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But what a bunch of jokers you are!!!!!
After those comments, I feel even more like writing reviews, so I'll comment on the latest U2 album, although this time I'll be less objective.
Sure, it's impossible that I didn't like it, but after Bono & Co.'s elaborate talks and the long wait, I expected a little more. It's useless to say that tracks like "Vertigo" and "All Because of You" represent a return to the past (especially towards the early days). Then there are songs in the Joshua Tree style, see "Miracle Drug," which seems like the sequel to "With Or Without You," or "City of Blinding Lights," which is set in the same way as "Where The Streets Have No Name".
The gem of the album, as I expected, is "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own," where everything is perfect, from the poignant voice to Edge's guitar in fine form (especially at the end).
Then, apart from the beautiful "Original Of The Species," there's not much else. Especially "Love And Peace Or Else," although interesting from a musical standpoint, seems too hyped and predictable to me.
Anyway, a wonderful album with 6 truly great songs and another 2 decent ones. Ah, I forgot I won the Oscar for the review of All That You..., anyway, you know that you are REALLY REALLY dear to me? Until the next review (maybe of U2????!!!????)... Well! Who lives will see.
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By NickGhostDrake
"This album is a frightening concentration of cheap rhetoric, disarming clichés, and goodness not even our pitiful left-wing leaders."
"Bono and his mates can’t tell me anything more that hasn’t already been written at least 30 years ago."
By domenique
"It's like that star player whose ball touch and passes still make people dream, but... they feel the weight of the years and the fatigue of their uniqueness."
"The song is at times pleasant and ideal for opening concerts... but it is certainly banal in itself and not worthy of particular mention."
By Siekku88
"Vertigo," a very catchy track with incisive rock, where The Edge expertly squeezes his guitar and Bono finds that voice that seemed lost.
"Original Of The Species," which, in my opinion, is the best song on the record.
By The Punisher
With this latest album they’ve really hit rock bottom.
Now you see them more or less consciously victims of a commercial machinery larger than them.
By Hetzer
"After three listens it gets boring, it’s enticing, very MTV, which says it all."
"Personally, I feel that all this is sad to admit, but as a great U2 fan since the very beginning, I have to say that this album represents for me an open wound."
