23 replies to this topic

[Lovegod]

Ok here we go...let the argument begin!

No Line On The Horizon is without doubt the most experimental, challenging and intriguing U2 album since the early 1990s. Commercial? Yes of course, but it is not without it's faults.

So, Magnificent...

The critics love it, I hate it. The critics are hailing it as the best track on the album, I think it's the worst. There are some "out there" tracks on NLOTH and they are all on my iPod but Magnificent isn't.

I just don't get it, seriously. I don't know what all the fuss is about. Regular u2newzoolanders know how fanatical I am about U2 but also know I don't shy away from being critical when I think it's valid.

It's ersatz U2. It's bland, it's lazy and it's Euro-pop. We'll be hearing it in the shopping malls and that's sad. Piped music for the Y generation...

Calling a song Magnificent doesn't make it magnificent.

[Wendynz]

Oh Lovegod I totally disagree with you I think it is the best of all the songs on the album that I have listened to. I love it and it is going to be up there with my favourite U2 songs I just keep playing it over and over at the moment. I just love everything about it there are no negatives at all.

[garryc]

sounds like a single ... for the easy listening stations more so than The Rock
It could be u2s 2009 version of one now 17 years old, all grown up and wanting to leave home, coming of age?????

[nova]

I don`t agree about" Magnificent" being the new" one" for 2009 I think that it would more likely to be "Moment of surrender".

[Scott Cleaver]

Well LG, You were right...let the discussions begin. I personally think its a great track and has single written all over it...it feels simple maybe but infact if you listen to it again and analize it - you'll see that its a very complex track.

I do disagree that its the ONE of 2009...I think that's MOS could be...or is it the new BAD???? Either way i think that it'll definitely be a crowd fav for sure.

One other note for you who don't know...the boys played BREATHE live on French TV...and i think its a Monster track, just brilliant...seriously full on and will only grow to be a classic!!!!

I do agree with Rolling stone though bigtime!!!! I rate it 5 stars for sure!!!! Enjoy

Scott

PS: No access to U2.com right now as they are swapping over the sites with the new goodies to come for us all

[kiwigene]

I'm putting Magnificent in the top 3-4 on the album so far - but it does have a certain
something about that makes me uneasy - and I am "one" that thinks this is the new
"One" - in as much as this will be very accessible U2 to every Joe Bloggs, just like One
has become. That doesn't make it a bad song, it's just not that little U2 gem you can
keep to yourself. A single it will be - probably the third off the album (after Breathe).

[SusOjosCirculares]

Agree that it is one of the more predictable tracks (Walk On Pt 2 ?), but in some ways isn't it necessary to have the odd track like this around to attract the casual fan, the one who knows what they expect their U2 to sound like and doesn't want too much of this "experimental" stuff ?

Let's face it, our perspective is slightly distorted-we want expanded horizons (no pun intended), but we're not exactly representative of the above type of potential audience member-although having said that, the way the knockout tournament is going, we haven't exactly supported the left-field, lesser-known type of tracks there, have we?

I really don't have any issues with Magnificent-there's better, there's worse. Certainly one of the catchier numbers...

Scott Cleaver, on 24th February 2009 - 10:07 am, said:

it feels simple maybe but infact if you listen to it again and analize it - you'll see that its a very complex track.

Analize ??

Sounds kind of dodgy!!!!

Assume you meant to write analyze, but how ever you roll, I suppose..........

[kiwigene]

vertiginous, on 26th February 2009 - 07:13 pm, said:

Let's face it, our perspective is slightly distorted-we want expanded horizons (no pun intended), but we're not exactly representative of the above type of potential audience member-although having said that, the way the knockout tournament is going, we haven't exactly supported the left-field, lesser-known type of tracks there, have we?

I have! But you buggers kept voting the wrong way

[Dav]

Got a nice surprise hearing Magnificent on The Rock today, it sounded fantastic. It really comes out of those little radio speakers sounding powerful and with wide open clarity, like their 80's stuff, which it is clearly reminiscent of, but I feel for all the right reasons.

[Nil]

I love it, sounds like a Joshua Tree song, which is great as U2 have kind of stared clear from there a lot recently.