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I muster the effort because I still think Bono is cute and Adam is a fox.
Adam is a fox.
I don't know. Sometimes I feel like people here stretch for ways to rip U2 apart for something. This is one of them.
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Exactly. Cobbler didn't even know what Dreamforce was 2 days ago, but now it's a horrific optical offense. He had no idea who played last year, but now he hates them.
It still leaves a sour taste in my mouth. It's still a gathering of rich elites. There's a million better things they could do.
NLOTH really had the potential of being another great U2 album.
It didn't just have potential, it actually is!
At this point in U2's career, I'd rather hear sparks of real inspiration (NLOTH, MOS, Fez) with a bunch of throwaway material than a workmanlike trudge through the past like SOI. At least there's still a sign of one of favorite bands of all time kicking around on NLOTH, even if it's inconsistent as a whole.
Despite my criticisms of the last album, I'm still curious to hear what the "experience" in Songs of Experience entails. It seems to imply the sort of exhausted, cynical writing that drove their 90s material (and later gems like When I Look at the World) and that would be a nice change of pace, but I'm expecting a lot of reflective writing about fatherhood and marriage.
Hard to argue with that opinion because I love SOI, so my perspective is much different.
I know this has been said many times, but the highs on NLOTH are greater than anything on SOI but as an album, SOI is a lot more consistent without any glaring weaknesses. NLOTH on the other hand has two songs (Crazy Tonight and SUC) that I wish never existed and I believe are two low points in the band's career.
I'm sure you could refer to me as a post 90's U2 apologist because I generally enjoy their post 90's work (but not at the level of their 90's work though) but NLOTH was kind of a slap in the face because they obviously were in a groove with their songwriting and then panicked towards the end, which you can clearly hear on the album. If anything NLOTH has become my least favorite post 90's U2 album because every time I hear it, I hear the sounds of a band extremely unsure of themselves.
At this point in U2's career, I'd rather hear sparks of real inspiration (NLOTH, MOS, Fez) with a bunch of throwaway material than a workmanlike trudge through the past like SOI. At least there's still a sign of one of favorite bands of all time kicking around on NLOTH, even if it's inconsistent as a whole.
Despite my criticisms of the last album, I'm still curious to hear what the "experience" in Songs of Experience entails. It seems to imply the sort of exhausted, cynical writing that drove their 90s material (and later gems like When I Look at the World) and that would be a nice change of pace, but I'm expecting a lot of reflective writing about fatherhood and marriage.
Unknown Caller us a lot of great stuff in it musically and lyrically, despite the idiotic computer terminology. And I don't see anything wrong with White As Snow. It's simple but nicely performed (the French Horn is a refreshing touch) and not cloying and over the top as some of their other recent ballads.
I would love to have seen U2 take the mood and atmosphere from Cedars of Lebanon and Soon and play with that for an album. It's a shame nothing ever came of the rumors of a more ambient-influenced Songs of Ascent.