Originally posted by LikeASong:How do you know SOE sounds like U2 (sic.)?
Moreover: what sounds or doesn't sound like U2? Would you say Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car or Cedars Like Lebanon sound like U2?
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:(too many people hate Bono to be up there with The Beatles, The Who, etc., and they're still putting out new stuff) and they'll be there forever. A new U2 album is kind of like a new James Bond movie.
Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
No, they doesn't sound too much like U2, that's why albums like Pop were not totally well received. (I know those songs don't belong to Pop, my point still stands).
They're great songs, but they don't "sound like U2".
U2 sounding like U2 may be lazy on their part, but their general fan base loved that.
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
Yeah, that was part of my point actually: why would chasing the lazy "U2 sound" (aka standard song structures, chimey/echoey guitars, bla bla) give better results? Just because that's what the masses are hoping for? In my opinion most U2 material gets better as further as it strays from that standard sound.
btw I deliberately left Pop off my previous choice of songs.
Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
That’s where I kinda disagree with you and possibly a lot of others that if it’s a good song why does it matter if it is the same u2 sound, a good song is a good song. It’s the mixture that makes u2 great for me, a band that can play both zoo station and miracle Drug in the same show, discotheque and walk On, The Fly and stuck in a moment, song For Someone and until the end of the world. That sums up to me in a few songs what makes u2 so great.
Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
If "Always" was written by another band, they will be suing U2 right now.
One thing is to have the same characteristic U2 sound, another thing is to rip-off your own previous songs.
But apparently I can't say anything about the new song -unless if I say it's the best thing ever-.
Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
Yeah that’s a fair point about ripping off previous songs, I’ve not listened to always much but I might do today, I’m guessing your saying that sounds like get out of your own way? I don’t know if your last statement was aimed at previous comments or not but certainly I would only ever encourage people to express there opinion especially when they back it up with reasoning like you have rather than simply say ‘this is crap’ etc. Whether i agree or not is a different matter but I don’t expect everyone to agree with me either.
Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
No Dean, it's not about you, sorry if it looked that way.
For the people that say we can't judge the new song based on a clip: first, you are also saying the song is great, so isn't it also premature to say that too? Also, no one here said that SOE was going to be crap, people said that they are worried about SOE based on the 3 songs we already heard in full (and 2 of them live) so far.