Currently , I'm listening to the U2/Brian Eno 1995 spin-off "Passengers : Original Soundtracks 1". The second track "Slug" is one of my favourite songs ; it sounds exactly as it's meant to - like the lights of a distant city gradually winking on as dusk blackens. Just superb...
I wish U2 had adhered to their 1990s sounds/method/production/etc. The "Everything You Wish You'd Left Behind" album and those following bore me senseless . They seem such an overt prostration to the Middle America market - bland, mid-tempo, pathologically benign in expression.