The Joshua Tree

I've always loved the sound of bands made up of people who don't quite know what they're doing, coming together and exploring the possibilities. But if those bands stay together, there always comes a time when they master their instruments and figured out how to sound the way they want to sound. And, Invariably, the pixie dust disappears; at least for me. This album was my first major lesson that the things you love in life can't persist. I fell in love with War as a 14 year old. I Will Follow from Boy was the first song I ever figured out how to play on guitar. I bought The Unforgettable Fire the day it came out and practically wore out its grooves. And then they crafted an album that everyone noticed. But, for me, their former desperation had given way to calculation; their urgency to satisfaction; the shambolism to precision; and the mystery to transparency. It still sounds the same to me now. Polished, intentional, unambiguous, and disappointing.

This might have been the best shot that u2 woulda had with me. Maybr not but this is boring. I just dont have much to say about it. Nothing happens. Nothing of note at least. They play some of the most even keeled music of all time. I hate the word mid but thats what it is. Bad context and all. Its one of the most who cares music of all time. Its not poppy enough or biting enough to be anything. Its god damn nothing. I dont know how many times I can say it makes me feel nothing. Thats just it. It sucks for being Nothing. Thats all

This would be my favourite album of all time if I’d only heard albums from the eighties that sold over 20 million copies.

"...and then one day we woke up and a U2 album was downloaded to EVERYONE'S phone" "okay grandpa, let's get you to bed" Never been huge into U2, but gotta say the first three songs here are probably the ones I appreciate the most (maybe throw 'Beautiful Day' and 'One' in the mix)...who decided this track order? It runs out of steam rather quickly and just feels like your boilerplate pop rock for which U2 is mostly known.

#268 Heard Before? Duh. Notes: - like with the Simpsons or Mad Magazine, everyone agrees that U2 was once good and is now terrible, but no one agrees on the exact turning point. my vote is this album. - U2 can't really be blamed for inspiring an entire genre of polished-turd evangelical "worship music", but i do anyways. - Daniel Lanois is a god, successfully making these aimless stupid simple songs and mediocre performances sound huge and meaningful. I'm sure Eno is also at least partially responsible. i couldn't endorse the production highly enough. - contrary to their own beliefs, the Edge did not invent the delay pedal, and Bono did not invent singing. Verdict: Every youth pastor's favorite album. Side A is unavoidable and Side B is forgettable. Listen Again? I would listen to anything Lanois had a hand in, but can this please just go away forever?

I have a really hard time divorcing the way I feel about Bono when listening to his band. Trying to give that sanctimonious douchebag a bit of grace is just really hard for me to do. And on top of that, their fans are terrible, too. Not that it should matter here when talking about the merits of their music, but it just warrants mentioning that their die-hard fans are just an insufferable group. But like the other U2 albums I've had to come across on here, I tried. I put my feelings about Bono aside and I gave it an honest effort. I can't say this is bad music...I think I said that before about another album of theirs, but they're a talented group. I don't think you can hear the intro to Where The Streets Have No Name and think otherwise. Do I think The Edge is a guitar virtuoso? Not really, but it works and it works for him, it's undeniable as to who's playing. The production here is deep. It's clear. It's actually fantastic. Bono's voice is perfect in the mix, the guitar, bass and drums are just all distinguishable and working together, yet you can hone in and listen to each of them if you want. None of them get lost. I'm assuming this album sounds amazing with a nice pair of headphones. Bullet The Blue Sky is probably the highlight on this album for me, it's a track that gives the first side a different feel, especially after the two sentimental tracks I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and With Or Without You. I can't pretend to know their catalog inside and out but this is the heaviest and maybe the darkest song that U2 does. It's awesome and if I have to come back to this album that's the track I'm gonna go to. I might want to listen to Exit again, too. Thoughts about Bono aside, it's not bad music. It's pretty good. It's certainly well crafted. Do I want to listen to it on my own? Probably not. Where The Streets Have No Name is great. Bullet The Blue Sky. Exit. With Or Without You is tremendous when they used it at the end of The Americans. So, solid 3 for me. I respect it, I just don't want to come back to it.

It kicks off with three unmatched stadium sized anthems designed to raise hairs in the back of your neck. If nothing else on the album quite hits those heights, every track is at least very strong. Is it their best album? It's either this or Achtung Baby, depending on whether you want U2 with or without a sense of humour.

