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Was this review helpful? Yes - NoBEST U2 EXPERIMENTAL ALBUM!!
Pros: All- best album of the late 90's!
Cons: none
I don't still understand why people hated this album. Don't get carried away by the title (that's probably why people hate it) If you REALLY listen to it, you'll find that's just one hell of a rock album and probably the best of the second half of the 90's!!
I guess people would rather listen to Britney spears stupid idiotic lyrics and screams, than really give this album a chance. C'MON PEOPLE!!! (U2 Rocks!)Was this review helpful? Yes - NoBegs revisiting
Pros: songs, beats
Cons: sh*t marketing
Possibly the most underappreciated album of the 90's.
Forget the ironic title, and just godd@mn LISTEN to the songs. This is one dark, stinky, cool, guitar-rock album.
There is not ONE weak track. Not one. Their most consistent record.
Premillenial angst at its best.Was this review helpful? Yes - Notheir weakest effort...
...but certainly not a throwaway
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoGreat album, but not their best, but sti
I can dance along with this album for a long time. Good tracks includes: Do you feel love, Gone, Mofo, and Staring at the sun. the rest are ok.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoKeep an open mind, and you'll love this
While U2's outstanding talent is more hidden in
"Pop" compared to in the quartet's more popular releases, it is by no means less prevalent. While not an instant-please, m
ost popular music fans will grow to love this CD over time, especially open-minded U2 fans.Was this review helpful? Yes - NoPOP THIS TRASH
EVERY MUSIC COLLECTOR SHOULD BUILD A BON FIRE WITH THEIR CDS!!!
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoWhy was it hated so much?
I loved this album when it came out, and I love it almost 5 years later. So many fans (and critics) spat on this album. I don't understand.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoU2's most underated
I dont think people really 'got' this album. They just asumed U2 was selling out. Truth is this is a really good album, far better than their latest. Discotheque is awesome, and as far as I'm concerned is a rocknroll classic. I had the pleasure of hearing it live at the elevation tour, and it just rocked. Last Night On Earth is probably my favourite on the album because of the chorus, while If You wear That velvet Dress is a close second.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoGREAT GIG IN THE SKY !
U2 in full power.one of best albums in ninthis other two are ZOOROPA & ACHTUNG BABY
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoVELVET DRESS
some people say
It's sounds FANTASTIC!!!!Was this review helpful? Yes - Nopeople did not understand that one unfor
It is a very good album. One of U2's best. They get to electronica and stayed themselves. Quiet better than All that you can't leave behind....
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoARABIC SOUNDS AND RAGHEB ALAMA(who) JUST
It's was nice to see the use of middleastern instruments in some tracks. They mixed in wonderfully. Enjoyed it fully, definately buyable!
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoSeen as an albatross; actually U2's best
'Pop' is often derided by critics as a moment when U2 when astray and just flat out screwed up.
Quite the contrary, 'Pop' was a bold attempt to merge rock with electronica/techno in order to save the former and legitimize the latter.
Without writing an essay, let me just say that once you've listened to every U2 album over a thousand times, it becomes apparent that their best work is not 'The Joshua Tree' or 'Achtung Baby'...it's 'Pop'
U2's masterstroke. Buy it now, but don't expect listening to it to be easy. If you're brave enough to give the album a chance, always remember that you must EMERSE yourself in it. Let it soak into you, let it go down on you, let it become part of you.
One day you'll reach U2-nirvana-enlightenment. And that state of mind is 'Pop'.Was this review helpful? Yes - NoThis is probably U2's worst album but
guess what? U2's worst is better than most other artist's best, so that's saying something. However if for no other reason, please buy this album for Staring At The Sun...it's really an amazing and beautiful song with haunting lyrics...quinnesential U2. It's a shame that this song will probably go down as U2's most underrated and underappreciated, because it ended up on their least popular album...but ther is a gem in the rough and it's Staring At The Sun.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoStaring At The Sun
One of the best song of the 90's
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoDon't let the Pop title fool you!
One of my favorite U2 albums, POP realy caught me with such original and memorable songs. Staring At The Sun and Gone are my favorite songs at this album, and the other ones are all worth to take a look. The lyrics are profound and true. Look at The Playboy Masion, for example, as it talks about the materialism and suprficiality of the modern people, and Discotheque, as it talks about parties and drugs. It's an album that, even having that techno-pop feeling, still stays faithful to the U2 style, and should be listened with a lot of atention by any fan, although it's not the listen-to-love-U2 album. Fantastic!
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoWhy Compare it to Radiohead?
I'm really not sure where these Radiohead comparisons are coming in, because this album sounds nothing like them. While I personally like Radiohead's 90s material better than U2's, keep in mind that the U2 change to the synthesizer-heavy style came with "Achtung Baby" in the very early 90s, before "Pablo Honey" came out, so U2 certainly wasn't copying off them. The first half of this album is pretty good; "Mofo" and "Discotechque" are the best two tracks, but "Staring at the Sun" and "Do You Feel Loved" are also pretty good in their own ways. The second half of the album drops off immensely, as the Clayton basslines and Mullen's percussion both give way to Bono's whining. "Wake Up Dead Man," "Miami," and "The Playboy Mansion" are all pretty terrible songs. If this album as a whole proves anything for me, it does show again how Clayton and Mullen have really carried the band into the 90s decade, with Bono just tagging along and throwing in his meaningless lyrics and all-too-serious offstage persona to remind people that they're still U2.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoIt deserves diamond status!
