Written by UnhitchedWildhorsey - True musicians live to play, experience and share different types of music. They love sound and to experiment with all of its properties: bending, twisting, expanding and pushing their creativity; along with their instruments--to the limits.
U2 are true musicians with both instruments and voice. They don't like categories, putting up walls, or being labled and packaged up. I believe they even fear that along with their superstardom and signature sound; has come binding constraint on what they love...simply making music.
So often I wonder just what great pieces of music we'd hear from U2 outside of the U2 sound. Would Bono sing more classical and opera pieces? Would they embrace showtunes, or the blues? Would Edge like to belt out a metal guitar rif? Would Adam venture into reggae and Larry hip-hop? You can find little bits of many styles in a U2 song, but still there is a U2 sound. I'm certainly not complaining...but it is fact. Along comes a freedom project one day to the guys in U2. We know it now as 'Passengers'.
'Passengers' was a chance to step away from U2 and make other kinds of music. A chance to form new ideas and just see where they would go. Passengers is not U2ish, and I might add it is not mainstream. With that said there are some amazing easy on the ears numbers contained on the album. Two such numbers are: 'Your Blue Room' and 'Miss Sarajevo'. To me these are the two stand-out songs on this musical outing. Beautiful songs to listen to and how can anyone go wrong when they team up with (the late) Pavarotti? Two numbers I would detail as haunting are: 'Beach Sequence' and 'Corpse ( These Chains Are way Too Long)'.
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