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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
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  1. I think its better. But I also now see SOI and SOE as one. I think hating on either part is kinda pointless at this point. Lets just enjoy how good it all is.
  2. Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]


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    Why did they have to mention that silly thing? For critics, it's like they have to say "Bono is a tax evader" to be taken seriously or something. This was supposed to be a review of SOE and they brought that up out of nowhere. It's the new "capitalist pig".


    he wanted to give a scathing review, but couldn't, so he had to throw his two bits in. Haters gonna hate.
  3. Originally posted by kris_smith87:[..]
    Sounds lovely. I had a similar experience.

    ATYCLB- Junior High, beginning to question the world
    HTDAAB- High school
    (Achtung)- First Year University (Bought at a flea market)
    No Line- Finishing First Degree/Seeing them live for the first time
    SOI- "Adulthood"/Life Going nowhere...this made me feel so much better
    SOE- Turned 30


    young 'uns

    Boy - I first became enamored - let me in the sound
    October - hitting adolescence
    War - Angry young man
    Unforgettable Fire - Angry young man with a burning soul
    Joshua Tree - chicken soup for the burning soul. Good album of the year to leave high school behind with...
    Achtung Baby - life takes a whole new direction. Adulthood. Boy grows up. Ready for the laughing gas...
    Pop - still a child, but someone tells me no
    ATYCLB - I'm a man, I'm not a child
    HTDAAB - time won't leave me as I am
    NLOTH - I'll go crazy if I dont go crazy
    SOI/SOE - full circle, in a way... he stops to think, he starts to cry... oh why?
  4. Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]


    young 'uns

    Boy - I first became enamored - let me in the sound
    October - hitting adolescence
    War - Angry young man
    Unforgettable Fire - Angry young man with a burning soul
    Joshua Tree - chicken soup for the burning soul. Good album of the year to leave high school behind with...
    Achtung Baby - life takes a whole new direction. Adulthood. Boy grows up. Ready for the laughing gas...
    Pop - still a child, but someone tells me no
    ATYCLB - I'm a man, I'm not a child
    HTDAAB - time won't leave me as I am
    NLOTH - I'll go crazy if I dont go crazy
    SOI/SOE - full circle, in a way... he stops to think, he starts to cry... oh why?
    Wow!
    That is some meaningfull list of quotes you.made there! Really good.
  5. Originally posted by tkfiyah:[..]
    I so disagree. I feel like this is the most unique sounding the band has been in nearly 20 years. Also it's a rare thing when I can get into these songs in a single day. I dunno man, SOE feels special.


    I wholeheartedly agree. It does feel special
  6. Songs of Experience is indeed very special! It has rocketed into my top 3 albums!! Can't wait for the official release on friday! Can't wait to get my hands on my own copy!

    I know I'm going to be listening to this album for years!

    Congratulations and many thanks to U2!!!
  7. Regarding running order. I think it's absolutely perfect. Each song flows from one to the other and the topics covered really add a depth to the songs. I do think having kids helps me 'get' some of the songs that I might not have otherwise. I have more to add, might write that later.


  8. No, for me not, as 2 separate albums. I like SOI more. But I starting to see SOI and SOE as a double album, like The River of Springsteen.
  9. It's early to say but imo it think i like SOE way more than SOI. There are just the Showman and Love is bigger... that i don't get at this point. On SOI i find SFS, California (Live is OK btw), Raised by Wolves, Volcano very weak and lame, again imo.
    I must say that i like 13 a lot...
  10. Listening to SOI and SOE back to back. Wow. Still can't get enough of SOE.

    It also sounds better from a sound engineering point of view: there's more space, and it doesn't feel as compressed as NLOTH and SOE.
  11. Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]
    young 'uns

    Boy - I first became enamored - let me in the sound
    October - hitting adolescence
    War - Angry young man
    Unforgettable Fire - Angry young man with a burning soul
    Joshua Tree - chicken soup for the burning soul. Good album of the year to leave high school behind with...
    Achtung Baby - life takes a whole new direction. Adulthood. Boy grows up. Ready for the laughing gas...
    Pop - still a child, but someone tells me no
    ATYCLB - I'm a man, I'm not a child
    HTDAAB - time won't leave me as I am
    NLOTH - I'll go crazy if I dont go crazy
    SOI/SOE - full circle, in a way... he stops to think, he starts to cry... oh why?
    ...go for it

    Boy + October -> older kids with their serious new wave looks and Big Girl is still a little girl really...
    I Will Follow (live): unique Dutch single (I Will Follow in Dunglish means: I understand you )
    War = SBS 12" with New Year's Day + Two Hearts Beat As One - what a joyful sounds (BG's 1st U2 record )
    UABRS -> I seriously can not recall any teenage party where this record didn't close the night...
    TUF -> The important girl decision: "Save your love, save it all (Don't push me too far!)"
    TJT -> I wanna go there with you (Still saving my Love!)
    R&H -> A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel, Unchained Melody + Everlasting Love (= big adolescent confusion )
    AB+ZOO -> Achtung Baby...party hard UV & crashed cars...what more can I say: "Glad to be alive!"
    Pop: Going all Discothèque on the weekend & feeling LOVED (but not waiting on a saviour to come )
    ATYCLB: turning 30...BEAUTIFUL DAY...BIG love (and Big Girls Are Best!) + BIG Holidays with Elevation Air & wedding in white
    HTDMAAB: 30+ A Man And A Woman... (Fast Cars...hello, hello!)
    NLOTH: Philosophy at the UNI: Moment Of Surrender (and getting on the U2 boots while "communting")
    SOI: graduating, Aunt Joyce (Tan'joyce!), family first...u2start second (sort of family 2...)
    SOE: free to wake up on a beach in Greece...free to be myself ...but when will she write her GD book???
  12. I finally got to hear the whole album and I am loving it. Going to be driving everyone crazy listening to this over and over!
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