Pros: Juicy electronic-influenced rock music coupled with gripping (and sometimes haunting) lyrics. Cons: The occasional awkward lyric; conservative Christian listeners will be offended.
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 ...
Pros: Moments of musical intrigue, Three songs Cons: Generally lousy lyrics, Uninspired music, Overproduced lyrics
Often, I advocate albums where the best tracks do not appear on "Best Of" albums that a band might have produced. So, if an album has truly wonderful tracks that were never singles or would not appear on a "Greatest Hits" album, I will often make ...
Pros: Makes for great background music; you'll actually find a good song here and there. Cons: "Not offensive" does not mean the disc is terribly good, either.
I honestly thought U2 was finished when I first heard 1997's Pop. The disc came out after 1993's Zo
oropa,
a disc which redefines the term "horrible." While Pop is an improvement over ...
Pros:Please and Wake Up Dead Man are amazing, 3-4 other decent songs Cons:Mofo and Miami should be wiped off the planet
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 ...
Pros: More consistent than Zooropa, Bono's inspiried, ironic, and occasionally harrowing lyrics. Cons: Almost completley impenetrable in terms of sound, production, and feel.
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, ...
Pros: Several REALLY GOOD songs Cons: Some stuff that didn't work musically
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...
Pros: Flashes of brilliance; more often than not utterly intriguing. Cons: Some crap numbers; so close to being a masterpiece it's frustrating that it isn't.
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...
Pros: Last U2 attempt on experiments (generally successful), daring to challenge their era and listeners Cons: Erratic. The album delivers less than it promises to.
U2's unmistakable 90's journey was the very summary of that decade's uncertainty and constant ...
Pros: Intricate and, for the most part, well-crafted. Kudos to U2 for taking some risks. Cons: A few songs could have been better.
Author's Note: This review is unforgivably long, excruciatingly irritating, and undeniably heavy-handed. If you read the whole thing and actually *like* it, chances are you have some serious mental issues that need to be resolved. There. You've been...
Pros: Has some good, even great, songs. Cons: Some songs are filler, overall an uneven album.
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...
Pros: Very Good Album From U2. Cons: A couple of weak tracks.
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...
Pros: One of U2's strongest albums ever (out of 10 strong albums they've put out). Cons: "Gone" is not as great as it could've been (and is, on the Best Of).
Here is it: The one known as U2's "bomb." The one that just didn't make the cut. The first of the "crap albums." And if you're agreeing with these statements, skip to the bottom, click the "Not Helpful" icon, and move on. But if you don't...
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