Reviews (page 12 of 12)
Haven’t pushed an album back this much yet. I just didn’t like it. Music is fine but it’s got to be a 1
Awful. U2 are the most overrated band on the planet. Shit shit shit
Something I think about a lot is Andre Agassi, and how he had that glorious mane of flowing hair. I still remember the cover of Andre Agassi Tennis video game on sega mega drive - he was mid-forehand follow through, the hair was puffed up like a furry caterpillar. It was glorious. Well turns out that the hair wasn’t real. It was a wig. And that wig caused him huge meth-fuelled anxiety to the point where he was more concerned about it flying off than winning the French Open. My theory is The Edge is like this, but in reverse. Underneath that little skull cap thing, he actually has amazing hair like David Lynch (rip). But he believes that the skull cap is the source of his powers, the delay behind his real average riffs. The weight of this would be immense. And if he was in any other band, I would like to give him a hug and tell him that it’s ok. There, there. It’s ok, Mr Edge. You don’t need to put that thing on your head anymore.
U2 are one of those bands that your told not to like… so I was keen to listen to this with an open mind… but it’s painfully bad…
Shite
Oh, no. The last U2 album I had was utter garbage, as is pretty much every radio single I've ever heard from them, so this probably won't be getting high marks. It does have the most tolerable radio singles, but comparing U2 singles is like deciding which dog poop tastes better. It has many of U2's hallmarks (banal lyrics, Bono sounding annoying, naive utopianism, overlong songs) while also doing weird things like the buzzy vocal filters on the opener. It desperately wants to be interesting, but U2 can't write the songs to back it up. It just sounds like vacuous nothingness in song form. Granted, this particular nothingness is slightly better than the war crimes committed on "All That You Can't Leave Behind". So I guess it's not completely irredeemable? Granted, it's still a pile of shite wanting desperately to be something else. Get these jokers out of my earshot!
Ah, the forefathers of Coldplay. Just so stale, superficial, arbitrary. You can keep this one.
Sounded like a bunch of sound bites throw together to make the songs. There didn’t feel like any cohesion throughout. I know U2 has some good songs, but there wasn’t any on this one. Happy that one is behind me.
I never liked U2 back in the day, and relistening to it all these years later has not changed that opinion. Really not to my tastes.
We are truly blessed that in between curing famine in Africa and before he ended the conflict in the Balkans, Bono (vox) descended from his pedestal to deliver yet more turgid ‘post-modernist come lately’ dogshit. I fucking hate everything about U2 and especially Bono (vox) who once sent Tony Blair a picture of the student Blair with his guitar with a note saying something along the lines of ‘I think we should have swapped careers’. What a supreme cunt, and don’t get me started on Bono (vox) 1/5
To preface this, I don't like U2, so I'm coming in a bit biased. I haven't heard this album before though. Christ that was fucking boring. Unsurprisingly, that was a another hard listen from U2.
U2 - bit marmite aren’t they….anything after Joshua Tree is a no for me. After that Bono disappeared up his own backside. 1
even brian eno could not save this
Blah
U2 gets a max of 2 stars and this is bad even by their standards. Boring, bland, and bono. Everyone says that Harambe getting shot (RIP, DOFH) in 2016 caused a split in the timeline and that’s why things are decidedly not great right now. But I honestly think it happened 2 years earlier in 2014 when U2 put that album on everyone’s phone.
Meh
Fuck this and fuck Bono. Cunt.
I just can't stand U2. I don't like Bono, not because he's a douche, but because his vocals don't do anything for me. The Edge is a boring, overrated guitarist. Larry is not a great drummer either. The last album I reviewed I didn't even listen to (primarily because I knew it would be shit, they just got worse in the 00s), I thought I'd at least try this one and regretted my decision immediately. I barely jumped through some of the tracks. I know a lot of the tracks on this album anyway because my uncle was a fan. "One" is crap and I'm sorry, but "Mysterious Ways" is worse. There's nothing for me here.
#833. More like "Dogshit, Baby," amirite? This is a worse reinvention that Metallica's self titled album 1/5: just fucking stop
Insipid. 0.5/5
boo2
Achtung! Under two.
Time seemed to slow down while listening to this, longest hour of my life since listening to REM
To misquote Stewart Lee: An album so blandly anonymous that it sounds like the burial music for a king of an ancient civilization which valued above all bland anonymity.
Bland
Hate it
not my style
its not great lmao nothing special
I didn't like this.
repetitivo comercial e chateia me os ouvidos francamente
No loescuché xd
Execrable
U2 hasn’t been good since they forced an album on my iTunes in 2014.
