RollingStone.com: How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb : U2 : Review

The great thing about reviews about new albums from bands that have been around a while, is that the reviewer gets the chance to put the band's past, and therefore soul, in perspective.

Haven't heard anything more than the 30 second song on that tv commercial, but I really love the way this review's written. I guess I'll have to get the album to see if he's right about the songs...

Btw, for those of you that are Chemical Brothers/Q-Tip fans, their new collaboration, the first single off of 2005's album of the same name, Galvanize is out on iTunes. Stomping.

RollingStone.com: How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb : U2 : Review: "Halfway through the excellent new U2 album, Bono announces, 'I like the sound of my own voice.' Well-said, lad; well-said. Ever since U2 started making noise in Dublin several hundred bloody Sundays ago, Bono has grooved to the sound of his own gargantuan rockness. Ego, shmego -- this is one rock-star madman who should never scale down his epic ambitions. As the old Zen proverb goes, you will find no reasonable men on the tops of great mountains, and U2's brilliance is their refusal to be reasonable. U2 were a drag in the 1990s, when they were trying to be cool, ironic hipsters. Feh! Nobody wants a skinny Santa, and for damn sure nobody wants a hipster Bono. We want him over the top, playing with unforgettable fire. We want him to sing in Latin or feed the world or play Jesus to the lepers in his head. We want him to be Bono. Nobody else is even remotely qualified. "