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  2. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    So if someone knows his daughter and can get her to tell her dad Zooropa is the greatest U2 album ever and ATYCLB is crap, then we might hear some of that!

  3. I really like Pop...what don't you guys like about it....It's not even THAT different from the other albums imo
  4. Mofo should be played in 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  6. Originally posted by blink:I really like Pop...what don't you guys like about it....It's not even THAT different from the other albums imo


    Well, to me it actually is THAT different from the other albums....which is rather positive
  7. They should replace GOYB with Discotheque, its much better


  9. Yes it is, for one Bono isn't singing "sexy boots!" and theyre not similar GOYB is more grungy while DIscotheque is more techno, and has a brilliant intro and outro
  10. Pop was the first U2 album that was released after I had fell in love with them (unless you're going to count Passengers, which I love by the way) and also the first tour I went to. I have come to appreciate it more as an album over time, especially when I try to decifer what went on in the life of the band and it's individual members, especially Bono as he writes the lyrics.

    At first (in 1997) I felt it wasn't quite as 'classic' as AB or JT, and just like RaH was a disappointment after JT, I thought Pop may be taken in the same light after AB and Zooropa success.

    However, there were major problems in the years, months and weeks leading up to Pop's release. U2 had already become intertwined with the dance world, especially with the heavy use of loops and backing tracks in AB and Zooropa and the tours. And then there's the countless mixes that started around AB (does anyone know the very first mix that kind of started it all? Was it EBTTRT?). Add to this a bad back for Larry and the use of a drum machine in some of the writing/jamming in the studio. And then there's the link with Howie B and what he added in the studio (where is he now?). All of these lead to the sound of Pop being more dance than any other U2 album.

    As for the lyrics...

    The more I listen to Pop, the more I feel the album is trying to convey an 'over-consumption' and 'heady' era in the world and within the band. Much of it is about drugs, sex and stardom (especially The Playboy Mansion). I sometimes feel that Bono is trying to get out of his system his own demons from over-doing stardom in the AB and Zooropa years. Even though I still consider U2 to be the biggest and best band in the world, the early 90's were their highest point, and I get the feeling if Bono had burped down the microphone it would have been met with applause from the critics. Did the band take this adulation too far? I don't know, but some of the lyrics in Pop make me feel so. Also Bono's quote about the album starting at a party and ending at a funeral kind of sum up the 90's for the band in my opinion, in terms of their acceptance by the critics.

    It is still in my top 3 U2 albums, and I am praying for the day they play more Pop on the road.
  11. Originally posted by nickbibby:Pop was the first U2 album that was released after I had fell in love with them (unless you're going to count Passengers, which I love by the way) and also the first tour I went to. I have come to appreciate it more as an album over time, especially when I try to decifer what went on in the life of the band and it's individual members, especially Bono as he writes the lyrics.


    Another Passengers lover. There should be more.


  12. I was listening to some of Passengers recently, there is actually other good stuff on it besides Your Blue Room and Miss Sarajevo, liked Slug and really like A Different Kind of Blue, just love the "with twilight breaking through/ a different kind of blue" line for some reason, perhaps just because it is so random yet strangely melodic.
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