https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK54LOTwy8g
(A repost from yesterday now with fully-abled video)
1. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone) 0:00
2. Every Breaking Wave” 4:15
3. California (There is No End to Love) 8:27
4. Song for Someone 12:27
5. Iris (Hold Me Close) 16:14
6. Volcano 21:33
7. Raised by Wolves 24:47
8. Cedarwood Road 28:53
9. Sleep Like a Baby Tonight 33:18
10. This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now 38:20
11. The Troubles (featuring Lykke Li) 43:25
U2 – Songs Of Innocence.
Secret bonus tracks:
Adam Remains Cool In Fairness 1.25
She iPhones In Mysterious Ways 2.13
Back Home In Holland 4.12
U2, Songs of Innocence: first review (Neil McCormick, Telegraph)
Paul McGuinness On The New U2 Album (Hot Press)
Bono On U2’s Not-So-Free iTunes Album: “We Were Paid” (Time)
Earlier: A Limerick A Beautiful Day
Same sh*t, different album name. I flicked quickly at various location and it all sounded the same as all the other songs, even thought I was listening to some old songs at times. Recycled crapola as usual, imo anyway.
I agree. U2 latched onto a successful formula years ago. Add some new lyrics every couple of years and press record. I’m amazed that so many people keep on buying this unoriginal tired muck – but then again no.
I agree that it isn’t great on the first listen, but I don’t really think that its fair to dismiss it without actually listening to it the whole way through. It’s an album, not your ipod on shuffle!
If you’re looking for album of 2014 you won’t go far wrong with dfa 1979’s new album “physical world”. its a beast.
It works for AC/DC
I see nadine oregan had a huge saucer of milk when a rival got to review this in advance of the launch
Nad-een as opposed to Neigh-deen.
Annoys the sh1te out of me.
Her and her highbrow shiteology on a Saturday morning.
Is that the ‘I was Bono’s doppelganger’ div?
The start of the album is just apple ad music. Mediocre at best.
I like the way “the miracle of Joey Ramone” duration is zero- would be better if it was that duration for the entire album.
That’s the point in the video at which the track starts, not the duration.
I prefer my proposal
Screw you Bodger. Screw you.
Feels very formulaic, U2 album by committee.. trying to hit a previous winning formulas, each trying to emulate a former success. .. Meh.
Good stuff. Not brilliant, but good. Enough of the churlish shite from @unamuilllaly. She knows as much about music as she does about technology. http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/poplife/2014/09/10/im-with-the-brand/
I always imagine German lads with mullet hairdos listening to this music. Sorry German people, you make good cars but have awful taste in music.
they also have our money.
Sure they practically own us now.
Great taste in debtors.
Mostly Italians and Spaniards.
german cars are made in china now.
Maybe if we gave them U2, they’d call it quits on the debt? That seems fair.
they listen to the scorpions
So, U2 – Songs of Innocence -> U2 – SOI -> (reversed) -> IOS – 2U ->etc etc
Adam Clayton
Paul Hewson
Paul McGuinness
Larry Mullen Jnr
Edge
read down, conspiracy theorists.
haha
They got a hundred million snots from Apple for the album.
!!
It’s never going to come back lads. It’s gone. You aren’t likeable anymore. You’re the wrong side of 50; bloated, blunted and slowed down by age and indulgence. You’re still living in a world that has long since died for anyone who doesn’t have the cushion of a regular ego massage and money, lots and lots of money, obscene amounts of money … You seem to say nothing to anyone in this country, other than ‘I’m detached from reality and very important’ and frankly, it’s embarrassing. There is a time in a man’s life when he should turn to gardening, or doing his bit for the society where he grew up, either is a noble thing to do, even the gardening. Just stop the posturing, the egotism and the cynical money-grabbing, because it’s obvious to anyone with a brain cell that the art left U2 a long, long time ago.
Jasus! Aubrey,anybody who consciously bothered to spend the time to commit an opinion like that to cyberspace is seriously depressed,bitter and jealous.Why don’t you just have a drink.I bet you were great crack when you used to be on the sauce.
