Excellently said. Bono also really pissed me off for hanging out with George W. Bush -- after that prick lobbied to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. It was also notable that Mr. Save African Lives said NOTHING about the refusal of his buddy Bill Gates and Western governments to wave the...
Took the words right out of my mouth. I can take "Window in the Skies", but not something even more mainstream than that. It's just so awful. I'd really hoped better from a band that was actually starting to create loud and soft and some synths with "Songs of Experience."
Thanks, Dan M. Can't believe they did "The Drowning Man", one of the band's best songs they've never played live. Absolutely insane, considering it's way better than "I Will Follow" they play a ton. Quite cool he covered this, but I think he likes it even more than me. Ha, ha.
I remember buying the single version of "Walk On" that had that "Stuck" video and I was so excited to watch it with my dorm mates as the big U2 fan trying to convert more people, and was so embarrassed.
I was fairly happy to read this because it means a 4K or, at least, Blu Ray release is around the corner, which I'll happily buy for $40 each. I really hope they don't try to resell the albums for us to be able to get it, but I doubt they'll do that.
Mastered unreleased stuff from the late '80s...
Exactly. I drank the Kool-Aid at the time, but Bono doesn't care any more than do sell-outs like the Clintons and the Obamas (and Trudeaus here in Canada), who's sole desire this primary was to stop Bernie by rigging the primary. These are the people that got us Trump by prioritizing making...
Excellent review and I loved the fair criticism, too! (Bono's still pumping up the George W. "Let's campaign to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court" Bush brand and endorsing corporatists; he recently attacked the fact that not enough conservative universities were popular in some talk with...
I'd hate to think it was someone other than The Edge playing. Then again, Lanois played a ton, so why not the others. I was kinda disappointed the band couldn't come up with more of their own original melodies, but those are some pretty great ones on "Lights of Home" and "Summer of Love."
Ah...
Yeah, U2 is the worst judge of what the hits should be.
Really enjoyed "Songs of Experience" , but tracks 3 and especially 4 and 5 are garbage.
The best songs from "Songs of Innocence" were not played live: "California" and "Sleep Like a Baby".
I've been listening to "Pop" a lot this year...
I actually liked what Tedder did, I think. "Songs of Experience" might be the best album since "Pop"; it's just really lacking in the lyrics department, but still is much better than "Songs of Innocence" ("13" is so much more beautiful than "Song For Someone") or anything in the 2000s. My least...
I think "All Because of You" and especially "One Step Closer" are perhaps the very worst tracks U2's ever released -- certainly this decade. I still love "Wild Honey"'s bridge and don't hate the song.
This is one of "Songs of Innocence"'s best moments. I always enjoy this song at the gym; too bad it's bookended by 2 dullards before it and the album's worst song afterward. When U2 really try for that single nowadays, they suck. I hope that's the case for this new album because I'm seriously...
Thanks very much for these.
The reviewer is sadly just reviewing the lyrics. (That moron Ryan Dombal is the only Pitchfork writer to make that mistake.) Not much about the music, which I think is the most important. I also think "The Best Thing About Me" is quite bad, unlike this reviewer.