Reviews (page 14 of 14)
somehow it was worse than Springsteen
Pretty boring. Lots of wailing and not my fave
Pierwszy albumik U2 ktory przeslychalem tak zebym sobie samemu wlaczyl, nie wiem czemu zawsze U2 kojarzy mi sie z blurem, wiec song2 zawsze kojarze z U2, a bloody sunday z blurem, dziwnie wymieszane, ale co to za albumik irlandzkiego zespolu popularno rokowego, jest on mocno hamerykanski, bo jednak zrobili najwieksze pieniadze za duza woda, wiec albumik mocno typowo hamerykanski klimat, zycie codzienne, biedaki, umieranie, wszystko co mozna zaspiewac o hameryczce zeby boomer rzucil grosiwa, nie wiem czy nagrywane to bylo w hameryczce czy tylko tak sobie ktos wykonceptowal, wezmy nagrajmy hamerykanska plyte, sprzeda sie dobrze i sie sprzedala dajac zespolowi status kultowego grajka lat 80, w 90 zmienili calkowicie swoje granie, wiec widac ze niezle kameleony muzykowe, wrzucam otwierajacy trak do kolekcji where the streets have no names oraz mother of disappeared
I hate U2. So dramatic with so little substance. 2 because i'm feeling generous
It's U2. Safe, easy listening and really just not my style. There is nothing wrong with this type of music, but I feel like you had to "be there" when U2 was up and coming to really subscribe to anything more than "this is some safe, light rock with entry level 'deep' lyricism." It does not surprise me that this band is freakin' huge.
Wasnt bad but I have never been able to get away with U2
Streets Have No Name has some cool buildup and sounds. With or Without You is cheesy and overplayed but a well composed pop song. Exit was interesting. I really disliked almost every other aspect of this album. I do not get U2. When it's good, it's fine, but It's the elevator music of rock. It's trying to be something but it just all feels so generic and trying to have emotion but ultimately leaving me flat and it feels contrived. I have no idea how this band is so popular.
Njei
Thought I would like it more, but the music was overall very slow. There's of course a few hits and those are enjoyable as expected, but the rest of the album wasn't noteworthy for me at all.
80 klassisk rock n roll, anthems, Bono
boring and samey sounding. i liked "bullet the blue sky". bono has a nice voice. 2.5
Appalling.
Come on!
Vomit man this is just a bunch of garbage
Dreary
Boring NPC music
Shite
I really don't like U2
Isn't this supposed to be their biggest album? After With or Without You (which is also a trash song), its a bunch of filler. Very disappointing for what is supposed to be their best. Also, U2 are just terrible.
nope
i didnt get the echo and the bunnymen comparison but i guess i kind of see it. liked the intros to bullet the blue sky, did not like anything else
i don't give a shit that brian eno produced this record, i hate u2
If I ever wanted a 0 rating for this website U2 would be the band that gets it.
Pas mon style dutout
cuantos discos de U2 va a recomendar esta pagina? dejate de joder
The best thing about this album is that there was a record store in Victoria BC called Lyle’s Place and in the 90s they ran an ad on the local TV stations with someone’s (I would guess Lyle himself, but I’m just speculating here) mouth roughly edited over musicians’ mouths on classic album covers. U2 was on there with the disembodied and reconstituted onto Bono’s face mouth singing in a terrible Irish accent that they “found what they were looking for” at Lyle’s Place. Not much to recommend this album beyond that.
Man this album went from bad to worse. 3 Overplayed songs that aren’t that great leads into pure nonsense. No thanks.
U2? More like Boo2
Het is obviously kwalitatief goed, maar ik kan er gewoon niet naar luisteren. Fucking gejengel van Bono. Iemand in de comments zei het heel mooi: net een 3-jarig kind dat niet zijn zin krijgt. Dan elk nummer klinkt zo ongeveer hetzelfde. Alles gepolijst en gepoetst. Alles ademt commercie, muziek zonder diepgang, maar radio ready voor de massa. Dat is een keuze, en je verdient er ook lekker veel knaken mee. Maar de muziek krijgt in mij echt helemaal niets los.
I was so bored listening to this
I just really hate U2
Bono I can never forgive you for your crimes against iTunes. I just don’t like U2’s vibe. This, along with all other U2 songs I have engaged with feel whiney and boring, this included. I can appreciate a band who want to do good things, but music wise and ego wise, U2 think what they do musically is much more impactful than it actually is.
This may be one of the worst albums I have ever heard in my entire life.
Bruh, I already dont like U2 but will listen to it. Heard the first 3 songs before, don’t like them. 4th song was pretty good sounds like strangehold by Ted nugent, kinda liked it. The rest was just mid sounds the same each song.
