I'm Robert, and this is my blog. I'm 20, and I live just outside of Syracuse, NY, where I like to engage in such awesome activities as improv, tea drinking, and listening to amazing, mind-blowing music. I also tend to be a little bit obnoxious, but people deal with me anyway.
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God, does anyone else remember this thing? This was so weird. Like, it would be one thing if Apple did this kind of thing with a bunch of artists… but it was just U2. And don’t get me wrong—U2’s cool and all—but they’re hardly so amazing that they deserve their own iPod, right?
This was a weird part of history that’s been mostly forgotten—and that’s for the best.
I’ve always liked U2. I think they’ve lost a lot of popularity in the last decade, a lot of which is probably because of Bono’s obsession with being a good samaritan. His attitude at times comes across as pushy and overbearing, and makes the band seem cockier and more full of themselves than they probably are. That being said, I think a lot of people forget what it was that made U2 so popular in the first place: they’re really fucking good at making music.
Even those who like U2 dismiss their last two or three albums as “mediocre” or “run of the mill”, but I disagree. I think the band has been doing great these last few years. Elevation was fantastic, and their latest album earned a well-deserved 5-star rating from Rolling Stone magazine. But I still have a soft spot for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, and especially this track, Original of the Species. The lyrics are beautiful, the melody is perfect, and Bono’s voice is as good as it ever gets.
I think there’s very little to dislike about this song.
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