I love it is still my fav song off the album and a lot of kiwis must think it not too bad too if it appeared on The Rock's top 30 at 29 and it still isn't a single yet!
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Daily Song Discussions - Magnificent
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, Feb 23 2009 06:30 PM
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 05:13 PM
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 05:25 PM
Yessssss - first post in about 1yr+ I'm guessing.
I've bought the album off iTunes and it's received a few "background" listens so far whilst I've been busy preparing school lessons!
Anyway, Magnificent was the first track that had lyrics that jumped "out" of the background and that is because through my skewed lenses it struck me as a "church" sort of praise song, in particular these lyrics:
the "Magnificent" in this context being God (Christian songs are notorious for substituting "God" with a number of superlatives).
I'm sure the majority are likely to disagree with me on this interpretation but that was how it appeared to ME!
Perhaps if you re-listened to it in that context it may make some different "Sense".
I'm intending on posting a few more thoughts on this album as it unfolds....
Cheers team
I've bought the album off iTunes and it's received a few "background" listens so far whilst I've been busy preparing school lessons!
Anyway, Magnificent was the first track that had lyrics that jumped "out" of the background and that is because through my skewed lenses it struck me as a "church" sort of praise song, in particular these lyrics:
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I was born
I was born to sing for you
I didn’t have a choice
But to lift you up
And sing whatever song you wanted me to
I give you back my voice
From the womb my first cry
It was a joyful noise
Oh, oh
...
Justified till we die
You and I will magnify
Oh, the magnificent
Magnificent
I was born to sing for you
I didn’t have a choice
But to lift you up
And sing whatever song you wanted me to
I give you back my voice
From the womb my first cry
It was a joyful noise
Oh, oh
...
Justified till we die
You and I will magnify
Oh, the magnificent
Magnificent
the "Magnificent" in this context being God (Christian songs are notorious for substituting "God" with a number of superlatives).
I'm sure the majority are likely to disagree with me on this interpretation but that was how it appeared to ME!
Perhaps if you re-listened to it in that context it may make some different "Sense".
I'm intending on posting a few more thoughts on this album as it unfolds....
Cheers team
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 05:48 PM
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Posted 17 May 2009 - 06:37 PM
Lovegod, on 23rd February 2009 - 06:30 pm, said:
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.
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.
Bono is on record as saying the UK charts matter to the band and they use it as a touchstone for public opinion...
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U2 bomb
NOT such a beautiful day for seasoned rockers U2 - their latest single has become the lads' biggest flop in TWO DECADES . . . it didn't even make the Top 40!
Despite being the standout track on their new album, Magnificent had a chart performance that was anything but (sorry Bono).
It only managed to limp in to No 42 thanks to its paltry 5,157 copies being sold and downloaded.
I don't mean to sound dramatic, folks, but that's a commercial disaster of epic proportions that would send lesser bands to the scrapheap.
The tune becomes their lowest single in 22 years, since God's Country hit number 48 in 1987. Sadly, for Bono and THE EDGE, new album No Line On The Horizon did no better - it was their worst-selling in the band's long history.
Bet Bono wishes he could hide Where The Streets Have No Name.
http://www.newsofthe...the-Top-40.html
NOT such a beautiful day for seasoned rockers U2 - their latest single has become the lads' biggest flop in TWO DECADES . . . it didn't even make the Top 40!
Despite being the standout track on their new album, Magnificent had a chart performance that was anything but (sorry Bono).
It only managed to limp in to No 42 thanks to its paltry 5,157 copies being sold and downloaded.
I don't mean to sound dramatic, folks, but that's a commercial disaster of epic proportions that would send lesser bands to the scrapheap.
The tune becomes their lowest single in 22 years, since God's Country hit number 48 in 1987. Sadly, for Bono and THE EDGE, new album No Line On The Horizon did no better - it was their worst-selling in the band's long history.
Bet Bono wishes he could hide Where The Streets Have No Name.
http://www.newsofthe...the-Top-40.html
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