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I just heard The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) on the local alternative station. It's a pretty big deal, since it's the first time I've heard on new U2 song on a modern radio station since Vertigo. I heard GOYB once like a year ago on the Classic Rock station here (Northeast PA), but I never heard...

Agree on the underrated but only with ASOH. OTH is good, but not on the same level of ASOH. It's hard for me to consider elevation overrated. I mean I guess maybe in the public eye... but then any good non-single cut could be considered underrated. I don't think that many fans care that much...

Interesting that their single, The Miracle, is not on that list. Pretty soon it's time to move on. i personally don't see the fan-favorite EBW being too popular in the USA. I could be wrong, but we'll see.

The fact that Mercy was better than anything on HTDAAB isn't saying anything. Mercy was a nice song, and I liked it, but I honestly haven't listened to a U2 song as frequently as I have listened to TCB since ATYCLB era, except for maybe The Troubles. Nothing else on SOI even comes close for...

3 2 4 1 All have their moments though.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of it as the next single. I mean, release TM to let people know they have the free album; it will attract a lot of older fans (even the casual ones who may not have otherwise got the album) through the commercial, the free album promotion, and...

Which is strange, because they seem to want to be played on the radio and be cool and have BD-like success again, and this is seriously their best shot at it. It sounds cool/funky/good enough to be something from The Black Keys, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys... pretty much any of the current...

I gotta be honest... all this publicity and poster-hanging and such would be much more epic if it had a huge lead single backing it up. Anyone else picture their morning commute surrounded by SoI posters while hearing Crystal Ballroom on the radio? :drool:

Well, I've played it for several non-U2 fans, a couple of which just plain don't care for the band at all. The reactions were all positive, and I even found perhaps the biggest U2 detractor of the bunch bobbing his head up and down the whole time. If they want to be on the radio again, this...

I like SOI a lot as an album, but as in individual track, this may be the first one to invade my head and take over. It's just too damn catchy and it's different. And the lyrics work well in the context of the song. I think this is their best shot at a hit single too, I could absolutely hear...

As a drummer for a long time, the most I can say is that he fits the band. He doesn't over play, which is nice. That being said, I do wish he would expand his fills more. I don't he needs to be showy or dominate the song or anything. Or maybe do something 'less standard' as I feel like he...

^^^ LOL where has that one been? U2 have been considered lame by many for a long time now...

Reviews for Songs of Innocence by U2 - Metacritic I wish it had a higher metascore than 66... do we have any good reviews to count on? Maybe Q? This album is rated lower than all of their post 2000 albums, which just seems insane. Most reviews reek of extreme bias. But then again, we all...

I'll change this algorithm a bit by ordering the songs on each album according to how much I like them, then cross comparing them. Also, I am giving 1 point to the winner, 2 to second, etc. Lowest Score wins, like golf. ATYCLB_____HTDAAB_____NLOTH_____SOI...

1. Pop 2. Achtung Baby 3. The Joshua Tree 4. All That You Can't Leave Behind 5. The Unforgettable Fire 6. Songs of Innocence 7. Zooropa 8. War 9. October 10. Boy 11. Rattle and Hum 12. No Line on the Horizon 13. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

Such a gorgeous song, strong lyrics.... great closer. This has been my most played track so far, and it's been stuck in my head all day! Lykke Li really helps make the song, and Bono's falsetto is perfect!

Is anybody familiar with how well their back catalog sold relative to when NLOTH was released (or other post 2000 releases for that matter)? If this is unusual relative to those, then this may be a good sign!

Man, I guess I am one of the few who genuinely enjoy The U2 from 1997 - Present. ATYCLB is just as interesting an album in their catalog as any. They had never ventured into the pop-rock realm before that. It was a new direction for the band that started there and continued through NLOTH...

Welp, nothing would make U2 more irrelevant than not releasing new material.

Does anyone have access to the "Bubbling Under" chart? Curious to see how far invisible and OL dropped, maybe they are on the cusp? But yes, all the Oscars help SHOULD push OL into the Hot 100, certainly higher than 99.

No, it's not what I meant. Just as I wouldn't want to keep reading/posting 100s of articles about how good AB is if they were all pretty much the same. Electric, gritty, daring, change of sounds, etc. After about 10 its all the same. You don't really see people posting things like that, do...

It really does get tiring reading the same thing over and over again. Why was this posted? And U2 aren't ready to be lumped with The Stones or Springsteen yet. Ordinary Love has been doing well on iTunes and even made it into the Hot 100!! Aside from last album, which was [commercially]...

I thought the performance was really good. Fallon may have been a bit better, but I think a similar performance would've been out of place. I liked the arrangement better this time, thought Bono was actually VERY reserved relative to his usual self, and other than a couple of tiny miscues here...

1) Achtung Baby 2) Pop 3) The Joshua Tree 4) All That You Can't Leave Behind 5) Zooropa 6) The Unforgettable Fire 7) Rattle and Hum 8) No Line on the Horizon 9) October 10) Boy 11) War 12) How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb I literally spent the last 3 hours typing up a detailed analysis of this...