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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
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  2. I'd say Volcano is way worse than AS.

    Boots is on another planet of crapness.

    Punk rock from Pluto.
  3. No line is not a good album, but have their highlights like stand up comedy, i'll go crazy, moment of surrender, SOI too, have raised by wolves, volcano, etc, i did not expect a new achtung baby or joshua tree, to me, is good that U2 make a few great songs in every album they ever launch, that simple
  4. As I said long ago, the creativity well has largely dried up (specially Edge's). They're still a great band, Bono's melodic skills are intact and they're of course able to put out a set of great songs (and put on a great show, that's for sure) but I don't think they're going to discover any unknown place lately. Last time I had that feeling was when I pressed "play" on The Crystal Ballroom. Before that, I hadn't felt that since I pressed "play" on Cedars Of Lebanon. (And I love many of the songs in between). But back in the day I got that feeling all the time with different albums and eras - even with albums I ended up disliking as a whole. They just don't have that spark anymore as of now (they can get it back of course).

    That being said, once SOE is out I'll probably love and adore most of it, just as I've always done. They're the band of my life and I won't ever be able to "call it a day" or "quitting them" as some say. It's just that despite them being the band of my life, I am able to discern when something is good, mediocre, creative, boring, rocking or dull. And YET I'm able to like it all the same, or even like the uncreative over the groundbreaking (I love Get Out Of Your Own Way although it's continuist and bland; I don't love The Blackout even if it's rocking and a departure from what they've done lately).

    Does that make me a negative, grumpy complainer? Maybe to some eyes, yes. In my opinion that just makes me a fan with ears and sanity
  7. Originally posted by LikeASong:As I said long ago, the creativity well has largely dried up (specially Edge's). They're still a great band, Bono's melodic skills are intact and they're of course able to put out a set of great songs (and put on a great show, that's for sure) but I don't think they're going to discover any unknown place lately. Last time I had that feeling was when I pressed "play" on The Crystal Ballroom. Before that, I hadn't felt that since I pressed "play" on Cedars Of Lebanon. (And I love many of the songs in between). But back in the day I got that feeling all the time with different albums and eras - even with albums I ended up disliking as a whole. They just don't have that spark anymore as of now (they can get it back of course).

    That being said, once SOE is out I'll probably love and adore most of it, just as I've always done. They're the band of my life and I won't ever be able to "call it a day" or "quitting them" as some say. It's just that despite them being the band of my life, I am able to discern when something is good, mediocre, creative, boring, rocking or dull. And YET I'm able to like it all the same, or even like the uncreative over the groundbreaking (I love Get Out Of Your Own Way although it's continuist and bland; I don't love The Blackout even if it's rocking and a departure from what they've done lately).

    Does that make me a negative, grumpy complainer? Maybe to some eyes, yes. In my opinion that just makes me a fan with ears and sanity
    +1
  8. Originally posted by LikeASong:As I said long ago, the creativity well has largely dried up (specially Edge's). They're still a great band, Bono's melodic skills are intact and they're of course able to put out a set of great songs (and put on a great show, that's for sure) but I don't think they're going to discover any unknown place lately. Last time I had that feeling was when I pressed "play" on The Crystal Ballroom. Before that, I hadn't felt that since I pressed "play" on Cedars Of Lebanon. (And I love many of the songs in between). But back in the day I got that feeling all the time with different albums and eras - even with albums I ended up disliking as a whole. They just don't have that spark anymore as of now (they can get it back of course).

    That being said, once SOE is out I'll probably love and adore most of it, just as I've always done. They're the band of my life and I won't ever be able to "call it a day" or "quitting them" as some say. It's just that despite them being the band of my life, I am able to discern when something is good, mediocre, creative, boring, rocking or dull. And YET I'm able to like it all the same, or even like the uncreative over the groundbreaking (I love Get Out Of Your Own Way although it's continuist and bland; I don't love The Blackout even if it's rocking and a departure from what they've done lately).

    Does that make me a negative, grumpy complainer? Maybe to some eyes, yes. In my opinion that just makes me a fan with ears and sanity
    Their creativeness does seem to be lacking. I wonder if the well is drying up because they are trying to force their sound to be like something thats on the radio. I think its natural for a bands sound to be not as popular when youve been around for 40 years. They just dont accept it and force songs that really dont sound good.
  9. I just hit “play” on zooropa yesterday driving and listened to that introduction and then the song and just pure bliss. Miss the 90s bass and psych
  12. Man, right at 2:03
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