SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated

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SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« on: July 02, 2024, 11:23:45 AM »
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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2024, 11:25:05 AM »
I voted for the troubles. It’s not a bad song. Indeed it has the potential to be a very good song. But I find the phoned in female vocal repeated over and over spoils it somewhat.
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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2024, 11:28:33 AM »
Cedarwood. I like it fine but it’s sort of Dad Rock.
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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2024, 11:32:41 AM »
EBW.  The band seem to think highly of it.

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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2024, 11:33:51 AM »
I voted for the troubles. It’s not a bad song. Indeed it has the potential to be a very good song. But I find the phoned in female vocal repeated over and over spoils it somewhat.

I would have preferred an extended guitar conclusion.



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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2024, 01:16:21 PM »
Cedarwood Road. Not a bad song but too simple for my taste.

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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2024, 01:20:44 PM »
SLABT

Definitely a solid tune, yet I don't quite adore it the way many seem to.

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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2024, 01:26:54 PM »
SFS- just never liked it and the video didn't help.

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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2024, 03:09:54 PM »
EBW.  The band seem to think highly of it.


My vote too. The album version is trash.
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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2024, 05:02:20 PM »
SLABT

Definitely a solid tune, yet I don't quite adore it the way many seem to.

Same here. Overrated because it sounds like Zooropa U2, so many of us seem to cling to it like a lifeboat.
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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2024, 12:02:50 AM »


Same here. Overrated because it sounds like Zooropa U2, so many of us seem to cling to it like a lifeboat.

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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2024, 02:22:50 AM »
EBW.  The band seem to think highly of it.

I agree.

EBW is a perfect example of how u2 have completely lost their way in quality control. It’s actually a fantastic song utterly ruined by the presentation on SOI.


My vote too. The album version is trash.
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Re: SOI / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated, Overrated
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2024, 05:54:05 AM »
In my sense of understanding, i should be voting for a song i hear many praise, but i feel the praise is undeserved or overdone. And with that in mind, pretty much the one song, i hear most people rave about, from SoI album, is EBW.
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