corianderstem
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Well, dang! I never would have guessed that. Thanks for the info.
Happy 13th, Pop!
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Discothèque I can't believe it's 13 years old.
powerhour24
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Vertigo was a big hit on iTunes, and it was a single prior to digital sales being accounted for in the Hot 100, so it's likely it would have been much higher by the way the chart works now.
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LemonMelon
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Not a masterpiece, but hot damn do I love it. Heard it for the first time on July 4, 2002, so I was 11. Seemed pretty fucked up to me at the time, but its darkness provided a memorable soundtrack to that period of my life (yet, like all U2 releases, remained relevant). Years on, I think it holds up remarkably well thanks to some gutsy production and lyrical choices. My knowledge of dance music has widened greatly since, and I could do without Discotheque these days, but Do You Feel Loved is still fantastic.
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Based on the post, the Hot 100.
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I've never heard of "Hot 100" is that Billboard? And that's just U.S., right?
I don't really pay much attention to charts, just curious. Seems odd that Disco would be top 20 but BD and Vertigo wouldn't, especially in the states.
I don't really pay much attention to charts, just curious. Seems odd that Disco would be top 20 but BD and Vertigo wouldn't, especially in the states.
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It's weird thinking we are almost as far away from Pop right now as we were from The Unforgettable Fire when Pop came out. Even then, UF seemed like an "old" album to me, while I still think of Pop as a newer U2 album. Time is flying by.
Katiesheb
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Wow!!! 13 years already!!! I kick myself for not embracing the album in 1997 as much as I do now. Actually shelved it for a long time (I am embarrased to say I had it on cassette! 
) and started to listen to it again within the last two years. What an amazing, brilliant, and underated album!!! One of U2's best albums... Happy Birthday POP!!!
) and started to listen to it again within the last two years. What an amazing, brilliant, and underated album!!! One of U2's best albums... Happy Birthday POP!!!
Mrs. Garrison
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PoP hits puberty...
I was in Korea when this brilliant album came out. I actually bought the cd at the PX on base and carried it around with a friend of mine out into Itaewon (a nice shopping district in Seoul). We wandered around and finally made it up some stairs and over some shops to this little hole in the wall bar that overlooked the busy streets down below. There weren't very many people in the bar, as we had a beer or two each and some lunch. I pulled the cd out and was looking at it when the young Korean bartender came up to me and was like "what is that". I handed him the cd and after looking it over he asked me if he could play it on his stereo at the bar. I said sure, why not.
It wasn't exactly how i had planned on hearing this thing for the first time, but what the heck? So he put it on and we heard Discoteque, which was already getting airplay on the radio, then Do You Feel Loved, which i though was cool but... still different for u2. Anyway, the bartender seemed to like it. Then MOFO came blaring through the speakers, the bartender turned it up, my friend and i exchanged glances as we drank our beers. The sound coming through those speakers was amazing! My friend asked me with one eyebrow raised "are you sure this is u2? doesnt sound like anything i remember from them?"
We listened to some more of it and that afternoon i realized this was the perfect way to get my first listen at a new u2 album, sitting in a bar in a strange land drinking some beers in the early afternoon! Down below us the traffic was completely fucked, cars everywhere with horns honking every few seconds, angry Koreans screaming out their car windows at each other like they were from New York. It really didn't sound so out of place with something like MOFO blaring out of the bar speakers...i guess for a few minutes the world finally made some sense.
I was in Korea when this brilliant album came out. I actually bought the cd at the PX on base and carried it around with a friend of mine out into Itaewon (a nice shopping district in Seoul). We wandered around and finally made it up some stairs and over some shops to this little hole in the wall bar that overlooked the busy streets down below. There weren't very many people in the bar, as we had a beer or two each and some lunch. I pulled the cd out and was looking at it when the young Korean bartender came up to me and was like "what is that". I handed him the cd and after looking it over he asked me if he could play it on his stereo at the bar. I said sure, why not.
