Canadiens1131
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I was thinking back about How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb today. Originally I loved every track on it, then I grew to hate just about every track on it, and now I've got a bit of clarity.
What was that quote from Bono...something along the lines that HTDAAB wasn't more than the sum of its parts and it pissed the hell out of him. The track listing is full of well-crafted, carefully constructed, very polished songs, but for some reason they don't form something wonderful when put together on an album. There's no place to catch your breath anywhere, save for One Step Closer.
It's interesting, because just about every song on the album could pass for a single on adult contemporary radio, but as far as a complete album I prefer ATYCLB by quite a bit nowadays. In that respect, Bomb is a lot like a Franz Ferdinand album - I can't listen to the record all the way through because it has little or no redeeming qualities as a continuous album, but taken separately the songs all stand extremely well on their own.
What was that quote from Bono...something along the lines that HTDAAB wasn't more than the sum of its parts and it pissed the hell out of him. The track listing is full of well-crafted, carefully constructed, very polished songs, but for some reason they don't form something wonderful when put together on an album. There's no place to catch your breath anywhere, save for One Step Closer.
It's interesting, because just about every song on the album could pass for a single on adult contemporary radio, but as far as a complete album I prefer ATYCLB by quite a bit nowadays. In that respect, Bomb is a lot like a Franz Ferdinand album - I can't listen to the record all the way through because it has little or no redeeming qualities as a continuous album, but taken separately the songs all stand extremely well on their own.
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