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U2girl said:
There is more to experimentation than just messing around with Edge's guitar.
POP is not that experimental as some people make it out to be - for the most part it's a straightforward rock album.
ATYCLB did feature new sounds for U2, whether it is your kind of experimentation or not. They never tried out pop music before. Beautiful day, Stuck, In a little while, Wild honey, even the ambiental Grace are all new ground for the band.
To a smaller extent, so did the Bomb. 60's type of rock with All because of you, the glam rock stomp of Love and peace or else, the punk-ish Vertigo. Continued research of pop genre with A man and a woman and Original of the species.
There's nothing glam about LAPOE imo.
And U2 were doing punk before they did anything else in the late 70s and early 80s. Punk is nothing new for them.
And Pop is not as straightforward as you think. Yes, not all the tracks are like Mofo or Miami as some would have you think, but If God, Gone, Please, LNOE, etc are not that straightforward. They're not verse-chorus-verse. ATYCLB and HTDAAB are far more straight-forward. Not that they're the only ones. UF, Zooropa, Passengers, and Pop are the least straight-forward U2 records, but the rest are all relatively straight-forward.
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