http://www.opinz.com Opinions. About Music. Short and to the point. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:50:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.opinz.com/u2-no-line-on-the-horizon/ http://www.opinz.com/u2-no-line-on-the-horizon/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:06:23 +0000 E http://www.opinz.com/?p=826

Never judge a book by its cover, and never judge an album by its lead single – “Get On Your Boots” is not at all representative of No Line On The Horizon – unlike the single, which is a cheap, thoughtless pile of pap which sounded like it was written and recorded in 5 minutes, No Line On The Horizon is lush (without sounding overproduced), thoughtful (without sounding snobby), and just plain well done all around, from the songwriting to the final production; Brian Eno rarely disappoints and neither does No Line…it’s vintage U2 without sounding like vapid U2.

Rating: 8.4 / 10

February 27, 2009
Interscope

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“Get On Your Boots” is being heralded as a return to the Achtung Baby and Zooropa era of U2, but if this is even true it’s only in the guitar production; it wouldn’t make the cut on either album and the lyrical and song writing quality is barely that of a warm-up jam, complete with overlooped and abrupt instrumental changes and nonsensical lyrics…in reality the song is more in line with the astoundingly uninspired pap the band vomited forth on Pop, and this time not even Brian Eno could rescue it.

Rating: 1.9 / 5

Universal

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