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Post by lahaine on Sept 14, 2014 17:07:21 GMT -5
Two excellent posts above me. Yeah matt I agree with you on the notion that it is hard to encounter a massive U2 fan anymore. They are a HUGE band so that makes the public's reception of them that much more complex. The public's complex feelings for U2 definitely appear in their music reviews. You see Rolling Stone giving this album 5 stars, which is kind of an tradition at this point. It is kind of annoying to see them praised when they don't really deserve it. This album is enjoyable and it is the first listenable record that they have made in a decade, but there's no universe where this album is perfect or essential. It isn't even a top 5 U2 record. Then you have another group that is overly snotty and dismissive of U2. Probably just because they are so huge and they've had enough longevity to garner hate, which is kinda of impressive to be honest. In some respects they judge U2 as if they are capable of making another true 5 classic, so they are overly critical of their music output. That's the great thing about art. People are gonna have their opinions. Just wish people were a little more open minded with regard to their expectations. Haven't read one good review so far - either overrating it with 5 stars or underrating it. That said, Neil McCormick's review is the most accurate I think. I thought NME's was a little bit sniffy to be fair and clear hipster thing going on with a 4/10 . I do think some of the hate is based on Reviewers just hating U2, they are a easy band to shit on. 5 stars, I wouldn't go that far 4 stars would be perfect. But I do think it's their best since 2000, I think I could see it been underrated in the canon. |
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Post by lahaine on Sept 14, 2014 17:19:31 GMT -5
My brother is the only person I know who absolutely loves U2 - apart from him, I get derision from folk who think they know better. It's very strange - for such a massive band - far bigger than the likes of Oasis who I know many people who love them - I don't know any genuine fans of U2. There must be closet fans who are frightened of receiving derision like myself! The more hate they receive, the more I defend them to the death. Ironically so, it's the hipsters who hate on them - those of the most 'original' and 'enlightened' minds jump on the bandwagon simply because everyone else is thinking Bono's a twat. Very original if you ask me.... As a result, my stubborness makes me love U2 more, and I love to rebel against that type of pathetic and narrow minded thinking! I bring the argument forward on them, and trying to divert it away from Bono, they say the music is bland ('Zoo TV is bland' nobody ever said). Well, I must admit that U2 from 2000 onwards are pretty MOR but to base your opinions on just a small section of their discography is like saying The Godfather films are utter shit just because you've seen the third one. Then there's 'The Edge is a one trick pony'. The Edge is not the most technically gifted guitarist of course, but his sound IS orginal. It offers an ethereal sound to an instrument I didn't realise could be ambient and spiritual sounding creating wonderful soundscapes - it's no wonder then that Brian Eno so successfully worked with U2 considering The Edge's visionary guitar playing. Achtung Baby offers a wide range of imaginative musical textures which is down to The Edge's guitar playing. What's more, the whole 'delay pedal' obsession doesn't take into consideration U2's 90s work, so suggests to me these critics have only been listening to the first few tracks from The Joshua Tree. It makes me sad that so many people could so easily dismiss such an impressive body of work with genuinely some of the best albums ever made in my opinion. It's almost a crime to music in my opinion to hate on U2 - I simply cannot understand it. To hate a band with one of the most gifted singers ever who at his best could be lyrically profound, in addition to a very tight rhythm section who have put on some of the greatest live performances in the history of music does not add up. Under A Blood Red Sky, Live Aid, Zoo TV, the Slane Castle gig in 2001 - how on earth is that a shit band? To strive to be not only the biggest, but the best, band in the world is an ambition that shouldn't be sneered at - god help us all if it is. And for a time they were the biggest and the best. That same ambition also gave us a band who successfully reinvented themselves not once (War to Unforgettable Fire transition) but twice (Rattle & Hum to Achtung Baby). Bands who reinvent themselves usually have to sacrifice commercial success for critical success - but U2 achieved both ends impressively. Rarely any band does that - how mind boggling is that? But ambition comes at a cost - the same ambition also gave us a small preachy man who was irritatingly hellbent on changing the world which in turn sowed the seeds of disdain for U2. But the benefits far outweigh the negatives - I have