After UABRS, RAH AND WIA I think AB is their best studio piece , AYCLB and NLOTH were fairly cheap attempts at U2 trying to stay popular. If some of W had came out later and mixed with AB that would've been their ultimate masterpiece. I've seen them live every tour since JT but the last tour i + e just didn't do it for me
The only U2 album I find difficult to enjoy. Just something about it feels off to me. It was the first time an album came out and I walked away feeling disappointed.
Have you tried revisiting it? "Moment of Surrender", "Fez", NLOTH, "Unknown Caller", "Breather", so many great songs. Somewhat understated, moody and introspective, but very enjoyable in their own way.
Interestingly, aside from *possibly* Achtung Baby, it's the only album of theirs I ever came away from thinking it was something genuinely special. Since then, I've come to view it as their best largely because of its lack of hits rather than despite it
I’d have been tempted to drop/add songs and perhaps reshuffle the running order a bit. Soon Magnificent Breathe No Line on the Horizon Fez - Being Born Get On Your Boots (Fish Out of Water Remix) • I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight (Redanka Kick the Darkness Vocal Version) Unknown Caller Winter (Linear Version) White As Snow Cedars of Lebanon Moment of Surrender
Magnificent I think is one of their all-time best songs. I play it on the way to my baseball games and crank it up on my headphones and get pumped...then I can't hear for like an hour, but it's worth it!
In my opinion there best album! Take out stand up comedy and every track is 5 out of 5! Moment of surrender and unkown caller are among u2s best songs!
They were trying to be experimental again, but it didn't work, unlike Achtung Baby which is a masterpiece Overall, U2 is a great band and have made some amazing music through the decades
I'm not keen on how much the Edge leans on Dallas now, I've seen other videos where he doesn't seem to know his signal chain, or specific guitar tunings - I'd love him to go back and play the War album with just the effects he had at the time.
I like the album ok, fine. But it doesn’t seem like a U2 album…more like a soundtrack that the members of U2-and their collaborators Eno and Daniel Lanois-all contributed to equally. So, the members of U2 were in the room, but it’s not a “U2 album” per se. Nothing wrong with that, of course. My two cents…
They haven't done anything truly interesting or experimental since Pop and anyone who thinks any different is either deluded or doesn't know anything about experimental music...
@@KattenJonsson What has how much fun I may or may not be at parties got to do with the fact that U2 hasn't done anything truly interesting or experimental since the Pop album?? (Which ironically has some of the best party tunes on it)!
@@jamestonkin8610 Ok ok, it is just my opinion and I usually do put a disclaimer whenever I state my opinion somewhere on the internet, that it JUST my opinion and no one has to agree with me. But in this particular case, I do think that it is actually a straight up, stone cold fact that anyone who thinks U2 have done anything remotely 'experimental' since the song Miami, is deluded, deranged and any other d-words you can think of... I will retract the word 'interesting' though as that is indeed subjective. I do not 'personally' find anything they have done since the Pop album interesting or exciting but that is just my opinion. I did enjoy the first few songs on ATYCLB when it was released though. It was refreshing at the time to hear them go back to their old sound for one album after 10 years of not caring what people thought..