Honestly a pretty solid album. I’d give it a 3.5. I enjoyed it more than I’d like to admit. But 1) Bono is such an insufferable douche, and 2) I still haven’t forgotten when they put that album on everyone’s phone so every U2 release is an automatic 1.
i was having way too many 2010s ccm flashbacks
eh impossivel gosta de u2
Supermarket music. This band is terrible.
No. I'm sorry, I tried. I just hate U2
Meh
U2 was something I used to listen to when I was a teenager, but now that I'm 39 years old, I can't listen to their songs anymore.
For Boner and his ego.
It's U2 I don't give a shit about u2
really not a fan
Over-rated hacks that don't deserve to be on this list TWICE. Good gravy.
I'm not a huge U2 or Bono fan, but I'm trying this anyway. Brian Eno producing could be cool. Wiki says this one is pretty famous so I'm hoping the funk is in here somewhere, as it usually is. 1. Where the Streets Have No Name - alright, this is more or less what I thought U2 sounded like, kinda generic and shouty and reverb-y. Like a secular hillsong, basically. Structurally sound though, and the b7 move is kinda cool. 2. Still Haven't Found - still in that hillsong mode. I think this serves the same purpose as the spacey worshipy stuff in church, too. Just a simple 1-4 prog to put lyrics over. Not that 1-4 is bad, that's the genesis of a lot of great music. Simple is good, most of the time. In this case and the hillsong case though, I get bored easily. Lot of Christian imagery in the lyrics here too, so maybe that's a feature not a bug. I do like the mix on this one though, it does sound like Brian Eno's later stuff. 3. With or Without You - okay, this one is a little less hillsong. A little more house party band in the Nirvana boom, complete with 1-5-6-4 prog. I gotta say though, this album is not gonna beat the Christian Rock Band allegations. I actually searched "is U2 a Christian band" because it's just that close. They kinda are, enough imagery and you're no longer alluding but fully performing. On this one there's even a worship shout "oh oh oh" chorus thing. At this point in the album I've looked back at the wiki to check the run time and have decided this is going to be a SLOG. If I don't find a banger (and I know bangers) in the next 2 songs, I may pass this one. 4. Bullet the Blue Sky - finally a little bite. So far this is the best song on the album, but it's still a little bland. The funk is at least present here, I can't say it's strong but something is almost trying to emerge there. I like the backing vox, reminds me of Thomas Dolby's Aliens Ate My Buick, one of his most exciting albums imo. In fact, this song has a pretty similar structure to one of those songs, "Pulp Culture". The guitar solo has similar elements, and the whole thing is over a kinda loose ostinato. The poem is kinda weird but better than that floaty crap earlier. I'll take it. 5. Running to Stand Still - starting off with a bummer there, intro was that "Diggin my Potato" slide guitar stuff which could have led somewhere cool but now we're just in hillsong mode again :( I at least like the form for this one. Simple again, which is fine. This time, a little sauce at the end of the form though with the use of phrase rep. That's kinda cool. It's here that I notice I'm having a bit of trouble engaging with the lyrics, maybe it's because of the sonic-scape as a whole but they are not gripping me and that's a shame because surely this whole worshipy vibe is here as mostly a vehicle for the lyrics. 6. Red Hill Mining Town - I like the groove but STOP DOING 1-4 FOR A BIT. Geeze, again I'm not saying music has to all be Mahivisnu bc that sounds terrible too, but all the changes are variations of 1-5-6-4? 1-5-b7-4 ooohh! Fuck you man. Sorry, I'm just getting a little bored. Worst part is, if this were the second song on the album I wouldn't mind. I really like the chorus melody and the changes outside of the verse are more interesting than most of the album so far. By song 6, though? B-Side? I'm getting sick of the soundscape. Objectively I'd like to hear this one again most out of all of them so far, but I'm just ready for this to be the last song on the album as a whole. The previous songs were that bland. It's like eating a gross, gray, unseasoned steak 3 times in one meal and then someone offers you a perfect dessert, rich and sweet and deep. That dessert looks great, mm smells nice. Bet it tastes great, in fact I know it must. But gee man, after I filled up on that below avg steak? I just wanna go home, maybe dessert another time. It'll be a lot more fun when I have the pallette left for it. 7. In God's Country - I think I've heard this bassline before. Song is fine. This must just be the U2 sound that kept me away all my life. I was hoping it'd be a nice subversion of my expectations like Talking Heads was, but so far I'm on the money. 