literally hundreds of CDs I've collected over the years but if you were to take my U2 albums away from me, there would be a huge gaping hole which I could never replace. I love Oasis but I don't think they are one of the greatest musical acts of all time. And there are many many more acts I love that I don't think are truly great. But I honestly believe U2 are one of the greatest musical acts of all time. They are what I call 'true greats', up there with my personal favourites like The Beatles, Bowie, Springsteen, Kate Bush, Joy Division, The Smiths. You don't have to like 'true greats' - I can't say I'm a Led Zeppelin fan for example but I have massive respect for their achievements. And in the same way, I wish people would recognise U2's achievements and I don't think irrational hatred of Bono (which seeps through to the whole band) should interfere with what he has genuinely achieved as an artist. As a result of people's preconceptions of their MOR albums and Bono's personality in recent years, they are so unfashionable to the extreme. But when was fashionability ever a mark of greatness? It never is - true quality is not synonymous with fashionability, and I think many people struggle to separate the two. To spout such negativity and hate is depressing, because it undermines and neglects such genuine brilliance from previously that it is almost completely dismissed. And to completely forget the best of U2 in favour of the worst kind of excess from them is an utterly damning indictment of society - to forget what's good and only focus on negativity to suit your own agenda..... it's so destructive and you see it in all walks of life. Though I am an optimist - just like many great musicians, artists or writers who go through phases of unfashionability, their greatness outlasted any fads, and I think as long as there's justice, good sense and taste, U2 will one day be seen in a positive light again. Well depending on the circle of friends you roll with, a massive U2 fan should be in their late 40s, early 50s. U2 were in their prime and cultural zenith 20-25 years ago. That fan base of diehards is ancient at this point. Generally a band that old doesn't have legions of fans currently in their 20s, early 30s.....thought it's not impossible.  I think they don't get a lot of love simply of one man... BONO. I think he's been the band's biggest plus and minus in their career, his policital and charity stuff which some people (rightly so at times) hate him for cause he's got God like ego that many want to see been taken down. Which has spilled into U2 really. Plus U2 were never a "cool" band even at the start of their career they haven't got a Rolling Stones, The Who etc... type cool point in their career with the drugs and trashing the hotel rooms. As Ian McCollouch from Echo and the Bunnymen said about U2 "they look like four binmen rather then Rock stars" which he has a point. But the uncool bands always last longer then the cooler bands. |
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Post by matt on Sept 14, 2014 17:27:47 GMT -5
Well depending on the circle of friends you roll with, a massive U2 fan should be in their late 40s, early 50s. U2 were in their prime and cultural zenith 20-25 years ago. That fan base of diehards is ancient at this point. Generally a band that old doesn't have legions of fans currently in their 20s, early 30s.....thought it's not impossible. I think they don't get a lot of love simply of one man... BONO. I think he's been the band's biggest plus and minus in their career, his policital and charity stuff which some people (rightly so at times) hate him for cause he's got God like ego that many want to see been taken down. Which has spilled into U2 really. Plus U2 were never a "cool" band even at the start of their career they haven't got a Rolling Stones, The Who etc... type cool point in their career with the drugs and trashing the hotel rooms. As Ian McCollouch from Echo and the Bunnymen said about U2 " they look like four binmen rather then Rock stars" which he has a point. But the uncool bands always last longer then the cooler bands. Cool is never tantamount to quality. If we were to judge people by how 'rebellious' or 'cool' they are, the music world would be full of the likes of terrible artists like Fake Bugg and genuine quality bands like U2 would never get a sniff. Pretty sad though, you do get idiots who subscribe to that NME thinking. Imagine a world full of just purportedly cool acts like The Enemy, Pigeon Detectives and Jake Bugg. I shudder to imagine such a scenario. I absolutely love Echo & the Bunnymen, but Ian's comments are more of the narrow minded views you get from the likes of Liam Gallagher rather than a quality frontman like Ian. That said, Ian McCulloch is friends with Chris Martin, so not sure how his comments add up! |
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Post by zgb on Sept 14, 2014 19:03:14 GMT -5
because U2 are so god-like in their carrer, that's why many of people are slagging them off. and Bono of course is another reason.
