"360 Degrees And Rising" by Jason McGathey   9/28/09 One gets the feeling that the most recent U2 album, No Line On The Horizon, generated much less interest than expected. Its leadoff single, Get On Your Boots, did garner some heavy airplay for a week or two, before it became overwhelmingly obvious that most people did not care for this song. At this point the remaining eleven tracks on the disc were seemingly pushed out simultaneously in a second bid for a hit, but none of those caught fire either despite for the most part being better than Boots. Now they are performing one such number in a frequently aired commercial, yet those patented ringing ching-a-ching-ching notes have me wondering if guitarist The Edge is not completely out of ideas. The band as a whole, really: despite having viewed the spot countless times, I still cannot hum the melody as I write this. ...Read the entire article here.