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Re: "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" genre

U2, although generally considered a rock band, have branched out into many different genres over the years. Songs such as "Twilight" and "Gloria" can be seen as post-punk, "Beach Sequence" as ambient, and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm looking For" and "When Love Comes to Town" have been cited as being gospel and blues respectively by the band. Much of the Zooropa album is electronica, "Mofo" is part techno, part dance, and "Jesus Christ" and "The Wanderer" are clearly country.

I find that the trouble with the "alternative rock" label is that it is too broad (though the generic "rock" genre is even broader); it's almost a dumping ground of whatever doesn't fit into any other rock category (at least, that is my perception of it). It's interesting to note that several reviews of No Line on the Horizon actually did refer to the track as pop-rock in a derogative context. I personally view "Crazy Tonight" as being in a similar mold (musically) to "Sweetest Thing", which I see is labelled as both pop-rock and alternative rock. I don't think it's necessarily an alternative rock track, but I can see how it would fit into the category. Perhaps listing both would work?

By the way, welcome to Wikipedia! MelicansMatkin (talk, contributions) 19:17, 28 August 2009 (UTC)