mikal
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Lol sorry, bringing up old memories of the pre-NLOTH leak.Please tell us more about this
Lol sorry, bringing up old memories of the pre-NLOTH leak.Please tell us more about this
Lol sorry, bringing up old memories of the pre-NLOTH leak.
Yeah it was that Australian store. Leading up to it, there was a girl from Spain that kept cleaning that she was going to leak the album. She even said she was getting death threats. LolNLOTH leaked? I remember an online music store in Australia (I want to say it was Amazon for some reason) loaded up previews of all 11 tracks in error vs just Boots.
I don’t remember it leaking but now that I think of it, maybe it did about a week or two prior to release and I just waited waited for the official release.
500 thousand people illegally downloaded it and almost that many still bought the album the first week. That's how much momentum they had at that point. Wow.
How quickly things change. And how it isn't just them. After No line is when the whole industry just fell apart, and searched for a new way out, and streaming finally has become the best answer.
500 thousand people illegally downloaded it and almost that many still bought the album the first week. That's how much momentum they had at that point. Wow.
How quickly things change. And how it isn't just them. After No line is when the whole industry just fell apart, and searched for a new way out, and streaming finally has become the best answer.
I think NLOTH is the only album that did absolutely nothing for them. You could remove it from their discography and it wouldn't matter a jot.
I've got my wife to go through MTV and I've done it through the u2 link
Unfortunately for me I saw the MTV news before I checked my emails and did one through them aswell. Hopefully they don't cancel my double application. But it did say the u2.com post was separate and if you didn't get picked for that you would automatically be put in the MTV one.
Totally totally agree, terrible record. I loved it when it came out but haven't listened to it for years. Breathe/mos/nloth are half decent songs but the rest I never listen to
It's not as bad as Pop...but at least Pop rubbed people the wrong way (or excited them beyond reasonable belief).
NLOTH...has a couple of nice songs...but it's pretty bland...strange, given the fact they were 'experimenting'...
Weird. I didn't see and now can't find a link on U2.com for it. Went through mtv though, so I'll see you there - I'm sure only about 7000 people applied right?!
NLOTH is the freaking Joshua Tree compared to SOI...or anything I've heard from SOE.
NLOTH is the last U2 record before they stopped trying to be great. Actually, it's just the last U2 record period. Because the thin, over produced, directionless, compromised, uninspired, pandering, largely soulless sound of what they're doing now sound nothing like the band I love. Everything sounds like a b-side now.
NLOTH was a beautiful failure in many ways. But they failed at least trying to do something great.
U2 is a rabbit staring in the lights of a passing truck.
But there should be Some great songs on the new album but don't think it's a coherent album. Last one was atyclb. After that you get Some great tracks on poor albums
NLOTH is the freaking Joshua Tree compared to SOI...or anything I've heard from SOE.
NLOTH is the last U2 record before they stopped trying to be great. Actually, it's just the last U2 record period. Because the thin, over produced, directionless, compromised, uninspired, pandering, largely soulless sound of what they're doing now sound nothing like the band I love. Everything sounds like a b-side now.
NLOTH was a beautiful failure in many ways. But they failed at least trying to do something great.
Do you mean a 'cohesive' album? Much different meaning than coherent...
1. Love Is All We Have Left
2. Lights of Home
3. You’re The Best Thing About Me
4. Get out of Your Own Way
5. American Soul
6. Summer of love
7. Red Flag Day
8. The Showman (Little More Better)
9. The Little Things That Give You Away
10. Landlady
11. The Blackout
12. Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way
13. 13 (There is a Light)
14. Ordinary Love (Extraordinary Mix)
15. Book Of Your Heart
16. Lights in Front of Me (String Arrangement)
17. You're The Best Thing About Me (U2 vs. Kygo)
Check track 16. BOL.com discription of new u2 album
NLOTH is the freaking Joshua Tree compared to SOI...or anything I've heard from SOE.
NLOTH is the last U2 record before they stopped trying to be great. Actually, it's just the last U2 record period. Because the thin, over produced, directionless, compromised, uninspired, pandering, largely soulless sound of what they're doing now sound nothing like the band I love. Everything sounds like a b-side now.
NLOTH was a beautiful failure in many ways. But they failed at least trying to do something great.
BOL.com probably made a mistake. I doubt that that title of track 16 is correct.
I'd go with the tracklisting that u2.com has.
Yes, NLOTH was the last album where they tried to be a bit adventurous. However, that album still included songs like Get On Your Boots and I’ll Go Crazy - some of my least favourite ever U2 songs. There has only been one album since then, and we haven’t even heard the majority of SOE yet.
NLOTH is just far too compromised by the middle. SOI has a couple of high quality songs in Cedarwood Road and The Troubles, which are as good or better than anything on NLOTH, and it has a more cohesive sound (an overproduced and all too sleek one, granted) and settled theme.
If they hadn't wussed out on the Morocco sessions, and if they hadn't fucking shat the bed with tracks 4-7 as a result, NLOTH could have stood as their finest artistic statement of the new millennium. But it's a mess.