Recent content by Michael Griffiths

As much as I love SOI, one of the reasons I feel it wasn't nominated for Album of the Year simply boils down to the fact that there is not that one BIG song on the album. There is no 'Streets' or 'Beautiful Day' or 'Vertigo' or 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' or 'Pride' or 'One'. I think 'Every Breaking...

I feel they should combine the slowed down tempo of the acoustic version (along with the beautiful, stretched out vocal deliveries) with a full band approach. Even in the acoustic versions, you really feel the song take flight when the drums kick in (which they started doing in the BBC version...

"Zero promotion"? I know what you mean, but a free (in many cases, automatic) download to over half a billion iTunes subscribers is pretty good promotion for any of the songs on SOI, I'd say! :wink:

The part that really gets me in this song -- and where the song gets transformed into something far more interesting -- are the following lines: The stars are bright But do they know... The universe is beautiful but cold? It's the acknowledgement that we don't really know, for sure, if God is...

I loved it when Bono said: "There were a lot of people who were uninterested in U2 who are now mad at U2, which, as far as we're concerned, is an improvement!" Not only is it true, I also love the attitude behind it.

Thanks a lot!! I would also love to hear 'Every Breaking Wave' if possible! mfgriffiths99@gmail.com :)

Again, my contention is not that 'Moment of Surrender' is not a good song. As I said, it's a very nice pop gospel song. Does it really stand out? I'm not so sure. The verses do stand out, but the chorus blends right into the mainstream like butter on toast (to use Bono's not so original line...

I can see where you're coming from, and I agree to some extent. A song like 'Where the Streets Have No Name', despite it's obvious chord repetition, still has a few changes and counter melodies here and there to balance it out. I will say that I really enjoy the background vocals during the...

Shame on us if we are surprised with "playful" U2 lyrics at this point. This is the same band that wrote a song called "Big Girls Are Best" in the 90s, and penned the line, "If OJ is more than a drink, and a Big Mac, bigger than you think," from the so called "high brow 90s" album, Pop....is it...

Yes, I still remember the clip they put on U2.com of Larry drumming during 'Magnificent' before the album came out. It had Bono singing the high "Oh, Ohs" as well. I thought it was amazing, and it still is.

That's a very good point. 'Magnificent' does have an ebb & flow about it that comes off naturally, and 'New Year's Day' has this as well -- not to say the two songs sound similar, not at all. They just share that one very important attribute of everything just flowing together, without being...

That's a beautiful and cohesive album. Brian Eno was right that U2 were nuts for leaving off 'Winter'. I wouldn't even have minded them keeping a pop song like 'I'll Go Crazy' in there, as it's a nice change of pace after 'Unknown Caller' and blends in quite well. That would make it 11 songs...

Or 'Unknown Caller'? The best songs of this album were all written in Fez, and they all had a certain feel to them. If 'Winter' had been included instead of 'Stand Up Comedy', and 'Boots' totally dropped, this album would have been just about as perfect a U2 album they have ever put out. On an...

Don't let other posters dissuade your original taste. Trust your instincts. I actually love the slide guitar solo. It reminds me of the great slide guitar work in 'Wicked Game' from Chris Isaak. Say what you want about him, but that's a classic song. The guitar just creates a mood for lack of a...

I remember reading that too, but the version in the beach clips is the same version that we got on the album. It's just that it was muffled by the sound of waves and a bad recording, which gave it more of that "wall of sound" quality we missed from the old analogue recordings like Achtung Baby &...