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  1. I'm going to listen to some remixes and B-sides.

    North and South of the River
  4. Good God, I love Pop so freaking much.

    Happy 20th, you magnificent maniac of a record.
  5. North and South of the river should have been on Pop
  6. Me neither. I love this song.

    The line "we'll go driving in that pool, it's who you know that gets you through the gates of the Playboy Mansion" is one of my favorite lines on the whole album. It's such a brilliant way to combine something Christian - the practice of baptism - with something perceived as more decadent and artificial, which for me is why I love Pop as an album so much. Such incredible soul-seeking and questioning of faith but all done through what looks on the surface like such a surface-level, shallow kind of approach. The irony is amazing. And I wish that the band would just accept the way the album turned out in this sense - as Bono said, "an album about the end of the party" instead of a "party album" - instead of wishing they could have made something lighter and happier.
  8. I still remember how excited I was 20 years ago when it was released.
  9. I'm picking up on so many little background noises on Pop I've literally never noticed before. This album is like... it's strata of sounds. It's like geology. No wonder it was so hard to get these songs live, they're stacks and stacks of song on top of each other.
  10. Pop is my most played U2 record.
  11. Originally posted by CMIPalaeo:I'm picking up on so many little background noises on Pop I've literally never noticed before. This album is like... it's strata of sounds. It's like geology. No wonder it was so hard to get these songs live, they're stacks and stacks of song on top of each other.
    Every time I listen to it I seem to discover something new. Or rediscover something old and fall in love with it all over again.
  12. I think the forum would break if U2 played anything from Pop on a future tour.
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