yourself
You're free to go
Oh, oh
Shout for joy if you get the chance
Password, you enter here, right now
Oh, oh
You know your name so punch it in
Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak
Shush now
Oh, oh
Don't move or say a thing

Haha that's why it made my list, an utter embarrassment. I made this chantless edit years ago, it's all I could do to salvage an otherwise half-decent track:

https://mega.nz/file/ZhpEBLRK#m3Y72nUqZtLpVo5hUjk3HoTGmrRaxwdZHws87dERgms

From the first listen until today, that song always feels like an inside joke, for lack of a better term. Are these references to phone/computer terms supposed to be clever? It's obviously supposed to be analogous to one's life somehow, but "clunky" doesn't even begin to describe it.  Was there no one within the band (or production team) saying "Let's try something else"? Although I think Lanois has a lot to do with those lyrics.  MoS is also more of a Lanois song than a U2 song.

I think by that point in U2's career they had lost touch with people without knowing it. I remember Bono in concert trying to wow the crowd during Unknown Caller's preamble by recalling the chirping of the birds that made it onto the studio version's intro, and no one gave a shit or were really listening to him.

Most of U2's music post-Vertigo is incidental to their catalog and career. Like, when the definitive documentary about the band is made, it won't need to mention songs like Invisible, Crazy Tonight, or You're the Best Thing about Me.

To me, NLOTH is their worst album. Every song except for 2-3 is clunky as hell and lacks a functioning quality control both musically and lyrically. To think that this album was made by the same band with the same producers as Achtung Baby is mind-boggling. When I count, U2 have probably made 8-10 good to great songs in the past 20 years. The rest is, as you say, incidental.

I'd be curious to know which songs from the post-Pop era you'd include on an album if you only had, say, 10 slots? Without thinking too hard about it, I'd include:

Being Born
Crystal Ballroom
Book of Your Heart
The Troubles
Magnificent
Moment of Surrender
The Ground beneath Her Feet
Stateless
Never Let Me Go
Kite

But like I said, the only songs from the new millennium that will ever matter for the U2 story are Beautiful Day, Elevation, Vertigo, and COBL. Everything else is just them treading water.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Beautiful Day
A Man and A Woman
Mercy (demo)
Magnificent
Moment of Surrender
California (There is No End to Love)
Cedarwood Road
Ordinary Love (extraordinary remix)
Book of Your Heart


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Wild Honey
A Man and a Woman
Boots
SUC
The Miracle
Song For Someone
YTBTAM
Get Out
American Soul
The Showman

Honorable mentions to anything from SOS.

Wild Honey
A Man and a Woman
Boots
SUC
The Miracle
Song For Someone
YTBTAM
Get Out
American Soul
The Showman

Honorable mentions to anything from SOS.