Sounds like some of us are lost in "the Interference"....
At the end of the day, this album will come out when it comes out, and all the naysayers are going to eat their collective hats, have their ecstatic conniption fits, proclaim this as The "Real" 3rd Masterpiece (no, really, this time, it is!), and then go back a couple years later to saying how U2 have lost it all over again. It's the same pattern with every single U2 album going back to The Unforgettable Fire (when U2 "abandoned their roots" and went "artsy"), or the JT (when they "sold out")...or (well, you get the idea...). Now, it's just exposed on internet fan sites for the world to see and perpetuate by exponential proportions. It's a shame really. This band has given so much to everyone who has taken the time to listen. I guess they should have known they'd be listening with two faces, not just two ears. What gets me is, after all these years of success, you'd think the faith would only get stronger that this band can "bounce back" (in quotes because I really don't know what they're supposedly bouncing back from....oh yeah, a record breaking tour? And oh yeah, one of those sell out, "artsy" albums without all the singles they went for on the previous album -- which by the way, was also slammed as being their worst Grammy, "Album of the Year" ever....can they ever win? lol).