I am baffled that this CD didn't get too much attention. I think that it is one of the best albums they have ever done! I love the electronic/rock sound to it. The songs are all dynamite to me. Discotheque has a great beat and the guitars are astounding. This song is one of the best songs they have ever written. It's enough to get almost anyone going. The same goes for Do you feel loved. The guitars are great! Mofo may be quite a bit too techno for a casual U2 fan but for me this one is one of the best songs they have ever made. Definate a must hear. We finally mellow down to the beautiful "If God Will Send His Angels". Wow this song almost brought tears to my eyes. The perfect song I play when I feel lonely. Staring At the Sun is a good song but it's not my favorite. The Last Night On Earth really rocks my world! Damn they rocked big time on this song. This one you must hear. Gone is one of my least favorites but it's still good. The guitars keep going even after the song ends. The rest of the album is dark after that. Miami is a damn weird song. The drum loop is great. Don't be fooled by the track title because this song is far from a Miami feel. It is a dark and kind of haunting song. Great though. The Playboy Mansion, I have heard that a lot of fans do not like this song. I on the other hand like this song quite a bit. It has kind of a blues feel to it. If you Wear That Velvet Dress although good, it kind of drags on though.Beautiful Though. Please is kind of creepy with that ambient electronic sound. The closing track Wake Up Dead Man is alright.
As a whole this CD is great. I spent almost eighteen dollars on it and damn it was worth every penny spent. It's unfortunate that they didn't have much success because I think they did a great job. This one is definately going down as one of my favorite rock albums of all time. Way to go U2!!!!Was this review helpful? Yes - NoOne of the most underrated albums ever!
Listen folks, people who don't like change, like the older stuff that U2 has made (which is timeless of course)do have a reason in which to say something that this is off their mark. But if anybody else came out with an album like this, they would say that its genuis, they would have gotten so much recognition for it and critic praise as well from the public. But nobody else made this album did they, nobody bothered to, and U2 came along. And after all that they have done, they reinvented themselves, AGAIN, and created a unique style that is good, and at the same time it STILL sounds like a U2 album. Of course it is not as good as it could have been, they just barely invented it, i'm surprised that they left it so they could return to their roots (which i am definitely not complaining about). Any other band could have made a respectable career dwelling in that type of music genre. just like U2 could have dwelled with their 80's music, but then people today probably wouldn't be listen to it and think that they should try something new.....which they did (gasp...which is what happend in '91 people, anybody remebers that, it was 10 years ago). People can go ahead and talk all they want about it and how is sucks, and how they are nothing, and how U2 shouldn't even be around anymore. Cause they are somewhat right....U2 shouldn't even be around anymore, they should be burning out like all other rock bands, they shouldn't be winning grammys, they shouldn't be selling millions of albums 20 years after they originated, and they still shouldn't be considered as rock's biggest band. BUT GUESS WHAT......they have defied every single ideal that come with being a rock band, and everybody knows it. That's why they are the best.
Was this review helpful? Yes - Notheir most original album
Though the album contains some flops such as 'Miami' and 'If you Wear that velvet dress,' it is a good change of sound for U2.
Was this review helpful? Yes - Nosucks *ss
even U2 themselves admitted that this album was not their best effort. It's the musical equivalent of Phantom Menace
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoOne of the best U2 albums
Pop is fantastic! People see it as a below-average U2 album, but if somebody, anybody else had released it it would have been praised as one of the best albums of the 90's, which it most definitely is. And it isn't a below-average U2 album. In fact, I would put this down as one of the top three U2 albums ever, along with Achtung Baby and The Unforgettable Fire.
The opening three tracks are just superb, Discotheque is their most original single to date, Do you Feel Loved is the best single they never released and Mofo is a killer dance number. the rest of the album is brilliantly diverse and constantly surprising. This is a superb album that should have seen U2 continue with such ingenuity and experimentation. instead they go and ruin it all with All That You Can't Leave Behind, which, despite a few brilliant songs, is one of the worst things they have released and a poor man's Joshua Tree to boot. Check out Pop instead.Was this review helpful? Yes - NoThis is Where Radiohead Took the torch
Is it me or this album passed the torch over to Radiohead? All I hear on this album is Discotheque and Staring at the Sun. OK Computer simply kills this, Achtung Baby, AND the Joshua Tree. You know that Bono should admit it someday.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoBeginning of U2's resurrection?
Some excellent material here (Do You Feel Loved, Mofo, Last Night on Earth) as well as average (Playboy Mansion) and below average (Discoteque) but I see good things here.
I come from old school U2 (Boy, War) and realize they can't do the same material, but please U2, don't ever repeat Zooropa!Was this review helpful? Yes - NoUnderated
One of the most underated albums of the decade.
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