jick said:
This just affirms what I thought all along, U2 aren't satisfied with POP. It doesn't matter if fans insist POP is great, that is precisely why they are called fans - because of "blind worship." If U2 would make tracks of each member farting, these blind fans would still consider it innovative, ambitious, gutsy and the antithesis of safe sound.
Whether POP is great to a fan or not is purely subjective. But what is perfectly objective information is that we know that U2 aren't satisfied with POP. Bono called it unfinished. Now Larry wants to take his turn at fixing it. Eno called it disjointed. And U2 as a whole only put 3 POP songs in the Best Of (and only 2 of out of the 5 songs off POP that were released as a single!). And all 3 songs were remixed to sound better than their originals.
I guess this closes the POP debates.
Cheers,
J
Larry is listenig to Elvis and country music, we had enought of that shit on JT and R&H... that's why I don't care about Larry's opinion... and except for Larry only Poul McG. said something about album's sales (wich BTW are much lower than those of ATYCanLB) and Adam mentioned something about "2 or 3 songs that needed more work".
This kind of thing isn't something uniqe in music world, before Pop they weren't happy with Zooropa (strange that no one remembers it now), before ATYCanLB they weren't happy with Pop, now they're saying (with HTDAAB): this is our first record, it is music we always wanted to make... in other words they're saying (as always) everything to make a new album sound (in the press) like it's better than the last one... and all bands, all artist are doing the same.
Strange that Pop was "finished" until early 2000... strange isn't it?
What's even more strange is that Mln$Hotel songs: TGBHF and Stateless are more in the spirit of Pop than ATYCanLB. (Stateless a bit more and GBHF a sort of link between the two)
As for the POPmart... that time was the end of stadium tours (everywere, except for Europe), to this day arenas are the main places for concerts... having 80-90% of sold out tickets is NOT a failure in this case!
There is this reviewer over here, he has this theory abou U2 albums:
Boy - good
October - worse (than the last one)
War - better (than the last one)
UF - worse
JT - better
R&H - worse
AB - better
Zooropa - worse
Pop - better
ATYCanLB - worse
HTDAAB - better
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(some might not agree with War->UF, but if you'll think about it for a second, War is in fact a better album, it has more great songs than UF... in fact UF has only 3 or 4 memorable tracks... there are even 2 intrumental tunes... so my vote goes to War as a better "ALBUM"))
As you can see this theory is always right.(like I said with some doubts about War->UF)
To quote the words of one of the philosophers:
"I guess this closes the POP debates.
Cheers,"
b