coolian2
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it's never time for that.
Doing stadium shows will free up a lot of time for them in between gigs and Edge can do/does a lot of writing/riff collecting on the road now.
Yeah - five star reviews from publications that have a vested interest in keeping the biggest rock star/celebrity activist in the world happy enough to continue doing interviews with them. Bono is the guy who famously sent a hand axe to NME for doing a 'hatchet job' on either Achtung or Zooropa (can't remember). Do you think David Fricke or the guys at Q want to deny themselves access to U2 by crapping on a new album? If you're a big artist, like U2, Springsteen, Dylan, etc., you're pretty much guaranteed a good review, because you're good for circulation.
WHoaaaaaaaa, my friend from Ireland meet Ali and she told him the name of the new album and the tracklists:
01 - No more albums or tracks with extended names ok?
02 - Mercy (from the darkness to the light)
03 - Summer
04 - Sional & onE (Passengers Vol2)
05 - Hardest Thing
06 - Jitterbug baby
07 - Silence Song
08 - Two
09 - Be There (Really)?
10 - 80
I think IndyShade is correct and on the ball with this one. Does anyone remember the 5 star review for Mick Jagger's last solo album (ahahah) in Rolling Stone. How about the 5 star review for Springsteen's recent album. The list goes on and on for veteran rockers getting perfect reviews for mediocre albums.
I'm actually very fond of that album. Anyway, they could rate U2 with 4, 4.5. There was no need to give it a perfect score. But they did.
Not saying that RS isn't biased. They are. Just saying.
I think IndyShade is correct and on the ball with this one. Does anyone remember the 5 star review for Mick Jagger's last solo album (ahahah) in Rolling Stone. How about the 5 star review for Springsteen's recent album. The list goes on and on for veteran rockers getting perfect reviews for mediocre albums.
I am starting to warm up to No Line on the Horizon but it is not U2's best nor will it go down as a classic. It is not a 5 star album (3 is more like it).
In a time where the internet is starting to affect magazine and internet sales, music magazines like Q and Rolling Stone need the big names to attract readers and push up sales. It also helps that a lot of the print ads for the album have that rolling stone review reference (another free plug for Rolling Stone). I smell conspiracy where both are scratching each other's back...
As others have stated, a 4/5 is "expected" if the review is biased. No need to call it another "5 star Masterpiece" or "say it belongs with JT and AB". Clearly these reviewers heard something "magnificent" (that I also hear - sorry you don't).
As a fan, perhaps a 5 may be a generous. But 3 is just as asinine. A 4.5 is where I place it. And that's the best rating I have for ANY of U2's albums (basically a 9/10). No U2 album is a perfect 10 (few albums are). And I've not heard anything from anyone else recently that I'd rate higher. Coldplay and Killers and Kings of Leon and Franz Ferdinand are just U2 wannabes. And Radiohead is, well, Radiohead. They rarely do it for me, and their last album certainly was a far cry from their best.
Haven't seen it posted yet... picked it up @ Books-A-Million 2day...
What about an EP?Not a fucking chance is there going to be another album this year, or next year, or the year after that. Or the year after that. The earliest we will get more new U2 (aside from B-sides, obviously) will be 2013, if that.
You are more than welcome to quote me on this.
Not a fucking chance is there going to be another album this year, or next year, or the year after that. Or the year after that. The earliest we will get more new U2 (aside from B-sides, obviously) will be 2013, if that.
You are more than welcome to quote me on this.
Not a fucking chance is there going to be another album this year, or next year, or the year after that. Or the year after that. The earliest we will get more new U2 (aside from B-sides, obviously) will be 2013, if that.
You are more than welcome to quote me on this.
Normally I'd be with you, but there's been an awful lot of comments about this, and we know there's plenty of quality material left over, they seem to be finding time for recording this year, I think they want to complete the creative vein they've been in and not let it go stale. Multiple band members have talked about it, and now it has a supposed title, maybe even lead single. Sounds like a lot more information than we had about NLOTH until late last year.
Not a fucking chance is there going to be another album this year, or next year, or the year after that. Or the year after that. The earliest we will get more new U2 (aside from B-sides, obviously) will be 2013, if that.
You are more than welcome to quote me on this.