the tourist said:
I agree with you. I think your meaning is that The Unforgettable Fire is their best. And if that's so, we're in quite the agreement.
Axver said:
Yep, right on. I think UF is most certainly their best album. After that, HTDAAB, JT, and Boy.
Axver said:
Yep, right on. I think UF is most certainly their best album. After that, HTDAAB, JT, and Boy.
lazarus said:
In what bizarro world is Achtung Baby NOT one of U2's Top 3 albums, let alone Top 4 or however far down it is on your list?
Did you happen to buy it right after someone dumped you? Or did your dog get run over by a car playing it on the stereo?
Or do you just have no appreciation for the Edge's finest hour?
laz
lazarus said:
In what bizarro world is Achtung Baby NOT one of U2's Top 3 albums, let alone Top 4 or however far down it is on your list?
Did you happen to buy it right after someone dumped you? Or did your dog get run over by a car playing it on the stereo?
Or do you just have no appreciation for the Edge's finest hour?
laz
the tourist said:
I believe Edge's finest hour came sometime on the Lovetown Tour where he played all that technical blues stuff like Zeppelin. He has never shown skills like that since.
Axver said:
But why does an album song have to be in the studio? I don't see why UABRS shouldn't be counted, especially because the only album that 11 O'clock Tick Tock and Party Girl [two live staples of the eighties] appear on is - you guessed it - UABRS. So you actually have two songs to judge there.
Axver said:
Achtung Baby is a good album, sure, but it's not great. I can't really place it on any ranking, and it simply doesn't stand out to me as one of U2's greatest works. Five individually brilliant songs (One, UTEOTW, The Fly, Acrobat, Love Is Blindness) do not equate to one classic album.
Edge's finest hour, by the way, was the Lovetown Tour.
lazarus said:
Great albums aren't about the quality of each individual song, it's about the journey they collectively take you on, and the ebb and flow.
lazarus said:
In what bizarro world is Achtung Baby NOT one of U2's Top 3 albums, let alone Top 4 or however far down it is on your list?
Did you happen to buy it right after someone dumped you? Or did your dog get run over by a car playing it on the stereo?
Or do you just have no appreciation for the Edge's finest hour?
laz
lazarus said:
That's funny, because Sgt. Peppers has LESS than five brilliant songs (maybe 3 at the most), and I'm pretty sure that's a classic.
Great albums aren't about the quality of each individual song, it's about the journey they collectively take you on, and the ebb and flow.
You imply that the Edge strutted more standard guitar skills during Lovetown, but his creativity and experimentation with sounds on AB is a peak that he certainly didn't reach before then. The man was also pouring his failed marriage into every note, so from an emotional standpoint AB towers over the rest of his work.
Even Bono implied it is their best album.
laz
the tourist said:Ever seen Dead Poet's Society? Want to start MEASURING the greatness of song in a mathematical way???? Ha!
lazarus said:
That's funny, because Sgt. Peppers has LESS than five brilliant songs (maybe 3 at the most), and I'm pretty sure that's a classic.
Great albums aren't about the quality of each individual song, it's about the journey they collectively take you on, and the ebb and flow.
You imply that the Edge strutted more standard guitar skills during Lovetown, but his creativity and experimentation with sounds on AB is a peak that he certainly didn't reach before then. The man was also pouring his failed marriage into every note, so from an emotional standpoint AB towers over the rest of his work.
Even Bono implied it is their best album.
laz
Axver said:I was born in 1987
Axver said:
I also find this implication that every U2 fan has to rank Achtung Baby highly to be completely bizarre. I was born in 1987, the songs from Achtung are songs I grew up singing, and I'm quite attached to them. They are masterful. But a lot of U2's catalogue is more masterful.
lazarus said:Everyone has their own opinion...but when you go against the overwhelming critical, commercial, and fan-based concensus you're just WRONG.
lazarus said:
Also, the music world was so lame in 1991, what U2 did on that album was really revolutionary, blending the Eastern European industrial aesthetic to pop music, and on top of it using hip hop elements on several tracks. Now it might sound old hat.
Everyone has their own opinion...but when you go against the overwhelming critical, commercial, and fan-based consensus you're just WRONG.
laz