8. Trip Through Your Wires - hell, some different rhythmic content. Some different sonic content! Not all spacey ambient synth! Already takes this track to top 3 so far. Oh man I can't overstate how this song feels like I came up for air after being under too long. On its own I'd imagine I'd think of it as passable but after the rest, this is awesome. I heard that DX7 the wiki says Brian Eno was on! Finally. Was waiting for his ass to show up. 9. One Tree Hill - dig the octave guitar pattern to start but now we're back to U2 standard. Or at least, this album standard. NOTE TO SELF: try to vary your own melodies a little bit more. I think something that's grating to me on this album is that Bono's melody lines are so narrow and samey. I feel like he has a pretty good range, but he's just sticking around the plagal notes, 1234 mostly in the same octave. There's a place for that obv but I can't have that be boring over the backdrop of a boring soundscape with the band too. He saves it for the ends of the songs mostly, but I wish he'd incorporate that range more during the meat of the thing. The coda at the end was nice. 10. Exit - hey, nice subversion here with the major-minor shift/uneasiness! That was fun. Wiki says this song is about a serial killer, apparently. It feel like that, yeah. That was more exciting than most of the album, maybe like a low top 5 contender. 11. Mothers of the Disappeared - I think I've heard this one too. Either that or, I fear, the melody is generic enough for me to confuse it with other stuff. Or maybe the album was popular enough that folks bit off this original? The guitar melody that surrounds the thing is sweet and I do like it. I think overall this one isn't something for me. Most of it is pretty boring, I think the tracks are placed poorly. I can't engage with Bono's lyrics (at least not on first listen). It feels like the sonic interpretation of the phrase "all who wander are not lost" and I mean that in a derogatory fashion. I've learned from this that I need to write strong, memorable melodies in order to have people engage with the lyrics. I think by tomorrow, I could maybe sing back Track 11's guitar melody, but I don't think I'll remember any Bono lines. I remember hearing Billy Joel's "Sometimes a Fantasy" in the context of him flipping over the piano and all in Russia. That melody is so good I remembered it for years without ever hearing the full song. When I did go back and hear the full thing, it got even stronger in my head. I've only listened to it maybe twice? And I feel confident I could sing a fair bit of the verse and chorus. The words for the chorus even, if only the melody for the verses. That's excellent melody structuring, super memorable and it makes the lyrics stick much more than that bland stuff on this album. If I had to go again, I'd take 4, 6, 8, and 11 and leave the rest behind. Maybe Track 5 if I had to round it out. 50 minutes was too long for the album imo. *now that I've had some time to hit some other albums on this list, some I knew and some that are new, I can very confidently say this is a 1. I understand there's no objective "bad" and millions of people have real love for this group, but I just don't get it. It isn't for me and I've used this album to contrast better albums now. The idea that this is rated the same as Band on the Run and HIGHER than That's the Way of the World is absolutely insane to me. I wonder if I listened back to this album, would I enjoy the few songs that I thought were okay?
I remember hearing Achtung Baby on this generator and thinking back on a memory where I found Joshua Tree a little less annoying. Hearing it again today, I take it back. Hearing this in my youth probably cemented my steering away from U2 before I understood that was a mechanism I had. The first few tracks are slow, a little bland, fairly commercial. It then shifts to a dark and mysterious vibe, but without feeling dark or mysterious. It doesn't feel genuine. That slight grunge feel they slap on doesn't really help the overall energy. It's too pop on the pop-rock scale for me, and I don't get what it inspires or why it's historically significant. With or Without You, for better or worse, is a really sticky tune. 1.4/5
Yeah U2, more like MeToo, i feel like a victim after this one. Honestly just generic sounding and corny.
i actually think i’m more ideologically against U2 than i am coldplay, what a dreary listen. actually couldn’t finish it lol first DNF of the game. also im still mad at them for that time they forcefully downloaded their shitey album onto my ipod touch and used all my storage
listened to the first song beginning was okay, but that’s it. not my thing but to each their own.
Really don’t like U2
nah
Is too much of a straight line - they take themselves too seriously and there is no light and shade here. The songs all sounded the same after a few tracks. Tedious.
Dislike this band
One of my all time most disliked albums
This isn't something I'd pick to listen to again.
First listen Saved 1/11 Top track: One Tree Hill
I wish Bono could pull his head out of his ass so he could hear his music and kindly stop making more
Every song sounds the same.
God, I hate U2. Now, after listening to their album in full, I hate them more than ever
No.
Rubbish
There is no way I am listening to U2.
No
i hate u2
U2 sucks. That’s the review. Pass
I do not like this album at all.
