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I was at that show and it was astonishing. Basing a concert around the Ghosteen album was very brave. That album is as dark as fcuk and translating to a live setting like he and Warren did was incredible. Very few artists can do this. Throw in songs from his back catalogue and it’s just...

The fact we have posts listing songs that folks prefer to the originals is really good. I like the lyric changes too. It reinforces that nothing was sacred when recording these songs. I still haven’t got through all of it as I keep putting it on when I go to bed. But it’s all very positive...

Listening to it now. Might struggle to get through it all in one go. Bad is stunning. Just stunning.

Do we know for sure that Adam and Larry, in particular Larry, actually played on this?

Play with only 3 members? Yep they’ve got you covered.

A good test for these songs would be to imagine these were new songs and not reworkings. BD is the only one that is up to scratch. These rest are meh.

Well I’m almost done. 3 songs in and I have practically zero interest in hearing any additional SOS songs. Bono croaking over musical nothingness doesn’t do it for me. Presumably these are 3 of the better songs. Agree with the earlier sentiment that this should have been tightly linked to...

They may as well put Terry Lawless on stage now.

WOWY is boring. Musically bereft and Bono’s vocals are all over the place. It’s exactly what I feared these songs would be.

The lower register is pretty much all he has these days.

Today will be the high point in McCarthy’s speakership.

The Electric Co.

Because the Vegas shows wouldn’t be part of a regular tour. Because the Vegas shows would be timed to coincide with the opening of the venue. They are unique and moment in time shows. Because of that you can spin a story around why it’s “ok” for a band member not to be there. It would be...

Yes but you can say that about every song on the album. Every song sounds sterile, like the life has been squeezed out of them.

Will be disappointed if Drowning Man isn’t on SOS. Even thought it’d be a no-brainer chapter title in the book. Plus IIRC it was rehearsed for possible inclusion in one of the recent tours.

The studio version of Bad does have the backing track.

Surely the book would do better if there was new material released at the same time. A book by itself will completely sink, no matter how much marketing trickery they throw at it. What happened to the re-imagined songs? That would have been perfect.

The National. I am Laura Snapes from NME a few years back. https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/nme-staff-pick-their-top-10-greatest-albums-of-all-time-21877 Laura Snapes 1. The National – Boxer 2. The National – Alligator 3. The National – Trouble Will Find Me 4. The National – High Violet

Good to see some love for SOE. I echo the masterpiece sentiment.

Do we know whether they actually re-recorded all the songs from the ground up or whether some of them are rehashed / restitched from the original studio material? If it’s 40 genuine re-recordings then that’s really interesting. Bono’s voice is so different now compared to the past and I can’t...

Is That All?

Seconds Haaa …. Did anyone think of that?

How’s the well organised militia working out? That’s something to be really proud of.

I hope the newly recorded songs aren’t U2’s current day recording approach retro applied to older songs. If they take away Edge’s solos and replace them with guitar blandness or piano , put Bono’s voice way too high in the mix and squeeze the life out of music to make it almost sterile then...

Did you ever hear SATS from the opening show of the PopMart tour? An embarrassing and bumbling mess. They even stopped and restarted it, not that doing so helped.