The 2nd track of U2's No Line on the Horizon rocks.

Buy the 2nd track of U2's new album. Turn it up. I'm trying to rock it to it now without waking up the baby. It's hard not to crank it up...to eleven. It's a bit overly processed and cheesy for U2, but I still dig the track.

The rest of the album is so-so. U2's slower songs just aren't very consistent. But the second track--holy cow. The production quality is amazing, but I'm reminded by this album that so much of what makes this album good is its production technology. The Edge's riffs are generally kept in balance...maybe too much in balance. I do miss the raw sound of older U2, but at this point, that's very much older U2, like before I was born, so before I get totally pretentious, I think I'll end this post.