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I’m not wasting my time listening to this
I was tempted to just relisten to the Joshua Tree episode of “R U Talking U2 to Me?” instead. I decided not to and just listened to the album but I think that may have negatively impacted my rating.
I have been passively exposed to this album my whole life, without ever once consenting to it being put in my ears. It is like reviewing dogs barking in the distance or engines idling in gridlocked traffic - something ubiquitous and vaguely annoying thrust upon us all
Awful.
oh fuck fuck fuck my username wasnt unique fuck FUCK fuck fuck
This is awful. It sounds like someone is torturing a cat. Not looking forward to 3 more U2 albums. Listened before? N Saved to library? Absolutely not! Favorite track(s): N/A
I found that if the song I was listening to wasn't fully boring me, then it was actively annoying me.
Ich habe U2 1983 beim Rockpalast Festival auf der Loreley das erste Mal gehört und war begeistert. 1987 lag dann dieses Album in D auf Platz 1 (wie auch fast alle Alben danach). Die ersten 3 Titel damals in Dauerschleife im Radio - seitdem bin ich raus.
Rating: 1.3 God, what the is this? These guys are hacks of the highest order. How did they stumble into a massive hit record where every song sounds like a song you’d be tortured with at a supermarket in hell? I mean not the worst thing I’ve ever heard but if this is their most popular album I’m going to be found dead by the end of this exercise, as I know there’s a few more U2 records in here. Arrest everyone involved.
Vi tar det positiva först: Bullet in the blue sky, den är jättebra. Så nu var det färdigt. Faktiskt ännu sämre än jag mindes den. Kom på mig själv att sitta å lyssna på hur trummorna var mixade för att hitta nåt förmildrande. Men insåg då att när man nått dit, då är kanske bristen på innehåll i det här skrytbygget som är problemet inte att ljudteknikern spillt sitt örtte över bordet eller att Edges hatt är lika malplacerad som en kristdemokrat i Prideparaden. Fråga: varför gav man inte bort alla låtar till Pet Shop Boys istället? Det hade samtliga inblandade inklusive lyssnarna tjänat på. Står väl och väger, men känner mig gramse och besviken så det trillar nedåt., Etta Lyssna hellre på The Waterboys - This is the sea, U2 - Achtung baby, Imperiet - Tiggarens tal
Literally the worst album in existence. U2 can fuck right off to fuck off land.
Utter turd
This is the second U2 album where I considered giving it a second star. I didn't hate the first half of the album nearly as much as their other albums. But the second half was just awful and firmly cemented its ⭐ score.
I've never met an open U2 fan. The song "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" begins so promisingly, with exciting 360 sound, but immediately devolves into lame nonsense. The rest of the album doesn't have an ounce of fascinating stuff in it. Tired of this. The album is mixed so well, too. Wasted on this junk! The top review which says that a zoomer wouldn't believe that these guys sell out stadiums is correct. I know who U2 are and I don't understand. There are so many amazing bands, especially in the 80s, which aren't tripe. Maybe they're like the Irish Tragically Hip, another lousy band which people love for some reason unknown to anyone but the Lord.
Pompous, overblown, portentously meaningless lyrics. Another decent band with a completely unbearable singer.
The album starts with 3 songs I've known my whole life, none of which I've heard in years or listened to on purpose in longer but still feel overplayed. The Edge uses delay prominently in those songs, to the point where it became a sort of hallmark of his. Wikipedia says the album was influenced by American and Irish roots music, which I hate, so it's no surprise I find this album uninspiring and boring despite its commercial reputation. Yeah I really disliked this.
Oh, ne. Kakav izljev proljeva od benda. U2 je kao iskustvo kad pojedeš previše ljutog za ručak i nakon toga pola kile trešanja - pa onda ono što uslijedi. Ljude koji slušaju U2 stavljam u isti koš kao Thompsonovce, jednostavno nekako ima smisla. Zabranila bih ih zbog duševne boli dok slušam njihove pjesme, u oba slučaja. Kad ti ovako počne ponedjeljak, znaš da će biti kurčev tjedan. 1/5, 1/10
I was dreading and looking forward to this one. I know that U2 is great to alot of people and I truly wanted to like it. I’m sorry It’s just so boring and Bono is trying so hard at doing absolutely nothing. I couldnt help but think Michael Hutchence sounds like a more convincing Bono after this
Simplistic beat, minimalisticc. A powerful voice, i do think it lacks the instrumentality a little bit. The lyrics are simple too.