Overly pretentious and indicative of a time when u2 decided they were not a rock band but they were important with important things to say. Still got some killer tracks though but it's kind of a meme record

Eh. Som forventet talte det ikke rigtigt til mig. Bono får ingen "bono" frem i mig, hans stemme er sgu småirriterende.

Not the masterpiece everyone talks about and was expecting but generally ok.

Is good.

Every song is solid, when this album it came out was revelatory. Seeing this tour at CLE Municipal Stadium from 10th row center was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen, Bullet in the Blue Sky was so powerful and amazing. And One Tree Hill always takes me back to when my Dad’s Dad passed away. Even with the extensive — at at times annoyingly so — airplay this is an album that always takes me back in my back in time in the most positive of ways.

There's just something . . . missing in a lot of U2's music. Their hits are just so much better than the rest of their catalog. The three opening songs here almost make this album a 5 by themselves, but not quite.

Another one that obviously belongs on the list. I’m a medium amount of U2 fan. Although overall I like achtung baby more, this is probably their best. Especially since it has Trip Through Your Wires, one of their best songs and definitely the most underrated.

five millions stars. Always.

The type of music my mom shared with me, when I was little, and hearing it again as an adult, was comforting.

Not a 5, since some songs just aren't great. But the first 3 are really good, and were my first introduction to U2 as a kid so they have a special place for me. 4/5

A classic that holds up. Side A has all the legendary pop rock, side B has songs that don't hit with quite the same impact, but are very good overall. Never mind what the band has become in recent years. Go and listen to this!

Ok

Yes they’re overplayed but what other record starts with three back to back perennial hits that are no bubblegum pop tracks, but are well-crafted songs with depth of composition, passionately delivered? The rest of the tracks are all good to great. “Bullet The Blue Sky” is a banger that anticipates Rage Against The Machine. “Red Hill Mining Town” and “In God’s Country” are overlooked gems. Nonetheless, despite it being perhaps their most consistent, it’s somehow my least favorite of U2’s classic records. Would’ve loved to see Unforgettable Fire here instead but I figured this one would have to show up eventually.

Ahhhhh no

Tried to listen to this as though I was just some guy in the late 80s and knew nothing about how off-puttingly arrogant and pretentious Bono could be and I kind of enjoyed myself

It feels like half of U2's songs sound like a watered down version of themselves.

I’ve never listened to U2 in my life. I cannot believe critics have been gushing over bad Bruce Springsteen.

found it mostly boring after the first three tracks, which are u2 staples and fantastic. I think there’s a relatability to 1-3 lacking in the rest.

An unusually confident, balanced and satisfying album that warrants being listened to in its glorious entirety. It's wasn't until the bouant rhythmic hollering of Red Hill Mining town (track 6) that I remembered the strength of this album isn't in its strongest songs (With or Without You ((of course)) but in the cohesive whole. This is cemented in track 7 (In God's Country) where we feel the forward drive of the album, and the solidity and identity of the band. Because I was mildly obsessed (completely obsessed with U2 as a 16 year old, and because I'm mildly embarrassed (completely embarrassed) by my 16 year old self, I haven't re-visited U2 or The Joshua Tree as much as they merit. Bono, I'm sorry for that. Edge, ditto. Larry & wots your name, please accept my apologies for the lack of regular listening that your admirable ouvre deserves.

One of my absolute favourite albums of all time, and influenced the kind of music I love to this day. I know every word and every note.

Tosi hyvä, solidi albumi. Yhtenäinen ja sama fiilis koko albumin. Alkupuoli oli hittiä hitin perään. Very nice.

Kahden ison hitin lisäksi ei uusia bängereitä löytynyt, mutta ihan solidia tekemistä kuitenkin.

Voihan tästäKIN olla montaa mieltä, mut kyl on hyvii poppisbiisejä hyvällä tunnelmalla hyvillä saundeilla. Ajoittain jopa rohkeeta kokeilumielistä kikkailuakin, ettei ihan suoraa linjaa.

Onhan tässä tosi kovia biisejä, mutta vastapainona on kyllä myös melkoista huttua. Tää oli joskus lukioikäisenä vinyylinäkin, mutta aika harvoin tuli B-puolta kuunneltua. Kyllä se nyt ehkä näin aikuisena kuulosti parrmmalta kun sillon 25 vuotta sitten, mutta kyllä siinä vähän silti alkoi odottelemaan että milloin levy loppuu.

