Originally posted by Caledonia:[..]
Yeah interesting one that as I love NLOTH, but think there are two or three songs, that perhaps should have been left exclusively for Linear perhaps, which I also enjoy. I reckon Linear is Bono and Anton doing a little Wim Wenders. I love it, but know its not everyones cup of tea.
Maybe Fez, Cedars, White As Snow should have been left off, they are like the albums middle eight and kinda take the pace out of things a bit.
And I think I may have had Winter on NLOTH, and closed it with MoS (for me MoS is up there with the best of the best).
Whilst it wasn't too much of an envelope-pushing album musically (perhaps other than Fez-Being Born... Bono was definitely pushing the envelope somewhat as far as songwriting goes with writing stuff in third person in places. Maybe that's partially why it comes off as being a little disjointed in places.
For me the thing with NLOTH was it had some songs that could stand with U2's best songs ( Magnificent, MoS) along with some of their worst (Crazy Tonight, SUC. ) The rest of the album is pretty good, I quite like it ( especially Fez-Being Born. ) Album could have gone something like this:
Soon
Magnificent
Moment of Surrender
Unknown Caller
No Line On The Horizon
Get On Your Boots
Fez-Being Born
White As Snow
Breathe
Cedars of Lebanon
Similarly, if it were up to me SoI would have looked like this:
Lucifer's Hands
Invisible
Every Breaking Wave
Song For Someone
Iris
Volcano
Raised By Wolves
Cedarwood Road
Sleep like a baby
This is Where You Can Reach Me Now
The Crystal Ballroom
The Troubles
