Hollow Island
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I mean... I'm not the biggest Best Thing fan in the world, but to say that Best Thing or Blackout or Little Things are worse than everything on every album since Achtung Baby is a ridiculous statement.
htaab has worse songs...maybe. Best Thing is their worst song. It's fucking embarrassing: it's badly written; the arrangements - all of them - are a mess; the vocals are irritating af...it's just dreadful. Stand Up Comedy was their worst song up til then but at least that's victimized by being overly ambitious, and the back half of it is decent.
I may have overstated it though: Blackout and Little Things are better than Stand Up Comedy and a few tracks on Bomb. Still, I'd take everything from Zooropa, Pop, OST 1, ATYCLB and SOI, including b-sides, over the three songs.
Flannagan was blowing so much smoke up Bono's ass that he'll be high for the rest of his life.
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