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LemonMelon said:
OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE IT HAS FINALLY HAPPENED!!!!THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER CREATED BY THE HANDS OF MAN!!!!! :combust: THOSE FOUR YEARS WERE NOT JUST WORTH THE WAIT, BUT I BELIEVE THIS ALBUM IS SO GOOD THAT IT SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN VAULTS FOREVER! THE HUMAN MIND SIMPLY CANNOT COMPREHEND HOW BRILLIANT THIS IS!!!!

NO LINE ON THE HORIZON IS SONIC PERFECTION, JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT IN A TOTALLY DIFFERENT WAY. :drool: BONO'S FALSETTO IS BACK, BABY!

MAGNIFICENT IS BETTER THAN THE TITLE COULD HAVE EVER MADE IT OUT TO BE. IT'S LIKE GOD HIMSELF NOT ONLY WALKED INTO THE ROOM, BUT GAVE THEM THE CHORD PROGRESSION.

MOMENT OF SURRENDER MADE ME CURL UP ON THE FLOOR IN THE FETAL POSITION AND SOB FOR HOURS. I MISSED THE REST OF THE ALBUM, SO I HAD TO GET UP AND START IT OVER. THAT'S THE ONLY THING I REMOTELY DISLIKE ABOUT THIS SONG; IT ALWAYS MAKES ME CURL UP ON THE FLOOR IN THE FETAL POSITION AND SOB LIKE AN INFANT FOR HOURS.

UNKNOWN CALLER IS SO GOOD, I WANT TO CALL EVERYONE I KNOW AND TELL THEM THAT THE EDGE IS ON FIRE. :rockon: THE GUITAR SOLO WAS SWEETER THAN THE MOST SACCHARIN-INFUSED NECTAR IN HEAVEN.

I'LL GO CRAZY IF I DON'T GO CRAZY TONIGHT IS LIKE HAVING A THREESOME WITH SCARLETT JOHANNSON AND SALMA HAYEK ON ECSTASY. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE MUSIC, BUT IT'S JUST THAT GOOD.

Get On Your Boots sucks. The lyrics are idiotic, and, moreover, I'm bored with it.

STAND UP COMEDY IS SO GOOD, LED ZEPPELIN WOULD HAVE TO STEAL THE BEST NOTE FROM EACH OF THE GREATEST BLUES SONGS EVER CREATED TO MATCH ITS GLORIOUS MAJESTY.

FEZ - BEING BORN IS BY FAR THE MOST CREATIVE AND CHALLENGING SONG EVER CREATED!!!! EVEN THOUGH THEY CHOSE A LOUSY SONG LIKE BOOTS, THEY WAY THEY TOOK THE SOUNDS FROM ONE SONG AND REUSED THEM ELSEWHERE WAS AMAZING!!! I'VE NEVER HEARD SUCH A THING! ONLY U2 COULD COME UP WITH SOMETHING SO INGENIUS.

WHITE AS SNOW IS ONE OF THE MOST GUT-WRENCHINGLY BEAUTIFUL THINGS I'VE EVER HEARD. IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN ME EVERY WAKING HOUR OF MY LIFE SO FAR TO CRAFT SUCH A BRILLIANT MELODY, BUT BONO PROBABLY WROTE IT IN 5 MINUTES! I LOVE THIS BAND.

BREATHE IS THE GREATEST ROCK SONG I'VE EVER HEARD. IT'S LIKE THE ESSENCE OF ROCK N' ROLL WAS ADDED TO A BOTTLE OF POWERJUICE, AND U2 IS DRUNK ON IT.

CEDARS OF LEBANON WAS SO DARK AND PERSONAL, IT MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS THERE, WAKING UP WITH BONO WITH HIS CLOTHES IN A DIRTY HEAP. WHAT A GLORIOUS FEELING. AND ALBUM.

