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 2nd June 2006, 11:46 PM
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Well obviously many consider their best album "The Joshua Tree" but although it used to be my favourite i now perfer Acthung Baby
 I think it is far more diverse and creative and is definatly thier best album  The thing i love about U2 is that throughout their near 30 year carear they have consistantly released great albums and their last two have been favourites of mine and i look forward to the forthcoming album later this year  My least favourite album is either Zooropa or Pop but i still really like both  What does everyone else think? |
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3rd June 2006, 07:32 AM
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My Top5 would be:
1. Joshua Tree 2. Achtung Baby 3. All That You Can't Leave Behind 4. The Unforgettable Fire 5. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb |
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3rd June 2006, 07:55 AM
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"War" ("Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Year's Day" are the greatest songs U2 ever wrote...), closely followed by "October" and "Unforgettable Fire".....
I've got very little time for anything U2 did after "Joshua Tree".... Their past three or four albums have just been commercial pap.... |
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3rd June 2006, 11:05 AM
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I usually try to form my opinion around what I GENUINELY think rather than what the mass majority think but I really do agree that Joshua Tree is one of the best albums, not only that U2 have produced, but that I've ever heard.
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4th June 2006, 03:26 PM
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QUOTE(GRIMLY FIENDISH @ Jun 3 2006, 08:58 AM)  "War" ("Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Year's Day" are the greatest songs U2 ever wrote...), closely followed by "October" and "Unforgettable Fire"..... I've got very little time for anything U2 did after "Joshua Tree".... Their past three or four albums have just been commercial pap....  Typicle rock fan attitude The real reason you don't like their albums after the Joshua tree has nothing to do with the actual music but the fact that they were the biggest band on earth and it is'nt cool to like a band that sell million of albums.The Joshua tree is an EXTREMLY over-rated album IMHO  Sure the first five tracks are masterpieces but after that the album drags on for me. It gets quite boring infact, something like a Boreplay album Actung Baby on the other hand as a previous poster mentioned is FAR better. It is an absolute classic record and has all types of music on it, including the classic "One". How any true music fan could'nt recognice how superb a song like "Sometimes you can't make it on your own" is beyond my understanding  U2's last two album pissed all over most of today exuses of bands such as the whiney little $h!ts that are "Codlplay", and over twenty-five years into their carear they are able to put on a concert like no other band could possibly |
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4th June 2006, 03:44 PM
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The Joshua Tree for me,no contest.
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4th June 2006, 03:48 PM
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I'm probably alone in this but I the one I always enjoy the most is 'All You Can't Leave Behind' sure most of their older stuff had most of the classic songs everyone will always remember but this is the one which I enjoy most overall as the others had too many songs that didn't really do it for me...
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4th June 2006, 04:17 PM
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QUOTE(Bono @ Jun 4 2006, 04:29 PM) Typicle rock fan attitude The real reason you don't like their albums after the Joshua tree has nothing to do with the actual music but the fact that they were the biggest band on earth and it is'nt cool to like a band that sell million of albums.The Joshua tree is an EXTREMLY over-rated album IMHO Sure the first five tracks are masterpieces but after that the album drags on for me. It gets quite boring infact, something like a Boreplay album Actung Baby on the other hand as a previous poster mentioned is FAR better. It is an absolute classic record and has all types of music on it, including the classic "One". How any true music fan could'nt recognice how superb a song like "Sometimes you can't make it on your own" is beyond my understanding U2's last two album pissed all over most of today exuses of bands such as the whiney little $h!ts that are "Codlplay", and over twenty-five years into their carear they are able to put on a concert like no other band could possibly You wont find me putting up a defence for Coldplay mate, I find them to be as boring and tedious as U2's current material (U2, it comes as no surprise, is a big influence on Coldplay...) so you're barking up the wrong tree. And by the way, in the mid-80s U2 were probably my favourite band, but when I heard "Rattle and Hum" I just tuned out, it bored me.... "Achtung Baby" has some good individual tracks on it, but I dont rate it at all as an album. But, I am eternally grateful to U2 for ridding the charts of that fukkin' awful Brian Adams track which had infested our brains for 14 bloody weeks.... The fact is, the bigger they got, the bigger Bono's ego got and the music suffered as a result, becoming less compelling and for me, less worth listening to. If Bono stopped being an egocentric dick and stopped trying to save the world and acting like the bleeding Messiah, and concentrated more on the actual music, it might actually be a bit better than it is.. I rate the first three albums pretty much over all the others because they are raw, exciting and unpretentious - Bono had not become the boring, egotistical w/anker that he was to become in the 90s..... You can call my reply a "typical rock fan response" if that makes you feel better, but I don't know how to be anything other than totally honest in my views... As for live performance, you are correct, U2 are a compelling live band, it's just a shame the albums they make no longer hold any interest for me.... |