but when U2 as a band are dead, they will be remebered as The Beatles of that generation. I guess people will forget about Bono, charity work, ego... blabla
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Post by Lennon2217 on Sept 14, 2014 19:21:53 GMT -5
because U2 are so god-like in their carrer, that's why many of people are slagging them off. and Bono of course is another reason. but when U2 as a band are dead, they will be remebered as The Beatles of that generation. I guess people will forget about Bono, charity work, ego... blabla Yes, let's continue to dump on charitable efforts that people like Bono and Chris Martin do as a society. They should be ashamed! |
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Post by Headmaster on Sept 14, 2014 20:19:31 GMT -5
I think they don't get a lot of love simply of one man... BONO. I think he's been the band's biggest plus and minus in their career, his policital and charity stuff which some people (rightly so at times) hate him for cause he's got God like ego that many want to see been taken down. Which has spilled into U2 really. Plus U2 were never a "cool" band even at the start of their career they haven't got a Rolling Stones, The Who etc... type cool point in their career with the drugs and trashing the hotel rooms. As Ian McCollouch from Echo and the Bunnymen said about U2 " they look like four binmen rather then Rock stars" which he has a point. But the uncool bands always last longer then the cooler bands. Cool is never tantamount to quality. If we were to judge people by how 'rebellious' or 'cool' they are, the music world would be full of the likes of terrible artists like Fake Bugg and genuine quality bands like U2 would never get a sniff. Pretty sad though, you do get idiots who subscribe to that NME thinking. Imagine a world full of just purportedly cool acts like The Enemy, Pigeon Detectives and Jake Bugg. I shudder to imagine such a scenario. I absolutely love Echo & the Bunnymen, but Ian's comments are more of the narrow minded views you get from the likes of Liam Gallagher rather than a quality frontman like Ian. That said, Ian McCulloch is friends with Chris Martin, so not sure how his comments add up! Ian McCulloch was the Liam Gallagher before Liam existed in music, he used to slagging off a lot of people back in the day, his nickname used to be "Mac The Mouth" for a reason. He used to hate U2 for some reason, however U2 has praised Echo and the Bunnymen a lot over the years, Bono would be the first to say that War was a response to Heaven Up Here, and The Unforgatable Fire was a response to Ocean Rain (and also New Gold Dream by Simple Minds), U2 even thanked Les Pattinson on their new album, former E&TB bassist. Hell Ian even slagged off Beady Eye, but he is a big fan of Oasis to a point that Liam did backing vocals in one of their albums. |
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Post by Lennon2217 on Sept 14, 2014 20:25:49 GMT -5
Cool is never tantamount to quality. If we were to judge people by how 'rebellious' or 'cool' they are, the music world would be full of the likes of terrible artists like Fake Bugg and genuine quality bands like U2 would never get a sniff. Pretty sad though, you do get idiots who subscribe to that NME thinking. Imagine a world full of just purportedly cool acts like The Enemy, Pigeon Detectives and Jake Bugg. I shudder to imagine such a scenario. I absolutely love Echo & the Bunnymen, but Ian's comments are more of the narrow minded views you get from the likes of Liam Gallagher rather than a quality frontman like Ian. That said, Ian McCulloch is friends with Chris Martin, so not sure how his comments add up! Ian McCulloch was the Liam Gallagher before Liam existed in music, he used to slagging off a lot of people back in the day, his nickname used to be "Mac The Mouth" for a reason. He used to hate U2 for some reason, however U2 has praised Echo and the Bunnymen a lot over the years, Bono would be the first to say that War was a response to Heaven Up Here, and The Unforgatable Fire was a response to Ocean Rain (and also New Gold Dream by Simple Minds), U2 even thanked Les Pattinson on their new album, former E&TB bassist. Hell Ian even slagged off Beady Eye, but he is a big fan of Oasis to a point that Liam did backing vocals in one of their albums. Ian's just jealous U2 reached heights the Bunnymen could only dream of. |
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Post by Let It🩸 on Sept 14, 2014 21:33:32 GMT -5
