BVS
Blue Crack Supplier
I got TUF when it came out. I was 12 years old and it was my introduction to the band, and really into better music in general. It was a coming of age. I didn't really even have words to describe how the music made me feel.
Rationally, I can pick TUF apart now, but nothing will ever ever match my experience of listening to that record with headphones over and over as a pre-teen.
I listen to NLOTH in the car or at home while my two brilliant chatty kids are buzzing away with their own lives. There is no way that this album, as good as it is, could ever burrow its way into my psyche like TUF did.
Have you ever thought that maybe having 2 kids and having a different lifestyle is part of why this album won't burrow it's way like music did in the past? Has any album burrowed it's way in like that since kids?
I think this album at it's core is a grower, something U2 hasn't done in a long time, and I think people who may not have the time to just sit and listen with a glass of wine(or whatever your poison) may not enjoy this album as much as others. So be it, that's art...
No one has been able to make art for all lifestyles...