But we're all agreed, Pop is their unacknowledged masterpiece?
Phew.
Every time this comes up, it reminds me of that amazing time to be a U2 fan, especially when the internet wasn't a thing and we'd get news from Propaganda and the weekly/monthly music mags. Post-Lovetown... Night & Day being released... the Propaganda Achtung Baby special... The Fly.. Achtung Baby (I think Radio 1 played tracks from it close to release, maybe it was the day of release and I was at school so left my poor mother with instructions to record a day's worth of radio onto cassettes ... Zoo TV inside... Zoo TV outside... Zooropa... Pop... Passengers.... Pop Mart... Hold Me, Thrill Me Kiss Me... The "End of the World" book which was an amazing record.
What a time to be alive. Zooropa and Pop remain two of my favourite U2 albums. Finished or not, Pop has such an eclectic mix of songs and some of them like Mofo perfect the mix of U2 & "dance" rhythms and beats. There's some other really funky stuff on there too like Miami, Playboy Mansion.
I don't know if its such a favourite era of mine because of how old I was at the time and I lived through it in a bit of an "obsessive teenager" to early-20s way, but nothing has come close to that time for me.