U2 / How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

I agree w/your take on 'a man and a woman', kind of an unwieldy title but a really strong cut.

I was very underwhelmed with this album when it came out, but "City of Blinding Lights" is a keeper.

Same here. Still don't like the album, but when I saw them for the only time on the No Line on the Horizon tour, that track was a highlight, partly because "the spaceship" (or what was more commonly referred to as "the claw") opened up into a mothership out of a Spielberg movie and started spinning around, shining its lights across the stadium the entire time. A great spectacle even if the rest of the show was pretty uneven.

Just played 'Yahweh' again and I like a) the first few seconds before the verse starts and it feels like it will be more musically exciting than it is, b) when Bono dramatically sings, twice, 'this love is like a drop in the ocean' at the end of the bridge - the drama I think being in how he's belittling his own love (which with the minor chord music at that moment sounds ominous) rather than aggrandising it.

xp (I double checked and actually the structure itself didn't spin. Rather they created an illusion of spinning via the honeycomb of screens that covered the surface of the structure.)

"City of Blinding Lights," like "Happy" and "Can't Stop the Feeling!," became a staple of administrative gatherings + corporate nonsense that I couldn't hear it for the decent anthem it was for years. I prefer this album to ATYCLB: it's the Emotional Rescue without the title track, depending on what you think of "Vertigo."

Egregiously clunky album title