[Kate Adams]

There are metrical as well as lyrical considerations when lyrics are either 
composed or emerge from the artist's head.  Words are constrained to a 
certain extent by how their rhythmic and syllabic patterns work within the 
structure imposed by the music that surrounds them.  For a great example of 
meter in lyrics listen to System of the Down, where the lyricist is 
constantly battling the drummer for metrical control of the band.

I have rarely liked "One" because its such a downer and is a little 
overwrought.  In fact, I haven't liked much U2 has done since 
Zooropa.  Then I heard their new single, Electrical Storm and fell all to 
pieces.  It was the first thing they had put out in ages that really just 
grabbed me around the heart and yanked.

U2 may have gotten bland and pretentious, but somehow, somewhere they do 
still have it.  They reach a very wide audience, but I doubt there is 
anyone who likes all of it all of the time.

-Kate (now why didn't I empty my m&m's on Bono's head from the balcony?) Adams

At 07:37 PM 9/25/02 +1200, Brian Jacobs wrote:
>I was thinking today, one of my favorite things about the Oils is the fact 
>that their lyrics are so consistently good.  And, when they do miss, they 
>aren't cringe-worthy.  This came to me as I was listening to Achtung 
>Baby.  Consider "One" where this most triumphant lyric:
>
>Have you come here for forgivness?
>Have you come to raise the dead?
>Have you come here to play Jesus
>To the lepers in your head?
>
>is followed immediately by this "gem":
>
>Did I ask too much?
>More than a lot?
>You gave me nothing
>Now it's all I got.
>
>therefore ruining what started off as one hell of a verse.
>
>What?  In the year-and-a-half you worked on this record you couldn't come 
>up with anything better than "more than a lot?"
>
>I know Mr. Hirst would never pen something that awful, and if he did, Jim 
>would most assuredly hit him with a blunt object if he ever tried to put 
>it on the album.
>
>Just my thoughts,
>BJ
>
>---
>Today, I heard George Bush say he wanted to go to war against Iraq to 
>pursue justice.
>
>I think George is confusing "pursuing justice" with "making people forget 
>the economy stinks."
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