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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
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  1. In regards to the discussion about opinion and criticism, I don't even know where to start. Pious is a word that springs to mind.
  2. The album is starting to grow on me, you have to wait +/- one week for a full review
  3. Who care what reviews say?

    It's not like a poor review is gonna put Bono on the dole.
  4. Are you saying I'm more positive than you at this point? The end is near (sometimes).
  6. Haha, I have to say, SOE carries more emotional punch because of that. I love it.
  7. Ok, need some help here. Really dumb question...but I have no idea how to get the album from Ticketmaster. Everything I click on there turns up like they know I hate them. Is it mailed to me? Is it at the arena day of the show? Will it magically pop up in my EYE TUNES account? Will Guy Osbum bring it to me on a Lemon Platter? Please help!
  8. Originally posted by pleasegone:Ok, need some help here. Really dumb question...but I have no idea how to get the album from Ticketmaster. Everything I click on there turns up like they know I hate them. Is it mailed to me? Is it at the arena day of the show? Will it magically pop up in my EYE TUNES account? Will Guy Osbum bring it to me on a Lemon Platter? Please help!
    did they not send you an e-mail to confirm? i got an e-mail on 11/17 with "redeem your u2 album" in the subject line. might check your junk mail?
  9. The NME is just a free comic at the door of HMV now, filled with ads for male grooming products and skinny jeans and focused on acts who mean very little. I'd be more worried if they gave it a good review tbh. As a rock fan - with unkempt hair and sensibly-sized trousers - the venn diagram of my interests hasn't intersected with the NME in a long time.

    Here is a hachet-job by another hipster. He raises some good points: https://www.avclub.com/u2-gives-too-many-fucks-on-the-insufferable-songs-of-ex-1820789568
  10. Originally posted by Anam:The NME is just a free comic at the door of HMV now, filled with ads for male grooming products and skinny jeans and focused on acts who mean very little. I'd be more worried if they gave it a good review tbh. As a rock fan - with unkempt hair and sensibly-sized trousers - the venn diagram of my interests hasn't intersected with the NME in a long time.

    Here is a hachet-job by another hipster. He raises some good points: https://www.avclub.com/u2-gives-too-many-fucks-on-the-insufferable-songs-of-ex-1820789568
    Nails many things although harsher than I would be.

    This is what I wrote on a different board:

    "Songs of Experience

    U2 by numbers. They have a formula since 2000 and this sticks to it.

    No new ground broken.

    Definitely some good songs on there along with safe filler.

    Songs of Innocence (2015) was quite good and (almost) broke the formula and could have shattered it had they done the whole album with Dangermouse. Could have been a moment of reinvention approaching those that happened in 84, 87, 92 and 97.

    They're scared (and scarred) to do that now after the reaming they took with Pop - including from long time fans like me although it's my favorite album by them now.

    Good enough collection of songs and I like it, but safe as they are continuously worried about their standing with the masses."
  11. I think it's becoming the go-to critic move to say "not as good or adventurous as 90s U2".

    Name me 5 songs from each of the 90s albums please, because lord knows the average music listener doesn't even know any U2 songs before the year 2000 lol.
  12. It's good that art is divisive I suppose. Tremendous value in the debate.
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