1. It's not that it's a bad album or that it's bad music - maybe, just maybe, quite the opposite. It just doesn't do anything for me. FWIW: I often say the same about recent Pearl Jam music. It's fine but I don't "need" it.
  2. Originally posted by dylbagz:Funny to see that most of the long term members and contributors to this site are the ones who aren't so obsessed with it while the fans claiming it's the bee's knees are newer and were less active before the release


    You might be right. I joined a couple months before SOE was released. I really like the album, but not necessarily because it sounds loyal to the typical u2 sound, but because parts of it sound much more like the college rock bands my friends and I go see. I can play a U2 album now and fool friends into liking that old classic rock band they all hate.
  3. I'll admit the sheer wow factor has waned for me as time goes on. American Soul bothers me during the "You are Rock and Roll" bit. I think my opinion now is that they are solid pop songs with a really slick production, but it's no Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby. I think it's kind of the 2010s All That You Can't Leave Behind.
  4. i can say that SOE have captured my attention much more than SOI and NLOTH
  5. I played it once and absolutely nothing on that record caught my attention. So I never played it again. Checked a remix/different version here or there - but still the same, no catch up for me. No line, no arrangement, no melody that talks to me in any way. Not even Edge's guitar does.

    I didn't like SOI much, but that at least had 2-3 nice tracks and amazing lyrics. SOE to me is a weird collection of phrases, that don't make any sense to me at all. Given my current situation, the "topic" -dealing with mortality- should fit perfectly, but Bono and me obviously handle that topic very differently. There were times, when he absolutely had the right words in his songs to speak out of my soul, but not on this record.

    They might call these things "references" but in fact - it's just nothing new recycling the same tunes over and over, that album lacks of creativity and originality for me. Kinda.....they lost their balls.

    On the other hand, it needs loads of balls to release something like THAT.

    I might check in with the first live shows to see, if any of the songs evolved to something I can live with, but that of course won't change melody and lyrics in the end....

    I opted for the "barely" one, it fits the most I guess.
  6. Originally posted by RUMMY:It's not that it's a bad album or that it's bad music - maybe, just maybe, quite the opposite. It just doesn't do anything for me. FWIW: I often say the same about recent Pearl Jam music. It's fine but I don't "need" it.
    oh it really is, it's a shocker. Somewhere up there Bowie is thanking them for letting him off the hook as Tonight is no longer the worst album by a major act.
  7. poll: quite positive
    comments: quite negative

    surprise, surprise
  8. I still play SOE almost every day. It's nice to listen to both SOI and SOE. U2 never want to do the same thing over and over again, and yes....not every song is that strong but man, what a band !!
  9. not that the poll is being interfered with of course but yesterday it was 54-46 and then suddenly it's way over two thirds.
  10. I listen to it quite a lot on a weekly basis , I use spotify usually on shuffle.
    So its individual songs not the whole album. (sorry lads)
  11. Played it once maybe... Went on a palate cleansing trip through all albums up to and including Pop, straight afterwards.

    I did like SOI a lot though.
  12. U2 Innocence & Experience, my favorite album in the last 4 months