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"Night & Day" "Alex Descends Into Hell for a Bottle of Milk/Korova 1" "The Fly" "Zoo Station" "Lady with the Spinning Head" "Acrobat" "Numb" "Lemon" "United Colours" "Slug" "Beach Sequence" "One Minute Warning" "Holy Joe" "Mofo" "Fez/Being Born"

I saw it in 1992, about three weeks after seeing them on the ZOOTV tour in Philadelphia. Having only been familiar with Achtung Baby and a few earlier albums and singles, I must say, R&H deflated a lot of the mystery surrounding the band, for me at least. I never knew they had this whole...

I have to admit, the first time I heard this song, in its regular mix as a B-side to the "One" single, I was completely blown away. The boop sounds that start the song off sounded, to my ears, sooooooo modern. Like someone put three green circles on a light yellow canvas or something. But the...

To the band personally? Probably just what the person above said. Friend-related. His importance to the record sleeves... he fit the part of what they were trying to convey.

I have no problem labeling War as an absolute masterpiece. In the world of U2, there are a lot of high-watermark albums, like the Stones, Dylan, the Beatles, etc. We're talking about a huge band with an undeniable catalog. War isn't MY personal favorite of theirs, but it's an album where I can...

Yeah. Everything he said.

Yes, exactly. It's retarded.

I agree with almost everything you said. For me, only "Kite" and "City of Blinding Lights" hold up from those two albums, because you can tell he really meant it. The rest almost feels like posturing. During the 2000s, I rarely hear Bono's high-tenor rasp reach the sincere heights of, say...

That's funny, I would have lopped off the last three on your list, and instead recommended their first three: Speak and Spell, A Broken Frame and Construction Time Again.

Good old Bill Carter. He was the one who helped ZOO TV become a truly uncomfortable media spectacle. I mean that in a good way. It was always meant to challenge people, and Bono's staunch desire to cover the war in Bosnia might have turned some off, but so what?

Larry's drumming and Bono's howling make October something totally militant and righteous, like the Clash albums, but with more spiritual longing. "Tomorrow," "October" and "Scarlet" are the reprieve from the fight, and as such, they are perfect in their original format and context.

I am the walrus?

It's like Lenin said... you look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh...

Most definitely. The America of the news and the politicians, which is completely cynical. Then, the America of the disenfranchised, the hard-worker, the deep and subtle individual that just wants peace... to love and be loved. U2 did America justice by embracing our culture without boosting its...

This interview seemed pretty good to me. Adam's first answer was the best thing, because he said in that phrase "built-in obsolescence" everything that Bono and the Edge were reaching for. However, outside of Bono's final response and a little bit of posturing, I thought they were spot-on...

October is a masterpiece. Up there with the four or five best U2 albums of all-time, for me. So, October, easily. In terms of quality, it shares only one thing in common with HTDAAB... both have hideous LP covers (though Bomb is far worse... what were they thinking?). "Kite" and "City of...

Kind of anachronistic, don't you think? Jimi Hendrix's crowds were largely white, but who gives a shit?

Puh-lease. Violator is a masterpiece.

It's kind of like saying a Beach Boys falsetto harmony sounds like one that preceded it. In this instance, it's just, like, Larry Mullen's drumming style, t'sall...

I still can't think of another example of an artist or band so completely reinventing themselves. To think that two years before, they we doing the Rattle & Hum tour. If they didn't so completely embody what they were doing with the Fly and the whole Zoo motif, it would have never worked. Even...

BEST LIVE PERFORMANCE OF "STREETS" ---------------------------------- ZooTV: RTSS-Streets BEST LIVE DVD ------------- PopMart: Live from Mexico City BEST LIVE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE ------------------------------ The First Time BEST STAGE DESIGN ----------------- ZooTV Tour BEST U2...

From what I understand, those are two lyrics from the play, written by Bono and the Edge.

You hit the proverbial nail on the head, here.

Except that that album was lame... about as interesting as Frank Sinatra's Duets. Go back and listen to Caravanserai and then tell me Santana was relevant on that duets thingy.

Disagree about Elvis from 1962-67. I'd argue that "Do the Clam" is the Ramones before they ever existed. It's so unpretentious and rock 'n' roll, it's almost ridiculous.