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  2. I was thinking the other day bout the last U2 cds ... i m was looking for the "new" classics ... and the last 3 are Beatiful day, Elevation and Vertigo ... nothing more ...why ?
    I like the last 2 albums but no big songs for the casual fans !!
  3. Originally posted by patou2:I was thinking the other day bout the last U2 cds ... i m was looking for the "new" classics ... and the last 3 are Beatiful day, Elevation and Vertigo ... nothing more ...why ?
    I like the last 2 albums but no big songs for the casual fans !!
    In their defense, there were no big songs for casual fans in Pop either.
  4. They had four UK top 10 singles though, so Pop was still very much in the public eye. Get On Your Boots performed well, but it has been downhill since in terms of getting into the conscious of casuals. For us, that's perhaps not a bad thing.
  5. Exactly what i thought ... I love POP and i want to listen some songs live again soon form Pop , but the fact it haven t a BIG classic make the band forget it like NLOTH
  6. Originally posted by iTim:They had four UK top 10 singles though, so Pop was still very much in the public eye. Get On Your Boots performed well, but it has been downhill since in terms of getting into the conscious of casuals. For us, that's perhaps not a bad thing.
    It s far to be a classic GOYB


  7. I wish more people understood this. Thematically and musically, SOI could have fit right after HTDAAB.
  8. After 7 years my top 3 is MoS, WaS, CoL.

    Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I like to chime in here every once in a while and be a negative Nancy.

    I still think NLOTH is U2's worst album. It lacks drive, it lacks direction (not in a good way), and it's the sound of a band not knowing who or what they want to be at a certain stage of their career. It was U2 at the end of the diving board dipping their foot in the water of experimentation but chickening out because they didn't know how deep the water was.


    Exactly! You can hear bits and pieces of interesting instrumentation, but some of the songs sound like regular radio friendly U2 productions.

    In the end, they (Bono?) wanted to stay relevant (ugh), so they increased the pop content, and reduced the experimental factor. Now we have this record which is sort of stuck in music limbo I guess.

    The idea and intent for an interesting concept album was definitely there (they went to Morocco to record!). And I think a lot of the recording material they didn't use will agree with that!
  9. My last.fm stats, showing all plays from like 2007/2008 on, NLOTH has by far the most plays. More than any other U2 album and that tells it all. It's actually the only album I pull out and listen to it fully once in a while and it's the album having the most of its songs on my ipod.

    But that's just me.My other favorite albums are Pop and Bomb. So make of it what you want.
    NLOTH is definitely one of their best albums. Though it's still a shame, Winter isn't really on it.
    The lyrics of that album are outstanding and it's very grown up. It's an album that really needs to grow on you. But me, I liked it from the first listen on. The great thing is, that I still discover new aspects about it for myself. Which I can't tell about the other U2 records. I'm really sad they abandoned NLOTH so quickly even on its own tour.
  10. It's all just personal preference, But I absolutely LOVE the NLOTH songs live from the 360 tour. These song are just lacking something on the studio album. I felt the same about the Pop album. It was some time latter that the Pop album really grew on me, and today Please, Gone, Last Night On Earth, Staring at the Sun...are some of my favorites.
  11. Originally posted by sparko:My last.fm stats, showing all plays from like 2007/2008 on, NLOTH has by far the most plays. More than any other U2 album and that tells it all. It's actually the only album I pull out and listen to it fully once in a while and it's the album having the most of its songs on my ipod.

    But that's just me.My other favorite albums are Pop and Bomb. So make of it what you want.
    NLOTH is definitely one of their best albums. Though it's still a shame, Winter isn't really on it.
    The lyrics of that album are outstanding and it's very grown up. It's an album that really needs to grow on you. But me, I liked it from the first listen on. The great thing is, that I still discover new aspects about it for myself. Which I can't tell about the other U2 records. I'm really sad they abandoned NLOTH so quickly even on its own tour.
    Yeah, I know what you mean, and I'm glad you defend NLOTH so clearly. The band abandoning it in the middle of its own tour did no good to the album and to the appreciationo fit among the fanbase, of course. I think that must be the very only case in U2 history in which the band didn't debut any song from the album during the tour besides the ones that got played in the first show(s)? While many/all tours featured some new songs every now and then when the months went on, for the 360 Tour they stuck to Breathe, GOYB, the title song, Crazy Tonight, MOS, Magnificent and Unknown Caller from the beggining and then started discarding them slowly until only MOS, Crazy Tonight and GOYB remained in the set. SO SO SO SAD

    PS. It came out in 2009 so hardly 2007-8
  12. I will always love this record. It's hard to believe it's already 7 years old... While it definitely falters a bit in its direction, weirdly enough I find that's part of its appeal. Sometimes I think it'd have been even better if the songs were split onto two EPs (one running NLOTH, Fez, WAS, MOS, UC, COL and a second running Breathe, Magnificent, GOYB, SUC, I'll Go Crazy, NLOTH 2) but even without that I adore this sort of weird musical period for U2. Moment of Surrender is not only one of their best songs of recent albums but easily one of their best songs EVER, and the live remix of I'll Go Crazy was perfect for the 360 set... and now I think the album version would make for a perfect e-stage song!
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