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  1. Guess so

    So, why haven't we heard any comments from Chris Martin yet?! I was expecting a short tweet or something
  2. I love the liner notes from Bono. He subtly talks about the situations that inspired each song. It's too early for me to know how i feel about the actual music, which is a good thing. Songs that instantly connect with me usually become the least memorable. I am digging the way it was released and the "feel" of the album which definitely has a very cohesive feel that was absent from some prior releases.
  3. The notes are indeed helpful in getting the right feeling.

    So any ideas on what that sign is? The one on page 21 of the booklet as well as on the artwork below "Title:"
  4. Originally posted by LikeASong:After a second, more detailed listen...


    Summary

    Trying to hold back from the excitement and the mindblowing presentation move, and focusing just on the music... It's a more consistent album than NLOTH and HTDAAB, steadier, less hit&miss. It has a disctinctive sound all throughout (these albums didn't have any actually). And even though there aren't as many highlights or stand out tracks as in NLOTH (MOS, UC, Cedars, Breathe and No Line were all mindblowing), it has a bigger "album feel" to it - which is something I love.
    Edge is truly on fire this time, he's loosen up a bit (and got wild on the fuzz pedal) and it comes through blatantly. Adam is a bit absent on some tracks (something that didn't happen in NLOTH, which was "his" record as many of us said) but stands out in others. Larry is consistently good, with some highlights like Wolves or Iris. Bono is... Bono. A bit too much screaming at times, and I as a singer myself think he'll have trouble singing some of these songs: they're way too high on the vocal range. Let's see how he delivers on tour. The lyrics are amazing anyway!


    Top tracks (in no order)
    Raised By Wolves
    The Troubles
    This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now


    Rank: too early for this but... Between the good albums and the great ones. Somewhere around Rattle And Hum or NLOTH. I dare to say... 8/10?


    Thank U2. Thanks for being the sountrack of my life and the reason I was born and I'm still alive. Love ♥


    3 full listens later:

    8'5/10, settled.
  5. best album since ATYCLB, easy.

    more consistent and cohesive than No Line; as people have said it's like Bomb but less blatantly 'dad rock'.

    so far I'd give it 8/10
  6. Originally posted by Ali709:The notes are indeed helpful in getting the right feeling.

    So any ideas on what that sign is? The one on page 21 of the booklet as well as on the artwork below "Title:"

    larrys tattoo
  8. First listen reactions:


    Not digging EVB, the live version is superior in every way. Such a shame of such a beautiful song

    Intro of California is fucking awesome. I really wish the rest of the album had such catchy melodies/rhythms.

    I guess one of my big gripes is that the album sounds too much like pop songs. Guitars and drums sound so synthesized.

    This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now reminds of Zooropa stuff lol

    Songs that stand out are Troubles, Raised By Wolves and Cedarwood Road.

    Overall most of the songs are kinda forgettable at this point, so yeah....

    We'll see how I feel tomorrow

  9. well the album is mostly reflective about being young, then and now, choices, lasting decisions, so it's kind of a cool metaphor, one of things larry takes with him, older now but still marked by decision made when younger. innocence taken.

    i think its the only tattoo within the whole band, so its probably symbolic in that sense??

    in reallty though, i dont know when he got it. i presume it was long after the boys were out of dublin.

    i like the idea though. the linear notes booklet is pretty cool. simple.
  10. I'm not really sure why people are complaining that the album sounds too poppy. U2 have always been in the mainstream and they like it that way. Hell, they even dictated what the mainstream was throughout their career at points.

    To me this album is exactly what I wanted. It's something different from U2, but has great singles which is what I expect from them. Every song on this album could be a single to me. It has "U2" all over it, and to me that doesn't only mean their sound, it means what they have always been trying to achieve, which is acceptance from the "cool" kids. Whether or not they accept it is something I could care less about, but to me this album is relevant, transcendent, but also current, and I think that's freakin' awesome coming from a bunch of 50 year old dudes who many deem are "way past their prime". This album says "they still got it" to me. They're still hungry, and they've never really hungered after art for art's sake. It's always been about touching as many people as they could. Ask Larry about the albums where they went a little of the rails
  11. nicely put!
  12. They have released an album that is greater than the sum of it's parts. 11 songs that in a way you need to hear in their entirety, as a whole, to fully capture the simple brilliance of it. Is it too poppy? I think of Pop as the "Flavour of the Week" on the radio or the iTunes singles chart. U2 has never been a band that you can classify as "poppy" and the same can be said about this album. They have always sounded like something different than what is happening in the mainstream or on the radio. They are so ahead of their times.
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