kiwilad
Refugee
Leo's letting his hurt out as a reviewer now?One reviewer summed up the song nicely for me in two words: Didactic Spam
Leo's letting his hurt out as a reviewer now?One reviewer summed up the song nicely for me in two words: Didactic Spam
If it was indeed a masterpiece there would be near universal acceptance of that.
You think "universal acceptance" is the criterion for something being a masterpiece? You might want to read up on art history.
Perhaps recognition is a more appropriate word to use than acceptance.
U2, as we all know, have produced two such works - The Joshua Tree & Achtung Baby.
Recognition by who?
I regard TUF as a masterpiece. Which is it (as we all know).
And Rolling Stone calls AYCLB a "masterpiece".
On the other hand, The Observer says Joshua Tree isn't a masterpiece.
Recognition by who?
I regard TUF as a masterpiece. Which is it (as we all know).
And Rolling Stone calls AYCLB a "masterpiece".
On the other hand, The Observer says Joshua Tree isn't a masterpiece.
100% agreed.The 'ATM machine' thing. There's lots of lyrics from Bono in recent years to go 'why?' and plenty on NLOTH but that isn't one of them. 'I was punching in the numbers at the ATM Machine'. Really? Just whiffs of people looking to get offended about something.
MOS - one of their masterpieces. 10/10.
Do you think that they would ever play any of the songs from No Line again?
Replying to Digitize:
I agree with you impression of "Magnificent". It's basically the Magnificat, or Mary singing to Jesus from the Bible. Never heard much discussion about that slant.
It reminds me of an old friend and I talking about POP, and I told him that I thought a certain song was about God, and he replied "They're all about God". Maybe hyperbole, but I see what he meant!
NLOTH the song was a siren call to the nervy, creative, confident U2 that we hadn't heard since Pop, but they sadly lost their nerve.