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This is Larry's chance to actually start "The Larry Mullen Band" supergroup and piss all over U2 with it. Drums: Larry Bass: ? Guitar: ? Vocals: ? Or, Larry could front the band, doing lead vocals. It would suck, but it would be fun.

"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy" Tonight. I was scared upon hearing it because I realized that the band I'd appreciated for so many years actually had horrible taste.

It may not be the weakest, but 'Red Hill Mining Town' is somehow the most easily forgettable tune on Joshua Tree. I think this is not only because they never played it live (until recently, which made us wish... they'd never played it live), but also because I think it sounds like it comes from...

Yeah, they're both amazing songs. I love both. I just love all the other 10 songs more.

I've never understood the lower ranking many give to 'Trip Through Your Wires', which I personally love. The relatively "weaker" song on TJT, for me, would probably be "Exit", which sounds like a rough sketch but which was then fleshed out, live. (Late in the 1987 tour, they really had nailed...

Just curious as to how the devoted internet-U2 fan feels about this. Which of the two albums do you prefer? (By the way, I'm interested in only the studio records. Not the live shows. Not the outtakes. Just the official, original albums.)

Sounds pretty much as I was expecting (and he's told the driving with McCartney stories before, too!). I have zero interest in this book. And one reason for that is the U2 By U2 book. That book is quite good, but Bono's sections in it are BY FAR the most boring, fomulaic, and uninspired. Now...

'I Know I Won't Go Crazy Tonight' or whatever the hell it's called clearly should be very last on the list (with 'Stand Up Comedy' not far behind). I mean, I love 'I Will Follow' but would anyone else have it at #2? A little excessive.

Well, we disagree there. 'The Miracle of Dee Dee Ramone' (I mean, it could have name-checked any Ramone, right?) is over-produced in the sense that it's way too slick and desperately trying for pop-radio status on a ship that had long sailed on U2. But for the rest of that album, I think the...

Yes, that's it, thanks! Was a bit older than I thought...

Slightly off topic, but my top 3 live U2 performances (of three different songs) would probably be: 1) 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' -- November 1987 at Denver. The filmed one in Rattle & Hum. Angry and passionate! Bring it on! 2) Almost any 'Bad' performance from early in the autumn 1984 tour...

I'm not saying they have to garbage them forever (though that would be good, too). It's not silly. It's energizing to the artist and, in the end, to the audience. In 1979, Bob Dylan garbaged his entire 20-years' worth of the most acclaimed songs ever written to play entirely newly written...

Was getting my hair cut in Tokyo today, and a cover of 'All I Want Is You' came on the radio. Female lead vocalist. Keyboard / synth-dominated backing, with drums and some light guitar, maybe. Overall sound / production reminded me of maybe The Corrs in the late-90s. I haven't followed...

'The Miracle' is a wonderful piece of songwriting. First-rate U2 in terms of composition., and should have been a slam-dunk "winner" single. The only problem with it was its over-cooked execution in the studio, where the band members and whichever one of their 32 producers working on it...

I could respect U2 more if they'd retire some of these chestnuts. There's no need whatsoever to play 'Where The Sheep Have No Name' or 'Bad' ever again. After 40 years. let some things go. Shake it up. Mix up the setlist. In short, stop giving the lay-fans what they want.

There were so many respectable ways U2 could have chosen to age gracefully. Instead, they chose "The Claw", a Joshua Tree retro-tour, Ryan Tedder productions, and now a "fat-Elvis-in-Vegas" residency. Damn them. Damn all 4 of them to hell.

I didn't say I don't like "Stuck in a Moment". (As it happens, I think it's fine.) What I said was, the band's attitude towards such melodies and potentially-commercial tunes was different when they were older.

It's just a different attitude to safeguarding your commercial standing in the industry as you get older. U2 in 1981 with a cheesy pop-melody like "Pete The Chop": "This is really cheesy, and sounds like A Flock Of Seagulls or something. Let's bury it. If our manager begs us, we'll put it out...

Oh, don't worry, I deleted 'American Soul' out of existence the first time I heard it. (In retrospect, I'm surprised I made it past the title.) Okay, vocoder, whatever. Anyway, it's U2 trying to sound like stuff tweens buy, which is pathetic.

Back in 1997, I didn't like 'Staring At The Sun', as I thought it sounded like a "desperate-for-radio-play" kind of single (little did I know what was coming in years to follow!), and also like an Oasis-copy in terms of the chords and structure. Later, I grew to appreciate the tune and some of...

Yeah, but the standards for "flop" isn't equaling the sales of The Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby. If you want to talk about a flop, that would be Spice Girl Mel B's second album, L.A. State of Mind (2005), which peaked on the UK chart at #453.

I mean, it sold 7 million copies...

I'm definitely in the minority in absolutely loving "The Playboy Mansion". I think it's like a quintessential U2 lyric, metaphorically making the gates of the playboy mansion akin to the gates of heaven, while at song's end the narrator seemingly makes it through and the whole song becomes a...

For me, Pop will forever be one of those "less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts" albums. There are certainly enough strong individual tunes on it that it had enough meat to be a great record. To my tastes, the tunes that are (or are potentially) great are: Discothèque Do You Feel Loved (even though...

Good post, and I think I agree with you. One of the really interesting things about U2 is how protective they are of each other, and of the "band exclusivity". Like, it's okay for Edge to go alone and do some soundtrack stuff (as he did way back in 1985-86), or for Bono / Edge to do some...