The Sad Punk
Blue Crack Addict
I have never been entirely sure where I stand on TJT. Certainly, WOWY is what got me into U2, and there are some damn fine classics, and some underappreciated classics, and all that... but something about it just doesn't click with me. Stupid as it sounds, but I think it was the first album of theirs that sounds like it's, well, trying too hard. All the talking up of it beforehand, and all the talking up of it afterward. The biblical lyrical cliches. The warhouses that I've grown sick to death of. The slow realisation that I don't like One Tree Hill as much as I did when I first heard it. It's complicated. Me and TJT is tite, but we like to stay apart a few months at a time, so we's can look at each other afresh. It hovers around the middle of the list for me, and by no means do I hate any song from it, I just find it to be a bit middling, on the whole.