U2

In the last two months, I have added a new baby and have added another job at the church. Needless to say, blogging has been down on the priority list. What better way to kick it back up than to talk about U2's new album. I know you are shocked that a pastor likes U2. At the risk of being cliche, I admit that I like U2. This review makes me pretty excited about the new album. Below is an excerpt from it.

"The new U2 album, 'No Line On The Horizon' will be released on March 2nd. It is a great record, and greatness is what rock and roll and the world needs right now. From the grittily urgent yet ethereal title track all the way to the philosophically ruminative, spacey coda of 'Cedars Of Lebanon' it conjures an extraordinary journey through sound and ideas, a search for soul in a brutal, confusing world, all bound together in narcotic melody and space age pop songs."

I have always appreciated how U2 seems to be in touch with the cultural climate and you see that in each album. And it is interesting how culturally we often look to music or entertainment to find soul in a brutal and confusing world. That is alot of pressure to put on an album. He goes on to say that U2 is "making music that bounces off the inside of a listeners skull, charged with ideas and emotions, groovy enough to want to dance to, melodic enough to make you sing along, soulful enough to cherish, philosophical enough to inspire, and with so many killer tracks it might as well be a latterday greatest hits. It is, at the very least, an album to speak of in the same breath as their best and what other band of their longevity can boast of that?"