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5.0 out of 5 stars
Start to Finish Brilliant
Highly underrated album. A daring electronic venture by U2, high marks on creativity, a sonic soundscape vastly different than anything they'd done before, exploring new sounds and mastering alternative ways of musical expression --- but having said that, if you're not open to hearing music that's not played on the radio 1000 times a day, polished & overly-commercialized,...
Published on January 29, 2009 by fro493
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More like a demo CD than a real one....
This is undoubtedly U2's worst album. It feels like a homemade demo CD, or perhaps it's leftovers from the vastly superior Achtung Baby. Regardless, it's not a particularly good CD, poorly crafted, written, and performed. The first single, Numb, feels like a backing track without any enhancement. While this can work sometimes in music, it doesn't here. It ends up...
Published on May 4, 2008 by Grigory's Girl
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Start to Finish Brilliant, January 29, 2009
This review is from: Zooropa (Audio CD)
Highly underrated album. A daring electronic venture by U2, high marks on creativity, a sonic soundscape vastly different than anything they'd done before, exploring new sounds and mastering alternative ways of musical expression --- but having said that, if you're not open to hearing music that's not played on the radio 1000 times a day, polished & overly-commercialized, then you likely will not appreciate the brilliance of this album and should pass on it...but boy would you be missing out on what music and art are truly all about!
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2.0 out of 5 stars
More like a demo CD than a real one...., May 4, 2008
This review is from: Zooropa (Audio CD)
This is undoubtedly U2's worst album. It feels like a homemade demo CD, or perhaps it's leftovers from the vastly superior Achtung Baby. Regardless, it's not a particularly good CD, poorly crafted, written, and performed. The first single, Numb, feels like a backing track without any enhancement. While this can work sometimes in music, it doesn't here. It ends up feeling cheap. Lemon is a little better, but still has that cheap, sinking feeling. The best songs on the album are Stay, Faraway, So Close (from the Wim Wenders film), The First Time (a lovely ballad), and the great closer, The Wanderer. The Wanderer is a great U2 song, with stunning lead vocals by Johnny Cash and a great, brooding lyric that reads like Cash wrote it himself. The CD booklet cover art is stunning as well, like the cover art in Achtung Baby and Pop. If you're a U2 completist, pick it up. If not, you can safely ignore it (except for The Wanderer).
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