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What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« on: September 24, 2011, 08:55:39 PM »
My pick would have to be either Discotheque or Mofo. What do you say?

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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2011, 09:01:36 PM »
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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2011, 09:07:21 PM »
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nah....its eeeaasy :D

more like Elvis Presley and America

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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2011, 09:28:23 PM »
Numb.  Easily.

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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2011, 10:37:03 PM »
Unforgettable Fire, Wire, or A Sort of Homecoming: they're all very unconventional in terms of both their unusual verse/chorus/verse etc. formats and their rhymes. Discotheque and Mofo to an extent are very rhythymic in their rhyming (you know you're chewing bubble gum, you know what that is and you still want some being the prime example), and the verses flow really well. UF, Wire, and ASOH have more abstract rhymes: "coal" is rhymed with "gold" in the first stanza of TUF; "slow" and "stone" are rhymed in Wire; ASOH has maybe two words that rhyme per stanza. The latter three also are composed of seemingly unrelated lines of descriptions (red wine that punctures the skin; suffocated, dislocated, the land grows weary of its own) - they're more random lines of poetry than verses to a song. It's easier to learn the lyrics to a song (for me, anyway) when it's a narrator telling a story, or speaking to someone (the ubiquitous "you" of Discotheque, for example) - you can get in their head, really *understand* the song. With TUF's songs as a whole, it's more difficult to follow the lyrics, as they don't seem to "go" anywhere: there's no "story being told."

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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2011, 11:13:05 PM »
I would say The Unforgettable Fire also, as most of it sounds almost improvisational, and at times some words sound like others

I only know the lyrics so well because I love the song so much  :P

 

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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2011, 01:40:21 AM »
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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2011, 07:27:10 AM »
Any U2 song you don't care the least bit about.

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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2011, 08:03:11 AM »
A Sort Of Homecoming gave me fits. I'm normally pretty good about picking up lyrics, but that song took me ages to learn. It's relentless in the delivery, and the imagery is so complex that it doesn't really fit into my normal learning patterns. Still one of my top 10 favorite U2 songs ever.

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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2011, 04:15:07 PM »
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For the longest time, I could not figure out certain lines without referring to a lyrics sheet.

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The chorus lines that change are difficult for me to keep in order and anticipate.

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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2011, 08:13:29 AM »
I'll go with Mofo (one of my favorites) because I refuse to accept that Bono's saying 'been around back, been around front'. I just don't hear it! :(

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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2011, 08:38:30 AM »
It's likely the Edge shouting those lines.

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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2011, 10:02:10 AM »
It's likely the Edge shouting those lines.

That would probably explain why it's so hard to hear what he's saying. Dammit Edge, speak clearly xP

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Re: What U2 Song Is The Hardest To Learn The Lyrics?
« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2011, 10:17:45 AM »
It's also vocoded to jelly.