U2, Songs of Experience
"If Songs of Innocence was rock's most persistently hopeful band looking back in wonder at their punk-rock origins and unlimited dreaming in late-Seventies Dublin," writes David Fricke, "Songs of Experience is U2 in late middle age coming to grips with an inevitable reality: They no longer have all the time in the world." The Irish
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