Fuck you too
Just so boring, I really can’t connect with U2 on any level and I just find all the lyrics, singing, and guitar riffs to be soulless. Having Eno attached to this should have helped but this just wasn’t for me.
Another U2 album - another hour or Bono mumbling through lyrics that we thankfully can’t decipher because if we could he’d probably be preaching to us about something hypocritical- meanwhile the backing music is full of distortion and reverb with occasional bouts of mistakenly breaking out into actual melody. I’ll never understand the raves for this band.
Fuck U2
I feel like people decided they should like it because they liked other albums from U2. I was unimpressed when I listened to it when it came out and was interested in my take on it now, but unfortunately it hasn't changed.
U2 fucking suck
The band decided to record this in Berlin in some half-baked attempt to make the album more European or somehow artistically benefit from the reunification of Germany. This only resulted in the band being miserable as they recorded in a studio that had fallen into disrepair. Their arguments led to them almost breaking up. What a shame. Einstürzende Neubauten is cited as one of the bands that U2 listened to as part of their quest to find a new musical direction. How this appears in this album's music is completely lost on me. That album was at least interesting. The most boring person you know fucks to this. Highlights: Mysterious Ways
hiç beğenmedim
I lived it
Gross
By the time One started playing I knew exactly what rating I should give.
God I hate U2
U2 sucks. i could hardly give a rat’s ass about them or this record, but still listened to it. wasn’t worth shit. Psycho Circus is better. fight me
Why the fuck is there so much U2 on this list? I swear this is maybe the third or fourth U2 album I've reviewed in the past month or two. Are there more? My GOD this was boring. It's unbelievable how great the first three U2 albums are and how dogshit this is, and this is apparently still in U2's "good" era? According to who?? This STINKS!!!
Ugh, more wailing from Bono. "Is it getting better?" Hard no. "Baby, baby, baby, light my way." Real poetic shit. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): N/A ⭐: Hated it.
Not for me.
Before Coldplay there was u2
Beige dad rock. Sort of guys who look forward to experimental missionary sex. What happened to U2... They were never amazing, but man they got boring.
What if we made boring music for 55 minutes? I couldn't tell you a single lyric or captivating moment in this album.
This is bad. I guess one is a good enough song, but nowherere near good enough to warrant the inclusion of the whole album, and it does feel like that. The rest is uninspired filler, except may be Mysterious Ways which is barely ok. U2 has albums that are a lot better, this one should not be there. I will finish this list someday, and I know I'll always wonder why this one is in, and so many aren't. It shouldn't be and I am already mad
Kom dere til helvete ut av mobilen min. På ingen måte overhated. Møkkavokal og St.Anger-trommer på første låta. Gidder ikke mer.
Bland
Immensely boring. Mysterious Ways is the only palatable song on this album. I’ll never quite understand how U2 got to the peak of the mountain. They are severely uninspiring
Massive nah. How these guys get compared to REM I will never understand. Breaking extremely soft ground for Coldplay.
dio boia non li posso sentire. proprio non li tollero giur
I’ll give them “One” - if you want an epic ballad it’s pretty good. Otherwise bland or saccharine by turns, and plodding throughout.
I remember thinking I might enjoy U2 when I am middle aged. Turns out I'm not there yet. Musical ideas completely devoid of anything interesting.
Oh ya now I remember, U2 is way over rated. The one song that was good enough to listen to did not make up for the rest on the album.
Quintessential dad rock. Pretty boring. Good background music when you’re preoccupied in the garage doing things with your tools and such. Favorite song: n/a
Zoo Station was completely forgettable. Even Better than the Real Thing is something that would make sense in a tv show or movie, moments of catchiness but not outstanding. One is a well written lyrically song, but I really hate the performance. I have heard covers that I like a lot more. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses is familiar, it’s not impressive or exciting musically, but again the lyrics are good. I think the best song on the album is Mysterious Ways.
Pretty shit
I dunno why people blow smoke up U2’s holes but maybe that’s just because of my personal prejudice and also bono is a pox. This was bland and I’d happily never listen to it again
Shite
U2 are the most overrated band on the planet and OH MY GOD THERE ARE 3 MORE U2 ALBUMS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKER 🤬 See if my algorithm now thinks I want to listen to U2, I'm gonna headbutt Bono
Music by numbers. Lyrical durge.
Worst band ever!
