cobl04
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What about those of us who think Pop doesn't sound rushed or unfinished? What are we, chopped liver?!
U2DMfan said:I don't particularly think it was rushed or unfinished or that it matters much.
I think it took a blow commercially and critically for a number of reasons, and then U2 and Boner went into panic mode and suddenly they had a ready-built excuse*.
Well, if the story regarding Playboy Mansion is true, then Pop was rushed. Adding vocals during the mastering of the album sounds incredibly chaotic. That's kind of a big no no.
Didn't they announce the tour and open ticket sales 3 weeks before the album was released?
What about those of us who think Pop doesn't sound rushed or unfinished? What are we, chopped liver?!
That was my thinking there. Or the story of LNOE having it's chorus being written and recorded just hours before mastering begun.
Without looking at quotes from 97 and/ or 2005 one can look at the clues and tell Pop was rushed and that the band felt like that at the time.
What other U2 release has that many editing mistakes?
What other U2 release has that many of it's singles that were drastically changed by the time they were released?
Yes.What about those of us who think Pop doesn't sound rushed or unfinished? What are we, chopped liver?!
I agree with this, if Pop had been a success they would have used terms like "raw", "sparse production" and "spontaneous" when describing it but because it failed in their eyes they call it rushed and under-produced...
POP is always described as the album that didn't get enough time to get finished. It got an awful lot of time actually. I think it suffered from too many cooks.
Even if Pop had been a huge hit, this article describing the difficulty of it's birth would have existed.
Either way, IMO, we should simply examine it for what it is. I bought it the first day it was out. And as far as I'm concerned, before I ever heard the band's excuse making, I'd already decided how much I liked it or didn't like it.
One way I look at it is that I like the chorus to LNOE as it is, whether they came up with it the last night of recording or not. Would I have liked the one they came up with if they had another two months in the studio better? Maybe... or maybe not.
guys, Nick66 hasn't posted in over a day.
Iovine's favourite on NLOTH was/is reportedly Every breaking Wave. Didn't make the album.
That's how much U2 fawns over record execs' opinion.
Pop sounds fine to me I must be stupid.