still taking this album in.... i like 'The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone), nice opening track. 'Every Breaking Wave', 'Song for Someone', love 'Sleep Like A Baby Tonight' and 'This is Where You Can Reach Me Now'. those are the songs that've grabbed me right away. gotta listen to the album a little more. I haven't read any official reviews, i never really do. the only opinions i've read about the album have been in this thread and the people posting in this thread are the people's opinions on the forum i generally take seriously....even lahaine - we disagree on things but you know what you're talking about. i see people around the internet and on my Facebook complaining about free music and also complaining about how bad the album is - most of those same people have terrible taste in music, so... as stated by others, better than the last album, which i only listened to once and probably not as good All That You Can't Leave Behind, that album had great singles. God bless. |
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Post by Lennon2217 on Sept 14, 2014 21:56:58 GMT -5
still taking this album in.... i like 'The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone), nice opening track. 'Every Breaking Wave', 'Song for Someone', love 'Sleep Like A Baby Tonight' and 'This is Where You Can Reach Me Now'. those are the songs that've grabbed me right away. gotta listen to the album a little more. I haven't read any official reviews, i never really do. the only opinions i've read about the album have been in this thread and the people posting in this thread are the people's opinions on the forum i generally take seriously....even lahaine - we disagree on things but you know what you're talking about. i see people around the internet and on my Facebook complaining about free music and also complaining about how bad the album is - most of those same people have terrible taste in music, so... as stated by others, better than the last album, which i only listened to once and probably not as good All That You Can't Leave Behind, that album had great singles. God bless. One of the BIG problems I had with No Line On The Horizon (besides cheesy lyrics) was most songs on the album were extremely long in length and they got boring fast. Songs of Innocence seems to have gone in the opposite direction; short and catchy tunes. This album moves and flows well. Sure it won't be Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby or All That You Can't Leave Behind but it doesn't have to be. It's an enjoyable pop/rock album from a group of guys in a band going on 40 years together. Even the Stones couldn't accomplish that.......or stick together. Even the songs I thought were really weak (Volanco, Cedarwood Road, Raised By Wolves) have grown on me. |
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Post by Let It🩸 on Sept 14, 2014 22:40:58 GMT -5
still taking this album in.... i like 'The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone), nice opening track. 'Every Breaking Wave', 'Song for Someone', love 'Sleep Like A Baby Tonight' and 'This is Where You Can Reach Me Now'. those are the songs that've grabbed me right away. gotta listen to the album a little more. I haven't read any official reviews, i never really do. the only opinions i've read about the album have been in this thread and the people posting in this thread are the people's opinions on the forum i generally take seriously....even lahaine - we disagree on things but you know what you're talking about. i see people around the internet and on my Facebook complaining about free music and also complaining about how bad the album is - most of those same people have terrible taste in music, so... as stated by others, better than the last album, which i only listened to once and probably not as good All That You Can't Leave Behind, that album had great singles. God bless. One of the BIG problems I had with No Line On The Horizon (besides cheesy lyrics) was most songs on the album were extremely long in length and they got boring fast. Songs of Innocence seems to have gone in the opposite direction; short and catchy tunes. This album moves and flows well. Sure it won't be Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby or All That You Can't Leave Behind but it doesn't have to be. It's an enjoyable pop/rock album from a group of guys in a band going on 40 years together. Even the Stones couldn't accomplish that.......or stick together. Even the songs I thought were really weak (Volanco, Cedarwood Road, Raised By Wolves) have grown on me. yeah, people seem to forget that U2 members are pretty old....and way past their expected musical prime. having said that, this album is better than a good amount of music put out these days...amazing artists/musicians like U2 can throw out something great once in a while in their twilight years but nothing like when they were young and on fire. God bless. |
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Post by Headmaster on Sept 14, 2014 23:33:46 GMT -5
