Comments on: U2 – Get On Your Boots – Single Review

By: Gregor

Gregor — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:13:14 +0000

i hate it… pure and simple. I’m beginning to lose hope that U2 will release anything near as good as Achtung Baby and the stuff before… but you never know.

By: Webber

Webber — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:03:55 +0000

Just seen the Culture Show piece on them.. couple of tracks owe a lot to Queens of the Stone Age, but given a U2 spin. Bono blathering about film directors etc having a longer shelf life than rock stars is a bit lame when he’s just happy being an ASDA friendly Josh Homm.

By: Ronan

Ronan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:35:02 +0000

Been a U2 fan all my life. I live 2km from Bono in Dublin. Terrible song. A new low even worse than Vertigo, which was an unconvincing anthemic piece of hype. The Music is uninteresting and lyics dumb and I agree with earlier writer that the bridge is just pasted in, makes no sense and adds nothing to the song. It’s a vacuous attempt at 3 minute radio play for 13 years olds.

I was silent and stunned when I heard it. This has no credibility. Every song on Coldplay’s Viva la Vida is better than this – and that’s saying something. Also heard the single B side ‘No line on the Horizon’ Also very poor. No idea what the song is about or why it was written other than to keep the U2 machine going. I’m even surpised that Eno, Lllanois and Lillywhite let this stuff out of the studio.

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:14:57 +0000

Well… To be totally honest, the first time I listened to War I thought it sucked. After listening again and again I discovered its charm from songs like Surrender and Seconds.

Maybe this will happen again with this single. Either it is an influential avant garde piece of music, or it is pretentious (as I think Vertigo is).

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:57:42 +0000

Okay, U2 is about the only thing I listen to, so it’s safe to call me a fan-boy; I have no quips with that. Having said that though, this song is, relative speaking, garbage. I hate the sound and lyrics and feel and just about everything about this single. I’m a young guy, 19, but I can’t stand pop music. However, this song is pushing my limits. Hopefully, the whole album isn’t as bad.

I also agree with the comment someone left earlier about Bono’s “yes-men” signing off on this, cause that’s exactly what happened here. Highly disappointing stuff…

By: Adam_Y

Adam_Y — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:28:43 +0000

Verse ripping off the Ting Tings, Chorus etc. ripping of Queens of the Stone Age.

Verdict, creatively bankrupt.

By: Pollard

Pollard — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:19:29 +0000

Unlistenable. Pointless. Cheesy.

Sexy boooooooooooots!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:56:04 +0000

This just isn’t U2. It’s nothing special – lyrically weak, musically uninteresting, boring. What used to set U2 apart was their ability to sound like no-one else could (think With or Without You, Mysterious Ways, Streets etc. etc.) Anyone could have made this song – I’m just hoping the rest of the album will be better.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:18:30 +0000

This is maybe the greatest u2 song ever. Time will tell. The anthem chorus is comparable to the Streets have no names. Combining Discoteque type elements with it. My girlfriend cried at how beautiful it was.

By: FrankC

FrankC — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:24:32 +0000

Y’know I’ve been a fan since Boy and like all their albums but this songs just leaves me empty. There seems no point to it, no reason for it, no aim in it. In 2008 I didn’t buy REMs last offering and this year may be the first time I turn down U2. That would be really sad but I just think going into the studio with arguably two of the best producers in the business and pots of money for four years and then walking out with this as the first single is really awful. I’m not sure what they are trying to pull or who they are trying to be [or beat for that matter] but this just dosn’t work – its all over the place neither one thing nor the other…