I apologize. I don't mean to wear the musician on my sleeve. What I meant to say is that having been trained in guitar,piano,bass and drums and being in the biz for a while, I have an idea what can be done in a studio and what requires a great deal of work and what doesn't. if you have a lot going for you musically as far as new and raw material is concerned there isn't that much work needed on the producers behalf. But I imagine with having so many producers on hand, what we have here is a case of too many chefs. I also thought that the recording quality is a bit dodgey. There were quite a few times when I found bono to me almost unaudible. For a project costing so much cash, it's a wonder why things aren't sharper... U2 sound or what have you, I can't really say. My other gripe is that bono's lyrics didn't really um grab me? Vocally speaking it was a bit underdone, not much in the way of anything hookey or what have you. I guess the fact that the album plays so slowly is what gets me. All this hype about what a career defining, most rock that u2 has ever done kind of album has me a bit looking for more. More fast paced tracks, like maybe 2? Bono said U2 paint with all the colors of the rainbow... he was obviously not thinking this when he painted Bomb. I miss edge, like Even better than the, the fly, mysterious. A sound that made me jump up with joy. Maybe i'm showing my age, and maybe i'm lacking culture, but I don't get it. An album to show off rock, that's stripped down, yet turns out to be slow and moody. I guess to sum it all up, I feel duped. They sold one thing, but when you opened the box you got something else entirely different.
Thank god for Vertigo
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