my guess more people who just dont like U2, yet this is really hurting the albums overall rating
Face it folks. U2 are cr@p. I know it's hard to accept it when your favourite band finally turns that corner but you really should be over it by now. After all, it's been fourteen years since Achtung Baby (their last good album). Hell even that was a poor man's 'The Idiot' and about as "experimental" as McDonalds doing salads. But you can't let go can you?
Let's Recap:
U2 1980-1991: Good Stuff, mostly because they spent half the time trying to rewrite Joy Division's 'Atmosphere', a lofty goal that produced some good and great results.
Zooropa: Misguided, rushed and weak. Still had some worthwhile moments. Worse was to come.
Pop: U2 branch out and display their limited musical range. Bono sounds like a dying cat. Embarassing to say the least.
ATYCLB: Second worst album title ever. The band sounds amateurish for the first time ever. "Songs" are scrappy and half finished. Personal disappointment for me coz I never thought I'd see the day when a Brian Eno production would be so stultifyingly boring. Himself and Lanois were obviously asleep at the console. Don't worry though, Anton Corbijn is taking the black and white photos so it must be as good as The Joshua Tree! Yaaayyyy!!
HTDAAB: Worst album title ever. The band sounds so tired it defies description. There are no songs at all. Just bits of (bad) ideas sewn together with ridiculous edits. The lyrics are hackneyed, empty, rhyming rubbish with nothing substantive to say. The rhythm section are utterly bereft of any ideas whatsoever. And the whole thing is mixed to slot perfectly into that horrible K-ROCK radio format. Uugghhh.
Please don't think I hate U2. I don't. I'd really like for this album to be good but it's just not. I think they probably still have it in them to produce another great record. If they put half the effort they put into the business into the songs instead I think they could easily do it. As it stands, they are surrounded by so many sycophants and yes-men at this stage that they have no honest and objective sounding board. Just people standing around massaging their egos and telling them how wonderful they are. Not healthy, and definitely not conducive to creating great art. They also need to jetisson this burning, avaricious desire to remain the world's biggest band forever. It's not doing the music any good.
Do yourself a favour. Don't buy this record. If nobody buys it then maybe, just maybe, they'll come back with a record that's about the music and not corporate schlock concerned with consensus committees and the bottom line.
Oh and by the way. I see people mentioning U2 and The Beatles in the same breath. Please don't. It's just dumb.
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I never thought U2 would sink so low, how can they settle for this crap.
"Vertigo" is alright and
"Sometimes You can make it on your own" is a pretty good tune - "All because of you" is pretty good, but the rest, is this really the U2 album that everyones been waiting so long for?
Overall the whole album has the same tone of the song "Vertigo" mostly and what makes this album even more outragous is that it was named by the band as "The best U2 album ever" well it is'nt.
I was actually expecting on this record
(as was said by many before it came out)that it sounds like the old U2 updated. So I was expecting a louder edgier guitar sound to it with heaps of "mega" tracks, and some straight forward sounding songs as well....................I just am really dissapointed........you should be to.......enough said.
Face it folks. U2 are cr@p. I know it's hard to accept it when your favourite band finally turns that corner but you really should be over it by now. After all, it's been fourteen years since Achtung Baby (their last good album). Hell even that was a poor man's 'The Idiot' and about as "experimental" as McDonalds doing salads. But you can't let go can you?
Let's Recap:
U2 1980-1991: Good Stuff, mostly because they spent half the time trying to rewrite Joy Division's 'Atmosphere', a lofty goal that produced some good and great results.
Zooropa: Misguided, rushed and weak. Still had some worthwhile moments. Worse was to come.
Pop: U2 branch out and display their limited musical range. Bono sounds like a dying cat. Embarassing to say the least.
ATYCLB: Second worst album title ever. The band sounds amateurish for the first time ever. "Songs" are scrappy and half finished. Personal disappointment for me coz I never thought I'd see the day when a Brian Eno production would be so stultifyingly boring. Himself and Lanois were obviously asleep at the console. Don't worry though, Anton Corbijn is taking the black and white photos so it must be as good as The Joshua Tree! Yaaayyyy!!
HTDAAB: Worst album title ever. The band sounds so tired it defies description. There are no songs at all. Just bits of (bad) ideas sewn together with ridiculous edits. The lyrics are hackneyed, empty, rhyming rubbish with nothing substantive to say. The rhythm section are utterly bereft of any ideas whatsoever. And the whole thing is mixed to slot perfectly into that horrible K-ROCK radio format. Uugghhh.
Please don't think I hate U2. I don't. I'd really like for this album to be good but it's just not. I think they probably still have it in them to produce another great record. If they put half the effort they put into the business into the songs instead I think they could easily do it. As it stands, they are surrounded by so many sycophants and yes-men at this stage that they have no honest and objective sounding board. Just people standing around massaging their egos and telling them how wonderful they are. Not healthy, and definitely not conducive to creating great art. They also need to jetisson this burning, avaricious desire to remain the world's biggest band forever. It's not doing the music any good.
Do yourself a favour. Don't buy this record. If nobody buys it then maybe, just maybe, they'll come back with a record that's about the music and not corporate schlock concerned with consensus committees and the bottom line.
Oh and by the way. I see people mentioning U2 and The Beatles in the same breath. Please don't. It's just dumb.
and
I never thought U2 would sink so low, how can they settle for this crap.
"Vertigo" is alright and
"Sometimes You can make it on your own" is a pretty good tune - "All because of you" is pretty good, but the rest, is this really the U2 album that everyones been waiting so long for?
Overall the whole album has the same tone of the song "Vertigo" mostly and what makes this album even more outragous is that it was named by the band as "The best U2 album ever" well it is'nt.
I was actually expecting on this record
(as was said by many before it came out)that it sounds like the old U2 updated. So I was expecting a louder edgier guitar sound to it with heaps of "mega" tracks, and some straight forward sounding songs as well....................I just am really dissapointed........you should be to.......enough said.