It wasn't exactly how i had planned on hearing this thing for the first time, but what the heck? So he put it on and we heard Discoteque, which was already getting airplay on the radio, then Do You Feel Loved, which i though was cool but... still different for u2. Anyway, the bartender seemed to like it. Then MOFO came blaring through the speakers, the bartender turned it up, my friend and i exchanged glances as we drank our beers. The sound coming through those speakers was amazing! My friend asked me with one eyebrow raised "are you sure this is u2? doesnt sound like anything i remember from them?"
We listened to some more of it and that afternoon i realized this was the perfect way to get my first listen at a new u2 album, sitting in a bar in a strange land drinking some beers in the early afternoon! Down below us the traffic was completely fucked, cars everywhere with horns honking every few seconds, angry Koreans screaming out their car windows at each other like they were from New York. It really didn't sound so out of place with something like MOFO blaring out of the bar speakers...i guess for a few minutes the world finally made some sense.
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Happy birthday!
My opinion of Pop has swung in different directions over the years, but now it's definitely one of my favourite U2 albums.
My opinion of Pop has swung in different directions over the years, but now it's definitely one of my favourite U2 albums.
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POP has never changed for me. It's always been brilliant from it's conception.
I have never agreed that it was a failure or, if that is really U2's opinion of the album really is.
Whatever.. some keep writing about it as being their "failure" or "stumble" and I so totally disagree with this - and it's hard to believe Bono or U2 would think it's not good on it's on merit.
If so, they don't hear what I hear when I play this album.
I have never agreed that it was a failure or, if that is really U2's opinion of the album really is.
Whatever.. some keep writing about it as being their "failure" or "stumble" and I so totally disagree with this - and it's hard to believe Bono or U2 would think it's not good on it's on merit.
If so, they don't hear what I hear when I play this album.
An interview with Flood and Howie B that I really enjoyed, about the making of Pop:
Pop Art: Flood & Howie B
Pop Art: Flood & Howie B
Edge_Orchestra
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Boom Cha, BOOM CHA - Pop-tastique!
blueeyedgirl
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Aw, Pop's become an awkward teenager, with a face full of zits 
I was too into Britpop to really love Pop when it came out, but seeing PopMart was
worthy. Good times, good times....
I was too into Britpop to really love Pop when it came out, but seeing PopMart was
worthy. Good times, good times....AchtungB Desire
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wow I still remember when my dad brought Pop to home, and hearing it all day long. Thanks dad
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surprised you've never heard of the hot 100. it is billboard indeed.
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Yeah, all that.. but then again there's.
Aw, Pop's become an awkward teenager, with a face full of zits
Which is a shame.
In my opinion.
Galeongirl
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It is odd. Here BD and Vertigo were solid no. 1 hits, and about every single but ABOY hit the top 10-20 as far as I remember.
ANd yes, even that horrific mistake with MJB hit no. 2.
AtomicBono
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Pop is King.
powerhour24
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It is odd. Here BD and Vertigo were solid no. 1 hits, and about every single but ABOY hit the top 10-20 as far as I remember.
ANd yes, even that horrific mistake with MJB hit no. 2.
Again, as I said earlier: "Vertigo was a big hit on iTunes, and it was a single prior to digital sales being accounted for in the Hot 100, so it's likely it would have been much higher by the way the chart works now."
BD came out during a flurry of big releases, I mean just look at hot ATYCLB charted in the US, it sold more than 4 million copies in its first 12 months or so, but it was never #1.
Shawn Bonneau
New Yorker
Yeah, BD was like 21 and I think Vertigo was 39
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Shawn Bonneau
New Yorker
U2 isn't nearly as big in America as they are anywhere else. For example, CANADA they have tons of number 1's
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Katiesheb
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I remember singles from Pop getting plenty of airplay in Montreal in '97 and '98.
financeguy
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Still as fresh and news as the day it was released.
VintagePunk
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NLOTH also got a ton of radio airplay up here. Still does, occasionally.
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