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  1. They started this album (the promotion) in the wrong way: Get On Your Boots
  2. i like to think of this album as passengers 2 .
    i like the get on your boots version for the world cup...this would have been a better start and sound for the album.
  3. Originally posted by revjisok:i like to think of this album as passengers 2 .
    i like the get on your boots version for the world cup...this would have been a better start and sound for the album.
    I can see that, it was more experimental than most of their songs
  5. No Line On the Horizon was the second U2 album I heard pretty much in full, after The Joshua Tree. I always liked it from the beginning, and it's remained very high on my list of favourite albums since 2010 when I first heard it.

    It has no bad tracks - no, not even Boots or Stand Up Comedy; while they're certainly a long way from U2's Finest Hour, they are truly not bad songs - and a couple of great ones. Moment of Surrender is easily U2's greatest, most powerful song of the 21st century (which is no small praise, I think since 2004 U2 have been producing some of their best work), White As Snow is hauntingly beautiful and bare, Cedars of Lebanon is a completely underrated jewel of a song and probably one of my top five personal favourite U2 songs, and the rest of the tracklist is full of great material.

    NLOTH isn't a perfect album -- it can feel a bit disjointed, though not as badly, I think, as it's been accused of being -- but it definitely does not deserve the scorn it's received. While it would have been nice to see their visions of more 'experimental' songs like Cedars or 'future hymns' like MOS better realised on the record, the NLOTH that was made is an intensely spiritual, intensely sensory, intensely enjoyable album. On the whole, it's magnificent.

  6. I think you got it totally wrong. Most fans appreciated it first, then lost interest on it as months and years went by. You can check out the opinions when it came out and compare them with 2010, 2012, 2015 opinions.
  7. I appreciate the album just for the gems it added to their collection. I don't find myself listening to it as a whole at all, but I constantly revisit the standout tracks.
  8. Same here. In fact I listen to its stand out songs FAR more often than to many other albums' personal favourites songs (such as the Bomb, Leave Behind or, surprisingly, Achtung Baby or War). Maybe because they're not as burned-out in my mind due to having been abandoned earlier (Breathe, No Line) or just not played at all (Cedars, Fez/BB)? They sound fresh, they sound amazing and rocking.
  10. No name-calling, please. There's no right or wrong answer here.
  12. I forgive. He's Canadian.
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