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4th June 2006, 04:19 PM
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QUOTE(Grandwicky @ Jun 4 2006, 04:51 PM) I'm probably alone in this but I the one I always enjoy the most is 'All You Can't Leave Behind' sure most of their older stuff had most of the classic songs everyone will always remember but this is the one which I enjoy most overall as the others had too many songs that didn't really do it for me... I absolutelly love All that you can't leave behind. I have great memeries of playing it in the summer of 2000  The first 7 songs are so bloody brilliant and the rest of the songs are also very good but not near as brilliant as the first half.My favourites have to be In a little while, Wild honey, Kite and Walk on, oh and Stuck in a moment How to dismatle an atomic bomb overall is better IMO though. The only below average song on it is "one step close"
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4th June 2006, 04:22 PM
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Achtung Baby is my favourite.
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13th June 2006, 10:55 PM
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QUOTE(Scotty. @ Jun 4 2006, 05:22 PM) I absolutelly love All that you can't leave behind. I have great memeries of playing it in the summer of 2000 The first 7 songs are so bloody brilliant and the rest of the songs are also very good but not near as brilliant as the first half.My favourites have to be In a little while, Wild honey, Kite and Walk on, oh and Stuck in a moment How to dismatle an atomic bomb overall is better IMO though. The only below average song on it is "one step close" Yeah Walk On is probably up there with my all time favourites Crumbs On Your Table also wasn't that great imo from HTDAAB. 
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13th June 2006, 10:58 PM
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QUOTE(Grandwicky @ Jun 13 2006, 11:58 PM) Yeah Walk On is probably up there with my all time favourites Crumbs On Your Table also wasn't that great imo from HTDAAB. Yeah, it has alot of potential to be brilliant but just is'nt
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13th June 2006, 10:59 PM
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But in general it was still a great album but they've had better
 I still believe that they have some of their best material in front of them though.
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13th June 2006, 11:11 PM
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QUOTE(Grandwicky @ Jun 14 2006, 12:02 AM) But in general it was still a great album but they've had better I still believe that they have some of their best material in front of them though. I agree, i love them due to them being so diverce, i mean they've done every type of music over the years and most of it has been ace. I can't wait for their new album 
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14th June 2006, 10:40 AM
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The Joshua Tree, a fabulous deep, heartfelt album.
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14th June 2006, 08:19 PM
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QUOTE(Scotty. @ Jun 14 2006, 12:14 AM) I agree, i love them due to them being so diverce, i mean they've done every type of music over the years and most of it has been ace. I can't wait for their new album Is that last smilie Bono then?  
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20th June 2006, 06:41 PM
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QUOTE(Grandwicky @ Jun 4 2006, 04:54 PM) I'm probably alone in this but I the one I always enjoy the most is 'All You Can't Leave Behind' No you're not really alone Grandwicky, I found myself actually waivering  between Actung Baby & this and chose the former as I've been playing on the MP3 player recently.But I was also thinking I must dig out ATYCLB as I loved it at one time (a true sing a long album) but flogged it (I've done this with Atomic Bomb) & then put it away I think, as some have said, their best is yet to come, and although the nostalgia value of their early albums (pre Unforgettable) gives me a warm fuzzy feeling  They have for me come a long way both as writers & preformers since.Atomic Bomb was for me was fresh, exciting and revelant. It could hold its own amongst the twenty-something popstars in the charts and that's the magic of U2 although some of us fans might live down memory lane - U2 definitely live in the here and now. Kel |
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20th June 2006, 10:53 PM
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21st June 2006, 09:40 AM
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Achtung Babyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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24th June 2006, 01:13 AM
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