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I love the Chris Martin references in a few of the reviews... You'd think that they read Interference or something.
11: Cedars Of Lebanon
Like a prize-winning short story, this has an insightful documentary feel that makes it the perfect coda to the album.
The writing here is brilliant and, as throughout, the playing shows a band at the height of its powers.
It's the tremendous sonic dynamics that grab you as the bass and drums lock into an irresistible Madchester beat and carries on with a rising lift that oozes optimism as Bono sings, 'She said, "Infinity is a great place to start"'."
Not a proper review, but a few insights.
The chink in U2's armour is said to be Bono's outspoken charity work
on African poverty and Aids: and, yes, there are many arguments
against celebrities dabbling in global politics. But if the U2 singer
has saved just one life in his decades of activism, all such
criticism looks pretty flimsy.
White as Snow is definitely Winter then, I know that was thrown into doubt again a few days ago..
Check this out: the ballad mutating into something totally different. The ballad-bashers weren't expecting that
I love this: Keep on Moroccan!
personally I strongly dislike it when someone equates all that he likes to positive things and all he dislikes to negative thingsWow, somehow I really enjoyed that article (not really an album review) from the self-professed 'U2 hater'.
personally I strongly dislike it when someone equates all that he likes to positive things and all he dislikes to negative things
I would reckon that when you try to write about something you try to get across a balanced view
not - I hate what they did in the 80s, bunch of self righteous pompous twats but they got so much better in the 90s when they showed more humour and were more adventurous
perhaps in the 80s they were very much on the serious side but wrote many anthems that will live on for quite a while and in the 90s they finally managed to mix it up but hardly ever were able to write songs that managed to touch a larger group of people
But if the U2 singer
has saved just one life in his decades of activism, all such
criticism looks pretty flimsy.
U2 are bound to stir debate. After all, the Times critic David
Sinclair branded them "rock's last superpower." Bono has been
criticised from both right and left; for doing too much or too
little. But at least he is prepared get his hands dirty on complex,
prickly problems instead of retreating into perpetual pampered
adolescence like most millionaire rockers.
Who else in pop has the clout and arrogance to badger world leaders,
hoping to shape global poverty policy? Even as a sometime U2 hater,
this seems to me a valid use of celebrity power. Ethical
contradictions do not make U2 a lesser band; they are precisely what
makes them interesting.
I guess it depends on how you read what he saysOf course, I disagreed with tons of things he said--such as U2 were crap in the 80s and Bono is a hypocrit--but to me this article shows that you just have to be so cynical to really hate U2... and I liked that he admitted it somehow.
It bodes well for the album that will follow No Line on the Horizon, which has, he says, "the idea of pilgrimage at its centre," and is made up of the "quieter, more meditative songs" that did not make it on to this one. "Intimacy is the new punk rock," Bono added, laughing. But is it the new stadium rock?
They're already planning the next one?!
Of course, I disagreed with tons of things he said--such as U2 were crap in the 80s and Bono is a hypocrit--but to me this article shows that you just have to be so cynical to really hate U2... and I liked that he admitted it somehow.
The three are 4 star reviews then? Nice.