after so many great, classic, required-to-be-in-your-collection records...


















they've gone home and dreamt it all up again...


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can't see it.

Milty said:

really? i can...i wonder why that happens all the time?

SassyBritches said:

no hot-linking from u2wanderer.org

is it working now?

"Pop" is listed twice. From what I heard, it shouldn't even be listed once.

Sassy B - your post is so incomplete...how the f*ck could you forget WAR?

WAR IS A CLASSIC! I like POP but it aint' no u2 classic!

Can't wait until midnight on the 23rd so I can finally get my hands on this baby.

This is the longest we've had to wait as U2 fans. I know it's gonna be worth it though. Very excited. Anybody have the singles yet?

purplegypsy said:

hey...start yer own damned u2 thread if you want it done yer way. this ain't no frickin' burger king!



just kidding sweets. i actually did have war up but the picture wouldn't show so i edited it. glad you could find one!

VinnyM27 said:

eh...go correct yer own thread, buddy! i like pop so much...here's another one for ya!

SassyBritches said:

Pop is fucking great and anyone who disagrees is a feeble-minded bandwagoner!

GangstaFam said:

i'm sayin'! i've never seen irony and sarcasm put to music quite so well!

SassyBritches said:

The thing that's most ironic about their "ironic period" is that it's the most heartfelt, personal and emotional of their work. They turned over a new leaf with Achtung Baby! that allowed them to open up and include more about themselves in their subject matter.

GangstaFam said:

its funny because until then they were dealing with universal concerns...god, politics and all that...then they get all personal and people don't wanna hear it. achtung, zooropa and pop were, without a doubt, the most raw u2 records. and far too ahead of their time aparently.

SassyBritches said:

It seems the tide has turned recently though. Achtung Baby! seems to have overtaken The Joshua Tree in most people's minds as their masterpiece. I'd have to agree.

GangstaFam said:

absolutely. its kind of funny...when i was a kid i tried to be as different from my oldr brother as possible. he loved u2 so i, therefore, hated them. secretly i liked them but i was a dumb 10 year old trying to be different so i acted like a didn't. this went on for quite a while...until rattle and hum. then i kind of admitted to liking them. then achtung baby came out and i fessed up to my brother and borrowed all his cds!!

SassyBritches said:

Joshua Tree was one of the first tapes I ever owned. My mom gave it to me for Easter in either '87 or '88. But it wasn't until Achtung Baby! that I really fell in love with this band. I think it will always be my favorite of theirs for more reasons than I care to mention.

SassyBritches said:

that's my story too... but i wasn't open about it til Zooropa

ehuffnsd said:

ah, zooropa...the funny thing is that is when my older brother lost interest in them, lol! so, in the end, i was still able to be different he didn't like zooropa or pop but atyclb won him back. i think i'm gonna make him copies of zooropa and pop, though, because he recently said he needs to check them out again. maybe i'll even splurge on the guy and buy him some of his own "real" cds.

SassyBritches said:

thats soo kind of you... i was cheap and gave my brother cpies of peaches which he couldn't find back in MO

Rumor has it that Larry Mullen Jr. has been "re-recording" Pop in his spare time. The band was never satisfied with that cd, as they had to release it before they were finished. I'm not really excited by this prospect, though, because I love the album the way it is. Moreover, the remixed Pop songs on the greatest hits are all too "safe" for me. I'm sure I'd pick it up anyway if it ever saw the light of day.

Axchi696 said:

i've never heard that before. i know larry was not thrilled with all of the electronic stuff on zooropa and pop (he said in interviews - at the time - that he felt kind of pointless in the band since so much was programming) but i never heard that the cd was rushed. quite the opposite, actually. from what i've always understood, they took so long on the cd that they rushed the tour because they had set deadlines and didn't want to push it back at all.
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I think both were rushed, but the CD had to be released because the tour was behind in production. I think they missed at least 2 deadlines for the album launch, and couldn't hold off any longer. I also think this is the reason for the numerous singles that were remixed from the album. U2 rarely re-records songs for singles, but apart from Discoteque and Staring at the Sun, every other single on the album was re-recorded (Please, If God..., The Last Night on Earth).

SassyBritches said:

By the way, here's the actual quote from USA Today:


Bono: 'Larry has this project to finish the Pop album, which could have been a masterpiece with more time.'

Axchi696 said:

this blows my mind! i think pop is a brilliant album as is...i can't imagine how they would improve on it.

though, one of the "please" remixes was even better than the one on the record so i guess i shouldn't be surprised.

altho i don't own War nor The Unforgettable Fire (i know shame on me) my faves in order are:

The Joshua Tree
Pop
Achtung Baby - Love Is Blindness is possibly the greatest thing ever recorded.
Rattle And Hum
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Zooropa
Passengers

actually i think Pop and TJT tie for first.

SassyBritches said:

Cut 'Miami' and add the Garage mix of 'Holy Joe' in its place.



I'm not sure that I like the single mix of 'Please' better, but I do like it a lot. It's one of my favorite overall U2 songs.

Milty said:

That's pretty much how I feel about AB and TJT. The one I'm playing at the moment is always "my favorite" until I put the other one on.

Axchi696 said:

oh no! i love miami! it captures the illusion of miami like nobody else could. both, celebratory and sarcastic, at once.