dan_smee
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Thread to discuss the recently released Songs of Surrender. Post your impressions, links to published reviews, alternate track lists etc here!
I've cut the album in half. But I'm still working on it (and will probably end up including "40" in the the end as well)
1. Stories for Boys
2. I Will Follow
3. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
4. Out of Control
5. Invisible
6. Song for Someone
7. Two Hearts Beat As One
8. Desire
9. All I Want is You
10. Pride (In the Name of Love)
11. Walk On
12. Red Hill Mining Town
13. The Fly
14. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
15. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
16. Vertigo
17. Bad
18. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
19. Lights of Home
20. The Little Things That Give You Away
Sorry I wasn't clear. It's my alternate playlist. 40 songs is too many for repeat listens!
I don't know how I'd rank all of them. But my top five would probably look like this:
1. Bad
2. The Little Things That Give You Away
3. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
4. Invisible
5. Red Hill Mining Town
11OTT is really great. That song never clicked with me in any other form but I love it here. Along with SFS, POE, and Stuck it's one of the only ones I prefer here to the original.
I like The Miracle reimagining a lot. The new tempo and more mellow vibe helps it a lot, goes to show how wrong they produced it. And the original's chorus did need some work... but unfortunately I like the new chorus even less.
[emoji3531][emoji3531][emoji3531]When you have run out of creative ideas then the answer is not to go back and see if you can destroy your back catalogue. Boring versions that start the same way, Edge strumming an acoustic guitar, that go nowhere. Amazing to think this is the same band that gave us Achtung Baby, Zooropa and Pop. How 'bad' does it have to get for this band to realise that maybe it's time to call it a day.
Couldn't disagree more.When you have run out of creative ideas then the answer is not to go back and see if you can destroy your back catalogue. Boring versions that start the same way, Edge strumming an acoustic guitar, that go nowhere. Amazing to think this is the same band that gave us Achtung Baby, Zooropa and Pop. How 'bad' does it have to get for this band to realise that maybe it's time to call it a day.
My casual friends have listened to a few a d are very, “meh, I prefer the original.” Which is fair enough. This is for the die hards who have these songs in our blood. These versions at their best open up new meaning for me.
Hipster music guy knows more about music than everyone else in the world is not an original take
In order to make a shitty take like this, at least have some accuracy. They should nothing like Ed Sheeran here. What a lazy argument.Ok I've just realised what they are trying to do here. It hit me while watching the new Disney doc they did with Letterman. This is Bono and The Edges take on "U2 do Ed Sheeran" to get back to the top of the Pop Charts. In that way it makes absolute sense and looking at the album charts its worked. I have never ever seen the reason why Ed Sheeran's busker style shite music has sold so massively. But it seems that todays music buying public can't get enough of it.
. This is Bono and The Edges take on "U2 do Ed Sheeran" to get back to the top of the Pop Charts. .