Title: Retirement Beckons
Product review: I'm a lifelong U2 fan . . . and alas, this album is the epitome of "product". This band clearly is like Michael Jordan if he tried coming back a 3rd time, today - formerly the best, but now tired and way past their prime.With a few decent exceptions, we've heard this all before on previous albums - MUCH better. You can almost see the rust on their instruments.Still, track 12, the acoustic one on the limited edition, is pretty cool - they should have done a whole album like this . . . acoustic, stripped down, exploring new musical turf for them. Something different. That might have worked, and at least thrown a fun curveball to us fans.Instead, we get a band whose charisma is intact, but songwriting skills eroded like a sandcastle at high tide. Just gone. This album is like 90% the ultimate rock n' roll sins - Predictable and BORING.
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