U2 – Get On Your Boots
January 21st, 2009 Posted in Song reviews
“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
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:03 am
I agree wholeheartedly.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:06 am
[...] 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, [...]