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  1. I love Atomic Bomb. It's the album that made me a fan. It was the first album I fell totally in love with after one listen and it made me go back to the other ones I'd heard and appreciate them more. Even after several years of U2 fandom and shifting opinions of songs and records during that whole time, Atomic Bomb has remained near the top of my list - probably around third or fourth, around the same as Pop.

    I think that outside the U2 sphere, it's a well-regarded album but overshadowed (rather unfairly, I have to say) by ATYCLB. ATYCLB is great, especially on a song-by-song basis, but as a whole album it lacks some sort of power that Atomic Bomb has. Within the U2 sphere, I get the feeling that Atomic Bomb is regarded as being a little artless and pop-friendly which isn't really fair. The songs are all rather straightforward and there are some cheesy lines in it, but Atomic Bomb has some of the most up-front emotion and directness of any of their albums, which is great for me.

    My top five tracks from it:
    5. City of Blinding Lights
    4. Miracle Drug
    3. Vertigo
    2. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
    1. A Man and a Woman
  2. Bomb is def one of my favorite albums, has been on top spot for a long time (it battles with NLOTH for #1).

    I actually encountered "fans" that told me, if Bomb is my favorite U2 album, I'm not a real fan. So after a while, I stopped mentioning it.

    Around the time the record came out, my life was quite turbulent and these songs helped me thru. With their sound, their lyrics.
    Most of us have their very own meaning they find in U2's lyrics and sometimes these are more important than the sound alone. Seems like some of those peeps forget about that sometimes.

    Most obviously some "fans" cannot accept when "their" band has a huge commercial success and Bomb has been exactly that - with 6 Grammys in one night.

    It's a fantastic album, a very complete album and I really think they had a great run back in the day, if we add the tracks from B-sides and beach clips and the rest, that didn't make it onto the album. Mercy, for that sake - they went back to it by their own guts and both versions are great.

    COBL is my all time favorite from U2, it means so much to me for so many different reasons. It might not be their most academic lyrics or most important track or the bravest instrumentalisation, but I'm so damn happy they still play it.

    That said, blessings are not just for the ones who kneel, luckily.
  3. i love this album, there are many songs too much under rated .....for example:
    original of the species
    yahweh
    miracle drug
    fast cars
    a man and a woman
    and someone says vertiigo and cobl are pop not rock.
    But in every concert the attendance explodes when they play these songs. Vertigo is an hymn.
  4. Is there maybe more love for the album now people are looking back?
    Love both the album and tour,ive been a fan since 91,love all the albums and i prefer 2000 U2 to any other era,dont think it makes you any less a fan to love this era.
  5. Maybe because I'm not a great fan of the 2000s U2 (though I discovered them in 2004 with Vertigo...), I don't think it's that good album. It has some nice tracks, as all U2 album, but as a whole is their worst.
    Songs Of Innocence has a bad start, but from Iris to The Troubles is way more better than this one.
  6. I only like Love And Peace, Vertigo and a little ABOY... and Fast Cars
    The rest is a little bit meh...
  7. Brilliant that we all have different preferences
  8. Yes, I think it is. I think some songs suffered from that classic U2 crutch of over-production, but otherwise it's an album of fantastic pop and rock tunes with great hooks, and lyrics. Not to mention every member of the band was firing on all cylinders.

    Way better than the album that followed it anyway...
  9. Originally posted by CMIPalaeo:I love Atomic Bomb. It's the album that made me a fan. It was the first album I fell totally in love with after one listen and it made me go back to the other ones I'd heard and appreciate them more. Even after several years of U2 fandom and shifting opinions of songs and records during that whole time, Atomic Bomb has remained near the top of my list - probably around third or fourth, around the same as Pop.

    I think that outside the U2 sphere, it's a well-regarded album but overshadowed (rather unfairly, I have to say) by ATYCLB. ATYCLB is great, especially on a song-by-song basis, but as a whole album it lacks some sort of power that Atomic Bomb has. Within the U2 sphere, I get the feeling that Atomic Bomb is regarded as being a little artless and pop-friendly which isn't really fair. The songs are all rather straightforward and there are some cheesy lines in it, but Atomic Bomb has some of the most up-front emotion and directness of any of their albums, which is great for me.

    My top five tracks from it:
    5. City of Blinding Lights
    4. Miracle Drug
    3. Vertigo
    2. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
    1. A Man and a Woman
    As great as i think "All That you Can't Leave Behind" is, for me it kind of runs out of steam after "In a Little While", while Atomic Bomb has some pretty strong tracks toward the end of the album. ATYCLB probably has higher highs, but Atomic Bomb is more consistent throughout, in my opinion.
  10. Originally posted by Lightmyway92:[..]
    As great as i think "All That you Can't Leave Behind" is, for me it kind of runs out of steam after "In a Little While", while Atomic Bomb has some pretty strong tracks toward the end of the album. ATYCLB probably has higher highs, but Atomic Bomb is more consistent throughout, in my opinion.
    well said. I prefer the bomb over atyclb as well.
  11. In a lot of ways I see them as companion pieces to each other, so I usually group them together in my own mind. I love both!
  12. LOL. That's exactly what I do with Boy and October, so as far as I'm concerned, that's perfectly acceptable to me!
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