Dave, you gormless bobble head! I’m not bitter, jealous, or depressed! I’m a very happy-go-lucky individual as it happens. : ) Sorry for raining on your fingers-in-your-ears-la-la-la-la way of walking through life! Maybe have a drink yourself, you may want to reflect on why you got so upset at my comment!
Upset…..HA! Now,Gwan,Gwan,Gwan, It will calm the voices in your head.
Sorry, Dave, you’ve lost me there.
This sounds like a date to me!
true
haha yea…but you’re already having a look on their website to see if the tour dates are finalised to get ready for the ticket grab aren’t you? ;)
No.
croker madness again?
“Wrong side of 50”. Great bit of ageism there. What’s your advice on remaining the right side of it? I look forward to your album review that links in this out of control rant to the lyrical themes, and only then will I lift this curse
Sorry, didn’t mean to be ageist there. The wrong side of 50 for prancing around on stage, having released the same record, for the fifth time, dressed like a caricature of yourself, like you really should know better, I suppose.They have nothing left to say to pop culture, they’re done, finished, kaput! Time to hang up the leather pants, you’re grown men!
Wrong side of 50 is 49.
Aubrey; careful there, chief, the U2 zealots are all 40 something taxi drivers with a ton of spare time on their hands in the afternoons.
Decent article about the pox here…
http://thequietus.com/articles/16217-bono-u2-songs-of-experience
Meh
Yawn. Music by numbers.
Newsick by numbers (silent B I say)
I read the bitchy review in the Quietus and I honestly thought the Quietus made up the tracklisting as a parody of typical “U2” song titles. Now I see they’re the actual titles! Beyond parody, as an Irish person I’m embarrassed.
( http://thequietus.com/articles/16212-u2-to-release-new-lp-songs-of-innocence )
The trolling here is hilarious and shameless. The internet is broken by “free speech” = refuge for faceless cowards
Says Mr Horror
First troll to take the bait. Have you listened to the album in full BTW?
You know what, I tried, but I simply found Bono Jesus’s voice way too much like it was dripping with ego, wrapped in faux sincerity. It made me cringe, a lot. That, and it sounded like everything else they’ve done over the past ten years. After ten minutes it was really, REALLY grating, so I decided I’d had enough. Is that fair?
Not really. I disliked astral weeks for about ten years before it finally clicked. Not everything good means instant gratification
Ditto on Astral Weeks.
Also The Stone Roses, Pet Sounds and Revolver.
Couldn’t live without them now.
Ah lads, you’re clutching at straws. To compare this album with those is pure fantasy.
I’m more comparing how albums are listened to then the content. I’d say you’ve spent longer posting comments about the album then listening to it Aubrey :)
And sure who can blame me!?
Listened to it today.
Its crap. Doubt it will be growing on me.
The only thing worse than Bono is people who like Bono. The worst of these are the broke-asses who think Bono would even give them a second of his time. You morons.
What’s a broke-ass?
A scrub?
A scrub is a guy who won’t get no love from me?
It’s okay. Not mind blowing.
Good job it’s free!
Come on Aubrey,tell us what did poor little Bono and his friends do to you that you have to be such a meany pants to them?
They’re just shite, Dave, I suppose. Boring. Unimaginative. The same old shrieking evangelical schlock they’ve been churning out for years … delivered by someone who thinks that if he sings it with enough delusional ego that we’ll all buy it. Nah, sorry Bono Jesus, the game’s up. Funny how U2’s demise mirrors that of the church’s …
So I’ll take it your not much of a fan then.Maybe we should all get together and start a campaign to try and get Bono to sing in a less Jesusy type voice, maybe if he gave it a bit more Of the Christy Moore type vibe.I bet apple could even invent a machine or an app to help him out like auto tune or something.They could call it the Christy 5000.Just imagine Brian Eno up in the studio saying Jasus,will someone hit the old Christy5000 we need to Moorify Bono by 46%.I’ve been listening to him sounding like Bono for the last 35 years…i wonder if the yanks would like that?
