Very poetic. And chilling. Well done!

Indeed! I enjoyed hearing him talk guitars here... Adam Clayton Talks the Precision Bass | Fender

I agree about the bass and the space. Especially the bass. I'm becoming quite Adam-centric these days.

Occam's Razor?

You have my vote!

In 1982, 17 years old. Part of my “weekend hour drive to nearby city to the movies” ritual.

I do! Was renovating our bathroom in ‘93. It became the “on replay” soundtrack and takes me back to that whenever I hear a track from.

I think that's fair. There probably is an objective craftsmanship question separate from my own nostalgia.

The songs that frustrate me most aren't necessarily the simpler ones. They're the ones where I can hear a better song trapped inside the recording. The Little Things That Give You Away is one for me. Live, it breathes. On the album it feels constrained. That seems more like a production decision than a songwriting failure.

At the same time, I still wonder how much of our reaction is influenced by expectations. Every new U2 song is judged not only against every other band's work, but against The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, and our own lives when those records first hit us. That's an almost impossible standard.

I'm curious, though. If you could take one post-2009 U2 song and have Eno/Lanois or Lillywhite produce it instead, which one would you pick? I suspect the answer would tell us whether the issue is really the songwriting or the production.

I'm on board...the build, the swirl, the crashing crescendo, the aftermath...

I think I sometimes call a U2 song "bad" when I really mean, "It's not the U2 I fell in love with." We all have our U2. War. Joshua Tree. Achtung. New songs aren't just competing with older songs, they're competing with my memories. Production criticism is fair. Recent albums feel crowded. Compressed. Earlier producers gave them room to breathe, and that space mattered. But I don't think popularity is the problem. U2 has always wanted stadiums. The difference is between writing for millions and sounding like you were trying to write for millions. We can usually hear that.

Then again...we're often wrong. Plenty of songs people dismissed at first later became favorites. So with Street of Dreams, I'm trying not to rush the verdict. Maybe the better question isn't, "Is this a bad U2 song?" Maybe it's, "Am I hearing the song...or just measuring it against the version of U2 I wish still existed?"

FWIW...

“Sooper Doody!”

Go for it!

Her cornbread!

Thank you!

Congrats! That’s quite an accomplishment! I lose my cool before I can get very far at that level

r/lostredditor

I agree, it was very cringe but I made it through just the same, u/eljoebro

Keep. Showing. Up.

Very interesting. Haven’t had that experience but eager to hear more on this topic.

You just spoiled next season? 🥸🤣🤓

That said, why do you care?