U 2 can review U2
It's our music review on Monday. This week we'll be discussing
The new U2 album No Line On The Horizon
Bat for Lashes single Daniel
Kings Of Leon single Revelry
Will Young's single Let It Go
Julie Cullen from BBC Radio 6 music will be guiding us through along with Nicola Slade from Record of the Day and 5live listener Jonathan Griffin, a student at Salford University and manager of the university radio station. If you want to get involved in our music review email victoria@bbc.co.uk or post a message here.
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My favourite moment of U2 along with sir Paul Mc'Cartney has got to be the opening up of Live 8 at Hyde park
Need I say more,
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I've enjoyed (and sometimes endured) U2 since the mullet days of the early eighties and have been regularly delighted by the band's offerings through the years.
I am a U2 fan, a huge U2 fan.
So, it pains me to say that 'No Line On The Horizon' is a sprawling, bumbling, plodder of an album. There are high(ish) points, namely the songs they bombarded the BBC with on Friday - Get On Your Boots, Magnificent and Breathe. Stand Up Comedy does have a certain style and swagger and the title track is a U2 song in every sense.
Beyond that, it's an album of fillers with many tracks sounding underproduced and unfinished (Moment of Surrender being a prime example).
Moment of Surrender and Unknown Caller drift aimlessly for more than 13 minutes and much the same could be said for Fez, White As Snow and Cedars of Lebanon.
U2 fans are very staunch in their support of the band and I'm sure my ramblings will be dismissed by the other pilgrims but...in your heart of hearts, you know I'm right. With more than four years passed since the release of How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, I think the long-serving and long-buying U2 public deserve something better and, most importantly, something that has been finished.
That said...I've still slapped my money over the counter and will there bouncing up and down at the live shows in the summer. I'm off to listen to Achtung Baby!
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U2 have produced nothing of note since about 1992. Their songs no longer have any meaning or purpose and Bono has turned into a massive idiot. The fact that a band as good as U2 have fallen so far from grace is a huge dissapointment. The £millions they continue to make will mean they won't care about the substandard albums they now put out with alarmaing regularity and as long as Bono continues to have his ego massaged by crazy people who believe he actually cares about starving Africans and not the amopunt of £ he has in the bank or the attention he gets then he'll be happy.
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