No Line On The Horizon

A line on the Horizon
After buying How To Dismantle a Atomic Bomb before this I was very dissappointed. It's average album but better than most out there, but not a classic by a long shot. A few excellent songs like Magnifcent, get on your boots and I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight. But the rest are pretty average. Buy it to be good, not be the best album you ever bought.

Not perfect, but pretty close
I'm a person of few words so the title will have to stand as my review with the addition of this: after 35 years who would've expected they could keep finding new ground to cover?

It's been a long time coming
I loved U2 right up until The Joshua Tree when they decided politics spoke louder than music and, as has been said a few times here, they produced a cracking single backed up by album fillers for the next however many years. So The Joshua Tree was a long time ago and I never bothered buying the albums just for the one good song. Then No Line On The Horizon was released to great reviews, so many in fact that it made it to my Wish list where it stayed for another 12 months eventually to be bought almost by accident as a birthday present. I've been listening to it almost solidly now for 3 weeks and all I can say is WOW, this is my sort of music and there really isn't a poor track on the album: It has depth, layers and Bonos voice complementing the music beautifully. The music is often haunting, always brilliant and fantastic to drink beer to... So, if you're an old fan who thought they had lost their way give this album a try - you'll love it.

Music
U2 is as good a CD one will get of the group so I am a satisfied customer.

I guess it's the mainstream music, that is causing listeners to become more unappreciative of music...
I am deeply disappointed with the rating this album received, now I'm not a die-hard U2 fan, I used to be in AC/DC in fact, but this is a good album. The problem is that bands now a days produce albums with one or two good songs... Why? Because one song can get a band rich, just one, through digitial sells. That's why albums are so lame, and lack in effort. Music used to be better, just remember the 60's, 70's, and the 80's, the albums were great. Cream, Led Zeppelin, Velvet Undergroud, Guns N' Roses, and etc... But, there is music like that still out there, it just needs a little more work to find, because those bands don't the attention the popular bands get. I pretty obvious why this album only got 3.5 out of 5, it's because the other songs from the album don't have the curve appeal like "Magnificent" does. What did you expect out of the album? Eleven different versions of the song "Magnificent?" I rate this album **** out of *****. It's not their worst(no way), but It's no Achtung, or ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND. Here's a list of the GOOD bands: 1. The White Stripes (Alt. Rock) 2. The Dead Weather (Blues Rock) 3. Them Crooked Vultures (Blues Rock) 4. The Raconteurs (Rock) 5. Acrtic Monkeys (Ind. Rock) 6. Cold Play (Rock/ Pop) Thanks, for reading my review!