I love U2 and apparently they have a new album coming out in the next 6 months but its pretty hard to get excited for what is inevitably going to be a shower of shit. Since the turn of the century they've produced crap after crap. Admittedly the most recent effort (No Line on the Horizon) was an improvement over How to Dismantle a Atomic Bomb but seriously, a choir of wailing cats would be. They had a run over incredible music and their 90s experimental stuff was fantastic, but then shat themselves when sales of Pop weren't 100 million and go off pandering to the masses ever since with adult contemporary cheese rock. it makes me sick. Hoping that their new album recaptures the glory days but seriously, there is about as much chance of that as Axl Rose reforming Guns N' Roses.
Off to listen to Achtung Baby and cry into my pillow.
No, but they can decide to release something decent. TigerTim is absolutely right.
They let fame get in their heads and have become uncreative, knowing their albums would sell gazillions no matter the quality of the music.
The 80s was their brilliant decade. Pure genius. Achtung Baby was still semi decent and everything beyond this point was shite. I don't expect anything of this new album. Next.
"Achtung Baby" was their last good album. Their last decent album was "Zooropa" (a somewhat underrated release, in my opinion); they've had individual tracks I've liked since, but their heyday was during the 80's. "War" (1983) in particular was a great, hard-hitting, honest album that will remain amongst my favorites, despite the directions they've gone since.
I liked them a lot during the eighties and early nineties, but rather lost interest in their output after that.
Funny you should mention How to Dismantle a Atomic Bomb, as it's probably my favorite record from them, I think it's the culmination of everything they have done, good tunes there, whereas for me it's been a lot of air and space and production with little substance.
The new track is pretty meh, although the guitar does do something a little different.
I'd lump these guys together with Sting, and to a lesser extent Phil Collins (Collins never was good as a solo artist in the first place). Great musicians, but their ego destroyed their creativity. I can't stand the smugness of Bono and Sting.
Their earlier work is bloody brilliant though
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