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U2 : Get On Your Boots :: Single Review

By greg on May 23, 2012 in Featured Tunes, Tunes with 10 Comments

25488768 25488771 slarge 300x300 U2 : Get On Your Boots :: Single Review“Get On Your Boots” is the first single from U2′s 12th album ‘No Line On The Horizon’ and marks a change in direction for the influential rock band. The track opens with a serpentine down tuned guitar riff while polyrhythmic percussion plays off Bono rattling lyrics like a post rock Dylan attempting a new version of “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”

A sample of the lyric:

“The future needs a big kiss
Winds blow with a twist
Never seen a moon like this
Can you see it to?
Night is falling everywhere
Rockets hit the fun fair
Satan loves the bombscare but he won’t scare you.”

Bono manages to sum up the current zeitgeist as he also mentions gasoline, submarines, war and death into a song that somewhat apes Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up.” Lyrically this song is a little more developed and mature than the previous album’s 1st single, “Vertigo.” “Get On Your Boots” is an interesting change of pace for U2, which seemed content not to ruffle the feathers of their fans with their previous two releases. Hopefully this single is a harbinger of things to expect from the new album.

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  • dennis

    oh man! i bought the new single from itunes. ROCKS! and yet it’s sexy enough for the ladies true to what’s been said – lot’s of layered electronic percussion or processed percussion perhaps. I think, for me, the thing that really strikes me is the production. Everything is upfront and present, and yet they’ve achieved space and clarity around each sound. It’s somehow full and yet lean at the same time. I think by going with the fuzzed-out guitar and traditional drums as one drum layer, they keep the Rock edge. And, yet the vocals and the other percussion/sounds seem to utilize modern/R&B production…compression techniques? For sure this rocks but it also sounds so modern! I guess Edge wasn’t bluffing – It really is Rock 2009!

    I’ve got to admit, I didn’t get what they were going for on 1st listen. But, that’s when you know you’ve generally got U2 at their best. Glad they’ve decided to innovate & evolve this time around!

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  • fran

    One of the reasons why I love U2 so much is simply…they evolve and you never know what you are gonna get. Of course, U2 live isn’t too bad either…Get on your boots mixes a spice of flamenco music, Queen, ELO and Elvis Costello. BRILLIANT

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  • http://www.mica.com Micanushi

    Worst U2 song ever!!!!!

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  • Niko

    combine “vertigo” and “dscoteque” and you get “boots”. Not exactly what I expected from my favorite band after 5 years of work! Hope there is more to it that I just don’t get but I doubt it. Waiting to hear the rest of the album. I’m still exited about it since they have never let me down so far.

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  • http://shakib.net/wp/ Shakib

    This song stinks. I don’t like it.

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    Greg Reply:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 3:53 am

    wow.

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  • Dandelion Market

    This new U2 single soars in the chorus. The chorus careens around the world and lands back on the fuzzy riff. What makes this a good song and not a great song, however, is that the verses and bridge do almost nothing to deserve such a fantastic chorus. The bridge sounds like it was cut out of a different song and is overly repetitive and almost headache inducing in its mechanical sound; it doesn’t take the song to a new place and elevate the chorus or riff to new heights like all great bridges do. I like it but the lack of continuity gets a B minus from me.

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