I'M HONESTLY SURPRISED THAT MY COMPUTER HASN'T ALREADY EXPLODED FROM HOW AMAZING THIS IS! ONLY A TOTAL DOUCHEBAG WITH NO TASTE WHATSOEVER WOULD DISLIKE EVEN .000000000000001% OF THIS ALBUM!!!!
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This quite frankly, has to be the funniest post I've read on the internet. The line about Selma Haya and Scarlett Johannson is priceless. LOL.
 
I can't turn the damn album off. I get to the end of Cedars, and every time I let my iPod start it over. I can't stop it....
 
LemonMelon said:
CEDARS OF LEBANON WAS SO DARK AND PERSONAL, IT MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS THERE, WAKING UP WITH BONO WITH HIS CLOTHES IN A DIRTY HEAP. WHAT A GLORIOUS FEELING. AND ALBUM.
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I think I am going to have to listen to that track til I get that experience :drool::drool: :lol:
 
The album finally leaked! Plus they're playing Rattle and Hum on TV. Can this day get any bette:hyper:r?
 
After hearing the songs in full now, I feel like this record has more of the "U2 spirit" that I've missed from that last couple of records.

The first 5 songs are classic IMO.

In this way, the record reminds me of ATYCLB, but with better songs all around.
 
I can appreciate the last 2 or 3 efforts for what they were, but I'm really overjoyed at the overall "spirit" of this album.

To be honest, I was a little annoyed that "Every Breaking Wave" was left off and "White as Snow" was on. The 45 second clips really didn't do much for me re: White as Snow. But it is an instant classic. Lush, gorgeous, bittersweet, achingly beautiful. That's how I would describe most of this album.

I was sure that this album would have a "one step closer"...an underwhelming skip-track, but they all intrigue me and deliver the goods.
 
This song has the best lyrics Bono's written, maybe in years, if ever. It was always embarassing to hear lines like "A mole digging in a hole," next to something as evocative as "see the bedouin fires at night." Every serious interview with Bono reconfirmed for me, that the man was smarter and more poetic than what he was producing.

Not sure how I feel about the album as a whole, but I do feel like it has the same sense of place, location that AB and JT evoked for me. Cedars of Lebanon is beautiful - sort of how I imagined that old poem "In Cold Blood," during the Zoo-days, would've sounded.
 
iota said:
To be honest, I was a little annoyed that "Every Breaking Wave" was left off and "White as Snow" was on.
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Um...how can you be annoyed about a song you've never heard...? :scratch:

I agree with you about White as Snow though, absolutely gorgeous.

I'm on my 8th listen :drool: only thing interrupting me is class and occasionally sleep.
 
Wow. I can't believe this is all happening. I just got back from a morning of tedious errands, sat down at my desk to do some paperwork and happened to find the leak email in my inbox....
:doh:

there goes the work i was hoping to do...

this is why we're on Interference, for days like this.

amazing
:heart:
 
LemonMelon said:
OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE IT HAS FINALLY HAPPENED!!!!THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER CREATED BY THE HANDS OF MAN!!!!! :combust: THOSE FOUR YEARS WERE NOT JUST WORTH THE WAIT, BUT I BELIEVE THIS ALBUM IS SO GOOD THAT IT SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN VAULTS FOREVER! THE HUMAN MIND SIMPLY CANNOT COMPREHEND HOW BRILLIANT THIS IS!!!!

NO LINE ON THE HORIZON IS SONIC PERFECTION, JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT IN A TOTALLY DIFFERENT WAY. :drool: BONO'S FALSETTO IS BACK, BABY!

MAGNIFICENT IS BETTER THAN THE TITLE COULD HAVE EVER MADE IT OUT TO BE. IT'S LIKE GOD HIMSELF NOT ONLY WALKED INTO THE ROOM, BUT GAVE THEM THE CHORD PROGRESSION.

MOMENT OF SURRENDER MADE ME CURL UP ON THE FLOOR IN THE FETAL POSITION AND SOB FOR HOURS. I MISSED THE REST OF THE ALBUM, SO I HAD TO GET UP AND START IT OVER. THAT'S THE ONLY THING I REMOTELY DISLIKE ABOUT THIS SONG; IT ALWAYS MAKES ME CURL UP ON THE FLOOR IN THE FETAL POSITION AND SOB LIKE AN INFANT FOR HOURS.

