gareth brown
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Bloody hell what a great album. Finally got it (£3 in Fopp - fucking BARGRAIN.)
I'd be lying if I said I enjoyed it first time round, by my third/fourth listen I was really enjoying it! I can see what Larry Mullen means by it seeming self-indulgent, but I really love this kind of music anyway and to hear it mixed with certain 'traces' of U2's sound is nothing but a good thing.
At times the music can be so different I can understand people's 'hate' for it, at one point during Theme from the Swan I genuinely thought a car alarm going off outside was part of the track. But all in all this is a very interesting album and deserves a lot better!
Instant favourites include Always Forever Now (god damn what a superb track!), A Different Kind of Blue, Ito Okashi and Theme from Let's Go Native. The thing about Slug, Miss Sarajevo and Your Blue Room is I'd heard them loads before (especially the latter two thanks to the best of 90-00) so it's hard to hear them as part of the record along with the rest of the tracks which are all new to me and as a result just sound a lot different. I'm sure i'd feel differently if I'd heard it as a whole originally!
To wrap this up, a great listen! Criminally underrated i daresay and some real 'gems' on there.
8/10 - If U2's next album was Original Soundtracks 2, i would not complain.
I'd be lying if I said I enjoyed it first time round, by my third/fourth listen I was really enjoying it! I can see what Larry Mullen means by it seeming self-indulgent, but I really love this kind of music anyway and to hear it mixed with certain 'traces' of U2's sound is nothing but a good thing.
At times the music can be so different I can understand people's 'hate' for it, at one point during Theme from the Swan I genuinely thought a car alarm going off outside was part of the track. But all in all this is a very interesting album and deserves a lot better!
Instant favourites include Always Forever Now (god damn what a superb track!), A Different Kind of Blue, Ito Okashi and Theme from Let's Go Native. The thing about Slug, Miss Sarajevo and Your Blue Room is I'd heard them loads before (especially the latter two thanks to the best of 90-00) so it's hard to hear them as part of the record along with the rest of the tracks which are all new to me and as a result just sound a lot different. I'm sure i'd feel differently if I'd heard it as a whole originally!
To wrap this up, a great listen! Criminally underrated i daresay and some real 'gems' on there.
8/10 - If U2's next album was Original Soundtracks 2, i would not complain.