I'm always a little more reactionary when I post in here, that's why I have the album forum blocked and don't venture in here all that often. So take my comments with a few grains of salt. I am a faceless person posting on an internet forum in a thread with people I don't know and don't really care about so I'm come across as a bit more of an arsehole, cos I find it enjoyable for about three seconds.
But it's posts like the above that have always annoyed me. I like OS1, would probably rate it somewhere in the bottom quarter of U2 albums if I was to make a list, but I have seen hundreds of posts in the nine years I've been on this forum hanging shit on the album and its songs because it is different to the U2 norm. So many great moments - brilliantly manic (mostly-)instrumentals like United Colours, Always Forever Now, One Minute Warning. Truly beautiful pieces of work like Beach Sequence. The ones everyone knows and loves, Slug, Your Blue Room, Miss Sarajevo. Even the more obscure tracks are, at the very worst, interesting. And it shits me that people immediately classify them and the album as a whole as some sort of embarrassing "experimental" misfire, full of tracks that can't be considered "songs" because they aren't verse-chorus etc and don't fit the traditional U2 mould. It's like it's something to be ashamed of. And that mentality, that approach to that album, has always felt very shallow to me.