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Gods' Die wrote:
Oh! Sweet Nuthin (their best song)
Can't say I'm on board with this. I like "Oh! Sweet Nuthin" a lot, but I feel like it's pretty far removed from what made VU great. By the time they were recording Loaded they were under pressure to move towards a more radio-ready, straightforward rockn'roll sound, and though the songs turned out solid, they lack some of the fragile humanity and abject weirdness that made their earlier records sublime. If I'd never heard "Oh! Sweet Nuthin" before, I'd have a hard time telling it apart from hundreds of other 7-minute 'classic rock' jams. A really good one, but nothing as gripping as their noise freakouts, or as moving as their tenderest folk moments. Plus, I just can't accept that their best song would be one where Lou didn't even sing lead.
Can't say I'm on board with this. I like "Oh! Sweet Nuthin" a lot, but I feel like it's pretty far removed from what made VU great. By the time they were recording Loaded they were under pressure to move towards a more radio-ready, straightforward rockn'roll sound, and though the songs turned out solid, they lack some of the fragile humanity and abject weirdness that made their earlier records sublime. If I'd never heard "Oh! Sweet Nuthin" before, I'd have a hard time telling it apart from hundreds of other 7-minute 'classic rock' jams. A really good one, but nothing as gripping as their noise freakouts, or as moving as their tenderest folk moments. Plus, I just can't accept that their best song would be one where Lou didn't even sing lead.
I agree with this. However, part of that is that its been beaten to death by most jam bands and rock bands on the circuit. It is a fantastic song but it is so outside of what made VU the band they were, or what I find sexy about them.
quick someone give me a good like 20 song vu mix of their best stuff
To begin with, I'd just listen to their first album, but here it goes:
Waiting for the Man Femme Fatale Venus in Furs Run, Run, Run Heroin European Son White Light White Heat Here She Come Now (Nirvana does a great cover) Sister Ray What Goes On Pale Blue Eyes Beginning to See the Light Some Kind of Love Who Loves the Sun Rock And Roll Sweet Jane Hey Mr. Rain Foggy Notion I Can't Stand it Anymore I'm Sticking With You
Can't say I'm on board with this. I like "Oh! Sweet Nuthin" a lot, but I feel like it's pretty far removed from what made VU great. By the time they were recording Loaded they were under pressure to move towards a more radio-ready, straightforward rockn'roll sound, and though the songs turned out solid, they lack some of the fragile humanity and abject weirdness that made their earlier records sublime. If I'd never heard "Oh! Sweet Nuthin" before, I'd have a hard time telling it apart from hundreds of other 7-minute 'classic rock' jams. A really good one, but nothing as gripping as their noise freakouts, or as moving as their tenderest folk moments. Plus, I just can't accept that their best song would be one where Lou didn't even sing lead.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...I know the story. And their 3rd record is my favorite and I love every song on their first three, save 3 songs that I can think of (the obvious ones). But I don't give a shit that Loaded was a sell-out or a reversal of what they'd been doing, I can (and do) go back and listen to those records whenever I want; the songs are really fucking good on all 4. And I don't know if Oh! Sweet Nuthin is actually their best song but it's the one I enjoy most when I'm listening to it, regardless of who's singing or the backstory. I think that's the kind of thing that makes a band great.
Plus it's such a great windows down, summer, highway song.
I'm sure anyone who wants to hate it will find it easy to hate, but I enjoyed it and found it to be sincere, insightful, and funny.
"This is how I will remember him, a still figure in the eye of a metallic hurricane, an artist pulling strange shapes out of the formless void that is pop culture, a songwriter pulling melodies out of the dissonance of what Yeats called "this filthy modern tide" and, yes, pop's truly great poker face – with so much comedy dancing around those piercing eyes. The universe is not laughing today."
I'm sure anyone who wants to hate it will find it easy to hate, but I enjoyed it and found it to be sincere, insightful, and funny.
"This is how I will remember him, a still figure in the eye of a metallic hurricane, an artist pulling strange shapes out of the formless void that is pop culture, a songwriter pulling melodies out of the dissonance of what Yeats called "this filthy modern tide" and, yes, pop's truly great poker face – with so much comedy dancing around those piercing eyes. The universe is not laughing today."
That's a great eulogy. Bono is a pretty articulate young man
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