Originally posted by SJKamal:All personal opinions of course.
Originally posted by SJKamal:All personal opinions of course.
Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
That’s it really but I do think people are influenced by others views too much rather than form there own opinion of the album. Is it a coincidence that the less cool the band have been perceived in the last decade and a half that the less popular there music has became as well? Is it a coincidence that as the music charts have moved away from bands and more rock music that the albums have been generally less favourably thought of? I don’t think it is a coincidence. There’s also the issue of people comparing there work to previous work and I don’t just mean in terms of quality but stylistically. I think people aren’t as open minded as they would maybe need to be to enjoy U2’s latest work they have an idea of what u2 should be and are too stubborn to change that, which is fine that’s up to the individual but by not being open minded it makes it difficult to back up a view of an album as being poor.
Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:SOE is pretty bad.
Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:[..]
As SJK observed, we all have our personal opinions and, on this one, I'm at the other end of the spectrum and think it's pretty good.
Originally posted by LostSailor:[..]
I agree and as I have stated here before, SOE is a good album, but not a great one. I am not sure if we talk about Bono's bicycle accident from 2014 and its impact on U2 as a band enough here. One of my co-workers has played guitar in a local bands for 30 years. He thinks Bono's inability to play guitar hurt the band's song writing process and performing abilities more than the band and their management is advertising. Bono wasn't the greatest guitar player but he did bring some added energy to songs where he played guitar. I miss his green Gretsch Irish Falcon guitar. Perhaps Bono wrote better songs when he was able to string a few chords together and work a piece of music that way...Thoughts?
Originally posted by LostSailor:[..]
I agree and as I have stated here before, SOE is a good album, but not a great one. I am not sure if we talk about Bono's bicycle accident from 2014 and its impact on U2 as a band enough here. One of my co-workers has played guitar in a local bands for 30 years. He thinks Bono's inability to play guitar hurt the band's song writing process and performing abilities more than the band and their management is advertising. Bono wasn't the greatest guitar player but he did bring some added energy to songs where he played guitar. I miss his green Gretsch Irish Falcon guitar. Perhaps Bono wrote better songs when he was able to string a few chords together and work a piece of music that way...Thoughts?
Originally posted by LostSailor:[..]
I agree and as I have stated here before, SOE is a good album, but not a great one. I am not sure if we talk about Bono's bicycle accident from 2014 and its impact on U2 as a band enough here. One of my co-workers has played guitar in a local bands for 30 years. He thinks Bono's inability to play guitar hurt the band's song writing process and performing abilities more than the band and their management is advertising. Bono wasn't the greatest guitar player but he did bring some added energy to songs where he played guitar. I miss his green Gretsch Irish Falcon guitar. Perhaps Bono wrote better songs when he was able to string a few chords together and work a piece of music that way...Thoughts?