Forgettable. Mysterious ways is the only song worth listening to
I’m not a big fan of U2…. This album was definitely a change in their typical sound. My favorite song: who’s gonna ride your wild horses I would not listen again.
Det börjar uselt och det blir värre. Flera av låtarna går inte att höra från början till slut i nykter tillstånd. Varje gång Bono går upp i falsett vill jag omedelbart stänga av.
Look I always thought that U2 were overhated but man this album really damn sucked. The Edge is still an excellent guitarist but lyrically, sonically and production wise I found nothing to grab onto. Bono really is such a smarmy bastard in the way he sings the multiple "sexy" songs on here are super cringy to listen to. Will not listen to this ever again.
I can't bring myself to listen to this. Just going to go ahead and give it a 1 and save myself the torture.
absolutely not
Dull as fuck, is that how they got so big?
U2 sucks
What a slog of caterwauling, dated guitar effects and ego. Awful, awful, awful.
Two stinkers in a row. Hard pass.
Bono is a tax dodging wanker who was in the Panama Papers. If he was capable of sucking his own dick, he would be too busy doing that to make more shitty music that all sounds the same. I still went ahead and listened to this album hoping it would change my mind, but it's just as boring as every other U2 song I've heard. I'm sure the other U2 albums on the list will sound just like this
Incredibly tedious to get through. Lyrics seemed (to me, at least) surface level and cringy. Not to mention, overall boring as SHIT I already can’t stand U2, so I tried to keep an open mind, but this album encapsulates all the things that irritate me about this band (mostly Bono tbh). They try too hard to sound deep, but it doesn’t seem like they actually know what that entails.
Overplayed pop garbage
bland, unremarkable except for the discomfort I feel with Bono's voice.
Pretty bland. Maybe you just had to be there.
Nope
Just not my type of rock. Feels bland and corporate. “One” was pretty good. The instrumentals are just too flat overall. it’s like if Coldplay had bad production. 2/10
Trash Favorite songs: Mysterious Ways, Acrobat Least favorite songs: One, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, So Cruel, The Fly, Ultra Violet (Light My Way), Love is Blindness 1/5
eugh
Si "tiède" était un genre musical. Aucune raison d'être 1h - Je suis allé chier et je l'ai laisser rouler.
What a long winded blah fest. U2 does not make good music. They make crap grocery store music. I just don't get how they are so popular. 2.2/10 109/1001
every 90s-00s coming of age movie, and about as unique as those plots
Really do not care for U2
One full hour of listening to Bono wail... I didn't like this and I'm subtracting an additional spite point point for putting their album on every iPod in like 2008
Gosh I really dislike U2. Especially Bono, whose voice and lyrics and whole energy just repel me. The band is tight but forgettable. The suffer from what I call the Nashville Effect (after the awful Altman film) where something is either widely beloved (U2) or universally praised (Nashville) but is actually mid at best and it makes you like it even less because the praise makes it extra insufferable. I was optimistic about this one, after mostly suffering through the obscenely overpraised Joshua Tree - hey, Berlin, fresh start, nasty. Everything good here is done wayyyy better elsewhere, including in Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, which I've never even heard, I'm just that confident in Bowie's weird greatness against this recycled trash. Without Joshua Tree's couple iconic hits, it doesn't even merit two stars.
I do not like u2
This doesn't stand out to me in any way.
U2 is not for me.
Things to do instead of listening to Bono's whiny-ass treacly screeching: 1. Watch paint dry 2. Taxes 3. Rip your fingernails off 4. Sell life insurance door to door 5. Stare directly at the sun This album fucking sucked. I've never understood why people lose their shit over this band.
I am a big fan of U2 back when you could still hear their punk influences. This album is like lukewarm coffee. Tepid, boring, and lacking anything to hold my interest.
Fuck U2 and Bono’s stupid face…no thanks!
terug een U2????? toon mij een paard en ik zie een dier waar die band meer dan 1x is over getild... hopelijk de laatste in de rij
I hate U2
Did not finish. Not a fan.
I don't like U2
Worse than possible
terrible
nah
Not interested
Hard pass on u2
holy dad rock. every song sounds the same. why is this so long. why are they so popular when every song sucks ass. they're trying and desperately failing to be sexy on every track Would I listen again: I am a certified U2 Hater Deserves to be on this list: U2 shouldn't be on this list 0.5
Que rollo esta no es la personalidad de padre que quiero
Refused to listen to U2
Pretty boring loose collections of songs. Would not recommend. I feel nothing towards these songs
Awful, just a horrible noise
No.