This is tough because, like I said in my Appetite for Destruction review, these were the two first cds I got for Christmas in 1987. As an eleven year old, I loved the singles from both of these bands but I definitely listened to this one more. Listening now, I can still enjoy it as an eighties pop album. Their post punkisms are mostly gone by this point but it’s not bad and it definitely gets worse.

Overrated. I never understood the appeal of U2.

rocked

Ещё один альбом U2, второй за неделю. Теперь пост-панка совсем нет, зато вдоволь попсы. На самом деле, очень сложно оценивать этот альбом, потому что некоторые песни откровенно слабые и скучные, местами даже превращающиеся в какое-то кантри, и заслуживает 2 балла, зато другие песни крайне мощные, впечатляющие, и заслуживает все 5 баллов. После прослушивания первой стороны альбома казалось, что это чистейшая, дистиллированная 3, но вторая половина была классной, поэтому всё таки 4. Лучшая песня: Exit

poczatek nawet spoko ale jak weszła harmonijka to jakbyXD

Enjoyable album, will probably listen to a few of the songs, but didn’t feel particularly moved by it. However, I could see myself getting way more into the songs if I knew the lyrics, which is why I gave 3 stars instead of 2. Favorite songs: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (only one I knew beforehand), Running To Stand Still, and Trip Through Your Wires.

Regarded as such a great album, and while it isn’t bad, I just don’t see the hype for it. Some good songs of course but U2 just often seems like kind of standard rock to me and not much special

1987 total world domination

7.5/10

It was okay, I don't think U2 is for me. 2.6

It’s like a greatest hits!!!

Feeling generous

Was a good listen, can definitely see how this album has sustained popularity, would not be something I keep in my rotation.

pretty great album, I do like bono's voice. probably my favourite u2 album as well. decent 9/10. first listen tracklist ranking: 1. Where the Streets Have No Names 2. With or Without You 3. One Tree Hill 4. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For 5. Running to Stand Still 6. Mothers of the Disappeared 7. Exit 8. Bullet the Blue Sky 9. Red Hill Mining Town 10. In God’s Country 11. Trip Through the Wires

Great start, but loses it at the end. Overall, good record.

The album started out strong with the first four songs. Then, the rest of the songs were mediocre. Maybe if the first four songs were distributed throughout the rest of the album, the pacing would have been better. “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” or “Bullet The Blue Sky” would have been better closing tracks.

They were huge when I was a teenager and I listened to this album many times. I always liked them rather than loved them, and by now I have a clearer preference for things to be on a smaller scale, but I don't think they deserve the scorn they often now attract. As stadium rock bands go, U2 were among the best and the huge parched landscapes of this album are a pretty good demonstration of why

Overrated

Meio meh

The chiming guitars are by far the best part. I would happily listen to a an ambient mix of just The Edge's guitar and background synth washes, especially on the lighter touch songs. The earnest blister of Bullet The Blue Sky, not so much. That song sucks. You can imagine it was written with one foot on the monitor, while the band thought about how cool and serious they'd look playing it, teasing the audience, extending the coda because this means something... Same with Ex it's Patti Smith fantasy. For a band that apparently have so much to say, why are their lyrics singular unmemorable?

The Joshua Tree is to Unforgettable Fire as Daydream Nation is to Sister. The earlier album is the rougher better more interesting album, and this one is the one that really leans into and perfects a really great part of the band's strength. It's great. Not their greatest. Maybe their last great album, but I have to say it's a 5/5.

quite ok

I’ve always had a mixed relationship with U2, but when they get it right I think they’re superb. I love the raw power and meaning of War and think Achtung Baby is a masterpiece, whereas their later, more polished pop sound on All That You Can’t Leave Behind does very little for me. I knew going into The Joshua Tree that I was going to love it, and unsurprisingly, I do. It’s a fantastic album. I’m not a huge U2 fan, but this is a brilliant record. It’s the sort of album that can pick you up when you’re down. It’s full of energy, huge melodies and poignant storytelling, and listening to it today made me realise I should play it a lot more often. The whole band sounds incredible. The Edge’s guitar work is fantastic throughout, Bono’s voice is at its best, and the bass and drums are so tight. Everything comes together perfectly, and for me this is U2’s best work. And what an opening three tracks. “Where the Streets Have No Name”, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “With or Without You”. It really doesn’t get much stronger than that. Three absolutely brilliant songs back to back, and thankfully the quality doesn’t suddenly disappear afterwards. This is an album rather than just a collection of huge singles. I may never call myself a massive U2 fan, but The Joshua Tree is an exceptional album. Powerful, uplifting, emotional and packed with great songs. This is U2 at their absolute best. Favourite track: “Where the Streets Have No Name”. That opening build is incredible and when the song kicks in it’s absolutely huge. “With or Without You” runs it very close. Least favourite track: Nothing really. There isn’t a song here I’d particularly want to skip. Album artwork: Iconic U2 cover. It’s the image I immediately think of when I think of the band. Simple, atmospheric and completely tied to the album.