Very disappointed when the album cover appeared in this app - destroyed a lot of enthusiasm for this project. Starts with 3 or so huge hits, will that help? The hits were actually painful. I guess they're so overplayed and negatively associated for me. Slightly more interested in the rest of the album. Find myself wondering if there was an age when I would have heard this and been interested. It feels like it has a sound that I would have appreciated as a teenager maybe? The angsty vocals might be the thing that bothers me the most. Some of the tones are kind of post punk, so maybe it is the vocal style that makes me feel like I would never have got into them? Slught reminder of "the music" but they had funky self awareness. Is it the pompousity that I'm reacting to & lack of self awareness?
I'm sorry, but I don't like U2. Never have, and it seems I perhaps never will. For me they're like marmite. Glad to see I'm not the only one. There seems to be a clear indication of love and hate in the reviews. Did I listen to the entire album, no I didn't. Each song is like the other. I'd like to say it's mostly owed to Bono, but it really isn't. The Edge, at least for me, is an overrated guitarist relying on that overused delay. They have a distinct sound that is just boring and eye rolling. Bono's voice doesn't agree with me either. Bill Bailey said it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8dZwXnMrRU&pp=ygUOdTIgYmlsbCBiYWlsZXk%3D
It's Bono. Bono is an idiot socialist who loves making money (capitalism). Listen at your own peril.
I have listened to a U2 album before, but it was one of their supposedly weaker albums, and rubbish. I was hopeful that this, which I understand is their magnificent octopus, would be better. The first three tracks are all overplayed, but have at least something to them. The rest of the album is appalling. How anyone could listen to One Tree Hill or most of the others and not want to punch Bono in the face, I do not understand. The fake overwrought meaningfulness of it was really rough. Every single song on the album was at least one, sometimes two minutes too long. It wasn’t helped by coming the day after Tommy by The Who. But this really was the most awful dogshit. Fuck U2 Why did you do this to me Brian Eno. For the first time I wish no stars was an option. You better not give me u2 again tomorrow
U2 was only good in the 80s
Absolutely hated it! U2 are the most overrated band of all time! If I could negative stars I would!
Fuck U2
Bombastic, overblown iPod filling nonsense. One-trick pony guitar, and Bono. God please, can we have less Bono in the world.
It just wasn't very enjoyable.
Have no opinions on Bono or U2 as people, but they do make truly interminable, terrible music. Bono's vocals are moaning, over-dramatic and grating to listen to for one song let alone an album's worth. The music supporting him is an endless series of boring, similar sounding drones that build to an endless crescendo that never really comes. Dreading more U2 popping up on this list, isn't this supposed to be one of their best?
Sorry, but no. I know people hate Bono but somehow the vocals are the most interesting thing happening in these songs. You cannot have 5-7 minute songs when the "instrumentals" are just one musical phrase repeated over and over again. Every single song would be improved by being 20% shorter. Bullet The Blue Sky is the only song approaching decent, it had some more variation on instrumentals with the opening and interludes. But it is also kinda ruined by the long noodling at the end (would call a relisten if it finished around 3:30). Would not listen again.
pff... u2, smiths, radiohead... het is de week van de kutplaten
This music is made exclusively for 90s movie montages and shitty Nokia brick phone ringtones. Nothing remotely soulful about it. Even the 'emotional songs' feel mass produced and algorithmic. Absolute fucking drivel.
Big, loud, empty, boring. Apparently, it's inspired by "America"
Oh christ another U2 album. I gave it a chance but it just goes through me. Sorry guys
Boring, pass.
Not a big fan of this one, best of luck boys
Honestly I only made it halfway with this album. Truly not enjoyable experience too.
ok im sorry but this one was mid despite being a rock album. its incredibly bland. the song structures are incredibly repetitive and the lyricss are boring ahh. fuck me bye. i dont want to rate it a 1 but coupled with the religious stuff this just rubs me off the wrong way.
Music for people who buy insurance for their sofa, cosider salt a spice, and 'stay up' till 10:30 on weekends to watch re-runs of Frasier.
I don't really like this song because all of the songs sounded a lot like the same thing.
I don't like the songs they are dookie bum and they all sound the same. I don't like them 1 and half star the last one is okay.
A disgrace to the nation of Ireland, I apologize that we are associated with these people
Nails on a chalkboard.
