not much attention tbh but it has the parent syndrome, ive probably heard all their stuff 20x over.

Achtung is really cool sometimes. Zoo Station is so good.

Album Rating: 4.0

ah parent syndrome ruins everything. despite my respect for him and everything hes done i cant stand bruce springsteen thanks to my dad



theyre definitely a band that you enjoy the more attention you're paying to them. id say war is worth giving a listen. its an angrier boy with more direction and better highlights

Album Rating: 4.0

oddly enough Bruce & U2 are the two acts my dad used to jam a bunch that parent syndrome hasn't ruined for me lol

Album Rating: 3.8

Same about U2, it's been playing in my house since before I can remember.

Album Rating: 4.0

my mom loves u2 and owns over half of their albums yet somehow i never heard any of it besides i still havent found what im looking for (which honestly i cant get much enjoyment out of anymore) and rattle and hum

Album Rating: 4.0

"I saw the Achtubg live dvd and was repulsed"



I could understand that...

...if someone didn't realize the whole point of ZOO TV was satire

Album Rating: 4.0

lolllll

Also Rattle and Hun is pr cool from what ive heard

Album Rating: 4.0

rattle and hum is one of their worst tbh. a half live half studio inconsistent mess with a ton of kinda half baked ideas and the documentary is TERRIBLE



it has good songs on it though. heartland is sweet

Ive only heard a few songs

My favorite part of Zoo TV was the encore. They played zooropa cuts and I was really impressed.

Album Rating: 4.0

zooropa is a mad underrated record. probably one of their weirdest albums but its worth checking out especially if you already enjoy some songs from it

Album Rating: 4.0

"Shut the fuck up"

you're the one who entered the thread all pessimistic in the first place, forgive me for making a mild playful jab or two at your admitted lack of close familiarity with the subject matter, jeez

wow asscash69 taking mild profanity seriously tsk tsk

"your admitted lack of close familiarity with the subject matter"

this is literally the exact opposite of what i said. i'm pretty intimate with the material, and while u2 hit the notes, the notes themselves are gay

Album Rating: 4.0

"how much attention were you actually paying when listening to [stuff other than the songs you've heard 20x over]"

"not much attention tbh"



right



nice reference though, Sotelo/Bono collab when

Yeah except that's completely out of context lol

I said I heard most of their material 20x AFTER he wrote that, not before. That was never implied by him. I know most of the material quite well, I just don't pull out genius.com and some pencils when I listen to their albums lmao. The material is pretty easy to understand, it's just massively overrated. I mean give me Bullet the Blue Sky and Zoo Station all day but some of the other cuts? Out of the way fuckers.

Album Rating: 3.0

This review hits the nail on the head with this record. Moment of surrender being an absolute highlight. Get on your boots awful. Even Larry Mullen has since commented that it was a bad first single.

Album Rating: 3.4

was Songs of Innocence really considered a return to form after this? this is just so much more interesting and subtle in every way. SOI is like getting hit over the head with a blunt instrument made of optimism

Album Rating: 4.0

I remember back in 8th grade when SOI dropped for free and i was so excited because i had spent the past 3 years looking around for whatever information I could find on the new u2 album and then listening to it 10 times or so and being incredibly disappointed and bored



dreading songs of experience

Album Rating: 3.4

yeah man I was so hyped to hear Every Breaking Wave after they spent a solid four years hyping it up and it's basically a Coldplay song. like there's a handful of decent tunes on there (Raised by Wolves and Cedarwood Road are sweet) but goddamn it's the most middle of the road thing I've ever heard



You're The Best Thing About Me is a really good pop song so I am tentatively looking forward to it

Album Rating: 4.0

you're the best things about me has a good chorus but the verses just feel super haphazardly thrown together. it does that thing where the verses and chorus are in different keys which like 9 times out of 10 just feels like they had two unfinished songs that they just threw together (which is probably not the case most times but it usually feels super disjointed). the instrumental is also incredibly dull and the vocal performance is generally pretty weak but it does have a solid chorus and i like when the edge comes in for the "walking away" part at the end



I agree raised by wolves and cedarwood road are pretty okay. I remember seeing every breaking wave discussed in so many u2 threads and interviews and i wanted to hear how it would translate on the studio version after a couple of live performances and yea a coldplay song is a pretty good way to describe it lol, and like half of the album tbh