Like a Song is one of the best songs I've heard in my life.

The deadly European virus that has always been this band's curse here turns out to be their characteristic melodic device--an unresolved medieval fifth most often associated with monks in Hollywood movies. That aside, their new album is hot rock-and-roll indeed and if Bono still has too many Gregorian moments his conviction carries the music, while the Edge becomes a tuneful guitarist by the simple expedient of not soloing. Anyway, I'll take his militant (if pacifist) Christianity ("The time has come/To claim the battle Jesus has won") over the secular humanism and Jah love so many rockers are going for these days. B