Ian McCulloch was the Liam Gallagher before Liam existed in music, he used to slagging off a lot of people back in the day, his nickname used to be "Mac The Mouth" for a reason. He used to hate U2 for some reason, however U2 has praised Echo and the Bunnymen a lot over the years, Bono would be the first to say that War was a response to Heaven Up Here, and The Unforgatable Fire was a response to Ocean Rain (and also New Gold Dream by Simple Minds), U2 even thanked Les Pattinson on their new album, former E&TB bassist. Hell Ian even slagged off Beady Eye, but he is a big fan of Oasis to a point that Liam did backing vocals in one of their albums. Ian's just jealous U2 reached heights the Bunnymen could only dream of. Ian used to slagg them off in a time much before U2 were ultrafamous, even before War era. But Ian is a dick too. |
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Post by Lennon2217 on Sept 14, 2014 23:40:49 GMT -5
Ian's just jealous U2 reached heights the Bunnymen could only dream of. Ian used to slagg them off in a time much before U2 were ultrafamous, even before War era. But Ian is a dick too. Well he was just threatened of the places U2 were going to go while his band mostly was caught in the 80s. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2014 5:13:32 GMT -5
forgive my ignorance but if you don't have i-tunes how the hell are you supposed to hear these new songs? everytime someone uploads them to youtube the audio is muted. Download itunes. Download the songs. Delete Itunes if you dont want it. i have a chromebook, i don't think i could? anyway someone directed me toward a grooveshark link, listening now. but thanks. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2014 5:24:34 GMT -5
not going to over analyze it too much, but what i've heard so far sounds pretty damn good. will listen to the 2nd half later.
i really dig u2 but i think they are one of those bands that when they put out new material many people tend to praise it regardless of what it really sounds like. but this stuff sounds good.
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Post by themanwithnoname on Sept 15, 2014 5:33:22 GMT -5
This is the first U2 album I've had since All That You Can't Leave Behind (and I only had three in total before this - Rattle and Hum and Achtung Baby being the others) and I've only got it because it was free.
But I have to say that I've been pleasantly surprised. Was doing some decorating at the weekend so listened to it right through about three times and a few songs grabbed me.
Favourites so far are Every Breaking Wave, Song for Someone, California, Iris and Raised By Wolves.
All in all, a very strong album with only a couple of duds (and even those aren't terrible).
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Post by lahaine on Sept 15, 2014 22:44:42 GMT -5
Ian McCulloch was the Liam Gallagher before Liam existed in music, he used to slagging off a lot of people back in the day, his nickname used to be "Mac The Mouth" for a reason. He used to hate U2 for some reason, however U2 has praised Echo and the Bunnymen a lot over the years, Bono would be the first to say that War was a response to Heaven Up Here, and The Unforgatable Fire was a response to Ocean Rain (and also New Gold Dream by Simple Minds), U2 even thanked Les Pattinson on their new album, former E&TB bassist. Hell Ian even slagged off Beady Eye, but he is a big fan of Oasis to a point that Liam did backing vocals in one of their albums. Ian's just jealous U2 reached heights the Bunnymen could only dream of. Pure and simple really, Ian talked up Bunnymen as the greatest band in the world but they never really reached those levels. While U2 went on to be one of the biggest bands of all time and still are. But Ian's been a man to come out with grand statements. |
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Post by lahaine on Sept 15, 2014 23:02:34 GMT -5
Cool is never tantamount to quality. If we were to judge people by how 'rebellious' or 'cool' they are, the music world would be full of the likes of terrible artists like Fake Bugg and genuine quality bands like U2 would never get a sniff. Pretty sad though, you do get idiots who subscribe to that NME thinking. Imagine a world full of just purportedly cool acts like The Enemy, Pigeon Detectives and Jake Bugg. I shudder to imagine such a scenario. I absolutely love Echo & the Bunnymen, but Ian's comments are more of the narrow minded views you get from the likes of Liam Gallagher rather than a quality frontman like Ian. That said, Ian McCulloch is friends with Chris Martin, so not sure how his comments add up! Ian McCulloch was the Liam Gallagher before Liam existed in music, he used to slagging off a lot of people back in the day, his nickname