This is about where I'm at. I held my fire for over a week, because to be honest when I first heard the song, I was.. kinda pissed off. To me, yet another middle of the road, we fancy ourselves "songwriters" songs. You could tell it was a B&E production foisted upon the legendary rhythm section.
So I gave myself some time and listened a few days later, then a few days after that. After reading the lyrics and accepting that the recordings of it that I heard were quite shitty, I do have a sliver of hope of it being at least Miracle level or slightly above. It definitely stuck in my head more than Miracle did.
So I welcome the real, quality studio version to give it a proper review.
But I will say this. 1. If doing Blondie inspired songs is where this "unreasonable guitar" big rock record is going, then I'm gonna be quite depressed. The Edge's "solo" was definitely not worthy of some people's comments of "The Edge is back!"
2. I'm getting tired of excuse making and trying to listen enough to a song to find some parts I like from this band. We should be arguing about what our favorite part of this new song that we just heard. Why it's even better than the part that you think is awesome, and why it gave you chills, etc... Not about what part sort of saves it a little or makes it ok.
They've had 6 fucking years to work on material. No matter what the studio version sounds like, it should be better than this.
Caveat. Yes, I know they are releasing this particular song because it is Vegas themed, so I cut them some slack there. My hope is that there is better to come.