pub crawler
New Yorker
hee hee
Ok, who does and who doesn't like POP?
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WildHoneyAlways
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
pop is good
brettig
New Yorker
um, not on yer life...miami is just fine where it is
ericb
The Fly
I think I'm somewhere in between. I like some of it, but like someone else mentioned already, I can't listen to it straight through. It had some great songs, and some of their worst too.
Foxxern
Refugee
I totally love POP. It's incredibly brilliant, and shows that U2 are not scared to take on new challenges and blow the envelope wide open. It's the album that turned me from a fan into a fanatic, and I really can't emphasize it's importance in the U2 catalog. Some of their finest moments are captured on it, and it would be hard to imagine the band without it.
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Change is the only constant
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Change is the only constant
raincloud
The Fly
I love POP!!!!
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"Midnight is where the day begins..."
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"Midnight is where the day begins..."
SweetOnU2
the invisible woman
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I know someday you'll have a beautiful life.
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
but why, why, why can't it be, oh, can't it be mine?
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?.???. *Monica*.???.?
(?.??(?.??* *??.?)??.)
tiny dancer
Blue Crack Distributor
It is not my most favorite album, and I don't disliked it. I love Gone and Staring at the Sun.
clarityat3am
I Serve Larry's Stick
I like most of the songs but it's not my favorite album.
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"It's all about drums."
"What's with all the glitter? I thought you didn't like our mirrorball lemon and shit. Well it's too late to change your mind now." -- Bono, Indianapolis, May 10, 2001
"Tonight with us, we have people who turned celebrity on its head. Celebrities are supposed to be somebody special, film stars, rock stars, we're celebrities. Supposed to be heroes, but we're not heroes. We're very selfish people who enjoy what they do, thank you very much. But here tonight we have from the fire department of New York City, from the police department of New York City, men and women that came down to catch the U2 show tonight. Theirs is the kind of bravery that can truly change the world." --Bono, Notre Dame, October 10, 2001
Whether you love me or hate me you can still email me: clarityat3am@hotmail.com
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"It's all about drums."
"What's with all the glitter? I thought you didn't like our mirrorball lemon and shit. Well it's too late to change your mind now." -- Bono, Indianapolis, May 10, 2001
"Tonight with us, we have people who turned celebrity on its head. Celebrities are supposed to be somebody special, film stars, rock stars, we're celebrities. Supposed to be heroes, but we're not heroes. We're very selfish people who enjoy what they do, thank you very much. But here tonight we have from the fire department of New York City, from the police department of New York City, men and women that came down to catch the U2 show tonight. Theirs is the kind of bravery that can truly change the world." --Bono, Notre Dame, October 10, 2001
Whether you love me or hate me you can still email me: clarityat3am@hotmail.com
popkidu2
War Child
I refuse to answer the question in this post on the grounds that scatteroflight's head might explode upon reading my (very worn out) defense of POP
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And I feel like I'm slowly slowly slowly slipping under.
And I feel like I'm holding onto nothing.
ADAM (talking about Elevation):
"I like it, it's very hard to play live...(starts smiling) I don't understand what it's about, it's good."
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And I feel like I'm slowly slowly slowly slipping under.
And I feel like I'm holding onto nothing.
ADAM (talking about Elevation):
"I like it, it's very hard to play live...(starts smiling) I don't understand what it's about, it's good."
ODB
The Fly
POP sucks shit. It's the worst thing U2 ever did. It's a frigging disgrace. It makes me sick. Now let's move on to another more worthy album.
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Pop is not a dance album- it's a dense album, but not a dance album.
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Pop is not a dance album- it's a dense album, but not a dance album.
~LadyLemon~
I Serve Larry's Stick
I'm a huge fan of POP!
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"When you've seen beyond yourself then you may see peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come when you see we're all one
And life flows on within you and without you"
Peace George
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"When you've seen beyond yourself then you may see peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come when you see we're all one
And life flows on within you and without you"
Peace George
martha
Blue Crack Supplier
I like POP.
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...a highway with no one on it, a treasure just to look upon it...
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...a highway with no one on it, a treasure just to look upon it...
lazyboy
War Child
POP of the TOPS, or maybe POP is the TOPS
I love it, yes, said it about 15 times before on this feckin board, but hey, I love it, si I'll say it again
Did I mention it was the 1 that converted me into U2?
I love it, yes, said it about 15 times before on this feckin board, but hey, I love it, si I'll say it again
Did I mention it was the 1 that converted me into U2?
Salome
you are what you is
IMO mediocre album considering U2's catalogue
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Salome
Shake it, shake it, shake it
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Salome
Shake it, shake it, shake it
follower
Refugee
I feel like posting this bit of an article from USA TODAY, Dec 4th 2001 (today, LOL):
First the interviewer:
While U2 has yet to hang itself creatively or commercially, the band
was shaken by the lukewarm critical reaction to 1997's techno-enhanced
Pop and subsequent irony-rich stadium tour. The album sold 7 million
copies. Popmart, the year's top-grossing U.S. tour, sold 4 million
tickets around the globe.