Knowing that Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois were involved in this album explains a lot. Just the whole sound as they transition into Later U2 (corny soft rock U2) where it feels so much more full and is so much less human despite its pretensions to humanity. It sounds good! But it also sounds like health food that's actually junk food. The first three songs are all timers, even if they're corny, but the rest of the album is just corny. The western references don't really work for me, but some of that may be the band? I bet you could get a really good cover of Trip Through Your Wires by like, Mike Ness or someone. As a split-listener on U2, this one does not rise to meet the bar. I do have to remind myself that it was released in 1987 and twinkly guitar was novel enough for Ian Mackaye to want to copy it, but by now it's thoroughly trod territory.

Top 5 start to any album, for 3-4 songs. And then fades to a 4. And then fades to a 3- with unnecessary filler. Great era for U2, and I love the big hits from this album, and most of the rest.

Överlag bra. Det är enkelt musik att gilla. Tycker red hill mining är bäst. Aldrig älskat u2, men aldrig hatat heller.

-Tracks longer than 3:59: Too many -Long tracks interesting or special: Not really. All of the longer songs could have been trimmed to the length of a standard pop or rock track. Do we really need the first 1:30 of Where the Street Have No Name? I think not. Overly long songs without something special just feel bloated and/or self-indulgent. -Album shorter than 58 minutes: Yes -Will listen to album again: Not in its entirety. -Overall: Listening to this was like getting hit with a nostalgia sledgehammer. It is hard to express how ubiquitous the first three tracks were in 1987. It felt like the video for Where the Street Have No Name played every 10 minutes on MTV… for years. It’s not that I don’t like the music, but do I grade on a curve that is influenced by my experience with the music or just on the music. Whatever, 4/5.

A very ghostly drifting sort of rock album, aside from the first three singles on the album I discovered everything else. His vocals are kind of iconic to me now but trying to view them objectively I think they pull everything together cohesively, stacked up against the big open trailing notes of the guitar and bass. Overall the album starts strong runs strong and ends strong.

Overall a good album. I’m between 3 and 4. The first three tracks are great but do sound a little samey. The rest is ok. I don’t know if it ever fully breaks through

Which is the best U2 album - The Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby? Well, I lean towards the latter because I saw the concert live with my wife (and she still has an original shirt from the concert) and because we saw the Sphere performance (largely based on AB) twice. But after listening to The Joshua Tree, I realize that this is a really hard comparison. Both albums are nearly perfect.

If you grew up in a household almost exclusively musically populated with 2000s contemporary Christian worship music it is inevitable that you will abruptly realize you have always been a U2 fan at some point in your late teens. Just how it is. (Similar phenomenon with Coldplay.) I was ready to come in swinging for these Irish boys who are indeed much maligned, but the truth is on a close listen even The Joshua Tree might not be worth defending that strongly. I really enjoy the classical U2 sound but after starting off like a nuclear bomb with those first three tracks it starts to get a little yawny (why did they frontload this album so heavily?). I do think you need to hear it to understand so many things about today’s music but it may not be elite. 3.5 stars! Second act montage needle drop in my biopic: “In God’s Country”

I love this album. I won't apologize. And if you've never driven through the desert towards the mountains at dusk blasting "where the streets have no name"... it makes you feel like the main character in the movie that is life. Try it and then get back to me.

