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  2. I've mentioned before that it's a very difficult album to judge because you have songs with great potential on the same disc as utter crap.

    A part of me wants them to get back in the studio and finish up what they started in Pop. But that moment in their career has passed so we'll never know what Pop was actually meant to be.

    And I don't consider the new versions of Gone and Staring At The Sun to be improvements of the originals. The single version of Please is much better than the album version, but still nowhere near as strong as it is live.
  4. Originally posted by Ali709:patssox95, I believe you're making too much of it, it's not that big a deal. Bono has always been overstating, that's who he is, and even with that considered, I do believe they hit a songwriting vein, so much that for the first time in their whole career they couldn't keep it in and started playing new unreleased songs live.

    As discussed in other topics, they stopped touring a year ago, and they never release new albums so soon after a tour.

    Opinions differ on their albums. Of NLOTH, I don't like stand up and boots (while you see there are others that love boots). 2 songs. The others I love. That doesn't mean the album is crap. In their career, other than JT, AB and Zooropa all their other albums had a couple of out-of-place songs.

    And Alex...opinions differ...many love Pop, including me, and it's not about the album itself, it's about what those songs evolved to. Except for Miami and The Playboy Mansion (again, 2 songs) all the other Pop songs are big favorites of mine, some of them not in the way they are in the album, but how they were live. IMO the reason the band doesn't play much pop songs is that they believe their new fan-base doesn't know much about them.


    Boots is the most played song on my iTunes and I have not fallen out of love with it in the almost four years it's been out. I LOVED Stand Up a lot when I first heard it but not as much now (though I still like it a lot).

    As for Miami and The Playbot Mansion, not my favorites but I still quite enjoy them from time to time.

    A wise man I knew always said "Opinions are like assholes; everybody's got one..."
  5. Originally posted by kris_smith87:[..]


    Boots is the most played song on my iTunes and I have not fallen out of love with it in the almost four years it's been out. I LOVED Stand Up a lot when I first heard it but not as much now (though I still like it a lot).

    As for Miami and The Playbot Mansion, not my favorites but I still quite enjoy them from time to time.

    A wise man I knew always said "Opinions are like assholes; everybody's got one..."

    wise words indeed Exactly my point.
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