womanfish
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Yeah, i'm not sure if the review is positive or negative.... I guess leans positive. ish. lol.
It’s a good review, Jon Pareles is an excellent journalist.
U2 is like your favorite sports team. You read articles about them and root for them.
This 1 million percent. Would love to see them get the same reviews and be in the mainstream as much as they were in the atyclb and bomb eras. That was such a good time to be a u2 fan. Thing is it's been 17 years since then and theve got old
"which are themselves the limpest melodies of their career."
Are we listening to the same record as these people? These are easily the strongest melodies in a long time.
I try not to get worked up about what professional critics think, but I'm like sincerely baffled by these.
So what’s the consensus here? To me, this album is getting shitted on or are we just posting the negative reviews?
german site musikexpress.de: 2 out of 6 stars.
https://www.musikexpress.de/reviews/u2-songs-of-experience/
U2 is like your favorite sports team. You read articles about them and root for them.
Honestly, with some of these savage reviews, I think the band is actually paying for being so respected for ATYCLB and Bomb. If this album had come out back then, I think it would be receiving similar praise as those aforementioned albums, but instead people are harsher on this album because those two albums were so huge and roundly praised when many critics retrospectively think that those two albums were the start of U2's mediocre phase. I'm not necessarily saying I agree with that, just that I think U2 were so respected for so long - even when they started making less inspired music - that it caused a lot of people to really get burnt out on the band.
I've only skimmed some of the reviews. Those that are negative, are they only focusing on the music, not the lyrics/theme? It's interesting, but from the little I've seen, it seems like the good reviews know the back story of Bono's health scare and the resulting thematic change to the album.
I know that what makes a lot of the album resonate for me.
Most of the ones I've read happen to center on the reviewer's general dislike of U2 and the iTunes release of SOI, all while taking a few choice shots at the new album without any real focus.
This isn’t that bad. It actually seems kind of fair, if the record isn’t working for you. Nothing nasty or petty.
Review: U2 - Songs of Experience | RTE
The band who tried to make the devil’s music find religion face up to mortality and wrestle with geopolitics on their new album - so business as usual for U2 but there are fresh signs of vitality.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/music-reviews/2017/1128/923514-review-u2-songs-of-experience/
This isn’t that bad. It actually seems kind of fair, if the record isn’t working for you. Nothing nasty or petty.