Surprising number of bangers for one album

I've had an aversion to U2 from a young age, ever since their album Age of Innocence came automatically loaded onto my first and only ever iphone that I got at the age of 15 and would occasionally be played against my will and intent when I was trying to turn on my emo garbage and nightcore youtube videos. U2 has always been the music of "the man" to me because of this, faceless and grating, like the music your divorced dad would play in his car while he took you to culvers on a saturday afternoon. my dad was a pretty good guy and mostly listened to cake, TMBG, and a Jamaican old school dance hall mix CD that featured cocoa tea and dennis brown, so I really only had this problem with my phone daddy steve jobs who was only my phone daddy for a few years before I moved onto my moms old samsung note 4 that came with a saucy little stylus (and a back that peeled off with your fingernail to change out the battery rest in peace this marvelous phone innovation) but that didn't make me any less unenthused and repulsed to see this album today. And to be clear. I never tried to listen to age of innocence, or any U2 songs intentionally so I went into this with a lot of bias and relatively little knowledge. The album is pretty good. I sort of figured it would be, even though I still have the instinct to hit these guys with oars. It feels like a very cinematic album and I was surprised to find out that some songs that I have heard on the radio or in malls and grocery stores and enjoyed have been U2 songs. They frontloaded this album with the hits but the rest of the album is pretty good too, 50 minutes is pushing it however and I think they could have taken out three or four of the songs on the rest of the album to make it a really tight final product. Hovering between a two and a three because I really don't know if I'd listen to this again but that is also probably largely because of my categorical opposition to U2. giving it three stars in order to be capable of forgiveness. Likelihood that the members of this band have lezzed out IMO: 2/5 i feel like if they had they wouldn't have been allowed on my iphone in the year 2015, even though the album cover of age of innocence features two guys hanging off each other. eh.

if you get through the first 3ish songs that are really bad the rest of it is only medium bad! i can't stand u2 man all of it sounds the same, sterile grocery store music (derogatory)

The first three tracks are classics... but man, the rest of this album is completely forgettable. Can't go higher than 3/5

Overall Rating - 3.77/5 (7.55/10). Very much a Hits or Meh band.

AAAH, segundo álbum de U2 aquí, estoy muy feliz. Me reconforta saber que nadie lee demasiado, así que me di el placer de escribir todo esto, vale ñonga. Mis padres reproducían este disco en cada viaje a casa de mi abuela durante toda mi infancia y nunca llegó a hartarme sinceramente; a veces me dormía porque me calmaba y otras veces simplemente me hacía reflexionar todo el camino, mayormente siempre de noche, tengo recuerdos muy nítidos y algo melancólicos. Como niño, nunca me gustó del todo pero tampoco me desagradaba, siempre se me quedaban pegadas las canciones en mi cabeza por laaaaaaaargos meses, no sabía inglés, no sabía que significaba "widowidachu", pero me gustaba tararearlo. Ahora ya más grande, son un gusto heredado, uno que aprecio con mucho cariño. Siempre me ha gustado escuchar a mi mamá hablar de lo mucho que le gusta esta banda, de todas las veces que ha ido a sus conciertos y nos lo cuenta con mucha emoción, me encanta que ella pueda expresarse y compartir algo que a ella le gusta mucho, yo la escucho porque genuinamente me interesa y además a mi me gustaría mucho tener a alguien que me escuchara de la misma manera. Nunca la he juzgado, tiene sus defectos como persona, pero no puedo criticar su gusto músical porque lo comparto, la quiero y aprecio mucho aún tenerla en mi vida. No diría que me gusta específicamente solo por todo esto que cuento, no soy alguien que le guste lo cursi - irónicamente, considero que U2 es algo muy cursi, en especial este álbum, ja - a pesar de lo mucho que ya escribí, si no me gustaran lo diría sin problemas, hay canciones y álbumes de ellos que nunca me han gustado y me aburren. A lo que me refiero es que por si solo (instrumentalmente) me atraen mucho y me parecen buenos, de verdad me gusta la guitarra, siempre ha sido de mis cosas favoritas de U2, es MUY satisfactoria. Calificar algo solo por pura nostalgia no es lo justo personalmente, por eso también quiero resaltar lo que me gusta del disco y lo que no. Where The Streets Have No Name, Red Hill Mining Town, Bullet The Blue Sky, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, With Or Without You, todas son buenas, pero mi favorita de este siempre va a ser In God's Country, me parece la más animada. Menos favoritas... Trip Through Your Wires, odio la ármonica, lo siento te odio. Gracioso que aún con toooda esta biblía; si, me parece que merece las 5 estrellas PERO mi álbum favorito siempre va a ser Achtung Baby, que buen álbum carajo.

5 stars for the opening track alone. Some astonishing guitar work from The Edge. First four songs are all great and the rest is pretty good too.

U2 is my all-time answer to "which band is overrated". I don't get why this is so acclaimed? Was it groundbreaking at the time??

It sparked so little out of me - positive or negative - that I'm left with nothing to say.

