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doctorwho said:I take issue with Adam's comment that ATYCLB only had one hit.
"Stuck..." was certainly a hit song, charting on the U.S. and U.K. charts (peaking at #2 on the U.K. charts). The proof that "Stuck..." was a hit came when ATYCLB started to reclimb the charts once "Stuck..." was released. That shows a song is a hit as it's helping the album sell better.
ATYCLB sold 4+ million in the U.S. Those type of sales aren't generated by just one hit song.
As for HTDAAB being the "catchiest" album yet, hmmm... I can certainly hear quite a few hit songs from it, but I'm not sure it's the most catchy - time will tell. For now, I think AB has that honor.
Obviously, Clayton didn't study the sales statistics and chart positions of the singles off that album. Not to mention the Grammy awards. All four singles from the album won Grammies (don't think any other album has had four different songs winning Grammies), yet the album did not win Album Of The Year (losing to some redneck hicks). Anyway, the reason could be that other than the 4 songs, ATYCLB had no meat in it.
So Clayton should diss the lack of quality, and not the lack of hits of ATYCLB. I think HTDAAB is downright catchy. All songs are singalong. Normally the second side of the album is where they let go of unsing-a-long songs like New York or Miami or Grace or Love Is Blindness, but with HTDAAB we can still all singalong to songs deep into the album, even up to Yahweh and OOTS which is Beatlesesque.
Anyway, it is nice to know that there is another U2 fan like yourself (who I respect very much) who can corroborate that Clayton is ignorant of the facts surrounding ATYCLB. You don' t sell 4 million in the USA based on one hit song, and you don't sell over 10 million worldwide.
Cheers,
J