Songs Of Experience - General album discussions

Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
For what is worth, as a kid I used to say the same about Picasso's painting.

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But seriously, who else is writing Little Things?

Forget it, I won't bring big guns...
...who is making something like The Best Thing About Me, and at the same time Love Is All We Have Left, and Lights of Home, and Red Flag Day in the same album?
Who has a Love is Bigger, or its little brother Get Out of Your Own Way?

Now, probably you don't like those songs, which is very valid, but who else is doing what they do with the same quality?

Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:Damn this has turned into a place where you absolutely cannot express any dissatisfaction with anything u2 does without the usual people attacking your opinion. I haven’t listened to the album yet but definitely won’t be voicing my opinion here , good or bad. I don’t feel the need to argue my OPINION.

Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
Yeah as much as Best Thing and American soul are my least favourite on the album they’re not bad and do the job as you say of appealing to the younger generation. I don’t feel the need to skip them now either which I was guilty of doing after my first run through. I was just really getting into the others but when you play it in its entirety it works. I also agree this album has more than proved u2 have still got what it takes to release great music . I’m in a position now where I can be honest and say following the songs we heard pre album I wasn’t worried about a bad album but a relatively average album however they’ve completely proved me wrong and I couldn’t be any happier about it.

Originally posted by kris_smith87:[..]
I've been saying this for months, there is a difference between voicing an opinion and crapping all over something. In my OPINION, with Internet culture in general, it seems like bashing something new is the thing to do. (Or old for that matter since SOI seems to be the bastard child to people nowadays when I do not believe that was the case up until very recently).

There are also people here, who despite jokingly poking fun seem like they don't like ANYTHING this band has done since they left Larry's kitchen. That bewilders me as to why you spend time in a place like this.

There are a lot of artists I like, (no one as much as U2) that I sort of fell out with. Most recently Bastille, I really liked their Bad Blood album but then couldn't get into the second one. That's OK and to me that means I'm not a fan of the band...I liked the sounds they went for and lyrics from one album.

Life is short...as SOE is saying, so why waste your time being so negative and bashing something in a small corner of the Internet? Does it get you off that good?

Sorry for the long post...just my OPINION.

Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:Damn this has turned into a place where you absolutely cannot express any dissatisfaction with anything u2 does without the usual people attacking your opinion. I haven’t listened to the album yet but definitely won’t be voicing my opinion here , good or bad. I don’t feel the need to argue my OPINION.

Originally posted by kris_smith87:[..]
I've been saying this for months, there is a difference between voicing an opinion and crapping all over something. In my OPINION, with Internet culture in general, it seems like bashing something new is the thing to do. (Or old for that matter since SOI seems to be the bastard child to people nowadays when I do not believe that was the case up until very recently).

There are also people here, who despite jokingly poking fun seem like they don't like ANYTHING this band has done since they left Larry's kitchen. That bewilders me as to why you spend time in a place like this.

There are a lot of artists I like, (no one as much as U2) that I sort of fell out with. Most recently Bastille, I really liked their Bad Blood album but then couldn't get into the second one. That's OK and to me that means I'm not a fan of the band...I liked the sounds they went for and lyrics from one album.

Life is short...as SOE is saying, so why waste your time being so negative and bashing something in a small corner of the Internet? Does it get you off that good?

Sorry for the long post...just my OPINION.

Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:[..]


So if I don’t like the album and I start to go into detail about why I don’t like it, it’s bashing and not just stating my opinion? I’m just trying to understand your point. To me you’re basically saying if don’t have something good to say, don’t say it at all.

Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:Damn this has turned into a place where you absolutely cannot express any dissatisfaction with anything u2 does without the usual people attacking your opinion. I haven’t listened to the album yet but definitely won’t be voicing my opinion here , good or bad. I don’t feel the need to argue my OPINION.

Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
You may have missed the post where this was said
‘if anyone else had released this album you guys wouldn't care that it was given a 2 or 3/5. it's honestly no better than that. even that's generous’

The first bit of that up until and including the 3/5 but is not an opinion but someone telling us how to feel or how we would feel. The next part is stated in a factual way but could be considered an opinion. You’re allowed to criticise the albums without criticising others for liking the album.

Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
You may have missed the post where this was said
‘if anyone else had released this album you guys wouldn't care that it was given a 2 or 3/5. it's honestly no better than that. even that's generous’

The first bit of that up until and including the 3/5 but is not an opinion but someone telling us how to feel or how we would feel. The next part is stated in a factual way but could be considered an opinion. You’re allowed to criticise the albums without criticising others for liking the album.