? No existe (?)
I've always liked their early work, but it seemed to fall off around Joshua Tree. This opens up sounding a little bit like The Cars. Was not expecting that. But by the halfway point, that is honestly the most positive thing I have to say about it, and the back half sure doesn't redeem it. Most of this a complete bore. Basically sounding like audio drivel, tailor-made to be commodified. Not shocking at all it would only be a short time before they were shilling for major corporations.
The Edge is a great guitarist to bad he is in U2. Worse than I remember.
I hate U2
Bono should be in jail;, for moron.
The best U2 album I have heard. Unfortunately that is a very low bar
It’s u2
Two days in a row of this U2 shit? Am I in hell? I must be in hell!
Fucking shite
1st album I did not listen to. Life is too short for more U2
Not my favorite
At the first couple of seconds all that came to my mind was "Dollar store Dave Mathews Band" Don't know how they have a following.
laim
Muy aburrido
Pointless drek!
IK HAAT U2. En wat de fuck was dat begin ik dacht dat mijn telefoon kapot ging. deze plaat was zo kut en saai ik zou wel iemand kunnen aanvallen
Again, these guys are from England and who gives a shit
nah
Dosta smećasti album. Drago mi je da ih nikad nisam voljela jer bi mi sad bilo dosta bed. 1/5, 1.5/10
Nope! If I learned anything from Henry Rollins it is that I hate U2.
I don't like U2. I've never liked U2. I tried to listen to this with an open mind as possible. Turns out I still don't like U2.
Dire unimaginative tripe
didn’t finish it all the songs sounded the same
I refuse. 0/5
I've never understood the hype for U2, so I hoped maybe listening to this all the way through would be educational at least. It's actually kind of impressive that they managed to make music this bland and soulless. There are albums on this list I actively hated more, sure, but I've rarely felt boredom so intense as in waiting for this one to finally be over.
It's so safe and generic. War is a better album by a large margin. I got so bored with this one..
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I clicked through this whole album fast. Fuck U2
Fuck U2
This is the musical equivalent of unseasoned mashed potatoes.
no u2
I'm not a regular U2 listener unless they play on the radio or a random song of theirs makes its way to my shuffle playlist. I had this playing in the background while I was doing stuff, I didn't even realise spotify played a different artist after this album finished.
Truly one of the most sauceless albums in existence. Aggressively, confrontationally boring.
Booooooring! U2 is and has always been overrated 1/5
I’m travelling down to London. It’s 06:44. I was really looking forward to getting a good one today. Make it stop. Please. I don’t know what it is that makes it so detestable. But it is the very definition of detestable. FML.
Simply bad alternative Rock. Wanted to turn it off troughout the album.
wait THIS is the album they played the Sphere with? oof
Apple Music says that this is “ U2’s most transformative album—the one that would re-jigger the band’s sound, re-energise its members and win over even the band’s fiercest critics” If this is the case then the others must be complete trash as this album was just trash.
First though was, I think Eno is trying to make a "Bowie" sounding album, but it falls completely flat with U2. This was a slog to get through, this album is just boring from start to finish. When I read the wiki it said it was a darker sound, I disagree, this album is definitely more poppy than any of their previous albums, but, if you want to listen to a "darker" U2 sound, listen to the War album.
Unlistenable.
I was not impressed
Its u2
Eh
I thought they were a generic and shitty band. Turns out I was correct.
Paaaaain. Mysterious Ways is the only song that showed my ears grace. Everything else was insufferable. Sorry, not sorry.
Forgettable
Boring
The lyrics and singing style sound so phoney, like a massive ego pretending it has a good connection to reality.
Si este es el álbum que "redefinió" el rock, entonces preferiría que el estatus del rock nunca hubiera sido cuestionado. El disco de la banda de Bono y U2 es sumamente flojo y poco innovador, perdiendo todo el poco filo que tenían en sus primeros discos para construir un LP tan olvidable que podría ponerse como música de fondo de un Mall.
Meh
Listening to Bono makes me want to punch a wall
Never been a fan of U2, and this didn't change my mind in the slightest.
Shit is fucking ass. Also it’s very difficult to hear. Only liked 2 songs
Do not get the popularity of U2 at all. Guess they have a broad appeal, no bold choices, but as this album went on I got more and more frustrated. Do something interesting! Sure I heard bono say he spiked someone's drink in until the end of the world too.
As expected, found this a hard listen. So dreary, mopey, lame.
