Because despite all the hype and the marketing manouvres, the last album was a bit rub.
So, this one gets a massive new and unconventional release, and yet.. Who knows?
(this is a rolling thread for each time U2 release a new album, forever!)
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 September 2014 06:49 (ten years ago)
To my ears on first listen at least it sounded about as good as how to dismantle an atomic bomb, which is to say unsurprising but with a couple vv good songs. My opinion might change over time but I think from U2 v.3 (post-"pop") this sounds like the most inessential (I do think "no line on the horizon" is the best of their 21st century LPs.)
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 11 September 2014 06:59 (ten years ago)
http://cdn.u2.com/non_secure/images/20140925/news/u2_soi_packshot_900web/large.jpg
think i prefer the current cover.
― mark e, Friday, 26 September 2014 09:35 (ten years ago)
the dude whom Larry's hugging is the boy from the War cover, I hope
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 September 2014 10:59 (ten years ago)
Five stars in Rolling Stone, so it must be.http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/u2-songs-of-innocence-20140911
― Jazzbo, Friday, 26 September 2014 11:52 (ten years ago)
the lad is larrys son.
but yes, it's supposedly a continuation of the early albums coverart.
still, all the back story aside, nah.
i have a lot of love for this band, but damn, they make it difficult.
― mark e, Friday, 26 September 2014 15:42 (ten years ago)
Why didn't they have another three letter album title then? Boy - War - Pop - Dad? (Son?)
― StanM, Friday, 26 September 2014 17:23 (ten years ago)
iU2
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 26 September 2014 18:46 (ten years ago)
Apl
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 September 2014 19:35 (ten years ago)
Dud
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 26 September 2014 19:37 (ten years ago)
Old
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 September 2014 19:41 (ten years ago)
Nah
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 26 September 2014 19:43 (ten years ago)
Del
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 September 2014 19:44 (ten years ago)
agree.
― mark e, Friday, 26 September 2014 19:47 (ten years ago)
and. i. like. the. album.
the next album should be called "me neither"
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 20:28 (ten years ago)
or Earth Rot
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 27 September 2014 05:35 (ten years ago)
Bonerific boner, by bono
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 27 September 2014 05:41 (ten years ago)
The next album should be called LOL
― Moka, Saturday, 27 September 2014 07:05 (ten years ago)
It will be their last album too
actually i think this is a pretty good album now, there are some growers in there. it's more latter-day U2 by numbers than anything experimental ("experimental" being relative with this band obv), so it's not as interesting as the last one but now i think it's better than HTDAAB. need to listen to it a bit more, though.
there are only like three other people who like U2 on this board, right? we could form a cover band.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 27 October 2014 19:52 (ten years ago)
I used to have a Memory Man pedal so I could play like The Edge. I was learning guitar between The Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum albums, so it was a good time. Once Achtung Baby came out and there were all these guitar sounds I could not afford the technology to make, I was never the same U2 fan again.
OMG I just had a breakthrough!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 27 October 2014 20:08 (ten years ago)
Very good - Volcano, Raised By Wolves, Cedarwood Road, Sleep Like a Baby Tonight, This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now, The Troubles
Good but corny - The Miracle, Every Breaking Wave, Iris
Corny - California, Song for Someone
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 27 October 2014 20:10 (ten years ago)
They were on the Graham Norton show and it kinda reminded me of those "shredding" videos tbh
― StanM, Monday, 27 October 2014 21:36 (ten years ago)
I like "Raised by wolves"
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 01:27 (ten years ago)
me 2
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 02:35 (ten years ago)
me 3
as with any u2 album, the songs sink in, grow, and then become part of the bands canon.
still hate the revised album art though.
― mark e, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 21:30 (ten years ago)
http://pitchfork.com/news/57484-bono-in-surgery-following-cycling-accident/
The funniest part of pfork's post is how they follow up the news that this week's Tonight Show residency will be postponed with the embedded video for "With or Without You".
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 November 2014 04:00 (ten years ago)
First the Apple thing. Then he admits he wears glasses because he has glaucoma. Then the back of his airplane falls open. Now he has a bike accident bad enough to require surgery.
Take the hint, Bono. Take it easy. The world needs you now, more than ever.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 November 2014 04:07 (ten years ago)
Get away.
― Euripides' Trousers (Tom D.), Monday, 17 November 2014 10:46 (ten years ago)
I had no interest in this album, but I'm listening to the U Talkin' U2 to Me episode about it right now, and they're kind of selling me on it.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 04:51 (ten years ago)
it's good rock n roll. Uhhhhhhh. Music.
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 05:12 (ten years ago)
Volcano is classic, the rest I can take or leave
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 07:30 (ten years ago)
I really dig on "The Troubles" whenever it comes up in shuffle.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 06:05 (ten years ago)
i wish they'd do something with this and actually put it on an album or a single cause it's fucking great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRL9FbJXVXM
it was only ever used as an intro tape on the last tour
― piscesx, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 03:31 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rta9CHp7bEE
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 17 May 2015 11:42 (ten years ago)
Now, let's see that again, from a different angle...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW61GZnXIXU
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 17 May 2015 11:45 (ten years ago)
How about from this angle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFx_cXkQ8yw
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 17 May 2015 11:47 (ten years ago)
Hmm, but what about from this angle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2dqPxuErg4
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 17 May 2015 11:50 (ten years ago)
Or perhaps this angle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnqkg76dxIs
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 17 May 2015 11:55 (ten years ago)
jaysus, turrican, you're more beast than man!
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Sunday, 17 May 2015 12:01 (ten years ago)
The delay on the thud sound makes it.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 17 May 2015 12:13 (ten years ago)
THUD-thu-thud--thudthud--thu-thud--thudthud
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Sunday, 17 May 2015 12:43 (ten years ago)
I think he should change his stage name from The Edge now, he's clearly over it.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 17 May 2015 17:46 (ten years ago)
Maybe he could do a collab with Mark E Smith.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 17:46 (ten years ago)