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I'll toss Playboy Mansion on this excellent pile. I don't know enough -- which is to say anything -- about bass playing to assess his technical skill level; I just know his lines have made my ears happy. Would we agree he's come the furthest, musically, of the four of them, from their first...

You know how certain U2 songs you can feel "eh" about them forever and then suddenly one day "boom!"? That just happened to me, like today, with Book of Your Heart. Great song. Showman is gonna divide U2 fans, lol. I think it's fun though -- with some potential self-loathing beneath it that...

In the naaaaame of lunch

Zooropa will turn 25 this summer, if my time machine's not broken. They'll be playing the Mohegan Sun two days before its birthday. I hope they commemorate it in some memorable fashion during the tour. Mini-set? Crashed Cars live would be a gem for lucky attendees. ("You've got a head-full of...

Good gravy, 35!!?? I remember hearing New Year's Day on the radio for the first time, and Edge's guitar solo, and thinking "that runs a shiver down my spine like no song ever has." And Sunday Bloody Sunday was being played then too. Same fascination with the "otherness" of their sound, esp. at...

Eh. I'm on live and let live terms with this one. I don't hate it. I don't love it. 6.17 out of 10. I'll sometimes have to cringe to get past the "Ah-ah-ah-ah-a-aaaahhhh" -- it feels so weightless and un-U2 to me -- but darned if this song doesn't otherwise lodge itself in your brain and stay...

Outstanding effort! :up:

I've been thinking 'bout some Legos Just the kind like everyone knows Building a robot with a red nose Just two more pieces for two big toes Two big toes, oh ohhhh

Stuck in the wayback machine with "Goodbye is Forever," from Arcadia. Which... sounds a lot like Duran Duran :lol:

The Little Things ... every second of it. "When all you've left is leaving. And all you've got is grieving ..." section of 13. That one stings, but beautifully. "I will win and call it losing if the prize is not for you"- Landlady, that whole bit really Nooooo-oh-oh-oh-oooo. Red Flag Day. If...

Elvis Presley and America. Then Slug. Obviously. Ah now THAT would by must-see U2TV.

As I've been literally awake since four in the morning (wake up, East Coast!), what better time than to chime in (again) on this song. About a month and a half with SOE now, and this is still to me the top track. I'm kind of obsessed with it. lol. First to really grab me was Red Flag Day (sorry...

Late to this but laugh of the day :applaud:

I confess that on the first listen to this it didn't make much of an impact. It sounded like a latter-years U2-by-numbers effort, all lush and polished. The kind of thing Bono and Edge could write in their sleep. Like its inclusion on the album was structural as much as anything else...

It would be too impressionistic and nonsensical for Larry too. "What the f*** are you goin' on about?" lol. Good observation. Agree that when he cringes about those things it's likely genuine. Can you even imagine something like Elvis Presley and America seeing the light of day today? (Not...