ktran
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Posted: Aug. 08 2005, 15:36 |
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1. I have been a fan of U2's since pre-adolescent times (in fact, I credit singing along with Zooropa's "Lemon" with helping me preserve my falsetto range).
2. I have travelled to Ireland to see the band perform.
3. The Edge has been the single most influential guitar player to me, to this day, strangely enough.
4. It took me years to get Bono out of my singing voice. I'm sure he's still back there somewhere, though.
All that being said, I actually think the new album sucks monkey balls. It's a collection of songs where the band's on autopilot, with the same recycled bridge section popping up all over the place (this is different from MO's recycling themes and motifs, because those are deliberate, as opposed to... lazy), a horribly pretentious and unfunny album title, an equally disastrous album cover, and some of the most uninspired and uninspiring music the band has ever produced. Oh right, take a look at how many producers were involved in the project. It's pretty sick.
It's really sad for me, actually. This is a band that threw caution to the wind in the 1990s and came up with Achtung Baby!, Zooropa, and the wonderful ambient collaboration with Brian Eno, Passengers. I suppose it's kind of what's happened to a lot of musicians as they get older, the creative spark and the urgency just isn't quite there anymore.
Sorry for the negativity.
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Khoa Tran
www.suspendedseconds.ca
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Which is not necessarily a totally bad thing, but I'd be inclined to expect a little bit of originality from a band who's around since 25+ years... without reaching the extremes of PoP. 
