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Pop culture devotee, from 7"s to Sbemails. New England raised, Midwestern braised. Fair warning: Music challenges and talk galore! He/Him
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This one has high on a riverbed right? What a great cd
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Helllllll yes, when this one really comes in it hits like a rhino and I love it
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But Stay has a timeless appeal, and I do still enjoy the hell out of it
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If I may spoiler my own list, it’s been surpassed for me by another Zooropa track that just continues to grow in my estimation over time
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I should mention also that Bono was seeing an early cut of the film when they were recording, and he just started free associating, which is how the lyrics for this began. Such a cool connection between amazing artists
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Faraway So Close was Wenders’s sequel - this was on the soundtrack!
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Join the club
(No seriously, I’m considering getting t-shirts made)
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Putting this on is just a lovely time, it’s like I’m there!
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My personal favorite LP by them!
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Now who’s all over the place? You asked for what they were saying Jeffries should say differently, they provided it, now it’s don’t say anything bad about Dems at all. Then why’d you bother asking for details at all?
Stop trolling
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Ask Trump - he’s the one who stopped the nuclear inspection and oversight program
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That is the timeline for notifications only following a Congressional authorization actually occurring. It does not undo the rest of the clauses or erase the requirement to get authorization
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Glad someone has chosen them - the songs really hold up!
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Hey this looks familiar!😂 jk
Looking forward to seeing all your choices. This was one of my toughest last cuts so I’m glad you went with including it!
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Hell we barely avoided this one ending with Scott and Knives staying together and Ramona running away - hooray, no one learns anything!!
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Yeah, he has such a better & longer arc in the books about needing to come to terms with how shitty he’d been and actively deciding to try to be better that there was just no time for.
There needed to be 2 movies to show the growth, but I’m sure assumed it’d never get greenlit
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Nothing is gonna top the Macarena-esque Pepto Bismol spot anyway so why do they keep trying
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Rock on!
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I def recommend it!
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But at that point Frank couldn’t be bothered to record new stuff, he barely put up with doing his same songs for Duets (this is described in the book)
Then I found out BOTH are B-sides to IGWSHA, which I really like too. So was an ace single purchase!
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I read Bill Flanagan’s book U2 At The End Of The World (from finishing Achtung Baby to the end of the tour following Zooropa) and Slow Dancing and a song called “Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot of Sad” are mentioned a lot. The latter Bono wrote for Sinatra
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Zooropa to me is pretty amazing and more actually avant garde for the time than Achtung Baby was, more in the songs where AB was a bit more about production on a lot of the tracks.
But it’s also just got a ton of amazing stuff that barely gets mentioned now bc they write it off along w/ Pop
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hurts the next records by pushing towards their 90’s-ish sound when it wasn’t their focus anymore (eg “Vertigo”). Where they let their age & other lessons show were better (“Yahweh,” “Sometimes you can’t make it”)
All this to say the 90s stuff gets a bit overhated because the band lead that charge
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Yeah, I basically feel they over-learned the lesson of Rattle & Hum. What really got panned was the movie (which was navel gaze-y for sure), the music was still pretty good.
But both after Pop and ATYCLB they felt they had move again, lest they get stale like R&H. I think this felt forced and