STi-Frenchie

Have a "preview" of this and have to say that the first four tracks are good then it rapidly goes downhill.

Have they lost it?

After How To Dismantle... I thought the only way for them was up...this goes up and then falls flat. First listens to it were good but on second and subsequent listens it isn't special after all...

Anyone else heard it?

SiPie

Nope not heard it and sorry to hear your review....... but let's hope it proves you wrong if it can stand the test of time and get under your skin.

Si

Funkii Munkii

I thought they lost it after Achtung Baby

a couple of half decent tracks on How to dismantle, other than than

BOB.T

I can't get my head around this 'get on your boots' malarkey, really, get on your boots, wtf?

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

And that's the only decent tune on the album mostly due to the nice riff in it, overall poor.

dogpole

Have to disagree, i think its a fantastic album, the best they've done since achtung, Although, the only weak point is the boots chorus.... sexy boots, wtf.


dp

STi-Frenchie

I picked out 5 songs that which (just about) stand up to repeated listens but that's only half the album so for that reason and that reason alone, I'm out!

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Have to say that half the album sounds like a slightly weaker distilled version of classic U2, but the other half is a wonderful change in direction. Cedars Of Lebanon and Moment of Surrender are two of their best tracks for a very long time.

Of course they will get lambasted for being past their sell by date etc. etc. but that is just the way a lot of people are with any popular mainstream band. Let's not forget these guys recorded three of the finest albums in the history of popular music and anything after that was always going to seem a little luke warm, but try enjoying this album for what it is rather than judging it by their past releases and you will find it stands up pretty well.

Also a note on the production front. Plus points are having Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno on board, negatives are having Steve Lillywhite on board - that man could not engineer a good sound if his life depended on it and it is such a shame that much of U2's early work is sonically strangled by Lillywhite's mushy sounding production.