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2 Tickets to U2 - US eXPERIENCE & iNNOCENCE (Sold Out) Friday June 29, 2018 - 7 PM
The Prudential Center (Newark, NJ)
Friday June 29, 2018 at 7 PM - Section 120 - Row 7 - Seats 5 & 6
Against those odds ? or maybe because of them ? ?Songs of Experience? is the band?s best since ?How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb? (which won the best album Grammy in 2006) and it?s a remarkable accomplishment for a band in its fifth decade of existence. The unmistakable hallmarks of the U2 sound are there ? Bono?s soaring melodies and dog-leg diction (?The Little Things That Give You Away,? ?Get Out of Your Own Way? and ?Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way? are fine successors to ?Stuck in a Moment You Can?t Get Out Of?), and The Edge?s chiming riffs and the thunderous rhythm section are familiar without lapsing into self-parody. They stretch without going over a cliff: ?Lights of Home? has a swampy acoustic groove, ?Get Out of Your Own Way? some pulsating electronic percussion and even a cameo from Kendrick Lamar at the end ? which, frankly, I was dreading, but is tastefully appended onto the song as a speech rather than an awkwardly integrated rap.
But as big and loud and insufferable as U2 can sometimes be, God love ?em, after all these years and millions and triumphs and pratfalls and embarrassing over-reaches (ahem ?Rattle and Hum? cough ?Pop? erm ?iTunes?), at a time when most of their one-time contemporaries have either given up or should, they?re still stretching, yearning, trying so hard to be great ? and you can?t reach for the stars without jumping up and down like an idiot.
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