unnamed_streets said:
No, I'm not being hypocritical at all. I've never said that U2 followed a certain style in the 80s and another one in the 90s. They kept changing their style with every album while still making great music, a feat very few bands can boast of. Boy is different from October which is different from War..... and so on all the way up to Pop. Yes! Achtung is different from Zooropa which is different from Pop. ATYCLB on the other hand is not different from HTDAAB. That's what's disappointing. Don't tell me that Edge's guitar work on HTDAAB doesn't remind you of songs off JT!!! The innovation, experimentation and unpredictability seems to have been abandoned so that they can create hits, win grammies and become the biggest band in the world. Hey, who knows, this might just be a phase and they may wisen up with the next album.
U2 are playing to their strengths. You have a problem with that? And really, U2 have never done songs like LAPOE, A Man And A Woman, or Fast Cars/Xanax.
And Boy, October, and War aren't as dissimilar as many would have us believe.