Monday, January 19, 2009

New U2 Single Online


U2's first single Get On Your Boots off upcoming album No Line On the Horizon is now on the internet and can be heard here. The song is musically interesting and a departure for Bono and the boys, with a decided Pop feel. The lyrics appear to be stream-of-conscious fluff, which might be just as well. Overall, an interesting opening sound even if it doesn't seem to be poised to be the ubiquitous single Vertigo was off How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. Thoughts, Dentite?And here is the rest of it.

4 comments:

Dentist said...

After several listens, I like what I hear, but this will need several more days to percolate. I really like the guitar and drums, though (the band claim a Jimmy Page/Jack White influence). Overall, not bad...kind of the same feeling I had when I first heard The Fly or Discotheque. After reading the description of the remaining songs, I'm very optimistic about the album.
http://www.interference.com/9360-u2-rolling-stone-magazine-break-down-the-new-record/

Doctor said...

Forty-seven dead beats living in the back street/North east west south all in the same house
Sitting in a back room waiting for the big boom/I'm in a bedroom waiting for my baby

CHORUS:
She's so mean but I don't care/I love her eyes and her wild wild hair/Dance to the beat that we love best/Heading for the nineties
Living in the wild wild west/The wild wild west

Mandy's in the backroom handing out Valium/Sheriff's on the airwaves talking to the D.J.'s/Forty-seven heartbeats beating like a drum/Got to live it up live it up/Ronnie's got a new gun

CHORUS

Now put your flags in the air and march them up and down/You can live it up live it up all over the town/And turn to the left, turn to the right/I don't care as long as she comes tonight

CHORUS

Heading for the nineties living in the eighties/Screaming in a back room waiting for the big boom/Give me give me wild west/Give me give me safe sex/Give me love give me love/Give me time to live it up

CHORUS

Dentist said...

I'm aware of the accusatory remarks that others made even before the radio release. However, Led Zeppelin comparisons let me sleep better at night than Club Escape.

Doctor said...

I hadn't heard the of the song, the album, or the responses to it until Priest posted it.

I listened to it again and liked it more. Part of it sounds like Stone Temple Pilots now, and I hear a When the Levee Breaks drum ripoff/homage too. The Edge's guitar riff is reminiscent of Jimmy Page, but I wouldn't have tied the two together on my own.