Just to clarify for anyone that takes this seriously, I do believe Cartooniverse is attempting to make a funny.
Makes obligatory “you get what you pay for” response.
But, yeah… it wasn’t great. I wonder if they’re planning on releasing/identifying a single from this one?
Guess it’s not the sweetest thing, huh?
I despise iTunes and therefore have never learned how to use it properly, so thanks to Chimera and others for advice on how to actually get the album to download.
Ah yes, the age of instant consumption. If it doesn’t grab and thrill you in the first 3 seconds, it must be crap. :rolleyes:
All That You Can’t Leave Behind didn’t thrill me when it came out. Now some of the songs are among my favorites. I wasn’t a big fan of the back side of Joshua Tree when it came out, but repeated listenings made me come around. This one - I’ve listened to it through a couple of times and some of the songs are growing on me, when they didn’t the first time I heard them. I still have some issues with the lyrical/rhyming/song games that Bono plays on some songs, they seem really clunky to me, but whatever.
I don’t listen to Justin Bieber. I also don’t go into threads about his music complaining about it either. Just saying.
Though I guess it’s not official, I’ve read a few places around the web that referred to “The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)” as the first single. Since the song manages to be the polar opposite of everything the Ramones stood for (and that made them great), I suppose it’s some kind of achievement.
You might want to try not talking out of your ass, and dropping the smugness while you’re at it. I’m a U2 fan from way, way back, and I’ve listened to this album all the way through at least 8 times now. It sucks. Since this wasn’t a “I love the new U2 album!!” thread, I hardly see where anything I said constitutes threadshitting.
Great post!!
As soon as I posted this thread I knew there would be a few “OMG, U2 is such dreck” posts.
The great evil iTunes is not automatically downloading it to your library and sneaking it into all your playlists. It’s free if you want it. Don’t want it? Don’t click n the little cloud icon.
You’ve listened to an album that “sucks” 8 times in 2 days? Maybe you should try doing things you like perhaps?
Unfortunately, it’s a bit of a flop. I like U2, but the album has no major or significant hits. Not one great song.
Still, free is nice.
Oh, shit! Thanks. I guess I should take these pebbles out of my shoe, too. I’ve been living all wrong!
As a fan, you give albums a chance to grow on you if they don’t grab you immediately. Perhaps this is a new concept to you. In any case, it didn’t take. After listening to it yet another time, I can’t recall a single melody on the thing.
Every song I listen to should instantly hold me, thrill me, kiss me, and/or kill me.
I’ve only listened to the first half of the album so far, and that was the one that stood out, and I figured it must be the single. The rest of it sounded a bit “generic U2,” pleasant enough but didn’t really grab me. But then I’m not a huge U2 fan in the first place.
This is really getting Out of Control.
Sounds like I’m not alone in being pretty unimpressed with the album. Mostly, it’s reminded me how much I like other, better U2 songs like “Bad”.
The live version of which is my favorite song in the world.
Oh just one more. It’s not like they can keep this going until the end of the world.
While I’m not one to complain about a “free” album, I think there is some overreaction over the whole “apple is forcing the album on us”, from what I can tell, nothing is being forced to the iDevices or iTunes, all Apple has done has set a flag in the user’s song database that says “U2 Songs of Innocence album purchase = True”
Basically, it shows your account as having purchased the album, but until you download it, it’s not on your devices or in iTunes until you choose to download it
Should Apple have done it differently, yes, perhaps a download code you need to enter, but it’s not a major issue (First World Problem)
I had the exact same thought-- the entire album has a very overproduced sound that’s completely opposite from the Ramones’ sound and intention.
I played the album in my car and it sounded more ear-piercing than other iTunes albums I’ve played-- I had to turn the treble down a few notches. I wonder if the sound mixer cranked the high end up to compensate for U2’s aging fans, since older people typically start to lose their hearing on the high end. Kind of like adding extra salt if you start losing your sense of taste. 
Yeah, overall my reaction was kind of ‘meh’, though a string of 3 songs in the middle- “Volcano”, “Raised by Wolves” and “Cedarwood Road” stood out as being not too bad. Bono’s voice still sounds good, though a lot of that could be studio magic.
A marketing trick by whom? Apple? U2 certainly doesn’t need the money (not that many of the acts need it, but their record labels are in the business to make dough).
Whereas there will always be a few people who complain about free food, most are all over that like white on white rice. I posit that the same holds true of music.