songs of experience would be an amazing album if they, ya know, got rid of the first couple of singles
SOI is incredible.SoI Bad. SoE Good. SoS Dear Lord Help Me Let's Forget This Exists.
Compared to their 80's and 90's output, for sure. But I would go as far as saying that other songs like Every Breaking Wave, Volcano, Raised By Wolves, Cedarwood Road, and Reach Around are all pretty good when measuring the rest of the post 90's catalog.They're both awful.
No offense.
I still enjoy The Troubles and Sleep Like a Baby Tonight though.
Why would we be offended? It’s your take, that’s fine. I’m not so insecure that I feel as though everyone has to agree with me, but don’t assume everyone else is so insecure that you having that opinion affects them at all.They're both awful.
No offense.
I still enjoy The Troubles and Sleep Like a Baby Tonight though.
Depends on how long the Volcano tour runs and how long it takes Willie to design the volcano shaped stage.Is that before or after Tightrope comes out?
And I don’t disagree with any of that to be honest. And at the end of the day the motivation behind it doesn’t really matter one way or another if it works.I have a different take.
My take is that the band has always wanted to be a big and popular band and every change in sound was done in the interest of staying ahead of the curve so that they could always sound fresh in comparison to other popular artists at the time.
Eventually you run into a point where that doesn't work anymore, because you're both popular and old.
But that's where I fully disagree.And I don’t disagree with any of that to be honest. And at the end of the day the motivation behind it doesn’t really matter one way or another if it works.
I just feel there’s a demarcation point where they either got worse at the chasing or put less effort in. ATYCLB feels like a switch from being ahead of the curve to behind it for me personally. Or at the very least I would say the demarcation point is how successful they were at sounding fresh (again, regardless of quality otherwise).
And yes perhaps the simple reason for it was that they had nowhere else to go. Although you can see interesting avenues not gone down on their last few albums.
But Bono is thin now! vest.jpg, etc.they got too old and big.