late period u2 are they good or? my instinct is that they are some grad A bs but they have some good songs

"Beautiful Day" is one of those weird songs that is so affecting the first few times you hear it then slithers away into annoyance.

music aside Pop is probably the last album where the lyrics are at least 90% outstanding imo.

Since then most of their lyrics have been merely serviceable (though some of them rise above, like the best bits of NLOTH) but their clunkers are a bit more pronounced. I'm just going to pretend I don't hear "ref-u-jesus" on the new one.

It reminds me a lot of 'The Sun Always Shines On TV', but it's not the only "inspiration" I detected on that album ... there's another song which reminds me of 'Here Comes Your Man' ...

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And surely it's impossible to hear Get out of your own way without secretly singing Go your own way in your head?