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OK, now that I've listened to it a couple of times and feel like I can offer an informed opinion:
It feels like they took the ideas and themes of ATYCLB and made a better album out of it. It certainly isn't the most innovative album they have ever made (the only things that sounds like a new direction for them is Love and Peace or Else - which just might be my favorite track), but U2 sounding like typical U2 is a hell of a lot better than U2 sounding like Train or Matchbox 20.
At this point I am completely in love with Love and Peace or Else, Vertigo and All Because of You. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own starts out kind of slow and boring, but by the time they get to the end I'm about ready to bawl my eyes out. I can just imagine Bono sitting by his dying father's bedside and singing it to him. Crumbs From Your Table is definitely a song that grows on you. I wish I hadn't read so many rave reviews on this site for Miracle Drug because when I heard it, it was kind of a letdown. I'm having a hard time finding much to get excited about in City of Blinding Lights, except maybe the bridge. Yahweh is a much, much better closer than Grace. I give the album a B, or maybe a B+
It feels like they took the ideas and themes of ATYCLB and made a better album out of it. It certainly isn't the most innovative album they have ever made (the only things that sounds like a new direction for them is Love and Peace or Else - which just might be my favorite track), but U2 sounding like typical U2 is a hell of a lot better than U2 sounding like Train or Matchbox 20.
At this point I am completely in love with Love and Peace or Else, Vertigo and All Because of You. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own starts out kind of slow and boring, but by the time they get to the end I'm about ready to bawl my eyes out. I can just imagine Bono sitting by his dying father's bedside and singing it to him. Crumbs From Your Table is definitely a song that grows on you. I wish I hadn't read so many rave reviews on this site for Miracle Drug because when I heard it, it was kind of a letdown. I'm having a hard time finding much to get excited about in City of Blinding Lights, except maybe the bridge. Yahweh is a much, much better closer than Grace. I give the album a B, or maybe a B+