hatrickpatrick
11th March 2009, 03:21 AM
Since no one has posted this here yet, just thought I'd point out that the new U@ album is utterly epic. Don't believe any reviews you read, just go and get the album, see or yourself.
I was expecting to be majorly disappointed after I read scathing reviews of the album, and I'll admit that I hated Boots at first as well. I was horribly wrong on both counts.
What the critics don't realize is that this is a concept album, of sorts. You have to listen to the songs in order to appreciate just how brilliant they are. And I don't mean that there's a general theme running through the album, I just mean that each sound sort of naturally leads on to the next. In context, Boots and all the other songs kick ass. Taken alone, they might not seem so brilliant.
IMO, "Breathe" is by far the best song on the album, it sounds like a mixture of classic U2 and modern Killers. Stand Up Comedy is another of my favorites. Stand Up Comedy runs a close second, and sounds more like the recent "Vertigo" type sound. After that, Magnificent, and Fez-Being Born are up there, and everything else on the album is equally amazing (I listened to it all in one go several times so I still have some songs mixed together in my head which is why I'm not naming them).
To summarize: Get this album. It's epic. Then put it on your iPod and listen to it while you queue up all night outside ticketmaster and buy your U2: 360* tickets the second they go on sale.
I was expecting to be majorly disappointed after I read scathing reviews of the album, and I'll admit that I hated Boots at first as well. I was horribly wrong on both counts.
What the critics don't realize is that this is a concept album, of sorts. You have to listen to the songs in order to appreciate just how brilliant they are. And I don't mean that there's a general theme running through the album, I just mean that each sound sort of naturally leads on to the next. In context, Boots and all the other songs kick ass. Taken alone, they might not seem so brilliant.
IMO, "Breathe" is by far the best song on the album, it sounds like a mixture of classic U2 and modern Killers. Stand Up Comedy is another of my favorites. Stand Up Comedy runs a close second, and sounds more like the recent "Vertigo" type sound. After that, Magnificent, and Fez-Being Born are up there, and everything else on the album is equally amazing (I listened to it all in one go several times so I still have some songs mixed together in my head which is why I'm not naming them).
To summarize: Get this album. It's epic. Then put it on your iPod and listen to it while you queue up all night outside ticketmaster and buy your U2: 360* tickets the second they go on sale.