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  1. Mofo, still is, the best concert opener ever. The pumping Pop Muzik, the techno blast of Mofo with the gorgeous ,,tell me NOOOOO'' part. Gorgeous
  2. Well I have been thinking about this album again today. It surprised me again that it's still really relevant, even more than at the time it was released I think. It proved me that U2 were far beyond time, even more than in the AB/Zooropa age. I understand why many people disliked it at the time.

    But I was thinking about what would happen when it was released now instead of 13 years ago. I have the strange feeling that it would have worked better. What do you think about this?
  3. I want this album remastered and pressed on proper vinyl .... play these dance tunes all day long !
    and never coming down ....

    and yes .. there might be more willing ears these days .... but still its all very loud and dense stuff .. might need some dubstep remixes for the present generation ....
  4. I like it a lot. I know it doesn't fit with U2's usual standards, but I think it's a very cool track. If it hadn't been released as a U2 song I think it would have gotten much more respect.

    The reverse sound on the drums reminds me of the end of Aerosmith's Just Push Play or the same technique used in Are You Experienced. Very cool.
  5. I like this album a lot
    At the beginning, I hated 'Wake up dead man' and 'Please', I always skipped these songs, but now I finally 'got' them, really beautiful.
    And when I first heard 'If You Wear That Velvet Dress', I was like: wow, where does that came from? Such a surprising song! Not to mention Staring at the sun, If God Will Send His Angels, Mofo, Gone, etc... simply amazing
  6. At the time of POP and the POPMART tour I thought it was some of the worst stuff U2 had done to date................But now I just think WOW that album and that tour was amazing......wish it was 1997 again LOL
  7. Originally posted by andyuk36:At the time of POP and the POPMART tour I thought it was some of the worst stuff U2 had done to date................But now I just think WOW that album and that tour was amazing......wish it was 1997 again LOL


    I have a feeling that NLOTH will be seen much the same... more appreciated at a later date.
  8. when pop was released I was about 13 years old an have just became a U2 fan. I remember listening to a casset with pop on it a friend of mine gave me. I immediatley fell in love with that album. I finally bought the CD when I was on hollydays in Italy in the summer of 1997 I think.

    Back in the days I thought that that album was released 10 years to soon. I felt like nobody, even not the U2 fans, understood what they wanted to tell us with these songs and that sound. I really couldn't understand that because songs like discotheque, wake up dead man or please became real classics for me short time after their release.
    Sometimes I have to laught nowerdays when I hear people speaking about pop in a very positive way, and the same people didn't find any positive word for it back in 1997.

    In my opinion Pop is the most rocking album of U2.

    For me Popmart is a highlight in U2s career. Popmart live in Wiener Neustadt was my very first concert and I have just positve memories.

    Maybe you are right and NLOTH will make the same developement. I hope so, because I like that album too.

    Fact is that we need more (at least one) POP songs live on this tour. My suggestion is cut Crazy remix and add Discotheque!
  9. I love Pop.
  11. always loved POP back then first came out in stores. that time i only disliked 3 tracks discotheque ,PM and velvet dress.nowadays continue dislike only PM.
    remenber now that mofo was huge, by the time in portugal the prodigy with huge sucess and i thinking to my sellf that time that mofo (the u2 of JT and AB)was powerfull and dark.
    So, POP has outstanding tracks:
    MOFO
    IGWSHA
    GONE
    LDOE
    PLEASE
    WUDM
  12. Originally posted by best:always loved POP back then first came out in stores. that time i only disliked 3 tracks discotheque ,PM and velvet dress.nowadays continue dislike only PM.
    remenber now that mofo was huge, by the time in portugal the prodigy with huge sucess and i thinking to my sellf that time that mofo (the u2 of JT and AB)was powerfull and dark.
    So, POP has outstanding tracks:
    MOFO
    IGWSHA
    GONE
    LDOE
    PLEASE
    WUDM


    I never really paid too much attention to If God Will Send His Angels, simply because whenever it came on, it was so quiet and in the car or something when it's competing with engine noise and so forth it's just impossible to hear, so it got skipped. But now I've come to really appreciate and enjoy it and honestly think it's a brilliant track. Maybe a little out of place after Mofo, but that's typical U2 as we saw when Breathe (a concert opener) was placed toward the very end of NLOTH. I would've put IGWSHA after Playboy Mansion myself.

    Still, it could've gone first or last on the album, it doesn't make it any less of a song.
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