I hadn't really listened to it in a long time; but I checked it out tonight.
I remember when it came out, I was really excited about it but at the same time disappointed it wasn't an official U2 release, and not the follow up to Zooropa. But it reminds me of that time and I have sentimental feelings for it.
However:
What was really the deal? I mean, it is a u2 album for all intensive purposes, no? Ok, they say Brian Eno was the 5th member at that point and alot of the direction was his doing, but really, was this a real u2 record in the making and then they said "We can't release it as u2; people will freak out"? I mean, there are U2 songsw on there: Your Blue Room, Always Forever Now, Miss Sarejevo, etc...
What if they took those songs, plus HMTMKMKM, and took some of the leftovers from the Zooropa session that eventually made it onto POP (LNOE, IGWSHA, WUDM) and released it as the new u2 record 1995?
I think it would've been huge.
But instead, we got an experimental electronic melange with 3 good songs on it. From the biggest rock band in the world, coming off 2 years of the most incredible tour ever, and two amazing albums....
Did they drop the ball there? Could they have prevented the POP bashing by releasing the album as stated above? Were they too lazy to finish a proper release at the time? Or were they really just following their muse?
I remember when it came out, I was really excited about it but at the same time disappointed it wasn't an official U2 release, and not the follow up to Zooropa. But it reminds me of that time and I have sentimental feelings for it.
However:
What was really the deal? I mean, it is a u2 album for all intensive purposes, no? Ok, they say Brian Eno was the 5th member at that point and alot of the direction was his doing, but really, was this a real u2 record in the making and then they said "We can't release it as u2; people will freak out"? I mean, there are U2 songsw on there: Your Blue Room, Always Forever Now, Miss Sarejevo, etc...
What if they took those songs, plus HMTMKMKM, and took some of the leftovers from the Zooropa session that eventually made it onto POP (LNOE, IGWSHA, WUDM) and released it as the new u2 record 1995?
I think it would've been huge.
But instead, we got an experimental electronic melange with 3 good songs on it. From the biggest rock band in the world, coming off 2 years of the most incredible tour ever, and two amazing albums....
Did they drop the ball there? Could they have prevented the POP bashing by releasing the album as stated above? Were they too lazy to finish a proper release at the time? Or were they really just following their muse?