Artist: U2
Album: War
I’m not a particularly big U2 fan. They’re the darlings of critics and serious music aficionados everywhere. But for some reason, I always found their music to be a tad inaccessible. (Most of the bands that I listen to don’t require frequent trips to Wikipedia to understand what the lyrics are about.) I always feel like there’s some deeper subtext that I’m just not getting when I listen to their stuff.
That being said, I do enjoy an occasional song of theirs, and ‘New Year’s Day’ is one of those songs. This particular song has always stood out to me for its beauty. Listening to this song is what led me to recognize the true amount of skill that goes into their work–and made me realize that in many ways, they do deserve a lot of the praise that they get.
What has especially struck me about this song is how well-balanced this song is. No one part of the mix is allowed to overwhelm anything else. The bass and drums are the driving force here–but Bono’s voice manages to shine like a jewel. In a song with this sort of structure, it can be easy to let the bass overwhelm all else–but nothing ever gets lost here.
Perhaps some of that balance can be put down to good production, but I think a lot of it has to do with the skill with which the song was composed.
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