American Soul above Landlady.Changing for the 3rd time:
1 - Red Flag Day
2 - Summer Of Love
3 - Lights of Home
4 - Love is Bigger Than Anything
5 - Little Things
6 - The Showman
7 - Love is all We Have Left
8 - Get out of Your Own Way
9 - 13
10 - Blackout
11 -You are the Best Thing
12 - American Soul
13 - Landlady
American Soul above Landlady.
Holy shit. Has the zombie apocalypse already happened and the soulless are walking among us?
Landlady is the child of Promenade. American Soul is the child of Get On Your Boots.Have you already heard American Soul on the car, or on loud speakers? It's a rocker, with a nice guitar riff and a soaring chorus.
It's not the best song ever, but so isn't Landlady, a nice ballad, sometimes a little bit cheesy, but with a nice ending.
This album doesn't have a bad song.
The obligatory "quoting my original ranking from 2 days ago" post:
Very Good:
1) The Little Things That Give You Away
2) Summer Of Love
3) Get Out Of Your Own Way
4) Lights Of Home
5) You're The Best Thing About Me
Good:
6) Landlady
7) The Blackout
8) Love Is All We Have Left
9) The Book Of Your Heart
Okay:
10) The Showman
11) 13
12) Red Flag Day
13) Love Is Bigger Than Anything In It's Way
Don't Care For:
14) American Soul
As ever with U2 , this will change and shuffle by the day - or even hour, lol - but my current snapshot of SOE:
Top of the Tops:
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Red Flag Day
The Little Things.... (God this is a beautiful song)
Lights of Home
Blackout
Just a notch below:
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Summer of Love
Landlady
Liking them even though I know I'm being manipulated:
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You're the Best Thing...
Get Out of Your Own Way (this is close -- it's awfully shiny! but I can't help it)
Self-effacement can be fun:
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Showman (bah dah dah , DUH! -- bah-duh, duuuh!)
Growing on Me:
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13 (*ducks from the incoming artillery*)
Love Is All We Have Left
I'm trying - I really am.. this could leap upward.
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Book of Your Heart
Expending a valuable nanosecond to click "skip" and even that feels too long:
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American Soul
What about “Love is Bigger”
Wait... you don't rank scenes of your favourite movie?I know this is fun, and pardon me if I'm buzz killing... But ranking songs on an album is kinda like ranking scenes in a movie, no?
Especially a band like U2 who strive to make "albums"
Little ThingsTLTTGYA
L
LoH
LIBTAIIW
SoL
13
RFD
LIAWHL
TS
TB
YTBTAM
TBOYH
GOOYOW
AS
#unnecessaryacronymslol
This has turned out to be one of my favorites in their discography, I even have the vinyl of this album framed and hanging on my wall now. I really loved SOI too but the production of some of the songs really sucked the life out of it for me. I feel like SOE is nearly perfect with the only dull moments being American Soul and The Showman. The Showman not being terrible either. This is a U2 album I wouldn't mind showing off to my friends. I think it's incredible the band can still make music like this. I had such low expectations for this album with it being so late into their career and some of the early released tracks being so ehh. I hope this band can continue proving me wrong.
1. The Little Things That Give You Away (10/10)
2. Red Flag Day (10/10)
3. Love Is All We Have Left (10/10)
4. The Blackout (9/10)
5. Lights of Home (9/10)
6. Summer of Love (8/10)
7. Love Is Bigger Than Anything Its Way (8/10)
8. 13 (There is a Light) (8/10)
9. You're the Best Thing About Me (8/10)
10. Landlady (7/10)
11. Get Out of Your Own Way (7/10)
12. The Showman (5/10)
13. American Soul (4/10)