U2 - Get On Your Boots

[jimjim]

New single. Streaming here. If anyone wants to hear, that is:

http://goyb.u2.com/

[Jon K]

Heard it last week and it takes a few listens before you get it but yeah I'm convinvced. Works for me. Not as instant as some of their past material though

[Insouciant Western People]

I heard the new U2 single this morning. Boring crap, I thought.

They've been largely shit since the mid-90s, but this is a new low. What on earth is Eno doing associating himself with this rubbish ?

[Kinkhurt]

That doesn't sound too good, Queens Of The Stoneage combined with a 1960's Bob Dylan vocal delivery. Its too rocky for u2, they aren't good enough to carry that off.

[Insouciant Western People]

That doesn't sound too good, Queens Of The Stoneage combined with a 1960's Bob Dylan vocal delivery.

There's a bit where they rip off Pump it up as well.

Tiresome in the extreme.

[der nister]

Generic sounding...

[Matt Wilson]

I heard the new U2 single this morning. Boring crap, I thought.

They've been largely shit since the mid-90s, but this is a new low. What on earth is Eno doing associating himself with this rubbish ?

Um, I dunno... Making money?

[bhoywonder]

Do U2 go to the studio and re-record their song 12 times every couple of years or is it simply copy and paste into new packaging?

[JQW]

That doesn't sound too good, Queens Of The Stoneage combined with a 1960's Bob Dylan vocal delivery.

There's a bit where they rip off Pump it up as well.

Tiresome in the extreme.

And We Didn't Start The Fire.

[Bungo the Mungo]

Appalling title, mediocre song.

[Insouciant Western People]

I heard the new U2 single this morning. Boring crap, I thought.

They've been largely shit since the mid-90s, but this is a new low. What on earth is Eno doing associating himself with this rubbish ?

Um, I dunno... Making money?

Like he needs it.

[Matt Wilson]

I heard the new U2 single this morning. Boring crap, I thought.

They've been largely shit since the mid-90s, but this is a new low. What on earth is Eno doing associating himself with this rubbish ?

Um, I dunno... Making money?

Like he needs it.

Has that ever stopped anyone before?

[andymacandy]

That doesn't sound too good, Queens Of The Stoneage combined with a 1960's Bob Dylan vocal delivery.

There's a bit where they rip off Pump it up as well.

Tiresome in the extreme.

"Pump It Up" was my first reaction too.
Tolerable.Better than anything they have done for a while.

[010101010101]

That doesn't sound too good, Queens Of The Stoneage combined with a 1960's Bob Dylan vocal delivery.

There's a bit where they rip off Pump it up as well.

Tiresome in the extreme.

And We Didn't Start The Fire.

And the Only Fools and Horses theme tune

[The Modernist]

It's not terrible, but it's not that great either -the chorus works better than the verse sections. It's too reliant on that 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' list type structure that's been done many times before, and which in their hands just sounds rather tired and second hand. Overall, the impression is of a band trying too hard to sound edgy and young.

[Molony]

It's not terrible, but it's not that great either -the chorus works better than the verse sections. It's too reliant on that 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' list type structure that's been done many times before, and which in their hands just sounds rather tired and second hand. Overall, the impression is of a band trying too hard to sound edgy and young.

Pretty much my thoughts.

[Piggly Wiggly]

I didn't even make it to the end.

[bobzilla77]

On the positive side, Bono doesn't want to talk about wars between the nations.

[Tactful Cactus]

Pump it up .

And We Didn't Start The Fire.

And the Only Fools and Horses theme tune

[The Red Heifer]

I didn't even make it to the end.

I've heard it on the radio probably 7 times in the space of a day and I still haven't wanted to hear how it ends. Even when I was in a store where it was playing, I just walked out