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U2 makes a U-Turn with Pop
Pop proves that even the commonly believed worst U2 studio album is better than the best Backstreet Boys pseudo-attempt at music.
Critics and fans alike had problems accepting U2?s new direction on Pop. But, in reality U2 first experimented with the techno-pop-electronica feel on Achtung...
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My First U2 Album After My Awakening
Until 1997, I didn't listen to "new music." My favorite bands were Elvis, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, and Peter, Paul, and Mary. Then I started living life and cautiously trying new flavors of music, and ended up REALLY liking U2. Well, I started liking them just about a month before "Pop" came... Read full review »
Looking for the Baby Jesus Under the Trash
Ladies and gentlemen, here it is. My favorite U2 album.
No, really.
Okay, I know it sounds preposterous. After all, I'm the guy who likes an inordinate number of happy, well-adjusted Christian rock bands. So why, instead of any of a wide variety of faith-affirming albums from...
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A few bright moments if you can weed through the junk
I honestly thought U2 was finished when I first heard 1997's Pop. The disc came out after 1993's Zooropa, a disc which redefines the term "horrible." While Pop is an improvement over Zooropa, it still lacks the drive, immediacy and outright passion of such stellar earlier efforts such as 1991's... Read full review »
Listen As Hope and Peace Try To Rhyme...
In the case of all too many great rock and roll acts who have great careers, there is the one blunder of an album that mucks up their nearly spotless resume. For Aerosmith, this is known as Done With Mirrors. For The Who, it's known as It's Hard. For The Rolling Stones, it's every album since Some... Read full review »
Boom-cha.
All in the spirit of experimentation, U2 began to drift in the 1990s, testing the waters of electronica and dance music. Hey, I like experimentation--- it yielded dance-rock opus Achtung Baby, arguably the best album, like, EVER. Alas, Bono and company kept going. This newfound experimental spirit... Read full review »
The U2 Series Vol 2: Pop, or, "The title's SUPPOSED to be ironic, people!"
90's U2 has fascinated me infinitley more than their 80's work, quality of compositions aside. This album, released in 1997, fooled everyone, and, as such, nobody was quite ready for it.
The album previous, 1993's Zooropa, was a maddeningly inconsistent hodgepodge of U2's budding Europop...
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Even A Flawed U2 Album Has Its Worthy Moments.
1997's Pop is one of the more controversial albums in the U2 catalog. At the time it came out, the music industry was buzzing about a big electronica "boom" and how U2 was one of the first rock acts to try the new sound. Thus, Pop got hyped as "U2's Electronica Album". However, the electronica boom... Read full review »
U2 Goes Further Into Electronica
After the success of 1991?s ?Achtung Baby? and 1993?s ?Zooropa? albums, U2 took an extended break in the mid-90s while contributing to little projects like the song ?Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me? to the ?Batman Forever? soundtrack and a collaboration with their longtime producer...
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Wake Up Dead Men - cynical criticism of our times in U2's POP
U2's unmistakable 90's journey was the very summary of that decade's uncertainty and constant change. They made a remarkable shift in paradigms in 1991's Achtung Baby, putting a final point in 80's. They improved their approach and aesthetics in 1993's Zooropa. Even a 'hidden' concept Art Rock... Read full review »
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