david
ONE love, blood, life
The Gone vocals sound like re recorded vocals.
The Gone vocals sound like re recorded vocals.
The Hong Kong mixes show that there's a great alternative version of the album waiting to be heard, but sod trying to "finish it". Pop's one of my favourite albums and I'm personally not interested in what 2017 U2 would do to it. Besides, it's arguably thanks to Pop that U2 are in the situation they're in right now with SOE. No real deadlines leading to far too much second guessing.
The time's passed to add anything to it, and they've changed a great deal since, it would just amount to sabotage at this stage. A whole album of Disappearing Acts and Wave Of Sorrows, only this time with good songs we already know that didn't need finishing. It was bad enough they did those new mixes 5 years later, let alone 20.
My belief on POP is the album would have been a great success if they would have led with SATS, then Gone, then IGWSHA, then fuck it up a little with MOFO, Disco, and back to Please. They never gave it a chance. Oh I forget there was also DYFL and LNOE on that album. What a crap album...tongue firmly planted in cheek.
Original version is way better than the new mix. New mix is less emotional in comparison to the original one, but that's taste I guess... The original version is even one of my all time u2 favorits..