Nah bro so unfassbar langweilig Rock Musik für Leute die kein Rock mögen Riskiert nichts, keine persönlichkeit :( Für Rock das was bebe rexha und so für Pop sind
Overall: 2/10 Listening to this album felt like when you go to a restaurant that everyone in town tells you is amazing and you're incredibly hyped up about it but when you get your food it's just a big pile of crap on a plate...it's corny and makes you nauseous. Fav Song: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Least Fav Song: Trip Through Your Wires
Why
Produced by Daniel Lanois and Eno? This album should be good!
bores me to tears when Bono's wailing isn't making me grind my teeth, which i guess does technically count as an emotional response, so fair play for that
ah que merda como pode um album ter 11 músicas iguais. pop rock gringo na sua pior forma, credo gostaria mais se eu fosse um pai divorciado
A few singles and that's it.
my favorite is "with or without you"
boooooooo
I come into this thinking U2 is one of the worst bands ever. I’ve seen videos where they looked cool in like 1975 or whatever but this? I hate the album cover, the name of the album, and even the band name. I will give it a shot, but considering there are so many “hits” on this album, may god (Protestant or catholic, I’m not sure which side of the fence we fall on here) have mercy on our souls. The very first vocal strain conjures images of Bruce Springsteen doing a Brian Adams cover. This blows. Melodramatic drivel, ripe with self-importance. I mean he CAN sing, he just CHOOSES to be insufferable. His vocal inflections and emphases are just so painful. Also, if you’re going to name yourself “the edge,” why is the guitar so “meh.” Only thing I’m on the edge of is a restful slumber due to this listless, overplayed dumpster fire of a song. I almost turned it up, but then I realized what was happening. They really thought they were doing something with this. Self-importance has been said already. These all sound like arena rock songs that don’t have amps plugged in. Bad. Oh sweet Jesus, there may be some balls to this song. I’m awaiting the plunge into mediocrity and pretentiousness. There it is. Bad “gritty” vocals. This is the best song so far, but now Bono is moaning sexually. I swear to god. WHY? This is so cringe. I just checked Wikipedia. This album was a commercial success. I get that. The public are known for being idiots. However, a critical success?? I landed on this planet in a spaceship. This song evades descriptors other than synonyms for “bad.” It is truly awful and it is so clear that Bono thinks he is the greatest musician to ever interact with a microphone. I can’t believe this was a song. One of the worst I’ve ever heard, and I played guitar for a few years as an angry teen. I just don’t get it. This is not good. What part of this pseudo-intellectual, egotist rockstar trash is revolutionary? I mean he’s a noted philanthropist, which means he loves to show off his charity work, and he also loves to show off his boring lyrics and overrated singing. This album has no ideas other than testing the patience of enjoyers of passionate music. This just keeps going hey? Please shut up. Can I reach into the past and prevent this from happening somehow? I’d go to Dublin and make sure these losers never met. Every instrument is so bland and Bono is like an insufferable dork trying to woo every girl at a party with pretend emotional depth. If there was a god, they wouldn’t allow this song to exist. This sounds like proto modern pop country mixed with all the other stupid shit that this album has subjected me to thus far. Replete with dumbass “yeehaws” and whatever. Another snoozer. I’ve referenced sleep a lot in this review. That’s probably not fair. This is like when you’re half awake and overthinking in a dark silent room. It’s angering and anxiety inducing while simultaneously being the most boring, banal event of the day. Too long. Stop. Stop singing. You’ve made your hundreds of millions off of the morons who like you. Why am I part of this? Why would you call a song “exit” and not exit? At least Bono is not prominent here. We just have pseudo-guitarist edgelord pretending he’s doing stuff while strumming the same three notes. Another poor excuse for a song. Go in with a whimper and exit with a whimper. Wow guys, you’re such titans of human welfare. Thank you for this whispering nonsense. U2 has cemented their place as the second worst (hello Pearl Jam) band to ever break into the mainstream. If this is their defining project, I never need to hear another song from these idiots unless it’s the background of a sweet Triple H recovery video. Thank you for playing your terrible music for the benefit of all us plebeians writhing beneath your esteemed post as the kings of dentist office soft rock. The absolute worst. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: Visualizing the Edge’s baldness and the public hanging of Bono.
I would rather listen to Kidz Bop
Couldn't, can't, won't.
I liked U2's earlier material and I liked Achtung Baby onwards, to varing degrees. This was smack in the middle of their up-your-own-arse stadium era, a truly horrifying time to be alive. Similar to Simple Minds' Street Fighting Years, this is overblown toilet, made in the image of their own importance to the music industry. The singles when they were released made me hate them with a passion, funnily enough this is the first time I've ever listened to this album. There are the 3 monstrosities all lined up in a row at the start, is there a way up from here? Yes and no. I cooed admirably through 'Bullet the Blue Sky' which wasn't too bad, apart from the old sounds coming from Bono' throat. Towards the end of the album things improve slightly, the last 3 songs were probably the best. But that doesn't mean it is good. Sorry Bono, Edge, etc, but this is an over polished turd.
