Songs Of Surrender ☆ Popular

Music to fall asleep to.

THIS is the album they should have given away for free. It’s fine that they have reworked older songs, but I’d much rather hear them take a chance with something new. Or do something more unique with the old material, at least.

It’s elavator music

So many negative people in the world apparently all came here. Please go back under your rock and we’ll enjoy the “new” versions! I am enjoying these and i was there from their beginning. Thanks for these versions U2. Continued blessings.

I felt the same ambivalence about this record as I did when Bon Jovi ‘re-imagined’ their hits catalog by stripping them down to simple acoustics on ‘This Left Feels Right’. Bruce Springsteen has repeatedly done the same thing over the years. I get it. But most times records of ‘reinvented’ or ‘reimagined’ masterpieces feel more like a band fulfilling their recording contract with their 10th out of 10 records. It’s a testament to U2 that these greatly unrecognizable renditions stand on their own as significant masterpieces no matter how they were produced. But given a choice between this and new material, I’d trade this release for new material any day.

U2 weren’t out to replace the original versions of the songs presented here. Those original recordings still exist. The band didn’t set out to “improve” the songs. This is about finding intimacy in these songs, as many of them, The Edge explained, the band have outgrown. The band didn’t butcher anything, they experimented with their craft. That is what all good artists do. And it’s not like U2 don’t have new music on the way. And this isn’t a cash grab, because the project took a lot of effort to create in the first place. A lot of experimentation. The trouble is, the people who trash talk “Songs of Surrender” don’t know how to appreciate music made in this fashion. They want everything to be the same. They don’t know how to accept change, and frankly, as with ANY U2 album, this one will take many listens before it will sink in for the listener and the listener will like it. And that’s okay. This is music made by ARTISTS; not Billboard top 40 pop crap made for people with no taste. This is ART.

Definitely prefer the original versions. The remakes do not compare to the original nor do they have enough of a unique sound from original to make sense for redoing them. They’re just slight nuances, nothing with the wow factor.

Has bono been to Epsteins island? My guess is yes

I was a bit skeptical but this is another fantastic experiment that U2 has completed quiet well. Overall, very glad I gave it a listen. Definitely a worthy addition to the U2 experience!

what am I listening too??? Re-recordings their best songs? I don’t like what I have heard so far. They should focus on new music. Now I have heard the entire disc it is a dud. I love most of the originals and love when a band mixes it up a little in concert. It this just drags on. Not even inventive. Everything is just slower and the edge in the songs has been removed. Zzzzzzzzzz. PS. Move on from the “Songs of……” theme. It has gotten old. Do something original again.