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  1. There is a new You Too, you can vote for this new poll on the frontpage and discuss it in this thread.

    The question of this new You Too is:

    What do you think of the Songs Of Innocence album cover?
    - A great cover, symbolising the album theme well
    - A good cover, but their previous ones were better
    - This cover doesn't represent the album at all
    - A provocative cover, this is a mistake by U2
    - I don't like it in general, for a lot of reasons
    - I have no opinion on the album cover

    Please vote on the frontpage of the website, in this thread you can tell us why you voted for your answer.
    Your vote is valued! Thank you!
  2. - A great cover, symbolising the album theme well

    It's not particullarly "great" but it's their best album art since Zooropa. It's provocative, it catches the eye and starts a conversation - even if it's for hating or saying bad/wrong things about it. That's good. And it obviously symbolizes the album theme really well.
  3. Let's see... first of all, I don't have any problems with the cover. Maybe when we say "the rest of the world will only see a gay/pedophile/incestuous subtext and will stay away from the album" we are underestimating them. Let's give people a chance to appreciate the cover and the album and let them decide. Sure, some people will be upset or "perturbed" by the cover, but I like to think that's the minority.
    That said, my issue with the cover is purely artistic. I think they went with the most obvious representation of "holding on to innocence", like in one of those campy 80's videos where the singer says "carnival" and bum! there's a carnival in the video (cough, TUF, cough).
    So, good cover, but could've been better.
  4. A tribute to Larry Mullen!
  5. - A great cover, symbolising the album theme well

    I really like that photo and I get what they wanna represent with that.
    As a photographer I gotta say that's brilliant and intense!
    As a U2 fan I'm worried about what non U2 fans will think about it because they doesn't know that it's father and son in that photograph.
    I think if there is "Songs of Innocence" written at the album cover it would be better and more comprehensive for NON U2 fans.

    Maybe it would be good to attracting the curious people or maybe not...It depends on who has an opened mind and who has not.

    But I really love that photo as an art and as album cover...it's fu***** brilliant!
  6. Originally posted by LikeASong:- A great cover, symbolising the album theme well

    It's not particullarly "great" but it's their best album art since Zooropa. It's provocative, it catches the eye and starts a conversation - even if it's for hating or saying bad/wrong things about it. That's good. And it obviously symbolizes the album theme really well.

    Sergio, did you just copy what I initially said about the album art?

  7. I don't recall the particular post but I'm sure you explained it better than me anyway. Glad we agree tho, great minds think alike you know?
  8. It's a nice cover, but I personally preferred the "white" cover.
  9. - A good cover, but their previous ones were better

    I see where the band is going with this and I kinda like the new album cover. But the original white cover I feel does it better. Plus I fear the cover might get some unwanted attention from people misunderstanding U2's intentions.
  10. On the note of U2 getting unwanted attention from their cover, I was browsing through one of the largest Tower Records store that I had ever seen during my travels in Japan and obviously there are a huge variety of covers featured. On the weirdness scale of 1-10, The new U2 cover ranks at a tepid 2 or 3 when compared to everything else on display. Is this picture really that bizarre? Plus, do people really read into the meaning of cover art that much?
  11. I would've voted for, "It's kinda provocative, but that's not a bad thing".
  12. To my personal opinion the cover of SOI does not fully cover the content of SOI.

    U2 is a band of 4 persons, so why just 1 bandmember on the cover?

    Why not the all of them on the cover with a photo of their fathers?

    When you don't know nothing about U2, I can imagine that the cover is shocking.