Didn't like the lyrics
Overdramatic nonsense. I tried, I really did. I put this on with an open mind and listened to the whole thing. Terrible. Why do people like this band?
eh could be better
The best album of the worst band. Maybe if they had broken up after this I'd have a chance to like them a bit more but it's still not there. The album talks about wanting to find the mythical America and it feels like that turned them into wanting to be a mythical band. All U2 albums talk about sociopolitical issues but then you listen to the lyrics they are so bland. I can't see any of the depth or complexity I'm meant to here. This is poetry for people with live, laugh, love on the wall. U2 blows.
I tried to give it a fair listen. As always, Bono is not an interesting singer. Stop pushing, get off the toilet and go for a walk. This band has always seemed like a money laundering scheme for some asshole record executive. The money wasted on private jets and stadium tours for these vapid, mid, morons could have been spent on so many more interesting artists that never got a chance.
By the end of With or Without you, I was ready to stop listening and try again later. However, the use of overtones in the intro to Bullet The Blue Sky convinced me to stick it out. Unfortunately, the rest of this album is a by the numbers pop-rock slog, complete with crooning vocals, lyrics that make you wanna groan and repetitive song structures throughout. This music is fucking corny.
I really found this quite irritating.
TRASH
First Christian Rock album????
I can't get past my mental block with U2. I believe if I was older, or first exposed to their older music, I might feel differently. But I grew up with the U2 of the late 80s/90s/00s when they were making incredibly uninspired and boring ass music for boring ass folks. I delayed listening to this album for a weekend (saw it was my Friday album, immediately said "absofuckinglutely not" and spent the weekend trying to hype myself up for it). I made it halfway through (skipping the singles I already knew) before I gave up completely. Ain't my cup of tea and never will be.
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For Where The Streets Have No Name is very boring from the vocals to the looping sound track. Very underwhelming and boring
Gear: Dunu SA6 Mix: Stadien füllend, radio-tauglich und jedes Synonym für "belanglos" Musik: Bono No Es Bono Wertung: 🍀(🍀)/5
Oh fuck right off to fuckery and when you get there fuck off some more. Ok there are some good even excellent tracks but bono!!!! Fucking bono, no sorry 1 star for no other reason it would make that smug, hypocritical git unhappy, if he cared, which he doesn't because all he cares about is his own ego and hats. What a bellend.
Life is too short to listen to U2.
hard pass on U2, Bono's voice makes my skin crawl
0/5 one of the worst bands of all time. ireland's worst ever export.
Absolute dilge
FUCK YOU I HATE U2
I've never paid much attention to U2 because, well obviously, they suck. This is the second time I've tried to get through this album and what I remember from the first time is this: The first three songs are their three most well known songs (right?) and they all sound the same. I never noticed this before as I'd only hear them individually on the radio or whatever. But if you have to hear them one after the other, then it's more obvious. I like The Edge's guitar playing. He brought a whole new sound and that's admirable. I think Bono is intrinsically annoying though, like Morrisey, and his over-emoting bugs me. So it's the perennial problem of not liking the singer's voice putting me off a band. Also it's all a bit corporate rock MOR bullshit isn't it? Boring. As I said for the Kings of Leon, if I heard it in a pub and I was a bit pissed, I probably wouldn't mind it. But I wouldn't choose to listen to it sober. And to be honest, it would still get tedious. Again, like KoL these songs outstay their welcome and I find any goodwill I can muster for them ebbing away with a minute or two of the song to go. You know who never did that? Elastica! All their songs were short and brilliant and, as Justine Frischmann said, "If you wanted to hear more you could just rewind the tape and play it again." Are Elastica on this list? They better bloody be. I've just looked it up on Wikipedia and apparently their first album (and the only one you need) is on the list. So that's something to look forward to. Whilst I'm having to sit through U2 I was distracting myself with more Elastica facts from Wikipedia: Art In 2005, Frischmann moved to Boulder, Colorado, to enroll in a masters program in visual arts at Naropa University, a small, Buddhist-inspired liberal arts college,[8] and "become a nobody". In 2012 her work was shortlisted for the UK's Marmite Prize for painting, and she has been included in The Amsterdam List of 1000 Living Painters.[9] In a 2016 interview regarding her art career, Frischmann stated, "I don't really have any desire to make music, to be honest."[10] Frischmann has said, "The themes and ideas I am working with are in direct relation to an ongoing personal narrative; the big questions are reflected in the choices I make in my art ... [including] my ever-evolving relationship with my spiritual faith. I think my approach and aesthetics reveal internal struggles and speak to my family origins and history."[11] .... So there you go. Have U2 won a Marmite prize? I bet they bloody haven't. I'm still only on track 4 of Joshua Tree. All this pandering to America is a bit sickening isn't it? I suppose that's where the dollars are. ... I'm on Track 7. I'm not sure I'm going to make it all the way through. ... I've had a little break and taken a painkiller and I'm back to try and listen to some more. Last time I only got to track 4 so this is now, as I start track 8, twice as far... This track sounds like a moderately good pub band... one who have left the pubs and can fill a corn exchange and you don't know why. I keep thinking of NO VACANCY from School of Rock, you know, the sell outs. Three tracks to go. Fuck. But they'll all going to drag. They add up to a quarter of an hour playing time. I was going to give this 2, I thought that would be fair, but given that I'm finding it so painful to listen to that doesn't make much sense. I've had to fast forward to the end.
