Hawkfire
The Fly
...when U2 were deliberately trying to do stuff they had NEVER done before, when they were not concerned with alienating audiences, or how many teens in the 12-18 demographic gave a crap about them.
U2 wasn't about incessant marketing or making paint-by-the-numbers FM-lite rock tunes for cheesy soundtracks in 1997. Only the "true" U2 fans were interested, and people at the concerts weren't clamoring for Sunday Bloody Sunday. It was a great time, people.
POP is a flawed, but ultimately brilliant album. It will stand the test of time and ultimately prove more lasting and more influential than ATYCLB. POP is an easy bashing target for many casual U2 fans or 80s U2 fans (is there a worse kind?) But this album and the clever stadium tour that followed will be REDEEMED. Light years ahead of their time.
From Discotheque to SATS to the blistering live renditions of LNOE and Please, to the complexity of Gone and Do You Feel Loved?, the SONGS are there. Unfortunately, the odds are increasingly against U2 making another album anywhere in the same zip code as the revolutionary and ground breaking Achtung-Zooropa-POP trio.
U2 wasn't about incessant marketing or making paint-by-the-numbers FM-lite rock tunes for cheesy soundtracks in 1997. Only the "true" U2 fans were interested, and people at the concerts weren't clamoring for Sunday Bloody Sunday. It was a great time, people.
POP is a flawed, but ultimately brilliant album. It will stand the test of time and ultimately prove more lasting and more influential than ATYCLB. POP is an easy bashing target for many casual U2 fans or 80s U2 fans (is there a worse kind?) But this album and the clever stadium tour that followed will be REDEEMED. Light years ahead of their time.
From Discotheque to SATS to the blistering live renditions of LNOE and Please, to the complexity of Gone and Do You Feel Loved?, the SONGS are there. Unfortunately, the odds are increasingly against U2 making another album anywhere in the same zip code as the revolutionary and ground breaking Achtung-Zooropa-POP trio.