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Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Mon July 30, 2018 9:23 pm
tl;dr
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:06 pm Posts: 8468
My rankings of the post-Pop albums:
No Line on the Horizon (A) Songs of Innocence (A-) All That You Can't Leave Behind (B) How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (B-) Songs of Experience (C-)
I think "No Line" is one of their best albums bar none, not as sonically bold as the "Achtung"-"Zooropa"-"Pop" run (their clear creative peak, in my opinion), but structurally and compositionally more inventive than anything else in this standard U2 template, certainly moreso than anything else this century.
"Songs of Innocence" is a very strong album that suffers for leading with its weakest track. With a little replacing and resequencing it's a fantastic listen.
"All That You Can't Leave Behind" and "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" are average albums with some great highlights. "Songs of Experience" is a weak album with fewer highlights.
Overall if you like U2 it's worth listening to these albums. Perhaps only "Experience" fails to justify its existence; everything else adds at least a few essential tracks to the canon.
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Wed August 01, 2018 12:05 pm
A Return To Form
Joined: Sat February 09, 2013 5:02 pm Posts: 104
LetMeSleep wrote:
Check out Side Two of Songs of Innocence. Start with Volcano or Raised By Wolves
Side 2 of SoI is fantastic. Such well written stuff all around. Very ethereal in a way U2 doesn't write much anymore. Same goes for side 2 of No Line. Cedars of Lebanon and all that...
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sat December 15, 2018 9:56 pm
jeeeesus relax already
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm Posts: 35407
Its by a wide margin my favorite era. Bono's voice, the production, The Edge riffs, electronica, the darkness, the sexiness of all...amazing era of this band. Their clearly peaked here.
Even songs like "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" are among their best work.
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sat December 15, 2018 11:18 pm
what on earth am I talking about
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 12:35 am Posts: 35365
tragabigzanda wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
It has my favorite U2 songs from all time " Stay". Their masterpiece.
Yeah it’s a top-5 U2 song for me
Stay is easily top 5. It has no right being that good and it’s an outlier and almost contradicts their style at all points up to that. They tried to redo it several times afterwards and failed.
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sat December 15, 2018 11:31 pm
jeeeesus relax already
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm Posts: 35407
dimejinky99 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
It has my favorite U2 songs from all time " Stay". Their masterpiece.
Yeah it’s a top-5 U2 song for me
Stay is easily top 5. It has no right being that good and it’s an outlier and almost contradicts their style at all points up to that. They tried to redo it several times afterwards and failed.
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sat December 15, 2018 11:33 pm
10Club Complaint Department
Joined: Wed February 06, 2013 2:47 am Posts: 17469 Location: Scooby Doo
VinylGuy wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
It has my favorite U2 songs from all time " Stay". Their masterpiece.
Yeah it’s a top-5 U2 song for me
Stay is easily top 5. It has no right being that good and it’s an outlier and almost contradicts their style at all points up to that. They tried to redo it several times afterwards and failed.
Post subject: Re: Where The Streets Have No Name / The U2 Thread
Posted: Sun December 16, 2018 4:33 pm
10Club Complaint Department
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 2:02 am Posts: 15145 Location: Gigatown
dimejinky99 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
It has my favorite U2 songs from all time " Stay". Their masterpiece.
Yeah it’s a top-5 U2 song for me
Stay is easily top 5. It has no right being that good and it’s an outlier and almost contradicts their style at all points up to that. They tried to redo it several times afterwards and failed.
Stay is a simple beautiful masterpiece
I like Stay but I have never loved it to that length or put it on such a high pedestal. It might be in my U2 top 40, but I digress. The Achtung-Zooropa-Pop run of albums and shows is about as good as it gets. That era of U2 is the reason I haves loved the band for so long and have spent outrageous amounts of money to see them in concert several times. U2 is an experience unique to itself. An experience with significant substance thanks to those middle albums.
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