DaveC
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It's going to be hard but to overdo these songs before the album comes out.
I made a little playlist of SOI and then added The new tracks. I'm going to try to go into this with a 2 album mentality and that they compliment each other. I love SOI so I'm looking forward to this approach.
What I found from the web on - according to Bono - the best drum break of any U2 song ever during the recording of Songs of Experience. The song is 'Civilisation'. Described here as, "tense and heavy," and as a, "surefire album opener." What ever happened to this song?!?!
Thank you - someone who actually gets it!
Alright.
So is Get Out Of Your Own Way the most inspired pieces of songwriting in the world? No.
But it's good. It's not as much Tedder bullshit as I feared when I started seeing the reviews come in, and if you don't like most of post 2000 U2 then yea, you're going to think this sucks. And I get that.
And those who are like "ehhhrmagad this is the greatest song ever I'm dying" are pretty dumb. coughcoughSilCoughcough
But it's pretty good. I think it's better than Best Thing. It's definitely a push in the All That You Can't Leave Behind direction.
Haven't given American Soul a whirl yet.
I do have hopes that this is going to be a very good album. Not ground breaking, experimental, or on par with Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby... but filled with good, listenable songs.
For some that's a disaster, and I get that. But honestly I'd rather have good songs that aren't necessarily the most ground breaking thing in the world than have a quasi-experimental bull crap like what No Line was.
This album seems entirely mastered for headphones so far. It seems very flat and dull through speakers, but there are a lot of subtle details and the sound somehow richer on headphones. Maybe I’m crazy - anyone else hear it this way?
Overall, very positive first impressions of the new tracks for me. Blackout my standout so far.
Oh and the Coldplay comparisons... Come up with something better.
Say what you will about Bono's post 2000 lyrics, but Chris Martin has the lyrics of a 3rd grader and always has.
American Soul could be decent but it's completely undermined by the chorus and the REFU-JESUS lyric, which gives the little old lady in Stand Up Comedy a run for its money as the most embarrassing U2 lyric ever. What was Bono thinking, and how did the band and the entire city of producers and engineers around them let it through?
This album seems entirely mastered for headphones so far. It seems very flat and dull through speakers, but there are a lot of subtle details and the sound somehow richer on headphones. Maybe I’m crazy - anyone else hear it this way?
Overall, very positive first impressions of the new tracks for me. Blackout my standout so far.