jude79

Great great article ... fortunately, there are people like you on this site ... everything is really very interesting!

Oh Niki, this is your sublime use of punctuation. I quote your comment: "L'analisi te la faccio qui sotto, poi, per spiegarti. Mentre leggo un testo scritto bene, a certe cose non ci devo pensare, ...." If this isn't punctuation placed at random, not to say worse, I am Optmus Prime or Commander, however you want to put it!!!! 😂😂

Summarizing 13 songs, apart from "The Little things that give you away," the only track that truly deserves attention on the album, "Love is All we have Left" at least shows some courage (a rare thing for U2 in recent years), even if it doesn't take off, and "Lights of Home," if it were freed from the repetitive structure of the refrain, could have been a great piece... I understand that this work is perceived as less mediocre than the previous one, but one must consider that our now-not-so-young Irishmen were burned by the innocent failure of the previous album, and they have worked on this like never before... and assembling all this linear sonic banality is really concerning... Then it's not clear how, after millions of albums sold, they still struggle to find an appealing chorus?!! How annoying, come on, but the courage of Pop (which allows for what you might call convoluted arrangements) had a groove never heard before from a rock-pop group and gems like MOFO, wake up dead man, Please alongside precious porcelain-like pieces such as If you were that velvet dress... or let's think back to the Passengers experiment (truly captivating!) for the soundtrack of the film written by Bono, which was stunning with amazing pieces mixing author music and jazz... that was something artistic that astonished and is still worth listening to (think of Stateless or Slug...) Without courage, there is no artist, only commerciality, and so they should go to school from Killers and Coldplay, who undoubtedly know how to do Bono & Co.'s job better.

Your analysis is a collection of absolute inaccuracies, words unjustly stolen from silence... as far as I'm concerned, fully on par with the latest "masterpieces" of Bono and company.

Moreover, it is even rarer to write something absolutely so empty.

You could have also skipped writing this review... just like PSG's performance last night.

Perhaps it's the opposite... in the sense that Dream Theater can conceptualize in albums and not only, as much as Coldplay have managed to bring in over the past 15 years...

It's like the sun that we don't agree on... and by the way, I've thrown the last works of U2 after Pop (excluding The Passenger and the soundtrack of The Million Dollar Hotel) down the toilet since that day... but this album sounds different and if you don't understand it, there's little to be done... in a way, it resumes certain atmospheres from Soundtrack Vol I...