UNKNOWN CALLER IS SO GOOD, I WANT TO CALL EVERYONE I KNOW AND TELL THEM THAT THE EDGE IS ON FIRE. :rockon: THE GUITAR SOLO WAS SWEETER THAN THE MOST SACCHARIN-INFUSED NECTAR IN HEAVEN.

I'LL GO CRAZY IF I DON'T GO CRAZY TONIGHT IS LIKE HAVING A THREESOME WITH SCARLETT JOHANNSON AND SALMA HAYEK ON ECSTASY. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE MUSIC, BUT IT'S JUST THAT GOOD.

Get On Your Boots sucks. The lyrics are idiotic, and, moreover, I'm bored with it.

STAND UP COMEDY IS SO GOOD, LED ZEPPELIN WOULD HAVE TO STEAL THE BEST NOTE FROM EACH OF THE GREATEST BLUES SONGS EVER CREATED TO MATCH ITS GLORIOUS MAJESTY.

FEZ - BEING BORN IS BY FAR THE MOST CREATIVE AND CHALLENGING SONG EVER CREATED!!!! EVEN THOUGH THEY CHOSE A LOUSY SONG LIKE BOOTS, THEY WAY THEY TOOK THE SOUNDS FROM ONE SONG AND REUSED THEM ELSEWHERE WAS AMAZING!!! I'VE NEVER HEARD SUCH A THING! ONLY U2 COULD COME UP WITH SOMETHING SO INGENIUS.

WHITE AS SNOW IS ONE OF THE MOST GUT-WRENCHINGLY BEAUTIFUL THINGS I'VE EVER HEARD. IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN ME EVERY WAKING HOUR OF MY LIFE SO FAR TO CRAFT SUCH A BRILLIANT MELODY, BUT BONO PROBABLY WROTE IT IN 5 MINUTES! I LOVE THIS BAND.

BREATHE IS THE GREATEST ROCK SONG I'VE EVER HEARD. IT'S LIKE THE ESSENCE OF ROCK N' ROLL WAS ADDED TO A BOTTLE OF POWERJUICE, AND U2 IS DRUNK ON IT.

CEDARS OF LEBANON WAS SO DARK AND PERSONAL, IT MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS THERE, WAKING UP WITH BONO WITH HIS CLOTHES IN A DIRTY HEAP. WHAT A GLORIOUS FEELING. AND ALBUM.

I'M HONESTLY SURPRISED THAT MY COMPUTER HASN'T ALREADY EXPLODED FROM HOW AMAZING THIS IS! ONLY A TOTAL DOUCHEBAG WITH NO TASTE WHATSOEVER WOULD DISLIKE EVEN .000000000000001% OF THIS ALBUM!!!!
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You don't like GOYB! :lol:
 
I normally take pride in my ability to put my emotions into words.

Three songs in, and I just can't fucking do it. Magnificent, magnificent, magnificent...

EDIT: FUCK. HOLY FUCK. EDGE. UNKNOWN CALLER. FUCK.
 
Yahweh_OMG said:
:lol:

more FUCK later....you'll see
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I can't wait. :love:

Bono's high-pitched bit in Crazy Tonight just made me laugh out loud.

EDIT: The outro of Stand Up Comedy...holy shit. I thought Edge was going to explode into a solo at one point, but he didn't. :sad:

EDIT 2: FEZ-Being Born. Thank you for answering all of my prayers, U2. :love:
 
I am glad you are enjoying it GibsonGirl...I hope youlle give U2 some credit for making a great album, I know you are pretty hard to please and that is a good thing :)
 
U2 said to Q magazine: "If we get this right, 2009 will be ours!"
well with this album the will own 2009 !
I really love the album this is without a doubt one of their best albums ever !!
I LOVE IT !!

Breathe breathe breathe
 
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