I like the odd U2 song, but not a single one of those was on this album. This was a really awful album. I think my feelings are best summed up by the face on the album cover.
This is what happens when you fuck around with the reverb knob too much.
U2 is fucking overrated
pity zero stars isn't available
listened to the first 3 or 4 songs and confirmed that i am not a fan of U2
U2 sucks big
Echt, ik probeer er echt zonder vooroordeel in te gaan. Maar al bij de eerste noten komt mijn afkeer van U2 omhoog. Wat een drama van een eerste nummer. Het is goed dat One enigszins optijd komt, want dat is natuurlijk een goed nummer, maar de rest... Bluh. Ik weet ook niet wat het U2 is, tenminste, een ding weet ik wel: die 'wall of sound' is dramatisch. Alles op maximale reverb waardoor niks echt naar boven komt, ik vind het helemaal niks. Ik dacht nog dat One deze naar 2 sterren kon tillen, maar nee, 1 ster voor mij.
My preconceived notions about U2 either influenced my disdain for this album, or validated. I don't know which and really don't feel the desire to discern which.
This album was incredibly boring to me and the kind-of wannabe emotive vocals of Bono are annoying to a point it completely ruined the album. U2 can be great, especially in their early 80s phase, but... What was that?
Interesting story behind this album, but the music fell flaaaat for me. I've never taken to U2, so I'm coming in with a bias. But like, the author told a story about the band's struggles and how they wrote 'One' and it's the song that saved the band. That's the song that saved the band?! I nearly fell asleep during it. - Sincerely, a confused heathen.
Death
I hate it
I won’t be listening to this album.
I hate it.
Not a U2 guy. I did listen all the way through this. It sucked. U2 sucks.
Tylsää, soinnillisesti mautonta, suurelta osin kertosäkeetöntä. Eikö heillä ole mitään tapoja?
U2 sucks ass
Most overrated band in history
"Then it all made sense to me. How could Bono be so talented, so caring, and yet seem like such a piece of crap? Because he is crap. Don't you get it? Bono is not the record holder..." "He's the record." - South Park
Boring
😐
It's worse than I expected.
This was not enjoyable. Bono should not be priased as a good singer
U2 is assuredly not for me, even when trying to objectively put them in to context and ignore all the baggage surrounding Bono and Edge. I guess the best I can say is I can see why people would be in to this. But it's not for me.
I do not like U2 at all aside from a couple hit songs. This album has none of them. Just boring from beginning to end. You can feel Bono's insufferable-ness oozing through every note. I especially loathe Myserious Ways. It is not "all right" at all, sir. Overrated band that I can see people liking, but I 2ill never understand how they got so massive. Sadly I doubt this is my last encounter with them on this list. "Yay"
so bad. Especially did not like the filter on his voice
Fuck off Bongo
Stinky U2
Bland big arena three chord garbage
I’ve listened to a U2 song aeons ago and quite frankly couldn’t tell you what it was. That’s how abysmal that song was for me and also how I feel about this album. Unmemorable.
This does not appeal to me. It felt pretentious while listening to it. Most of the songs aren't anything special; they were all bland. They're all about a person or someone else, but it still felt like they were trying to preach something at me. This was not an enjoyable experience.
I don't like U2. I don't know why I even listened to the whole thing.
Zoo Station - what in the parted buttocks is wrong with the production of this? It sounds like a concert bootleg from someone with a tape recorder in the khazis. Muffled, echoey, generally unpleasant to listen to. The next track - one I vaguely remember from the 1990s - is by a sheer fluke of coincidence called "one", and it is shit. Bono's voice is grating, incapable of holding a note and generally reminiscent of a third rate pub singer. Now we move on to "to the end of the world" and I don't want to think that the bass is hitting some resonant frequency where it's overpowering, but the guitar's soaring pomposity makes me think they've spent too much time listening to Ride, and the overpowering bass is actually deliberate. I can't finish it because it hurts my ears. The first forty seconds of "who's going to ride your wild horses" is enough to convince me that this album is going in the bin. Byeeee!
TIHI
I would give this a 0 - I hate U2 !
I literally can’t stand U2. Meh
I can rest assured that everyone who made this album and listened to it will one day die.
no thank you
This is boring and toothless. God its the softest rock conceivable.
Meh
blech.
U2 is so overrated. I just don’t get the appeal.
Don’t understand the hype.
No
Overrated
Alright.
I don't like u2 much and I particularly don't like this version of them
U2 is the McDonald's of rock.
not my taste
Not good.
Saaaaai