Originally posted by sonia_lastrega:[..]
But I don't like the cold!
Originally posted by LikeASong:Magnificent 0, Drew? Aren't you a bit harsh?
Originally posted by sonia_lastrega:[..]
Sounds about right to me
Originally posted by drewhiggins:
Some songs have changed totally for me after listening to them on a once-per-month basis or somewhere around that. Having an album that doesn't do much for the mainstream and popular trends at the moment in music shows that U2 are willing to break away from what most would define as ''rock as U2''.
If they weren't careful earlier this decade they would have turned into the next Aerosmith and that couldn't have been a good thing. Songs like Magnificent still don't do much if anything for me but others like Being Born are the real highlights of this record. I'd like to see U2 continue in this way, making more ambient tracks but keeping several rock tunes which might or might not be popular.
I like a rough, minimalistic, odd-sounding record and this is it. Their best since Zooropa and Passengers and one of the better albums of 2009. I don't remember myself saying that in 2000 and 2004 but I do remember with the very first leak of the record - I said something like ''This isn't gonna be popular with the radio and singles, but with most of the fans it probably will be''. Still I'm not sure about that but more people are judging by the cover. Yeah - it's not exactly fancy but better than four guys sitting on a Spanish bench or standing in a French airport.
Originally posted by aussiemofo:[..]
Good post Drew, definitely their most adventurous piece of work this decade, no question. I think, over time, it will be regarded even by the non-U2 fanatics much the same as Pop. Some will love it, others will loathe it. It's a hard album to bottle up because some of these sounds are so innovative and fresh while at the same time in may ways they hark back to their raw energy of the 80's. But I'm probably OT.