How bad is the U2 album Apple forced on half a billion people?
See the original posting on The Verge
We will all remember the distressful day when we opened our iTunes libraries to find a strange new U2 album sitting right at the bottom of it. Apple is making a huge deal out of the fact that it’s giving away U2’s Songs of Innocence to over 500 million people, but the actual reaction has much like the reaction to U2’s past several albums been mixed, at best. Apple could have just put Achtung Baby in our libraries and been done with it, but instead we all woke up to a U2 shaped problem that a lot of people say isn’t worth listening to. Here’s a few words from the critics: