LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
HTDAAB sounds like a rock band covering ATYCLB. It's a shame, because there are so many fun rockers they had lying around that they could have used instead of the more generic stuff.
Hoping others will join me in a Coalition of the Killing against Love and Peace or Else next round?
Would love it to piss off before Crumbs and Man & Woman
Thank god, Crumbs lives to fight another day and OOTS perishes. A victory for halfway decent taste.
Alas, I'm resigned to Crumbs perishing next round rather than SYCMIOYO. I don't know what people see in SYCMIOYO.
I still don't get why Bomb is hated so much. It was very well received by critics and won nine Grammy awards. If the albums is as some people call it"U2 at their most U2ish" then shouldn't it be well liked by members of this forum?
The biggest complaint I have about Atomic Bomb is that... it tries very hard to be this perfect U2 album. But it ends up being an ostentatious display of every possible U2 cliche that we may know about.
So U2 doing what U2 does best is bad? Bomb received great critical reception and it's one of U2's most popular albums. I find it so weird that it is hated on this forum, while outside of U2's biggest fans it is loved.
I agree with almost anything you say here. Although I don't think Bomb is quite mediocre, I think it's quite bad.Yea exactly, they were most interesting when they stretched their creative limits on records like The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Zooropa and Pop. I actually don't mind ATYCLB also all that much. It was a new interesting direction for them.
Whereas when they became bloated and overconfident, we got Rattle And Hum and HTDAAB.
That said, R&H at least had some brilliant studio songs. Bomb is quite mediocre.