I like it, never fell absolutely in love with the whole thing, but I enjoy it.
My first impression was that if CoBL was their way of getting another Streets-type song to play live , then MD was a shot at a Bad-type song. It was just more formally constructed though, and doesn't have that sort of building, searching, yearning, then soaring quality of the songs the band constructed less formally, let's say. As with most U2 songs, you can feel the song writing process directly in the song.
It also had a the same sort of moment that Kite has with the last verse, where 'Sister Anne, she said..' Mirrors 'The Last of the rock stars..' In that it pulls you out of the song slightly as you think, 'hmm, who is this person/this idea' rather than just going with the emotion. I think it works better in Kite, but for both songs a couple of listens washes that aspect away and the melody flows over you quite nicely.
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