Raised by Wolves is probably one of if not the most interesting song on the album. Not necessarily best, but interesting. Raised by Wolves is probably one of if not the most interesting song on the album. Not necessarily best, but interesting. I'm not AS overly passionate as many of you about SOI, but I'm sure this album has the strongest 2nd half of any U2 album since Pop or maybe even Zooropa/Achtung Baby. There it goes
Originally posted by Janus02:[..]
Maybe, just maybe.........even better than the second half of JT (:| ).
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
Tough.
(you think you got the stuff)
But no. One Tree Hill and Red Hill Mining Town are better than any song on SOI for me
Originally posted by JuJuman:On a different note: how do people think Bono sounded at the Apple performance? He sounded a little short of breath to me at times... let's hope he'll be able to sing those songs well live - a few of them are quite highly pitched! A bit like the first U2 albums...
Originally posted by LikeASong: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!
Originally posted by JuJuman:On a different note: how do people think Bono sounded at the Apple performance? He sounded a little short of breath to me at times... let's hope he'll be able to sing those songs well live - a few of them are quite highly pitched! A bit like the first U2 albums...
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
He's just out of practice. Compare some of the Letterman performances of NLOTH songs with performances from the tour. Just gotta get back into the swing of things!
Oh anyway, I'm just being picky Originally posted by JuJuman:On a different note: how do people think Bono sounded at the Apple performance? He sounded a little short of breath to me at times... let's hope he'll be able to sing those songs well live - a few of them are quite highly pitched! A bit like the first U2 albums...
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
Tough.
(you think you got the stuff)
But no. One Tree Hill and Red Hill Mining Town are better than any song on SOI for me
But Exit is. 
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
The reason you see a ton of haters now compared to NLOTH is because no one gave two shits about that album apart from U2 fans, and even in this group it was polarizing.
Funnily enough I've seen tons of posts on numerous outlets from younger people totally psyched on the album. Go look at iTunes reviews. I've also seen a lot of positive reviews on the album, and so many of the articles bashing the stunt also note that the album is pretty good. I think this was the best thing U2 could've done. My brother was bitching about the whole thing saying they should've gave it away for free instead. I asked if he's going to listen to it (It's on his phone) and he said yeah eventually, and i asked if he would have if they didn't push it on him and he said ".... guess not".
The whole relevance question is out the window, and they haven't even been promoting the music yet. I was watching football on sunday and that apple commercial showed a hundred times, and that's just the beginning. My dad checked out the album after seeing that commercial. U2's relevance has never only been about the music, it's been about what they do as people as well.
The way I see it, why worry? U2's classics have gone back into the charts (and those aren't U2 fans rebuying what they already own), the album has been downloaded 70 million times and counting, and the physical version isn't even out yet. Above all that, I think it's a fantastic album and couldn't be happier with it.
P.S: In his interview with Dave Fanning, Bono said the album was never meant to be pushed onto people's devices, just their accounts
