/u2/ - U2 general

I had a friend that had the biggest boner for U2 and they said the same. Achtung Baby is fucking weird man. Joshua Tree only has the good songs I listed. Overall, although I don't really love any of them, I'd say their best album is Atomic Bomb (or whatever the full name is).

have you seen the Zoo TV Live From Sydney video? One of the greatest concert films of all time. MacPhisto is fucking great in how unashamedly weird it is.

is this an episode of i love i love films?

>their best album is Atomic Bomb

holy shit really? I think most U2 fans consider that to be their worst album by far, it's them at their peak bland dadrock style.

by any chance are you a 53 year old soccer mom

this tracklist is fantastic, i'm going to put it together

I did the same thing with Pop as well. It sucks that they fucked up announcing the tour before the album was finished since most of the songs ended up being put on the album unfinished. I know they wrote the chorus to Last Night On Earth the night before the album was due to be delivered to the label. What's worse is that Pop doing worse commercially than their previous albums is what made them stop doing something different with each album and stick to the same sound from that point on. At least all of the songs that weren't finished were completed for the single mixes
>dat outro to the single version of Please
chills desu

Breathe is the acoustic version, but aside from that the rest of the songs are the album versions. Soon->Moment of Surrender works so fucking well, not just as a transition between the two tracks but as the opening to the album. It's gr8 m8

Scott Aukerman also put together a pop tracklist on UTU2TM that's pretty good


1. Pop Muzik (Crossfade after 5 Minutes into Mofo)
2. Mofo
3. Do You Feel Loved
4. Discotheque (Hexadecimal Mix) from The Best of 1990-2000
5. Last Night on Earth (Single Version)
6. North and South of the River
7. Staring at the Sun (New Mix) from The Best of 1990-2000
8. Gone (Mike Hedges Mix) from The Best of 1990-2000
9. Please (Single Version)
10. If you Wear That Velvet Dress
11. If God Will Send His Angels (Single Mix)
12. Wake Up Dead Man

Frustrating because there's so much good stuff on Pop. Even just dropping Miami and Playboy Mansion gives you a pretty solid album.

That's pretty interesting. Yeah, I mean, obviously because I do kind of hate them, I haven't listened to many albums by them.

I've heard
>Atomic Bomb
>Joshua Tree
>No Line on the Horizon
>Achtung Baby
>The Unforgettable Fire
>half of the iTunes abortion one

Just... not a fan. Granted, it *does* have a lot to do with my hatred of Bono. But like I said, I like five, maybe six songs.

Also, any band that produces "Womanfish" can't be considered good, right?

that episode was actually what inspired me to make my version of the album actually. I think I used the single/best of mix for every song that was given that treatment except for maybe Staring at the Sun.

I've been thinking about replacing If You Wear That Velvet Dress with the version of the song they recorded with Jools Holland, it blew me away when I first heard it. It's almost like a Bond theme:
youtube.com/watch?v=CzkFJ2FED-I

The only issue is it might seem out of place with that style of music coming right before Please and Wake Up Dead Man, but I'll listen to it start to finish with that version replacing the album one and see if it works