I know we should probably try to keep on topic (that's been working well so far, hasn't it?) but I just can't let the discussion about Moment of Surrender go by without comment.
There are two three things to be said here:
First, to these ears MOS is better than anything U2 have done since the early 1990s - and one of their best songs full stop. It's absolutely transcendental, with the most unusual, inventive playing, the best Bono vocals, and some of the best Bono lyrics that the band have come up with since at least Please, if not since One. (As an aside, Bono's lyric writing on NLOTH is superb - middle three tracks aside. Cedars of Lebanon, for example, is so unusual it's just great.)
Second, MOS genuinely was the one track on NLOTH that made the reviewers and critics sit up and pay attention. To paraphrase one otherwise relatively lukewarm review I read in The Word magazine at the time: MOS is a terrific song in anyone's book.
The third lesson is simple: get used to it. MOS sounds to me like a band on the cusp of their fifties being comfortable in their skin and making great music that fits that place. Whereas the middle three songs and, to be honest, whole chunks of their live performance on 360 (especially the awfulness of Crazy Tonight) made me cringe and think 'aren't they too old for this', MOS sounded like they just, well meant it. (And I'm more than 20 years younger than U2, in case you ask.) The upshot of all of this is simple: they are now in their early 50s, so I think we can be expecting a lot more songs like MOS from now on. And I'd be pretty happy with that!