thrillme
Refugee
namkcuR said:Rjhbonovox is right, roy and Brau are wrong. People tend to overrate the most recent release. It's a natural thing, I suppose, because it sounds the freshest, because they haven't yet listened to it a bagillion times like they have the rest of the albums. It's not a putdown on anyone, it's just the way it is. The most recent release tends to be overrated. Also, if you remember that poll, after every round went by later in the contest where HTDAAB survived, there was a great big chorus of people vocalizing their disbelief that people were putting this thing through over the likes of War, The Unforgettable Fire, Zooropa, Pop, etc.
If Atomic Bomb is not better than War, the Unforgettable Fire, etc., written when only 2 of them had any formal music training, then Larry and Adam taking lessons in their respective instruments was for nothing in regards to their work. Bono has taken singing lessons since their early albums. Maybe for their own sense of improvement, but if their playing is not better, tighter, than previous albums, why bother.
Telling me the bass on their prior albums, with the exception of Pop is better than "Atomic Bomb?" I think "Pop" was the first proper U2 album (not counting passengers), recorded after Adam took bass lessons for a year. It shows, it really does. How about the "Mission Impossible" remake, did this not show an improvement on Adam and Larry's part? I think Adam held back a bit for ATYCLB, but not so much on Atomic Bomb.
Hum the song Vertigo.
Anyone humming the bass line? That does happen very often with U2, much less other bass players, unless the bass player is also the singer/frontman-woman. Anyone humming the bass lines to new Coldplay songs? Green Day?
War is my favorite U2 album, but ye know, it could just be romanticism, was my first U2 album I bought on my own. First U2 song I liked off the bat, was "New Year's Day" when I heard it on their Best of, my uncle bought me, and I later bought "War."
But Atomic Bomb is better musically than "War." Nothing wrong with that, that's how it should be I think.
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