1. New song, what do you think about it? I really like it!
  2. Don't want to be nasty, but that sounds like a Garagaband drummer to me, not Larry.. Too quantized and not Larry's style either
  3. nice album to listen in the morning
  4. You read a lot about whether they had to take out new material, if this is not U2, to do this that they don't do anything. The band does what comes out of their balls. You may like it more or less. But there is no one with authority outside the band to say whether or not this is U2.
  5. Originally posted by algastesi:You read a lot about whether they had to take out new material, if this is not U2, to do this that they don't do anything. The band does what comes out of their balls. You may like it more or less. But there is no one with authority outside the band to say whether or not this is U2.
    100% agree
  6. Originally posted by enoone:SOS would have been a brilliant pandemic gesture to fans during a shutdown or an eventual fan club gift. It would have made more sense to be released as an official soundtrack to the Surrender biography. But U2 album? Nah. It doesn't come close in reaching the level of a stand-alone U2 release and is hard to consider it to be equal to the level of previous works.
    Probably spawned from that, not like they could whip up an album during a pandemic in a few months hahah
  7. If you like late night lounge music, it never sounded so good! I’ve found listening to it with alcohol helps! Some of this is really nice, some a bit average. Nice to hear them making (old) music.

    This seems to be final part in a trilogy of looking back retrospectively. U2 seem to like trilogy’s. Hopefully this isn’t the end and Larry will back behind the drums to propel the band into the future, even if that’s one final album.
  8. All lyrics of all SoS songs are now on our song pages, as well as links to all YouTube generated videos: https://u2start.com/songs
  9. Originally posted by enoone:SOS would have been a brilliant pandemic gesture to fans during a shutdown or an eventual fan club gift. It would have made more sense to be released as an official soundtrack to the Surrender biography. But U2 album? Nah. It doesn't come close in reaching the level of a stand-alone U2 release and is hard to consider it to be equal to the level of previous works.

    yeah would of been a good one during that initial hard lockdown when you could only leave the house for an hour a day. Now it just seems very meh.
  10. Would love to chip in here. After a few listens, I've got the following (very) personal remarks:

    1) The songs have indeed been "modernised" in their delivery and this turned out to change a lot for many of them, it is actually quite interesting how a number of them ended up being underwhelming. Either this tells something about the shape modern alternative rock has evolved into, or it is just that I (we) liked those songs that way. Interestingly, pure acoustic or lightened live renditions of songs become beautiful gems unlike many versions on this release, so the problem isn't exactly with softening things, it's somewhere else.

    2) I agree with the deep-cuts take, some great moments on this record like Wild Horses etc., but overall I fail to see how and whom this project should get excited. I truly fail to see why this is being advertised so heavily as a new product (which it is, but so are many re-interpreted versions on bootlegs that fans love, but no such publicity about it) to the general public. If somebody doesn't know much about U2, I doubt these re-imaginings will be all that accessible.

    3) Dear band, please do not, do not change the lyrics in such a conscious and structural way. It is always charming to hear a tweak here and there during live performances that reflect the artists' spontaneously surfacing real feelings but rewriting the lyrics to standards such as "Bad" is actually a weird undertaking imho.

    I'll have a couple of more things to say but I'll leave it at that for the moment.
  11. My first impression is the album becomes a bit repetitive in terms of basic style and approach, with 40 songs over nearly 3 hours. Maybe that’s okay for a long playlist you have running in the background, but I suspect I’ll cull it back to what I think are the best 12-13 songs. I get why they did what they did but, for me, finding time to listen to it in its entirety will be hard. Flying to the northern hemisphere soon will give me a chance but I had set aside time to listen to the audiobook of Surrender.