Maybe you should broaden your repertoire of Irish acts, Dave. You could start here, or maybe bloated, mainstream crap is your thing: http://girlbanddublin.bandcamp.com/
Ah! Aubrey, There is no need to be horrible to me now.I am not a friend of Bono and have never even met Adam clayton and i never even professed to know anything about music be it Irish,mainstream or not.So after listening to the clip you posted i will have to bow to your superior knowledge and apologize for doubting you and thinking that you were in any way unhinged.After rereading your post where you said that ”u2s demise mirrors that of the churches” i can now see you for the truly insightful and observant person that you are.
Yeah, I preferred that when it was Pixies.
Sorry, if I was being horrible, didn’t mean to be. But seriously, I’d love to see a graph of U2 and the Church’s popularity ratings side-by-side over the past ten years. I am in no way saying they are connected but in terms of the dismantling of Irish Holy Cows over the past decade, I’m sure they are feeling the same pinch. That’s all. Again, Dave, sorry if I came across as arsey. I’m sure you are a great man altogether, genuinely.
too late already done by that cant Cowell
they have a few good songs. i agree their last few records were poor but i don’t find that embarrassing
Does anyone know if they were making a U2 video on the Samuel Beckett Bridge on 23 August? Thought it might have made an appearance on Tuesday but it didn’t……
The most memorable thing about the the last U2 album, was this review: “No tune on the horizon”.
I have to fully agree with all the annoyed ramones fans out there that the corporate shill bono has covered a ramones song.
you can’t refer to someone as a “shill” if the post is unrelated to Israel!
Tell him Odis
I didn’t realise new comer trolls where creating the rules on commenting, maybe you should release a comprehensive guild for the rest of us.
sure whatever yeah
guild point
Grand So.
i had a listen to the album last night and it’s just ok. a couple of decent tracks – i like cedarwood road and the troubles but that’s about it. i think for a band that’s been around as long as they have it’s going to be harder to reinvent themselves, so why not branch out into other projects? it’s not like the edge isn’t actually a decent composer, or mullen isn’t a decent drummer. in fact, i’d say larry would make an fine producer in his own right. bono, as a singer should write for other projects – film maybe? they’re just flogging a dead horse at this stage.
Should they not be admired for at least attempting to remain relevant by producing new material?
Unlike the Stones or The Who who are happy enough to tour greatest hits albums
Releasing new material does not make you relevant. Constantly rehashing the same formula makes you irrelevant. They have nothing new to say. When you write songs that are predominantly emotive in lyrical content then you best be either an amazing lyricist (sorry Bono) or be honest/personal in your content. Bono is not honest with himself therefore he is not honest in his songwriting, therefore making it extremely difficult to connect with an audience. If he wrote about premature balding, middle-aged spread, his own struggles with mortality (free of the shackles of his lyrical crutches i.e. the Church the bible, god, Northern Ireland) he may actually become interesting.
I said “attempting” to remain relevant
They could easily do a highly profitable Forty Licks type tour in order to avoid the inevitable onslaught of criticism attached to releasing new material
What they are doing is not even an attempt to remain relevant. They may as well tour the hits as release this flaccid collection of well worn hooks.
for the record i think the album is pants myself
You want U2 to multiply?
Are you fupping mad?
well, U2 is less than the sum of its parts right now. why not?
They should have made a rap album! Show dem der kids how its done Old-Schoooool! Very old-school
“Mah name is Bono and I think I’m from Finglas…..blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah Jesus!”
“All de bitches in me castle say Ho!”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/sasha-frere-jones/u2s-forgettable-fire
Just as well they’re giving it away for free. That way, they’ll never have to face what a flop it is.
Might go the way of the free Prince CD a few years back with the Daily Mail. It was used as a coaster for most of its life… in my place.
YO! listen up all u bloody granddads why you chatting bout U2 when
there`s loads of underground indie bands like ”worm riot” ”egg sandwich” and ”skertl74” out there making
well wicked records?
GET WITH IT etc. etc.