If you could rename POP, what would it be?

[curehp]

I think POP is a great record that suffered from a poor image that was created around it which was partly due to it's name. If you could rename it, what would you call it?
(Please don't turn this into a why POP sucks thread or bring back the name poop)

 

[Dorian Gray]

'Expect Nothing But The Best'

wasn't something like that bounced around for awhile?

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Pictures in grey...

 

[mikal]

"All That U2 Should Have Left Behind"

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This place is too addicting.

 

[~LadyLemon~]

Whatever Mikal does NOT say!!!

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All I need are some tasty waves, cool buzz, and I'm fine.

 

[TylerDurden]

"All That You Won't Like Right Now But If You Come Back And Listen To It Again In A Few Years You Will Realise It Was Fucking Genius"

 

[blood red edge]

i'm with mikal

 

[mikal]

Originally posted by ~LadyLemon~:
Whatever Mikal does NOT say!!!

LOL!

Actually I love the album!

I think POP was a good name! I just wish the critics wouldn't have shit on it like they did!



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This place is too addicting.

 

[Whortense]

plastic bono band

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~whortense wiffin
walla walla, washington

 

[Sicy]

MOFO

* grins evilly

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POPs are people too.
? 2001 Fly Girl

 

[ericb]

MOFO! LOL! I like that!

 

[curehp]

Originally posted by IvanClaytonJnr:
it doesn't need to be replaced , POP is a great name for this record ( My Favourite BTW )

"Streets Of Miami" will be cool to me

Streets of Miami is a cool name. How about "Chance is a kind of Religion"

 

[mikal]

Rather Go Blind!

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This place is too addicting.

 

[curehp]

I think mikal found the perfect name!

 

[~LadyLemon~]

I like Tyler's.

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All I need are some tasty waves, cool buzz, and I'm fine.

 

[the olive]

I think "COLOURS" kind of suits the imagery of the music, the tour and the band at the time.

 

[DebbieSG]

LOL, Tyler. Though I appreciated it from the start.

 

[Achtung Zooropa]

i really like the name POP, but if i had to think of some other names for the album, i would go with: "Gone", "What Lovers Steal", or "Wake Up Dead Man"

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Peace out and take care!
-Jason

P.S. "Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no-one is watching." - U2

 

[MacPhisto066]

they should have stolen from The Pet Shop Boys : ALTERNATIVE

 

[MSU2mike]

Up With the Sun
God's Glue

 

[ultraviolet_j]

How about: Demo

The singles they released sounded great compared to the album versions that sounded unfinished.

 

[Foxxern]

I remember someone on here a while ago who had the perfect title for POP: Last Night On Earth.

Think about it. It just seems to be about a person (likely a woman) spiralling downward through the excesses of society. It is, in a sense, her last night on Earth.

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Change is the only constant

 

[SweetOnU2]

Originally posted by IvanClaytonJnr:
it doesn't need to be replaced , POP is a great name for this record ( My Favourite BTW )

"Streets Of Miami" will be cool to me

I agree! I like the name just fine!!


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"Were one but we're not the same... some us like the POP LOOK!" - ME!


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[diamondbruno9]

-"Pagan's Banquet"
D
B
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[zoomerang II]

Pop - Last night on Earth without a doubt.

Its fun trying to think of alternative names for all the albums
Boy - perfect
October - perfect
War - I could maybe rename this "seconds" or "Drowning Man" but war is very good.
UF - Maybe "let it go" or "Isolation"
JT - interesting, it works too well to change
how about "the howling wind"? nahh, keep it
AB - this should be renamed although I can't think what. How about "its no secret" or "eye of a needle" or "love made complete"
Zooropa - "light projected" - nahh zooropa is good.
atyclb - bikini

for all you veterans. Wouldn't change it.

 

[DoctorGonzo]

'Expect Nothing But The Best'

wasn't something like that bounced around for awhile?

In 1996, promo cards featuring photos of the band were distributed to record label execs. On one side it said "Expect Nothing" on the other, "But The Best". Some people who were trying to figure out what the new CD would be called ignored the context or presentation of the phrase and simply assumed that the next CD would be called "Expect Nothing But The Best", soon however, common sense prevailed and the idea became discreditied. However, in time, people picked up on the fact it was once a theory and assumed that it was actually the album's early title, when in fact, nobody connected with the band in any way shape or form ever said it was.

The only confirmed titles under consideration were "Miami" and "Pop: For Men". Though, the latter one was more of a joke than anything else.

The final title of the CD and the artwork to go along with it, were actually last minute decsions. Work on the album sleeve was wrapping up when the change in the album's title required a new theme.

[This message has been edited by DoctorGonzo (edited 10-01-2001).]

 

[kerc]

I would have taken the title and spelled it backwards.

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k e r c

La aventura del comienzo
La intriga de lo incierto
No temas y busca lo nuevo
S?lo empieza desde cero

 

[PopDreamBeliever]

don't u know that POP stands for:
Patties On the Piss


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"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery none but ourselves can free our minds." -Bob Marley "Redemption Song"

 

[stagman]

I Can't Get Enough
Staring into the Flash
Would It be Alright
Alone In This World
Order In This Disorder
Beauty Is Truth
Don't Know If I Can Hold On
No Time For Sorrow
I Know I've Got To Believe
Long Hot Summer
Don't Think At All
Military's Still In Town
There's Something Missing
Lesson's in History
Are We Just Starting Again
Under The Trash
No One Tell's Me NO!
Drown Out The World
The Things She's Afraid Of
We Could Make Something Beautiful
Give it Away
What's That You Say
Do You Really Want Me To
So Much For So Little
Dizzy
All That You Can Find
Tie Me Down
Pushing And Shoving

My choice in the end would be:

I'm Not Coming Down

 

[bullet the blue sky]

Should still be Pop

Or even

"Better than Rattle and Hum"

or

"This Will Really Annoy People Who Are Still Stuck In The 80s"

 

[MrPryck2U]

I would've named POP! "Fuck You!". As in Fuck You, we'll do whatever we want!

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