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After giving it a solid 10 listens or so, I am still not thrilled with U2’s “No Line On The Horizon”. The title track is by FAR my favorite, with an infectious whoa-oh-oa-oh-oa-oh-oa-oooo that you can’t get out of your head. Other than that “Get On Your Boots” is a pretty entertaining track, but I start falling asleep with most the other songs. How U2 is considered one of the best bands of all time puzzles me, honestly… I love Bono, and some of their songs are amazing, but honestly… Switchfoot, Jars of Clay, newsboys, delirious? … U2 can’t touch those bands. U2’s last couple singles are about as good as some of those bands worst songs. I’m glad I’m not the only person who thinks they have gone downhill… it seems some of the critics agree with me this time around.

And what is with the album packaging? I mean, it’s clean, and I love the cover photo and the = is rather creative - but the photos of the guys are some of the most cliché band pictures I think i’ve ever seen, and the font used inside looks like arial, copied and pasted straight from the word document… not to mention it’s very hard to read on some pages.