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I think that has more to do with the listing of the tracks on the album. Towards the end almost all the tracks are slow paced.
Good posting and nice insight in your own U2 history – but regarding your suspect, nope, you're not hitting at least my point. Why? Just because my two favourite U2 albums "The Joshua Tree" & "Achtung Baby" can't be called underground albums either. They were and still are really popular with mainstram listeners. The problem with ATYCLB is simply, it's not in the same league as those masterpieces. In other words: It's worse, in my ears far worse ...65980 said:I suspect a lot of hardcore U2 fans are a bit down on this one because it doesn't rock that hard, and of course because of the ultimate sin -- it was really popular with mainstream listeners.
That's your conclusion only – but, as said before, it is all about taste and difference ...Rob33 said:In conclusion, ATYCLB is an amazing album, in which is some of U2's finest work...
ZOOTVTOURist said:
Good posting and nice insight in your own U2 history – but regarding your suspect, nope, you're not hitting at least my point. Why? Just because my two favourite U2 albums "The Joshua Tree" & "Achtung Baby" can't be called underground albums either. They were and still are really popular with mainstram listeners. The problem with ATYCLB is simply, it's not in the same league as those masterpieces...
Originally posted by 65980
What I'm saying is: Why can't one love both Pop and ATYCLB? I can, so I guess I'm a happier U2 fan than you are.
Axver said:
Yep. I think the "back to their roots" talk was really daft anyway, because U2's roots - i.e. the band's original sound and most prominent early influences - lie in post-punk! Now, do you hear post-punk on ATYCLB? I sure as hell don't. It sounds nothing like Joy Division or The Chameleons or early The Cure or even Boy and U2's non-album 1979-80 songs.
I don't understand some of the massive praise it receives here.
65980 said:I guess I'm a happier U2 fan than you are.
65980 said:
I guess I'm a happier U2 fan than you are.
sue4u2 said:With all your dislike of this album and AB, HTDAAB, what did you like?
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This is a serious question because I can't figure why you are still a U2 fan, since they don't add up to your earlier standards.
and post punk is not a substainable musical goal.
It's obvious they haven't done the same thing since their earlier decades - over and over - so do you expect this from every band you like then hate them because they don't.
Can any band do this?
just curious
Axver said:
and I'm not exactly sorry I don't match up to your standards of what a U2 fan should think and say.
That's rather beside the point. It's not whether U2 can or should make post-punk. If they're going to say they're going back to their roots with an album - well, their roots are post-punk! So I was critiquing that hype as thoroughly inaccurate.
Axver said:
That's rather beside the point. It's not whether U2 can or should make post-punk. If they're going to say they're going back to their roots with an album - well, their roots are post-punk! So I was critiquing that hype as thoroughly inaccurate.