Now Bono?s quote:
"That's a failure?" Bono wonders aloud. "In Europe, Popmart was seen as
an absolutely groundbreaking pop-art milestone. Here, it was seen as a
flop. I don't like our musical experiments being seen as indulgent. They
are the reason we're here. They give you new life. Curiosity and
stretching out are crucial to any writer's life."
That said, my answer is I love Pop.
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"To me a rock and roll concert is 3-D, it?s a physical thing - it?s rhythm for the body. It?s a mental thing in that it should be intellectually challenging. But it?s also a spiritual thing, because it?s a community, it?s people agreeing on something, even if it?s only for an hour and a half." (Bono, as quoted in the book U2 The Road to Pop)
First the interviewer:
While U2 has yet to hang itself creatively or commercially, the band
was shaken by the lukewarm critical reaction to 1997's techno-enhanced
Pop and subsequent irony-rich stadium tour. The album sold 7 million
copies. Popmart, the year's top-grossing U.S. tour, sold 4 million
tickets around the globe.
Now Bono?s quote:
"That's a failure?" Bono wonders aloud. "In Europe, Popmart was seen as
an absolutely groundbreaking pop-art milestone. Here, it was seen as a
flop. I don't like our musical experiments being seen as indulgent. They
are the reason we're here. They give you new life. Curiosity and
stretching out are crucial to any writer's life."
That said, my answer is I love Pop.
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"To me a rock and roll concert is 3-D, it?s a physical thing - it?s rhythm for the body. It?s a mental thing in that it should be intellectually challenging. But it?s also a spiritual thing, because it?s a community, it?s people agreeing on something, even if it?s only for an hour and a half." (Bono, as quoted in the book U2 The Road to Pop)
scatteroflight
Refugee
Originally posted by popkidu2:
I refuse to answer the question in this post on the grounds that scatteroflight's head might explode upon reading my (very worn out) defense of POP
That was actually quite considerate of you
My head almost did explode when I read what pub crawler wrote, but then I realized that was the idea. I'm a great target for something like that
Seriously, even if I really liked Pop--ok, if I loved it I probably wouldn't mind the fact that it gets talked about all the time. But there's just TOO MUCH, people. I think it's partly because it's still quite recent. To me, Zooropa should really be a more controversial album. Some people love it--lots of people love it--and some hate it but it doesn't seem to provoke the huge discussions and flame wars that Pop does. I like Pop better because it has several songs I genuinely like, whereas Zooropa has two or three at most.
But it's frustrating for someone like me to see Pop constantly held up to be the misunderstood genius of the U2 family, while albums like October and even War are the poor cousins that seldom get mentioned. Far from being the most underrated album, on this forum at least, Pop has GOT to be the most overrated album--simply because hundreds of people are constantly leaping to its defense and going on about how it's the most underrated! Or what about a song like Indian Summer Sky? It gets mentioned, what, every five years or so? While a song like Mofo, which I absolutely cannot endure, is constantly held up as one of the greatest examples of U2's genius. I like ISS more than anything on Pop.
See why some of us get annoyed??
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One day we'd reach the great ocean
At the end of a pale afternoon
And we'd lay down our heads just like we were sleeping
And be towed by the drag of the moon
-Sting
[This message has been edited by scatteroflight (edited 12-04-2001).]
PopFly
War Child
The album is awesome.
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"Good men die unhappily. Bad men die unluckily. THAT's tragedy." --Tom Stoppard
Adam: Look guys, I got a Springfield spoon for my spoon collection.
Edge: Oh boy, here we go...
Bono: Wow, how many is that now Adam?
Adam: Nine. If I didn't have my spoons, I'd go insane.
Bono: Can I see it?
*adam gives bono the spoon, bono throws it away*
Adam: My spoon!
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"Good men die unhappily. Bad men die unluckily. THAT's tragedy." --Tom Stoppard
Adam: Look guys, I got a Springfield spoon for my spoon collection.
Edge: Oh boy, here we go...
Bono: Wow, how many is that now Adam?
Adam: Nine. If I didn't have my spoons, I'd go insane.
Bono: Can I see it?
*adam gives bono the spoon, bono throws it away*
Adam: My spoon!
SweetOnU2
the invisible woman
Originally posted by scatteroflight:
That was actually quite considerate of you
My head almost did explode when I read what pub crawler wrote, but then I realized that was the idea. I'm a great target for something like that
Seriously, even if I really liked Pop--ok, if I loved it I probably wouldn't mind the fact that it gets talked about all the time. But there's just TOO MUCH, people. I think it's partly because it's still quite recent. To me, Zooropa should really be a more controversial album. Some people love it--lots of people love it--and some hate it but it doesn't seem to provoke the huge discussions and flame wars that Pop does. I like Pop better because it has several songs I genuinely like, whereas Zooropa has two or three at most.