used to be "Mac The Mouth" for a reason. He used to hate U2 for some reason, however U2 has praised Echo and the Bunnymen a lot over the years, Bono would be the first to say that War was a response to Heaven Up Here, and The Unforgatable Fire was a response to Ocean Rain (and also New Gold Dream by Simple Minds), U2 even thanked Les Pattinson on their new album, former E&TB bassist. Hell Ian even slagged off Beady Eye, but he is a big fan of Oasis to a point that Liam did backing vocals in one of their albums. Ian even took pot shots at his own band mates Pete de Freitas, the late amazing drummer from the Bunnymen got it in the neck cause many considered him the heartthrob of the band. McCulloch gave him abuse in the press saying no one was as beautiful as him  . Here's a few beauties On his musical peers: "I'm not a great mingler – I think most bands are rubbish" On Bono: "There's a lot of people who believe that Bono's saying something. He's so disgustingly creepy. Plus, he's out of his fucking mind as well." I mean, even Joy Division are a bit over-rated, I think. They're very good live, but on record... There are things I've said that maybe made Bono worse and more like the showman, me saying from the word 'go' that I thought he was a buffoon. He obviously isn't a buffoon. He's a clever bloke and he's written some good tunes - nothing with any profundity, I don't think - but some decent melodies. “[So what was it like meeting him?] I didn't meet Chris Martin, ... He met me.” they would be awesome quotes if the man last great album was back in 1984, thats why some people laugh at him. |
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Post by Headmaster on Sept 15, 2014 23:08:21 GMT -5
Ian has some great stories, like the one when he went out to dinner with Morrissey in a restaurant, Ian ordered the biggest piece of meat just to piss him off, and then Morrissey ordered fish, after this Ian replied: this is hardly vegetarian isn't?
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Post by lahaine on Sept 15, 2014 23:13:12 GMT -5
I think they don't get a lot of love simply of one man... BONO. I think he's been the band's biggest plus and minus in their career, his policital and charity stuff which some people (rightly so at times) hate him for cause he's got God like ego that many want to see been taken down. Which has spilled into U2 really. Plus U2 were never a "cool" band even at the start of their career they haven't got a Rolling Stones, The Who etc... type cool point in their career with the drugs and trashing the hotel rooms. As Ian McCollouch from Echo and the Bunnymen said about U2 " they look like four binmen rather then Rock stars" which he has a point. But the uncool bands always last longer then the cooler bands. Cool is never tantamount to quality. If we were to judge people by how 'rebellious' or 'cool' they are, the music world would be full of the likes of terrible artists like Fake Bugg and genuine quality bands like U2 would never get a sniff. Pretty sad though, you do get idiots who subscribe to that NME thinking. Imagine a world full of just purportedly cool acts like The Enemy, Pigeon Detectives and Jake Bugg. I shudder to imagine such a scenario. I absolutely love Echo & the Bunnymen, but Ian's comments are more of the narrow minded views you get from the likes of Liam Gallagher rather than a quality frontman like Ian. That said, Ian McCulloch is friends with Chris Martin, so not sure how his comments add up! U2 are like Coldplay, they will keep on selling millions as much hate they will get from the Cool Music world and from sniffy critics. Both acts ain't cool but no one in the world gives a damn cause they tick the boxes. Cool acts have one big album then fade away over time cause people want to see the downfall. I agree with you but it is one of the reasons U2 get a ton of hate, the whole NME review was blatant case of that. The Enemy, Pigeon Detectives and Jake Bugg were never cool to be fair. Maybe The Strokes who haven't released anything that topped their debut, Anything Pete Doherty comes out with and the new cool act on the block. Get the only great reviews from NME cause they are hip acts. To give U2's album 4/10 was a little harsh. Didn't a few years back NME were kissing U2's ass by releasing a special edition NME magazine and give them a few NME awards. |
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Post by Jessica on Sept 15, 2014 23:19:22 GMT -5
I'm glad I can go on here where there's very little hate going on. Man, technology blogs and wanna be cool guys are up their asses about this. Absolutely full of themselves and think they deserve better. Feel free to have your own opinions, but man, some people get so riled up without giving something a chance.
