Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
bad is incredible studio or not. elvis kinda meanders but it’s grown on me. homecoming bad promenade pride wire and the title track are unclog fucking magical. some great b sides too bass trap and 60 seconds are some of their best instrumentals
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Album Rating: 4.0
got my tix for the LA show. meet sputnik legend JXD with my girl there before the show. emeritus status revoked, site admins who revoked my status be damned. i is gonna rock this shit. one of U2's best albums. time will bear this out. see you in Inglewood CA, bitches =]
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
as lukewarm as i am on their new shit, im jealous af
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Album Rating: 4.0
aw....don't be jealous, onion. it will only be my third time seeing them within a year =]
i am hoping for a great show. i have seats 14 rows right behind the stage which will be fantastic. as one fan said of behind the stage seats its like getting a Cadillac at Toyota Corolla prices. it feels like you are onstage with the band and you witness the arena as the band does. the sound should be tremendous, too
do hope some of you reconsider this work. watch the BBC concert on youtube. or clips of it. of U2's 14 studio recordings it is smack in the middle of their best imo. it is consistent, heartfelt, and a true album of reflection, hope, and an optimism for the future. imo its some of Bono's best work lyrically, and some of the best writing Edge has done.
hoping for a great, well thought out show. those of you going....cheers to you
'til then check this out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ly4ktepK7A&list=RD8ly4ktepK7A
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
ive tried man i really have
just discovered u talkin u2 to me recently and its gettin me back into these guys. they have a lot of classics under their belt for sure
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Album Rating: 4.0
they do have a lot of classics
i started a review for this album but just cannot nail it down. this album for me is amazing. lyrically i think bono has never been better or more personal. musically it is focused and sharp. i cannot stop listening to it.
it is a new beginning for the group imo. they are older now, and getting old. this is an album about life, love and as the title says....experience with it all. a truly uniform and heartfelt album of love and life songs.
too much examination can ruin it. looking too closely into it can ruin it. as one song says here sometimes you just have to get out of your own way. that is what it takes to truly appreciate an album like this. once done....this album delivers and rewards the listener with 40 years of experience delivered in full by one of musics greatest rock n roll bands, love em or hate 'em. it is an amazing work imo
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bland adult retard rock
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my fondest tj maxx memories are of shopping to vertigo
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Album Rating: 4.0
"bland adult retard rock"
way to box yourself in and judge music by demographics. congrats on that. you're a tool to be sure
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Album Rating: 4.0
seriously sonic. what kind of assessment is that? are you not an adult? can you not appreciate well written and recorded songs from the heart? must everything in music be...what? ground breaking and exciting?
it's like bono recently said in the BBC performance. "you're young. its not your fault. thier is so much you need to know. relax...take it easy. look at me i'm old....but i'm happy"
don't worry.....you will understand one day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL5RgRC57yQ
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Album Rating: 2.5
Ahhhh, yes: “TJ Maxx memories"! I treasure those minutes I was there. LMAO!
Great review, Rowan. The opening attention-grabber (“William Blake rolls over…”) just about made me spit out my milk.
I really want to like this album a lot, but I just don't. I’m not sure what the highlights are for me…maybe “There Is A Light”?
A bummer. I’ll take a break from this - oh, wait…already have been taking a break from it - and revisit it in a month or two.
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Album Rating: 4.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QYcQo2IpE
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Album Rating: 4.0
went to the show on 5/16. dont miss out. a tremendous and amazing show and a brilliant performance by one of rock n rolls all time great bands. the show has heart, fire, soul....and all the rest. fantastic presentation, narrative, pacing, and set pieces.
those who complain about the new material? it comes off great. no other band 40 years in could pull this off. half the songs from their last two albums, a few "hits" and the rest just album stuff and a few rave ups. and it all works live from one of the best live bands....ever
cannot say enough of this show. and bono owns it. it is very much his show....and his story
***Setlist / Spoilers***
Love Is All We Have Left
The Blackout
Lights of Home
I Will Follow
All Because of You
Beautiful Day
The Ocean
Iris (Hold Me Close)
Cedarwood Road
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Raised by Wolves
Until the End of the World
Intermission / Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Elevation
Vertigo
Desire
Acrobat
You're the Best Thing About Me
Staring at the Sun
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Get Out of Your Own Way
American Soul
City of Blinding Lights
Encore:
Women of the World
One
Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way
13 (There Is a Light)
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
This grew on me again upon listening again after a while, really diverse and some great rock songs on here. Everything a fan could want from 21st century U2 right here.
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Album Rating: 1.5
This album is the worst thing they have ever released, and that's saying something after Songs of Innocence, No Line, and Atomic Bomb. At least that trio has some moments of brilliance mixed among utter blandness and Bono's increasingly cringe-worthy lyrics. This album is just all over the place trying to latch onto something that can win them a Top 40 hit. Unfortunately, for me the naked desperation in these attempts makes the album even worse than it would be otherwise - it makes me truly despise the album.
If U2 could (to steal one of their phrases) get out of their own way, and go back to making music that isn't trying to constantly expound grand pearls of wisdom via head-smacking banality, they'd probably have the winner they desire. Achtung Baby and Zooropa are their last two truly great albums and neither of those (outside the song 'One') were trying to be anything more than adventurous music. I understand that U2 is maybe a bit too long in the tooth at this point to get back to the type of rich experimentation that made them exciting, but one can only hope.
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Album Rating: 2.0
Yep this album still has only one genuinely good song, a few mildly enjoyable ones, multiple forgettable ones, and some of the shittiest trash Bono has ever given us. "You're the Best Thing About Me" continues to be absolute peak garbage pop of the least enjoyable order, most of this is generic, and there's maybe two moments of the actual creativity and talent we know these guys are capable of shining through. I"m so sick of this band being on this boring as fuck Bono-does-Coldplay tour now for the last 5 years. This band doesn't need a reinvention, it needs to rediscover why they even make music.
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Album Rating: 3.0
it's funny that "Red Flag Day" actually probably could have been a hit if it was single #1 but they never made it a single.
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Album Rating: 3.5
not so bad not their best thou, Am I right that it's in fashion to criticize U2?Prove me I'm wrong
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Album Rating: 2.5
"Red Flag Day" is a solid track, agreed.
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I lost rolling stones sense of reliabilty when they gave songs of innocence 5 stars. 5 STARS DUDE.
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