Love and Peace or Else is FUNKY!!

[snutes1]

I love this song.

I like it when U2 gets caustic as they did in parts of POP and Rattle.

This song better be done live as well as City of Blinding Lights, the younger cousin of Unforgettable Fire.

Paul.

 

[Bunbury]

I don't about all you said, but I like this song totally different rhythm from other U2 songs, the most unique song in the album.

 

[Aardvark747]

Agreed. This should rock live

 

[kiwilad]

This song MUST be a single, can you just imagine this blasting through car stereo's of all those non-U2 fans, with their heads nodding and their feet thumping!

Too good to not be played live too

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

it is my favorite

 

[swandiver]

Mine too ... it's an old "dirty boogie" and I agree, it'll be a great driving song!

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

I wasn't sure if I liked it last night, but after hearing it twice this morning I LOVE it.

 

[jacobus]

LAPOE is very T.REX: Electric Warrior and it(LAPOE) is a cracker as it is Electric Warrior. what a great fuckin bastard of a song!

 

[zoopop]

"Love Peace or Else" is going to be an excellent opener.

 

[digsy]

my favourite off the album iwhtout question!

 

[Shaizari]

LAPOE is a sinful song, it makes ur hips gyrate in astronomical directions. hahahahhaa

 

[ZeroDude]

pure bluesey, ambient, magical, guitar classness

 

[Sleep Over Jack]

I hope this song is the signpost to the future U2 sound..its really brilliant, especially the bit where the sound is all muffled and then explodes

 

[TheFlyOnTheWall]

With MD and COBL, my only favourite from the album.

 

[Keocmb]

"Love Peace or Else" is going to be an excellent opener.

I can definitely see that. I could even see the tour being named for it. We'll see!

 

[deltau922]

I could see it kicking off the encore, their return to the stage signified by that low ominous rumbling.

 

[TheFlyOnTheWall]

I could see it kicking off the encore, their return to the stage signified by that low ominous rumbling.

Just like they did with BTBS...
Veery cooool!

 

[ultrraviolette]

This song kicks ass! I really like it alot, LAPOE and Fast Cars are the most "different" sounding songs for them on the album, I think.

 

[Bono's shades]

Love and Peace or Else is like someone crossed industrial rock with Stevie Wonder when he's got his funk on. It is not only unlike anything I have ever heard U2 do, it is unlike anything I have ever heard before, period. Needless to say, I love it! I just wish Bono would have added the words "or else" to the parts where he sings the "love and peace" line. Since "or else" is in the song title, I keep adding it mentally.

 

[Clark W. Griswold Jr]

IMO, this song is the Wild Honey of the album. Not that the two share much in common, but rather it demonstrates a foray into a different groove that the band had not previously explored. WH was Van Morrison-ish, while LAPOE is very 1970's glam rock, as mentioned above.

 

[Saracene]

I love love this foray into glam rock. And the riff has been stuck in my head all day.