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  1. I have no doubt about SOI being much stronger - in my opinion, SOI is the strongest album U2 have made in a very long time, and it's tied for my favourite with Achtung Baby.

    No Line On the Horizon appeals to me because there are so many moods on it, and some really neat 'out there' songs. I guess it's kind of disjointed, and you have to be in the right mood for the album... but I think that's part of the appeal of it for me.
  2. I'll always have a soft spot for NLOTH. Great playing by Larry, Adam and Edge. I discover new things everytime I listen to it, I like the sonic landscapes in many of the songs, with the huge exception of "I'll go crazy", which I honestly can't stand on the album (but I enjoyed the dance version live a lot, a highlight of the shows in Barcelona and Milan, where everybody was up and dancing during the song).
  3. NLOTH is a good album.... definitely weird, noth great, but good. Or it's not an album,just collection of songs. Some are great (NLOTH,Fez,Caller,SUC,Breathe),some are good (Cedars,Magnificent), some are weird (Boots,),some are weak (White as Snow,Crazy [Album version, live it was powerful]). But it's definitely better than if you put ATYCLB and HTDAAB together...
  4. Originally posted by Alvin:NLOTH is a good album.... definitely weird, noth great, but good. Or it's not an album,just collection of songs. Some are great (NLOTH,Fez,Caller,SUC,Breathe),some are good (Cedars,Magnificent), some are weird (Boots,),some are weak (White as Snow,Crazy [Album version, live it was powerful]). But it's definitely better than if you put ATYCLB and HTDAAB together...


    1. Vertigo
    2. Beautiful Day
    3. Miracle Drug
    4. Sometimes You Can't Make It
    5. Elevation
    6. City of Blinding Lights
    7. Stuck in a Moment
    8. Kite
    9. A Man and a Woman
    10. New York
    11. Walk On

    I actually quite like a Bomb+ATYCLB mashup album of the best songs from both. Plenty we're tired of, but this would be an instant classic record.
  5. That track listing makes me feel ill.
  6. Originally posted by MattG:[..]


    1. Vertigo
    2. Beautiful Day
    3. Miracle Drug
    4. Sometimes You Can't Make It
    5. Elevation
    6. City of Blinding Lights
    7. Stuck in a Moment
    8. Kite
    9. A Man and a Woman
    10. New York
    11. Walk On

    I actually quite like a Bomb+ATYCLB mashup album of the best songs from both. Plenty we're tired of, but this would be an instant classic record.
    I'd swap a man and a woman with original Of the species and put Yahweh in there somewhere too but regardless that list would have massive appeal. I think both ATYCLB and HTDAAB blow NLOTH out the water.
  7. Originally posted by MattG:[..]


    1. Vertigo
    2. Beautiful Day
    3. Miracle Drug
    4. Sometimes You Can't Make It
    5. Elevation
    6. City of Blinding Lights
    7. Stuck in a Moment
    8. Kite
    9. A Man and a Woman
    10. New York
    11. Walk On

    I actually quite like a Bomb+ATYCLB mashup album of the best songs from both. Plenty we're tired of, but this would be an instant classic record.
    If I wanted to make album 2000-2005,it would look like this:
    Vertigo
    Elevation
    Electrical Storm
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet
    Beat On The Brat
    Love And Peace Or Else
    The Hands That Built America
    The Saints Are Coming
    All Because Of You
    Fast Cars
    Walk On

    so it's 5 non album tracks and one bonus. On my best of 2000-2010 would be majority from NLOTH...
  8. +1

    I still think NLOTH is a better album than both ATYCLB and HTDAAB, musically for the reason that it saw the band trying to experiment more again especially with the initial inspiration from Morocco. Lyrically I like the kind of Bono lyrics written from other invented characters' perspectives rather than sentimental lyrics about "walking on" and "don't wanna see you cry..."

    But I concede that the overall theme of spiritual pilgrimage from the perspective of traffic cops looking to escape and junkies finding salvation in front of ATM machines got lost when the band feared they were being too "Zooropa-y" again and decided to put in Crazy, Boots, and SUC right in the middle. And I can also agree that while I think NLOTH is the stronger album overall, the highlights of ATYCLB and Bomb on a song-by-song basis might outrank NLOTH.
  9. That's actually a great perspective that I find myself almost completely agreeing with
  10. This forum is waaaaayyyy too hard on ATYCLBH and, to a lesser extent, HTDAAB. Even if they are both essentially albums full of a bunch of singles, they blow NLOTH out of the water.
  11. Originally posted by RUMMY:This forum is waaaaayyyy too hard on ATYCLBH and, to a lesser extent, HTDAAB. Even if they are both essentially albums full of a bunch of singles, they blow NLOTH out of the water.
    I guess that was my point above about why I still find NLOTH better as an album 8 years on, even if some of the individual songs on the previous two stand out to me more. The band themselves (or Bono at least) admitted that Bomb didn't ever achieve a cohesive sound and identity as an album. As for ATYCLB, there are definitely strong songs on it, no question, but in the endless debate between that album and Pop, I personally appreciate the abrasive attempt at making "an ode to club culture" more than an album that sounds too safe and offhanded by comparison. Maybe why I was also instantly drawn to NLOTH as more of a departure from the last two, even as I admit I don't listen to it near as much anymore. But you can definitely still hear the unique sound they were going for, even as it frustratingly doesn't quite have the effect it should have had. An album full of more stuff like "Soon" and less of "Crazy" would have made all the difference.
  12. I'll give you that. Songs like Soon, Fez, titled track, Breathe, and MoS show promise of what could have been a very interesting/cool album but they're not enough.

    I guess what I like(d) about ATYCLB and HTDAAB is what I don't like about NLOTH. They went to the well one too many times. Boots, SUC, and Crazy sort of ruin the album for me and over the course of the last few weeks I've come to realize that even the catchy Magnificent doesn't do it for me anymore.

    As for the first two 2000's albums (man, I'm even getting sick of typing out their acronyms!) sure, the hits have been overplayed and I get the backlash - even join in to a certain extent. I just sometimes think that none of us would be here in this forum if it weren't for those two albums bringing the band back into the mainstream again.
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