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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
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  1. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I think it's becoming the go-to critic move to say "not as good or adventurous as 90s U2".

    Name me 5 songs from each of the 90s albums please, because lord knows the average music listener doesn't even know any U2 songs before the year 2000 lol.
    If U2 would release Mysterious Ways or EBTTRT right now people would say "oh hell, they're desperate to make a hit"
  2. Originally posted by dieder:[..]
    If U2 would release Mysterious Ways or EBTTRT right now people would say "oh hell, they're desperate to make a hit"
    Exactly. It'd be labelled as them trying too hard to sound relevant if they started incorporating more electronic/modern sounds etc.

    They're basically at a point where they can't really do anything that'll please all the critics.

    It's funny because I hear tons of 90's U2 on this album. Little Things could easily fit in Acrobat's spot on Achtung Baby, Landlady could fit in Trying To Throw Your Arms spot, Love is All We Have Left could easily fit on Pop, Showman could be from the salome tapes, etc.

  5. In response...I read this Youtube comment a while back and its pretty good.
  6. Originally posted by Anam:[..]
    Beat you to that a page back. 'U2 gives too many f##$s' would be a great t-shirt though. Or news headline featuring Adam circa November 93...
    YES. Damn ^ awesome comment
  7. Originally posted by dieder:[..]
    If U2 would release Mysterious Ways or EBTTRT right now people would say "oh hell, they're desperate to make a hit"
    I said that back in 1991. And not only me, again, it was as divisive as ever.
    There's no criticism that you can throw at them that they haven't already heard.

    Also, I'll use Bono's words again:

    "Vertigo," which you didn't like, is deceptively simple. That riff, you can think, "Aw yeah, another rock song." It doesn't become great the first time you hear it. It becomes great the thousandth time you hear it. And that's true of a lot of rock riffs. So we have to get the density of exposure for that to be a hit.
    If you dismiss the songs before they get the "density of exposure", they're throwaways. Give them time and they can become classics.
    IMHO many great U2 songs have been lost in the last couple of decades because they've been discarded way earlier than they should, or not even put out there in the first place.
  9. Hahha that comment is amazing he sounds like me after a few too many pints
  10. Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
    I said that back in 1991. And not only me, again, it was as divisive as ever.
    There's no criticism that you can throw at them that they haven't already heard.

    Also, I'll use Bono's words again:

    [..]
    If you dismiss the songs before they get the "density of exposure", they're throwaways. Give them time and they can become classics.
    IMHO many great U2 songs have been lost in the last couple of decades because they've been discarded way earlier than they should, or not even put out there in the first place.
    Will probably be true of a number of songs from SoI on the next tour
  11. I'm not even going that far, I mean "personally"... How soon someone is willing to dismiss a song is not an indication of how good or bad is that song.
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