What about the basslines of Stay, Lemon, Daddy's gonna pay.......................
In the past records, indeed the first records, he played a bit raw, he was good anyway, but he's probably the member of U2 who has improved much more playing. Larry and Edge play pretty the same, Adam became kinda more melodic record after record. For instance, the basslines of Unforgettable Fire are very different to the first 3 records, as much as like Joshua Tree's basslines compared to UF and so on. He studied a lot actually, and you really recognize it. But Pop is surely a record were he gave his best, but I must say there isn't a record at all or a song where I don't like the basslines, starting from Boy and ending To How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
if you read Bill Flanagan's U2 at the End of the World, he shares that both Adam and Larry took lots of time off after Zooropa to learn some new stuff and try to contribute more fresh ideas. =) very heartwarming. i love the boys.