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  1. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
    I still disagree. I never listen to it.

    Fez-Being Born is still a diamond in the rough, but the rest of it sounds like U2 getting close to experimenting but chickening out. The result is a haphazard kind of mess of standard U2 rock fare and weird stuff that doesn't really fit or mean anything.


    that's my take - barring a few good songs it's sorta neither here nor there. it's not pop anthem enough to be a huge popular rock record like the previous two, but it's not arty or daring enough to be another Zooropa. if they'd have picked a side and stuck to it, it could have been so much better.

    their worst album of their post-2000 comeback by some distance.
  3. Originally posted by wangmaster:[..]


    that's my take - barring a few good songs it's sorta neither here nor there. it's not pop anthem enough to be a huge popular rock record like the previous two, but it's not arty or daring enough to be another Zooropa. if they'd have picked a side and stuck to it, it could have been so much better.

    their worst album of their post-2000 comeback by some distance.
    Agreed!

    I definitely feel like it could have been what you and I were both hoping for and what the band was promising (in like 2008 I remember them saying that NLOTH was going to be a transformation as big as JT to AB). When it all started coming out that they had gone to Morocco and were soaking all of that up and even recording there I had a complete different idea in mind.

    I think like most I dug the album at first because it was something new, the first "new album" I received since I had become a U2 fan. Looking back I just don't like it as much.



    And going back to all that other discussion, sorry if I offended anyone or got off track. Maybe I was grumpy when that started, my bad. We're all friends here just because we're all U2 fans.
  5. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
    Agreed!

    I definitely feel like it could have been what you and I were both hoping for and what the band was promising (in like 2008 I remember them saying that NLOTH was going to be a transformation as big as JT to AB). When it all started coming out that they had gone to Morocco and were soaking all of that up and even recording there I had a complete different idea in mind.

    I think like most I dug the album at first because it was something new, the first "new album" I received since I had become a U2 fan. Looking back I just don't like it as much.



    And going back to all that other discussion, sorry if I offended anyone or got off track. Maybe I was grumpy when that started, my bad. We're all friends here just because we're all U2 fans.
    I was just f**king with you, bro. We're all good here.

    Ya gotta have sexy boots to discotheque!
  6. in the sense that in the late nineties their critical favour waned somewhat with the whole PopMart tour being seen as a failure, ATYCLB/HTDAAB were commercial hits compared to Pop, the "re-applying for best band in the world" thing, etc etc.

    obviously to us fans they never went away, but i'm talking from a casual onlooker perspective.
  7. Right on!

    And I believe Dan was referring to their whole re-design after Popmart, like All That You Can't Leave Behind and onward.
  9. Originally posted by wangmaster:[..]


    that's my take - barring a few good songs it's sorta neither here nor there. it's not pop anthem enough to be a huge popular rock record like the previous two, but it's not arty or daring enough to be another Zooropa. if they'd have picked a side and stuck to it, it could have been so much better.

    their worst album of their post-2000 comeback by some distance.
    I would have to disagree with you there and say that I believe it is their best album of that decade.Less vanilla than the other two
  10. I will always prefer NLOTH over ATYCLB and HTDAAB. Sadly it had potential to be something REALLY big, but they polished it and polished it and the potential was wasted. Still decent album.
  11. If you aren't willing to admit that U2 had taken a huge slump following PopMart and made a huge comeback in 2000 with ATYCLB and the Elevation Tour, you've got your head stuck in the sand. Even if you think ATYCLB was a garbage album, the truth is that if ATYCLB had failed U2 would have stopped right then and there.
  12. "Huge" is a little extreme. Seeing Popmart live was an amazing experience. Back when U2 were pushing the boundaries and leaving it to the fans to follow.....
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