Hell yeah I knew that I knew OF U2, but apparently I actually know their songs too. TIL

Childhood soundtrack

Amazing first 3 tracks that descend into unfocused middle that brings it back

Uneventful.

U-2 stars

Listen, I just don't like U2. I don't like them at all. It's mostly because they are subservient to Corporations and heavily under boot and leash by the likes of Apple. I still will not forgive them for their partnership in 2014 where every iPhone and iPod came pre-installed with their album "Songs of Innocence". Oh, how it ruined my playlist to be listening to the music of my rageful rebellious youth with some gospel-sounding Christian New Wave music. My mom loves U2 and has been to several of their concerts. We listened to this particular album on the way to Saturday morning soccer practice, so I associate this music with the sickening heat of hot cars, the smell of fresh-cut grass, the pain of bleeding knees, and the taste of Capri-Sun and mandarin oranges. Honestly, as a generic mass-appeal New Wave rock album it's fine. I know the guitar sound in "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is iconic to U2 but it really comes off as boring and trance-like. Despite its initial release in 1987, it really does hold up as a contemporary sound. It doesn't sound dated or of its time at all and actually sounds more in line with the likes of bands like Muse or Radiohead. With that now airing out to any people who just took offense of the comparison between those three, I'll also throw in that U2 is definitely the most sanitized and safety-proofed music we've got on this list. It dares to dip its toes into lukewarm water every once in a while, with little to no substance beyond a glancing reference at something deeper. Truly the most "Yeah, it's music" music of all time. I'm just tired of this band and how relevant they constantly are. 6/10

Probably has one of the strongest starts of an album that I can think of. Bono is divisive, I know, but I like this. Strong 4.5/5

The abuse of the delay pedal already got out of hand in The Unforgettable Fire.

Overrated but still good

U2 doesn’t deserve Brian Eno.

This is what Coldplay thinks they’re doing. Soaring, anthemic, atmospheric, but I’m still partial to early U2.

Me resulta curioso que U2 sea una banda conocida en todo el mundo y a mi no me suene ningún tema. Incluso los dos más escuchados no me sonaban nada, lo que me hace creer que fueron todos boteados y que no los conoce nadie, no les creo que esos temas tengan tantas visitas. Puro chucu. Encima recién leí una review que decía exactamente esto, si vos le pones a un pibe de la generación z este disco y le decís que estos tipos vendieron millones de entradas y que llenaban estadios no te creen.

No me gusta como el bono canta literalmente siempre igual en todas sus canciones, es como el morrissey del pop. Creo ademas que esa forma que tiene de estirar las palabras y vocalizar hace que todas las canciones suenen iguales aunque instrumentalmente no lo sean!!! Dicho eso, with or without you es muy linda y lo shoegaze-y que pretende ser bullet the blue sky le sumo mucho al album. Tambien sostengo que si hicieran mas musica del estilo de exit.... omg como me gusto esa cancion 7.5/10

one decent song the rest is drivel. cringers

I really tried this shit is so damn mid

Nostalgia factor. Still only like first 4 songs.

Я їх не люблю)

JL : 3, Bullet The Blue Sky

smooth

Solid album, likely their best

u2 as it is

Uskomaton

Aivan uskomaton albumi. Suorastaan fantastinen. Tämä jos joku ansaitsee täydet 5/5 Tämä on yksi niistä albumeista jonka jokainen täytyy kuunnella ennen kuolemaa

A lot less good than I expected. WOWY is perfect but that’s not enough to make me want to listen to this album again. Sorry chaps.

First three songs are maybe the peak of modern stadium rock, with producer Brian Eno’s spacious ambient textures elevating the instrumentation to feel almost ethereal at times. That recording room feels like a whole universe. Unfortunately, the rest of the album is such an endless slog that I can’t even say I like this. 1001 albums to hear to accept a quick death.

There were the first three hit songs, of which I like Still Haven't Found the best, and then went into the unknown and was surprised to find Bullet in Blue Sky interesting. Then it got much less interesting, to the point of boredom. They definitely had a sound with that ethereal guitar on their hits, but then bono. Exit was pretty cool, and Mothers was an ok ending.

U2 writes songs that I've heard a thousand times before but never once cared enough about (positively or negatively) to wonder who sings them. I thought that I didn't know any U2 songs before this but then I knew the first 3 tracks beat for beat. They were fine. Exit was actually a pretty interesting/good song, but overall the album didn't do much for me.

Same problem as Coldplay, they have a few popular hits and the rest of the album is pointless