But it's frustrating for someone like me to see Pop constantly held up to be the misunderstood genius of the U2 family, while albums like October and even War are the poor cousins that seldom get mentioned. Far from being the most underrated album, on this forum at least, Pop has GOT to be the most overrated album--simply because hundreds of people are constantly leaping to its defense and going on about how it's the most underrated! Or what about a song like Indian Summer Sky? It gets mentioned, what, every five years or so? While a song like Mofo, which I absolutely cannot endure, is constantly held up as one of the greatest examples of U2's genius. I like ISS more than anything on Pop.
See why some of us get annoyed??
If it annoys you too much maybe try to avoid these threads! These threads will last longer when people start complaining about them! I don't think its a bad thing to discuss POP.... I just some times wish that people who we obviously know hate it, will just ignore it! It will avoid a lot of stupid arguments.... but then again arguments are good.. when they are not taken too seriously.
Just my 2 cents.
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Love, slowly stripped away
Love has seen its better day...
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?.???. *Monica*.???.?
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GypsyHeartgirl
POP for GIRLS
I hate POP! I don't want to get into a Popfight but I was heartbroken by Pop. There were reasons I had loved U2 and with POP they destroyed all of them. ATYCLB won me back strong. I really want to write a long diatribe and explain more but my computer will freeze if I try to write a tirade but my vote is no for Pop I hated everything about it!
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"I've been all over,
and it's been all over me!"
[This message has been edited by GypsyHeartgirl (edited 12-04-2001).]
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"I've been all over,
and it's been all over me!"
[This message has been edited by GypsyHeartgirl (edited 12-04-2001).]
tretarka
Babyface
Pop was OK It's one of those albums that grows on you.
scatteroflight
Refugee
You have a point, but even if I don't open the thread, I still SEE it--and at this point that's enough for me! (And then I can't resist opening it!
Anyway, this wasn't supposed to be just a Pop discussion thread--it was "who likes it, who doesn't?" which has been done sooooooo many times and very obviously breeds controversy.
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One day we'd reach the great ocean
At the end of a pale afternoon
And we'd lay down our heads just like we were sleeping
And be towed by the drag of the moon
-Sting
pub crawler
New Yorker
Originally posted by scatteroflight:
My head almost did explode when I read what pub crawler wrote, but then I realized that was the idea. I'm a great target for something like that
LOL!
SweetOnU2
the invisible woman
Why must anything that has to with POP be controversial? How hard is it to say you hate or like something? It's when people start putting other people's opinion and choice down...that it tends to lead to stupid arguments! (like we have seen in the past)I like debates but I don't like it when people say I shouldn't like something because of BLAH!
I mean there's plenty of posts to look at and chances are that 99% of them are not about POP! I just don't see the big deal! If I don't like something I don't even bother opening it! But that is just me!
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Love, slowly stripped away
Love has seen its better day...
(??.?(?*?.? ?.?*?)?.??)
?.???. *Monica*.???.?
(?.??(?.??* *??.?)??.)
Discoteque
Rock n' Roll Doggie
I'd one of the one men out on this one - Pop is my FAVORITE U2 album, to me there isn't a bad song on the entire album. I'm not saying it's their BEST album, it's just my personal favorite. Never get tired of it.
Loved the music, loved the whole feel of that 'era', loved their look, even loved Bono in all his 'shorn' glory too...
Loved the music, loved the whole feel of that 'era', loved their look, even loved Bono in all his 'shorn' glory too...
Jayhawk
The Fly
The POP album itself was good, but not great. It was a bit of a let down after Achtung Baby and Zooropa for me, but I would still it give it the thumbs up. The Popmart live songs were AMAZING once the band got them down though. Some of the live recordings off the European leg are absolutely incredible. I often wonder what the shows would have been like minus the huge TV screen and the theatrics of Popmart.
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I hit an iceberg in my life
You know I'm still afloat
You lose your balance, lose your wife
In the queue for the lifeboat
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I hit an iceberg in my life
You know I'm still afloat
You lose your balance, lose your wife
In the queue for the lifeboat
Saracene
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
I like POP a lot.
Autumn454
War Child
Nope. I don't like Pop at all.
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elevation
Acrobat
Well as some of you have already said, this is a topic much talked about, but anyways: I love Discotheque, Mofo, IGWSHA, SATS, LNOE, Pleazzzee, IFYWTVD, WUDM, but hate Do You feel Loved, Gone, Maimi as much as I hate Wild Honey and Peace On Earth on the new album...
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle". - A. Einstein
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle". - A. Einstein
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