The Ravings of Demented Rabbits

Pop Muzik

Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop muzik.

Life at the moment is, well, much the same. As in it sucks. Temp agencies aren't talking to me, even. Hell, only people who ARE talking are the Army. Bah.

But there's a new U2 album due out November 22nd or so. Woot.

And while we're on that note, I went out and picked up a couple singles - Electrical Storm (blue cover) and Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of (UK). We ponder a few things from this. First is, while Electrical Storm isn't a bad disc, featuring as it does a 12:28 conbo of Bad, 40, and Where The Streets Have No Name done live, I'm rather liking Stuck In A Moment better at the moment. This is rather paradoxical, considering I absolutely hate that song. On the other hand, while the Beautiful Day remix is a bit odd, Big Girls Are Best rocks. Rocks rocks rocks. And if this and Electrical Storm are any indication of what the new album is going to be like, it's going to kick ass. Not that U2 doesn't routinely kick ass as a matter of course, but All That You Can't Leave Behind really didn't impress me all that much. And I know that pretty much me and that one other guy who always agrees with me on everything think that, but still. Pop ruled, and you're all losers for not thinking so.

While we're pondering things, let's be all up into how Sam Goody just so happened to have both CDs in stock, and believe you me it's damn difficult to get anything but albums from CD stores in these here parts. But Amazon is cool, so whatever.

But getting back to the whole (blue cover) / (UK) thing, I ponder U2's way of doing singles, which while it means I get more music and that's cool, means I REALLY gotta find a new discography somewhere, because so far as I can tell there at least two Electrical Storm singles (one of which I didn't get), and at least one if not two more Stuck In A Moment singles I don't have. And let's not forget the at least two Walk On singles and the at least two, and damn Sam Goody for not having these, Elevation singles. There's also another Beautiful Day single I don't have, for that matter. Not that I remember getting the first one, but it's there all the same.

But it gets worse. Leaving aside random totally uncollectable by me stuff like, say, the 22 or so various pre-Achtung Baby singles I don't have, there's STILL a bunch of stuff I'm missing. I thought I had all the humanly-collectable AB stuff, but no, there's an Even Better Than the Real Thing remix CD I'm missing. Much less Lemon, Stay, Discotheque, Please, Mofo (maybe), and The Sweetest Thing, which I might note has an awesome cover.

Dammit, I'm a completist. This sucks.

Posted by Dwip at August 19, 2004 6:54 PM