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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
 Tracks: 14
  1. There’s also the lyric every wave that broke me that hasn’t been mentioned much in landlady. A lot of it ties in with SOI, I think the biggest problem people had with American soul is the lyric they chose to take from volcano. They’ve done it much more effectively in all the other examples of reused lyrics.
  2. Nah.

    The Iris part is clearly the advice that was imparted onto Bono by his mother, now being imparted onto his kids.

    The American Soul part is to me sung from a refugee's point of view. "You, America, are rock and roll. I too am rock and roll, so why won't you let me in? I came here looking for American Soul, so where the fuck is it?" (yes, I'm definitely starting to turn around on this song now that I'm not viewing it as a single and more of an album track in the context of the album). If this is Bono's final album (as he so claims to have written it), this is his final word to America, and it isn't necessarily the positive one he's said all his career. He's saying "I know who you are, so what's happening?"

    The Song for Someone thing is too good for explanation. Just listen to 13 and you'll see why.

    On another note, let me be the first to say that I actually appreciate The Blackout's place in the running order as of today. Landlady is Trying to Throw Your Arms as Blackout is Acrobat. We have a few songs that are very personal to Bono, one for himself and one for his wife, and then The Blackout is sort of like a storm cloud coming to fuck up your day no matter how good it might be. Love is Bigger is summoning the sunshine to say "Nah, we'll beat this storm cloud." I also think that if the Blackout WASN'T there, the album would be too much of a ramping down towards the end, just like Achtung Baby without Acrobat. Love is Bigger is the Ultraviolet. "We're not done yet."
  8. I love SOE. I can't wait for breaks in the day to listen to it.

    My concern is this enthusiasm and appreciation of the album will fade...

    Can somebody please help remind me, but wasn't enthusiasm for HTDAAB also as high as it currently is for SOE? I recall it being universally loved...

    I know I remember loving it from the outset (more than ATYCLB) but that album hasn't held up for me and I rarely re-visit it as much as other U2 albums.
  9. I'm pretty sure we'd have heard already if this is the last album. Personally I don't think it will be.
  10. good point haha.

    Funnily enough Both CoS and RS have the same #1 and #2
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  12. Originally posted by gujuju:I love SOE. I can't wait for breaks in the day to listen to it.

    My concern is this enthusiasm and appreciation of the album will fade...

    Can somebody please help remind me, but wasn't enthusiasm for HTDAAB also as high as it currently is for SOE? I recall it being universally loved...

    I know I remember loving it from the outset (more than ATYCLB) but that album hasn't held up for me and I rarely re-visit it as much as other U2 albums.
    My first impression of Bomb, was I loved a couple of songs, the rest took me some time to warm up, and then there was some that I never could get into it. It was a warm "it's ok..." welcome for the most part, combined with the excitement of a new U2 album.

    The one I liked first and then it wear out, was Love And Peace. But even then I thought it was a bit cringey the title and lyrics of the song, I just liked the music enough to give it a pass.

    But I never have had a first impression of a U2 album as strong as this time.
    First listen to SOI was "it's a bit forced, but not really bad..." and then grew a lot from there

    No Line had a few really great highlights, and then it was basically a disjointed mess... didn't hated it, but didn't got me excited.

    I keep listening to SOE trying to find how it could eventually wear out, but the songs are too striped down and simplistic that there's not much there to wear out. They're not shinny so the shine could fade...
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