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  1. Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
    Reminds me of Wild Honey in a good way. I love Wild Honey, it always puts me in a good mood. This song gets close to that, but not quite.
    Fans bashing Wild Honey in 3, 2, 1...
    I think Invisible, A man and A Woman, and Wild Honey are all fantastic! The latter 2 are light hearted and fun, especially WH. That's what I'm continuing to enjoy about Best Thing. It's kinda throw away, in a good way. A good, light pop song, U2 style, and it doesn't really try to be anything else. I have a feeling I will enjoy this song a lot more within the context of the album, it is rather brief and kind of abrupt on its own. Looking forward to Fallon!
  2. Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
    Reminds me of Wild Honey in a good way. I love Wild Honey, it always puts me in a good mood. This song gets close to that, but not quite.
    Fans bashing Wild Honey in 3, 2, 1...


    You called for me?

  3. Anyone else think of the "single" version of Electrical Storm hearing that opening guitar?
  4. This song is crap. I have given it multiple listens all day, and midway through the day I asked myself "if I heard this song and wasn't a U2 fan...would I finish this song?" And the answer is no.

    This song sounds to me:
    - Like it was made to be paired with a commercial
    - Like it was going for the Taylor Swift / 2017 Pop audience
    - Like it was the product of a few months of incubation, not a few years

    How could a band that has spent months steeped in the Joshua Tree and the beautiful song craft and depth of those songs make this utterly vacant piece of shit?
  5. Originally posted by thefly07:[..]
    I think Invisible, A man and A Woman, and Wild Honey are all fantastic! The latter 2 are light hearted and fun, especially WH. That's what I'm continuing to enjoy about Best Thing. It's kinda throw away, in a good way. A good, light pop song, U2 style, and it doesn't really try to be anything else. I have a feeling I will enjoy this song a lot more within the context of the album, it is rather brief and kind of abrupt on its own. Looking forward to Fallon!
    I guess we have the same musical tastes. I also love when Edge sings falsetto on background vocals on many of their songs.

    I think this will be the 3rd song on the album Like California was the catchy pop song on SOI.
  6. Originally posted by robotsandmonkeys:This song is crap. I have given it multiple listens all day, and midway through the day I asked myself "if I heard this song and wasn't a U2 fan...would I finish this song?" And the answer is no.

    This song sounds to me:
    - Like it was made to be paired with a commercial
    - Like it was going for the Taylor Swift / 2017 Pop audience
    - Like it was the product of a few months of incubation, not a few years

    How could a band that has spent months steeped in the Joshua Tree and the beautiful song craft and depth of those songs make this utterly vacant piece of shit?
    Maybe it's a blessing in disguise that you figured out they make shit music so you won't have to waste any of your hard earned money buying the album. Of course you still may get it as a Christmas present by one of your loved ones.
  7. Originally posted by robotsandmonkeys:This song is crap. I have given it multiple listens all day, and midway through the day I asked myself "if I heard this song and wasn't a U2 fan...would I finish this song?" And the answer is no.

    This song sounds to me:
    - Like it was made to be paired with a commercial
    - Like it was going for the Taylor Swift / 2017 Pop audience
    - Like it was the product of a few months of incubation, not a few years

    How could a band that has spent months steeped in the Joshua Tree and the beautiful song craft and depth of those songs make this utterly vacant piece of shit?
    Yeah, I feel the same way. I'd skip it if it came up on a playlist and wasn't U2...
    The production is what kills it, and the lyrics are weak in places. I'm still trying to give it a chance.
  8. Originally posted by raynman009:[..]
    I guess we have the same musical tastes. I also love when Edge sings falsetto on background vocals on many of their songs.

    I think this will be the 3rd song on the album Like California was the catchy pop song on SOI.
    See I actually find Edges backing vocal to be quite annoying at some times.....
  9. Originally posted by raynman009:[..]
    I guess we have the same musical tastes. I also love when Edge sings falsetto on background vocals on many of their songs.

    I think this will be the 3rd song on the album Like California was the catchy pop song on SOI.
    It sounds like the middle of a segue between 2 songs, interested to hear what is before and after it
  10. About Wild Honey and Best Thing being light hearted and fun, may I add Crazy Tonight to that list?

    About the "if it wasn't u2 would I listen to it?" No, but it is, so I do.
    And it's not only U2. James have a few songs I wouldn't listen if it weren't them and same with most (I'd not all) of the bands I love.
    Because the way I see it, the artist validates the music. Like if you see a bad Picasso painting and you think "if it wasn't a Picasso, would you like it?" No, most likely I wouldn't, but being a Picasso I'll trust in the artist and even if it isn't one of his best works I'd enjoy it.

    The bands I love are my excuse to listen to music otherwise I wouldn't.
  11. I mean, Metallica wouldn't write Bad, but U2 would, so I'll listen to it because it's U2 and they wrote it. It's kind of a weak argument. The song wouldn't exist if they hadn't written it, so how the hell can anyone say they wouldn't like it if it wasn't U2?

    It's more than that anyway. We all love the way Bono's voice sounds, how he sings, how Edge plays arpeggiated chords instead of power chords most of the time, how groovy Adam can get within the pop structures and guitar parts that barely allow for it but he manages anyway, etc.


  12. I really like your point, actually. U2 directly led me to listen to Brian Eno's "Another Green World" many many years ago, which then led me to discovering and loving early ambient music, Roxy Music, etc.

    I guess the difference here is U2 challenged and led to music I wouldn't have heard otherwise. And it was QUALITY music. The Joshua Tree mined country and gospel music in a way that probably introduced that rich music to a whole pack of people that wouldn't have heard it otherwise. That music is...nutritious (for lack of a better term).

    "The Best Thing" doesn't challenge me, doesn't surprise me, and is rooted in the shallow pool of contemporary pop soundscape that I am in no way interested in mining. And in now way is nutritious. This is wonder bread. What music does "The Best Thing" expose me to? Pop radio. Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, The goddamn Chainsmokers. All, in my very biased opinion, awful music.

    So what I dislike about this song is it adds nothing new to the musical landscape, seems to open no doors to me as a longtime fan, will run from one song to the next on the radio so smoothly it's shameful.

    I continue to hold out hope U2 takes a page from David Bowie in his final decades as an artist. Bowie's Blackstar album DID make me listen to music I otherwise wouldn't, DID do his decades of music making justice. To that end I TOTALLY agree with your post, and was excited about the initial reports of this album being rooted in more experimentation...a bit more "90s" U2 (in spirit I mean)...and to that end I'm just so disappointed that where The Fly or Numb once sent U2 fans reeling on their heels and scrambling to find where U2 were coming from...THIS first single only needs the audience to listen to the next vacant pop song to know where they are coming from.
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