super fly guy
New Yorker
Christ allmighty,im sorry i came in here!!! Oh and the album fucking rocks!
Good God nsome people don't seem to have the capacity to understand what I'm saying.
When I tell you this album sucks (which I don't think at all) how would that in any way affect your opinion on the album? Fact: Everyone here knows taste is subjective. Everyone. So why with every post do we have to remind eachother that we're stating our own opinion when it's OBVIOUSLY the case. You don't need to tell someone to say "IMO' because you know it's their opinion. You just want the satisfaction of seeing them say it. And all of us know that no one is the authority on how this album was made.
Can't please everyone but for me this is my 2nd favorite U2 album just behind Achtung Baby but I have never expected U2 to out do Achtung.
I'm a very happy man
You're off topic.
It is quite funny to see how people can't even let a guy like ScandalCrow vent his disappointment with the album in a thread dedicated to that very same purpose,
Some IMHO's
The songs may not be stadiumfillers but at least there is someting happening and it is sort of a new diretion
After the midlifecrisis toiletresult called HTDAAB this is a wondrfull piece of work
Bono sounds like he had fun again and his voice is thin but very good
Edge is not on fire with the exception of 2-3 songs and has not been since a LONG time. He went from audible drivingforce to a bandmember which is not a good developement
larry is drumming again after a long holiday
Adam is cool
Eno is the man
Just had my first listen and although I know I probably can't judge it after only one listening session I didn't like it at all this fist time. There is too much Eno/Passengers in this album. The best parts of the songs for me were mostly the endings, which is a bad sign for me. The best albums for me are always the ones that have to grow on me but another bad sign is that unlike with good albums in the past it now seems as if there are no parts that I really instantly like and compel me to listen to again. Ofcourse there are very good parts in many of the songs but they are now often ruined by things that come after these parts.
I hope it'll grow on me but for now I don't like the many whoohoohoo's of Bono, they come back in too many songs. I also don't like the depressing "Pink Floyd style" backing vocals thoughout the album. And although Edge's guitar work is present a lot (which I appreciate a lot) it has the same style and "voicing" throughout the album and thus can't really keep me surprised throughout, like it does on Achtung Baby where you can hear a real creative genius at work. It just misses the "X Factor" and doesn't sound inspired here.
Overall the album has a very heavy "forcing" atmosphere. The soundquality doesn't help in this area either. I thought/hoped this time it would be better than the average U2 album but the sound quality is the thing that disappoints me the most...to me it really sucks!! The overal sound is much too dense and heavy, compressed like hell. The bass is much too thick, voices sound suppressed and covered in veils and hi-hats sound like they were pulled through at leased three of the old Dolby noise suppressor filters that we used to have on our old tapedecks in a row! I also don't think there is a real purpose or reason to sound this way. It's just very unnatural, "over-produced", forced and low-fi.
For me it is a real album though, unlike for example Zooropa, seen in a way that the songs really belong together. Although Get on your boots and Cedars of Lebanon sound somewhat different, all the other songs give me the sense of being part of a whole.
I really, really hope I turn out to be wrong in my (now partly subconsious formed) feeling/opinion that for me it sucks. Not because of other people but because I really want to enjoy a good U2 album again and was really expecting and waiting for another masterpiece like Achtung Baby.
My U2 album top three for now stays the same:
Achtung Baby
Joshua Tree
Unforgettable Fire
That was Walkon247.
ur right it was walkon, my mistake, though u probably agreed didnt you?
Arent any of the non-fans, sick of being able to memorize a U2 single after 2 or 3 listens because its overly polished and compartmentalized? for me thats the boring part, and if you expected an achtung, well keep dreaming cause it will never happen again, ever
Hahaha. I'm glad my OPINION was worthless to so many sheep on here. (IMHO)
I'm also glad I got compared to ScandalCrow
It is quite funny to see how people can't even let a guy like ScandalCrow vent his disappointment with the album in a thread dedicated to that very same purpose, without attacking him violently and calling him a troll. Isn't it more appropriate to say that it is actually the album lovers that are trolling THIS thread?
Oh, come on. Nobody posts that many times and that provocatively if they:
A.) Aren't enjoying themselves
and
B.) Aren't HOPING people will respond strongly.
He's not getting trolled. He's getting exactly what he wants.
I was a huge REM fan up until Up. I used to post on Murmers and other boards.
Once I realized I didn't like their newer music I bugged out. I didn't spend countless hours and hundreds of posts m-fing their music and telling members who did love those songs that they were stupid or fooling themselves. I just left.
By the way....I quit listening to R.E.M. after Automatic For The People.
Edge is not on fire with the exception of 2-3 songs and has not been since a LONG time. He went from audible drivingforce to a bandmember which is not a good developement
Someone needs to go to Murmers and tell them how bad their last
few albums have been. They need the benefit of your wisdown more than we do. After what, 50 or 60 posts in this thread alone I think we've got a good idea of where you stand on the new album. Go hit up the REM fans. I'll meet you there. Don't bother to wait for me. I'll get their eventually. bye!
But I'm not done venting yet!
I'll Go Crazy....
The Vocal melody in the verse is laughable when Bono hits those high notes. The he sings Baby Baby Baby again.....It was a stretch to hear that in Ultraviolet...But it worked in that song.
And the last thing is....and I can't remember what song it is....But the guitar at the beginning is a TOTAL rip on this from the 80's. Journey?? I can't remember what song it is....But it rips it off BIG TIME!
If anyone knows what song I'm talking about....please remind me of the title. Rick Springfield tune maybe? ARGGGGHHH!!! I'll lose sleep over this one!
You're quoting the chord progression from Journey's "Faithfully", and no it's not the same. That's, I believe got an Em. This is jumping between harmonics on A/D, if I'm hearing it right.......
And that's a bit harsh.