bro i listened to this album and then my computer reset so it deleted my notes. im not going through this again
For a band with a guy named bono and the edge this music is very tame.
This is just awful. First 3 songs feel like late 80s soft rock. Rest of the album is Bono singing like Michael Bolton fronting the worst Rolling Stones cover band.
Everyone has those bands, that for whatever reason they just don’t “get”. U2 are one of those bands for me. Just utterly boring and dull.
god this shit is boring bullet the blue sky is alright i guess actually it dragged on way too long. the first half of bullet the blue sky is good.
ew no
Halbgarer Rock.
U2 is kut
mhhh la pop vanille
could hardly finish it
Nope. Not happening.
was very excited for this to end tbh
Cannot make it through this. Yeah the 1st 3 songs are good but the rest is so boring.
yech I hate this album
I hate u2
Anytime someone mentions how this bad was affected by the Troubles, they’re referring to the troubles of having to be associated with this overhyped, trailblazing version of what Coldplay and every whiny singer from the UK wants to become.
That's the letter U and the numeral 2...These guys are from England and who gives a shit?
I found the first two tracks (two of the hit songs) to be good, but not as GREAT as many think them to be. I found the singing to be quite obnoxious at times on these songs, but they still sounded interesting enough for me to enjoy them. Unfortunately, the album IMPLODES in epic fashion from here. For the remainder of the album, we are forced to listen to Bono WANK himself and moan over bland instrumentals. I found just about every track after the third song to be anywhere from completely mediocre, to REPULSIVE and SOOOO PRETENTIOUS. I definitely get the sense that this Bono boy has a seriously INFLATED ego with the way he always moans and flaunts his voice for everyone to hear. GIVE ME A BREAK. Overall, this is a project I CERTAINLY will never be returning to outside of the first two tracks. I have heard from some online that their earlier works are not as PRETENTIOUS as this album was, so I will make sure to give their earlier creations a chance still. 2/10
Overrated
sucky
U2 is the worst band that has ever existed. Do not listen to this.
Trash
I was a kind of U2 fan when I was young, but they are one of the most potent examples of a band with songs that got old pretty badly. It sounds old; it looks like I'm listening to bad ancient songs, even being much newer rather than some other albums on the list. It's not a pain to listen to it, and I understand that the lyrics have a nice message, but it's not possible to ignore how deep my personal change on the band's enjoyment.
Bovno
Fuck U2
I HATE U2. Like a lot. But I really wanted to give this piece of shit album a fair shake. No need. It sucks, just like the rest of thier crap. There is sooooo much filler here. I had heard the hits before and those are just regular crap. But there are no deep cuts. No b-sides. It's a couple of songs destined for FM radio and playing at the grocery store, then the rest is just jerking off with multi delay. U2 sucks. Fuck this band. And fuck this album.
U2 is absolute trash - sales figures disagree with me, but then again I'll just seek solace in the fact that bottled water outsells it every day. ($43M / Day in US alone)
I appreciate the artistry and effort that went into this and I 100% do not enjoy listening to them. 1 star.
WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT U2??
no thanks
This album sucks.
Tråkigt, mediokert. Såg fram emot att det skulle ta slut fr.o.m spår 2.
Not for me
I liked one song
No, just no
2/0 bonod
Total pile of shit. One star bc I can’t give no star.
u2 can honestly suk my diznik i dont feel like listenign to their shit
Didnt listen either... fuck Bono
fuck u2
Pretentious rubbish
I cannot keep listening to the dramatic tone that Bono is singing on. Maybe the times were dramatic back then, but it can't please me at all.
Blech again. "Random?" Two overplayed U2 albums in 5 days?
Nah. The album that invaded my iPod years ago was just too much U2 as it is.
No.