How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb by U2

Pros: Pretty solid up through track 7; good balance of strong rockers and ballads.
Cons: The last four songs are rather blah; the album as a whole is nothing new for U2.

Unos, dos tres, catorce! Alright, alright, I know. Bono can't count. Let's try to rise above that for a second and talk about the new U2 album in its entirety. I mean, we've waited four years for this thing, so it'd be kind of ...

Pros: Pretty much what you expect from a U2 album.
Cons: Two songs average enough to bring the album's rating down a point.

When I feel the need to be moved emotionally, Bono's is one of the first numbers I dial. Despite nearly three decades as the frontman of the best rock band on the planet, this multimillionaire still communicates to his audience like the guy next door. It ...

Pros: Strong melodies, Bono's falsetto, The Edge is a God of Guitar.
Cons: Sometimes vague lyrics, minor slump toward the end

There are bands out there that you hear about all the time, but you know jack about them. For some people, that band might be Radiohead, for others it might be the Dave Matthews Band. For me, it's U2. The only album I've heard ...

Pros: One or two tracks are decent
Cons: Music is unimaginative, Lyrics are nothing spectacular

Not being connected to the fan base in any meaningful way, I would imagine that the presence of so many songs from "Zooropa" on U2's second "Greatest Hits" vindicated fans of the album that was generally less commercially successful than it ought to ...

Pros: It sounds really good...
Cons: ...but it feels really empty.

It's the soundtrack for a faceless guy in sunglasses and neon blue spandex surfboarding down some impossible slope. It's the soundtrack for monster truck races at the local redneck pavilion, the soundtrack for men out-testosteroning each other in ...

Pros: U2 ARE SOOOOOO GOOD OMG!!!!!11111
Cons: lol j/k

I'm assuming that, mere weeks after the release of U2's latest long-player, dropping a traditional, dissecting review of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb would be fairly pointless. At the time of this writing, twenty folks----at least half of ...

Pros: Several good rocking songs as well as some serious ones. Oh and The Edge rules!
Cons: Some lackluster lyrics at times

Well, my friends, today is a historic day. I am writing my first review on a full length U2 album. Even more amazing is the fact that I'm a huge fan. I own every cd and plenty of singles. If fact, Under A Blood Red Sky was the first cd I ever bought. ...

Pros: Bono's voice, the musical quality, the album in general.
Cons: Two tracks are a bit slow, but they have their own little niche.

Let me start this review by saying I was never really a fan of U2. It was only a couple of months ago that I experienced a musical epiphany and began to grow to really love this band. So, when you read this review, please understand I'm not the biggest ...

Pros: solid hooks and melodies throughout, the Edge's playing, Lillywhite's production
Cons: at times, poor lyrics, a couple of songs don't quite grab me much at all

The question might seem obvious to the casual music observer, the music fan who is less analytical and is only concerned with whether a song makes them want to sing along or not. To the more seasoned music fan though, it was a question that had no real ...

Pros: There is some firepower in this thing…
Cons: …I'm just not sure the guidance system is working properly

I just picked up my own copy of U2's latest album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb a couple days ago. Like (almost) every other U2 collection since The Unforgettable Fire came out twenty years ago, each record release is a major event ...

Pros: Bono's trademark voice, great lyrics, catchy tunes
Cons: a couple songs preach and seem to just fall flat with uninteresting lyrics

Being a product of the 1960s, I grew up in an era (late 60s - early 1980s) rich in Rock & Roll that meant something and had a backbone. Most (not all) of today's Rock & Roll is void of substance and seems a bit generic. That's not the case with U2. ...

Pros: Some great songs, appealingly raw.
Cons: A couple of duffers, may be too unpolished for some

They're back to save the world. And a grim place it has become, too. Illegal wars rage in the Middle East, a Bible-thumping cowboy is once again the leader of the western world, famine and disease sweep through Africa like an Old Testament plague, and ...

Pros: 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own' is a legendary ballad
Cons: Pompous, lame politics without even the energy to back it up

There is, quite possibly, no band alive that annoys me more than U2. Not only do they frustrate me because people are bound to criticize me for ‘being shallow’ because I find their music nondescript and passive, but they’re also (I find) the ...

Pros: A classic U2 album for anyone who's ever liked U2
Cons: I can hardly think of any, perhaps only "Yahweh," the last track

At long last, the greatest band returns with an album they can be proud to call their own. U2 had for over a decade now experienced what many considered a slump. In 1991, when U2 released "Achtung Baby," they were the biggest band in the world, and ...

Pros: 4 songs, lyrics on Sometimes You Can't Make It...and on One Step Closer
Cons: A lot of the same old, same old...and sometimes sounding old

Confession time: #1 - I've never bothered to write a review on Epinions.com even though I've been a member for a while now. #2 - I heard this album for the first time last night in the apartment of the guy who gave it the 1-star review. You know ...