Title: doomed!
Product review: What looks like 2004's best buy (and polled the album of the year in Russia, incidentally!) should in all honesty be thumbed down as alternative kich, at best. It sure takes a lot to pack a special edition with illustrated album under a pricy hard cover and a DVD to boot (alas, documentary and stereo). But that's all there is to the "lot". Edge ain't no musician and Bono no singer, the way they perform -- and they hardly ever performed better. What with painy vocal and one note chord sweeps. Ever too formal to break new ground, the band goes on riding the crest of non-existant hard core / new wave. And that fervor about society, morality and, gosh, peace! They are the Brezhnevs to the free world of rock. The hit-single tune feels borrowed (and it is!), the layout terrible, the concept phony, the title mouthful, the drawings unimaginative, the goods -- generally undelivered. And even if they were -- who cares about the bomb dismantling know-how, anyway?
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