I was watching the live stream of the Apple event and got it within seconds of it being announced. What a cool way of doing it. Apple has this way of making people buy and download stuff at a time when music downloads are further going down the drain. I'm happy I've been apart of this company's story since the early 90's.
And I'm only 25. I remember when Sweetest Thing, Beautiful Day, Elevation, Vertigo, and everything that followed came out. Not so much the previous stuff, but there hasn't been many days where I'd listen to the radio and a U2 song wasn't playing on at least one of the stations. And heck, I remember the U2 iPod and Bono's face on the iPod Video boxes.
I was impressed with the first listen, and will definitely listen to it again. To be honest, this IS my first listen of a U2 album in its entirely, I only have the U218 Singles that I bought right when it came out. So I can't really compare it to anything.
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Post by xo0oo0ox on Sept 16, 2014 0:45:53 GMT -5
This album has grown on me quite a bit after more listens... IMO it recalls their pre-Unforgettable Fire work in some ways, though it's a bit forced at times and "Volcano" is utterly embarrassing. I probably prefer it to All That You Can't Leave Behind, which was a pretty dull album. But I'd still say How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb has the best songwriting of their 00's albums. And I'd rank No Line on the Horizon over this one too, since it's much more sonically interesting. This album needs more reverb  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2014 8:07:19 GMT -5
This is the one band that makes me feel old. When they first came out , I was15 The us won gold in hockey , the biggest tech gadgets was sony Walkman and Betamax , and record shops still carried vynil. My first U2 was vynyl,, now bono is in his 50 s I'm 48 when I first heard them I was so young , yet here they are never broke up no band changes , I hope this record is great , it seems I've grown old with them ......had to edit I'm not that old I typed a 2 I was 15 not 25 not that old |
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Post by NYR on Sept 16, 2014 12:51:42 GMT -5
I haven't listened to the album yet, but everything about its release is gimmicky.
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Post by matt on Sept 16, 2014 21:01:18 GMT -5
I'm glad I can go on here where there's very little hate going on. Man, technology blogs and wanna be cool guys are up their asses about this. Absolutely full of themselves and think they deserve better. Feel free to have your own opinions, but man, some people get so riled up without giving something a chance. I was watching the live stream of the Apple event and got it within seconds of it being announced. What a cool way of doing it. Apple has this way of making people buy and download stuff at a time when music downloads are further going down the drain. I'm happy I've been apart of this company's story since the early 90's. And I'm only 25. I remember when Sweetest Thing, Beautiful Day, Elevation, Vertigo, and everything that followed came out. Not so much the previous stuff, but there hasn't been many days where I'd listen to the radio and a U2 song wasn't playing on at least one of the stations. And heck, I remember the U2 iPod and Bono's face on the iPod Video boxes. I was impressed with the first listen, and will definitely listen to it again. To be honest, this IS my first listen of a U2 album in its entirely, I only have the U218 Singles that I bought right when it came out. So I can't really compare it to anything. You sound like the ideal target market for U2 Jessica - get the casual U2 listeners on board. That can only be a success in my opinion. It sure is a massive gimmick, but U2 can gain more from it than losing. Already, U2 have sold over 8 million of their vast back catalogue due to this promotion - 17 albums of theirs (including live EPs) were in the top iTunes 150 albums list. The album isn't one of their classics, but if it gets people to buy much of that brilliant back catalogue, it's a success for good taste in music. And people who are hating on them for doing this - seriously, get a life. If anything summed up first world problems and the materialist culture we live in, it was a collective rage towards this in the news rather than more important matters like ISIS. |
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Post by Let It🩸 on Sept 18, 2014 8:57:46 GMT -5
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