New U2 single

I only own one U2 record ('Mysterious Ways' single) and am not really a fan but I thought the new single was very good on TOTP. I reckon it's the best thing they've done.

http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/int...ntleanatomicbomb/audio/vertigo/96_vertigo.asx

 

I used to have a lot of respect for u2, circa Achtung Baby, Zooropa and The Passengers project, where they started to push themselves a bit and the influences of bands such as The Jesus and Mary Chain/My Bloody Valentine etc. came to the fore in the music. However, they only seem to be influenced by themselves now and are firmly planted up their own arses. IMO, their last album was utter crap (yes - I did buy it) and they've been on a downward spiral since Pop (which has some good tunes on it); even their Greatest hits (1990 to 2000) was poor due to some MAJOR ommissions; how could they miss out "The Fly", their major turning point and 2nd UK no.1 ?!? Crazy.

For such a large and popular band, that was a position to really push popular music, they bottled it and became a juke-box stuck on repeat.

Shame.

 

voodoo - agree with you there. 'The Fly' should never have been left off. It also took me ages to hunt down Achtung Baby on CD a while back as well. Think I ended up buying a used pressing in the end.

 

This is very Rush like in its's structure, although not as good(I'm Rush fan), best u2 for me was Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, and Rattle and Hum, Pop was ok but they went a bit awol after that IMHO, best single tracks for me are BAD and ALL I WANT IS YOU.

 

Hi,

"The Fly" is on current versions of the "Best of 1990-2000" album. It was added as a bonus track.

SCIDB

 

I thought Zooropa and all that Mephisto rubbish was just that,rubbish,I much prefer them back to normal tbh

 

Interesting.

I wonder what prompted them to reissue it with that track ?