trainmaniac
War Child
Hey all. Stopping back in for a bit.
SOI and SOE to me are the band's best work since POP. I would take them way over Bomb and No Line.
IMO they are painfully close in quality.
SOI has top tier songs like:
EBW, Raised By Wolves, Sleep LIke a Baby, and The Troubles.
SOE more than matches it with:
Love is All..., Lights, Summer of Love, Red Flag Day, Little Things, Landlady, Love is Bigger and 13
They both have some good solid listens, but not greatness:
SOI - California, Iris, Volcano, Reach and Cedarwood
SOE - Best Thing, Get Out and The Blackout
And they both have a couple stinkers
SOI - Miracle and SFS
SOE - American Soul and The Showman
Both have an amazing bonus track that should have been on the albums, Crystal Ballroom and Book of your Heart.
I lean towards SOE a bit. I think its a bit more consistent and has more high tier songs IMO. But both are very solid albums which land in the middle of U2 catalog for me.
This is something I could have written.