Re: Achtung Singles


Marty Will Follow ([email protected])
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:10:04 PST


Hello Wire (and YasminE),

If it was up to me, then we would have had even more U2 singles than
there are today. On the other hand, I do like it that the best tracks
(Acrobat, Gone, The First Time, Do You Feel Loved, etc.) have never been
singles. You know then for certain that the song will not be played to
death so it loses its edge. And it makes listening to the albums much
more an emotional experience instead of a known-single-
after-known-single route. (Is that maybe the reason why I mostly skip
Discotheque on Pop? Who knows).
Last it Radiohead kept on saying that they were planning to make a video
for each song of their OK Computer album. In the end only three were
made for their singles (Paranoid Android, Karma Police and No
Surprises), but it could have been great. BTW, I always thought the idea
was highly pretentious, but nobody said something like that about it.
But if U2 does something else, non-mainstream whatever, everybody says
that they are pretentious, but that is another thread.

Marty

P.S. That sig you asked about, well I used it since the release of The
Best Of... After all the rubbish about U2 selling out, etc. I thought
this would be a nice counterthought. It is part of a lyric by Michael
Franti. The song is People In Tha Middle and can be found on the album
Home by Spearhead (the group of Michael Franti, who was in the
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy who opened for U2 and so there is even
U2 content in this P.S.) Check it out, it is an awesome record (voted as
the best album of 1994 by Dutch rock critics).

Tell me the definition of a sell-out
Cast your first stone and then get the hell out
People say they know me, I can tell you that they don�t
People say they own me, I can tell you that they won�t

Spearhead - People In Tha Middle

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