Originally posted by BigGiRL:
and perhaps not everything has to be connected...?
Originally posted by BigGiRL:
Spoiler (click to toggle) and perhaps not everything has to be connected...?
Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
Yeah, not necessarily they thought to connect everything, but in order to intertwine both albums, this makes it more interesting...
Originally posted by germcevoy:They should never have committed to these albums being a pair. They committed to the paired album thing and never executed. Nothing I’ve heard from this new album is suggestive of why it was delayed by two years. The fact they have reused a lot of SOI stuff makes me wonder further about why it was delayed.
If they had delayed SOI and got one album out then I definitely think we could have ended up with something truly great. Or given more time we may still have got an excellent conceptual double album. I don’t think we’ve gotten either.
Originally posted by germcevoy:They should never have committed to these albums being a pair. They committed to the paired album thing and never executed. Nothing I’ve heard from this new album is suggestive of why it was delayed by two years. The fact they have reused a lot of SOI stuff makes me wonder further about why it was delayed.
If they had delayed SOI and got one album out then I definitely think we could have ended up with something truly great. Or given more time we may still have got an excellent conceptual double album. I don’t think we’ve gotten either.
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
I mean, we’ll never know what SOE sounded like before they delayed it and didn’t the JT tour. It may have sounded completely different. I wouldn’t say the reused a lot of SoI stuff either, it’s mainly one lyrical phrase, the volcano bridge and song for someone reworked. Otherwise, what else is there? 13 seems to be universally praised here for pulling that off too.
I also thought SoI was pretty darn great, and this is even better while also making SoI better by nature. They compliment each other to my ears.
Time will tell of course, but for now I’m basking in what I think is really U2’s best album in a while. And if we consider the two “Songs” albums one big album, it’s their best in a long time. A long time.
Originally posted by germcevoy:They should never have committed to these albums being a pair. They committed to the paired album thing and never executed. Nothing I’ve heard from this new album is suggestive of why it was delayed by two years. The fact they have reused a lot of SOI stuff makes me wonder further about why it was delayed.
If they had delayed SOI and got one album out then I definitely think we could have ended up with something truly great. Or given more time we may still have got an excellent conceptual double album. I don’t think we’ve gotten either.