DTAS-Does it sound like U2?

[GoddamnJob290]

Well, does it?

[snickers]

er, not to me.

[FirstAveFiend]

Yeah I'm going to go with a no on this one as well. Not seeing the similarities, in what ways are you thinking GDJob?

[justlikemartinsaid]

Yeah. It sounds exactly like Zooropa.

Actually, U2 is about the polar opposite of the Replacements in almost every way, which is probably why I kinda like them too.

[KingArchie]

I don't see the connection Mr. Goddamn

Lets all answer it this way

DTAS 'Mats to U2 is like ....

London Calling, Clash is to The Alarm

help me out with this people.

[angela]

Well, at the time I fell in love with DTAS, I was a huge U2 fan. I suppose I would have lumped them together into a kind of 'rootsy emotional alterna-rock' category at the time. Of course, I was only 13 or 14 so.... But honestly, I really think if there is a Mats album that sounds like U2, it's Pleased To Meet Me. PTMM is Rattle & Hum, but good. The adoration of musical heroes, hanging out in Memphis...okay, yeah, it's a stretch.

But, The Ledge still sounds incredibly 80's to me still, much more so than anything else the Mats did back then. I swear I'm hearing some Mr. Mister in there...

[thetwilitekid]

catbox said:

I swear I'm hearing some Mr. Mister in there...

Wind blows cold from the west
I smell coffee, I smell doughnuts for the press
A girl that I knew once years ago
Is tryin' to be reached on the phone

I'm the boy she can't ignore,
For the first time in my life, I'm sure
All the love sent up high to pledge...

Baby
don't understand why we can't just hold on
to each other's hands
This time might be the last if fear unless
I make it all too clear

I need you so.

Take these broken wings
And learn to fly again
learn to live so free.
And when we hear the voices sing

The book of love will open up and let us in.

[TomT]

catbox said:

But, The Ledge still sounds incredibly 80's to me still, much more so than anything else the Mats did back then. I swear I'm hearing some Mr. Mister in there...

BLASPHEMY!

[scoOter]

seanf said:

I don't see the connection Mr. Goddamn

Lets all answer it this way

DTAS 'Mats to U2 is like ....

London Calling, Clash is to The Alarm

help me out with this people.

careful now. i like the alarm (not as much as the clash, though).

wait. what's that? oh!

no, dtas doesn't sound like u2.

[brianlux]

Well, GDJob, at first I'd of said HUH?? No way. But there is sort of what a friend used to describe as "neo-romaniticism" that ran through some of the 80's more creative music including DTAS and records like U2's "Boy" and "October", the first Psychedelic Furs' record and early REM records. The one thing they all had in comon though: You didn't hear them played in sports bars or shopping malls and they were antidotes to despair in those dreadful Silicon Valley days.

[angela]

Well gee thanks, thetwilitekid, now I really am hearing Mr Mister in my poor tortured head. You at least could have quoted Kyrie Eleison 'cause I always kinda liked that one... I remember flipping through the Missalette at Mass and being delighted to find 'kyrie eleison' as a refrain. On the rare occasion when I hear the song in, say, the grocery store or somesuch place, I can't help but think "Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, glory be to God in the highest, etc. etc."

[prozach]

"Mister Mister is
neither a Mister
or a Mister.

Discuss."

[GoddamnJob290]

Alright, thanks everybody. I was just checking.

In case anyone is wondering what prompted this thread, I'll just say that hours of forced listening to classic rock radio at my job has me hearing "Bono-isms" and "Edge-style guitars" and the Joshua Tree sound in places where I shouldn't.

The real question is...DTAS-does it sound like Eddie Money? I would say no, but obviously the dude mixing the damn thing disagreed.

[cellarfullofnoise]

catbox said:

I really think if there is a Mats album that sounds like U2, it's Pleased To Meet Me. PTMM is Rattle & Hum, but good. The adoration of musical heroes, hanging out in Memphis...okay, yeah, it's a stretch.

But, The Ledge still sounds incredibly 80's to me still, much more so than anything else the Mats did back then.

Agreed. I had the actual out-of-body experience of hearing PTMM for the first time over the PA at a record/used clothes shop. Over the course of several songs, as I flipped through the plaid shirts on hangers, I became convinced I was hearing a new U2 record.

[smoothdoggy]

I seem to remember reading somewhere that "Kids Don't Follow" was supposed to be some sort of angry retort to U2's "I Will Follow."

[velvetgefiltefish]

smoothdoggy said:

I seem to remember reading somewhere that "Kids Don't Follow" was supposed to be some sort of angry retort to U2's "I Will Follow."

I've definitely heard that, too, but never knew if that came from Paul or was just an interpretation on someone else's part that got passed around.

In that famous trainwreck of a concert at CBGB's in Dec. 1984, Paul sang the words of "Kids Don't Follow" to the music of "I Will Follow."

Personally, I don't really hear DTAS or PTMM as U2-like, with the exception of "The Ledge." Not that Paul ever sounded like Bono, but the music and the slightly grandiose, reverb-y production on that cut always makes me think of U2.

[turtle]

I remember reading a Paul interview in rolling stone circa DTAS and he was saying that he thought the Darling One intro was very U2 esqu (military snare drum rolls and dramitic gutiar) Straight from the horse's mouth.

I personaly don't hear it.

[adamapple]

this thread is proof positive that there are alot of crack users out there, yikes....

[angela]

Yeah, like those people who don't hear any U2 influence. They must be high.

[randolph500]

U2. Nah. Nothing in common.

Saw U2 in 1984 and the Mats in '86. At least a country miles worth of flotsam/jetsam between the two. U2 are at best a revivalist stadium pub band whereas The Mats were at the very least a genius bar band.

Not to be controversial or anything.