Amen

Some bits and pieces post-POP were great, at least IMO, for instance "Get On Your Boots", "The Million Dollar Hotel" lp but to be fair I haven't even heard the last two records and I don't care anymore whatsoever. Same relates to Depeche Mode. Their last great LP is "Ultra" from the same year, afterwards they had a couple of good songs including "Wrong", but I haven't even heard "Spirit". My instinct tells me it's sh*t. Looks like 1997 was the final year for most 1980s superbands when it comes to creativity.

I totally disagree. All that you can't leave behind is a brilliant Album which brought them back to the basics. POPis good and has its moments but it still could have been better had they given it more time. And How to Dismantle and Atomic Bomb is brilliant to me.

I totally agree with you.

Samy Benomran Amén! (and I effing mean it!)

A true masterpiece

Definitely

A one of a kind record. The band said they needed more time to work on it, but I think they needed less. It was overworked and should have been a straightforward rock record tinged with electronica. The band went too far in trying to ride the wave of the scene at the time and lost themselves. I was 16 when it came out and recall just being confused by the entire thing. All of a sudden a very hip band was a posh, sporty looking act and everyone was expecting some kind of techno/electronica record, which it really wasn’t. They should have just remained themselves from the early 90s with this record and released almost any song but Discotheque as their first single, maybe Do you feel loved or last night on earth.

I strongly agree with you about U2 and the album "Pop". I frequently revisit that album.

I've never understood the hate some people have for this incredible band. What have they ever done wrong? They're one of the best bands of all-time, in my opinion. I love their Pop era. It was inventive, creative and adventurous. U2 trying out new things, I love that.

+Spader Holic - What have they done wrong.....? Nothing!! U2 are the best band in the world. 1997 was a great year for me - This album was a part of it. I Love this album.

I am a Heavy Metal fan Hardcore! and even I love U2 they are something very special period. in my day we never had to defend what we liked sad that the web has turned Music into this sort of thing. celebrate the music and memories with others who do as well and someone who does not like it should respect that and just not say anything. or click on stuff they like seems simple to me of course it does not work that way don't Fight with each other music should unite people... and i feel a spirit on unity with U2 and i am sending out my love to all their fans....

Always did you mean

I hope you shat on the queens royal chair 😂

Dennis Hopper was a crazy U2 fan! RIP

Dennis Hopper was a Rock and Roller he had thousands of Vinyl records i saw something about his record collection on PBS or something way back in like 98. and Dennis is awesome as well as U2 Pride was the first that actually made me cry and i was a huge fan from that day on... :)

Pop is absolutely amazing, wonderful and different. I love it

I've been a U2 fan since almost their inception (or at least when their music first hit the US). However, I was obsessive about, and so hung up on, U2 only up until Joshua Tree, that when they completely changed tack in 1990 to Achtung Baby, I FREAKED, and divorced myself from them for about 5-7 years, because I couldn't handle it. Years later, I rediscovered them again (late 90s), dipping a toe into Achtung Baby, Pop, and Zooropa. I was already a fan of electronic music, so I was HOOKED. And then I proceeded to kick myself up one side and down another for YEARS afterward, realizing what I had missed during that time. It was truly their most heady, iconic, colorful, flamboyant, amazingly creative era, and I completely missed it! The experimental music, the outfits and personnae, THE LYRICS....it was all just mind-blowing. I lived on those 3 albums (CDs) alone for months and months. I've always been a day late and a dollar short on most things in life, but this really is one of the things I most sorely regret--not being a part of that "U2 era" and seeing them live during the 90s, when I had the chance. So Jim, I'm with you, I LOVE Pop, in fact, it's now my all time favorite U2 album. Who knew???

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Nope...ZOOTV was better!

Damn right... if anything, no line on the horizon is an underwhelming and unfinished album, despite several great songs

Zooropa And Actung were amazing too

90's U2 were the last time they were the greatest band on earth, now they are good but the magic has gone, I still hope against hope they have one more in them, Pop AB and Zooropa for me 1, 2 and 3 of their best albums, Popmart tour was magical, there's no other word for it, truly magical, I got to see them at home in Dublin, twice in Wembley and once in Leeds Roundhay Park, every single one of them was magic 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

They hit us the hardest with these albums.

Lion Wolf i was there. in pop mart Mexico :) ..and Vertigo,360 and The joshua Tree last tour.Viva Mexico :)

YES, SIMPLY THE GREATEST

@greengrugach1984 they actually never wanted to become what they became in the 90s either, in the 80s they tried to hold up this image of being a pure rock n roll band with 5 dollar tickets, but at one point they got so big they just blew that all up and there was zoo tv

Amen! And the Joshua Tree would be considered too Christian (and therefore homophobic and anti-abortion) by today's moronic youth.

They don't regret the tour, from what I've read. They think the tour is one of their best ever, but they're dissatisfied with the Pop album because they couldn't finish it the way they wanted. Shame. I do like the album a lot. Not every track but there's some good stuff on it. The tour was brilliant. I love watching the Live In Mexico DVD. Apart from poor Bono suffering ongoing throat problems that tour he was still on fire, performance wise and the whole show is incredible! I wish they would be this adventurous again! :)

+Spader Holic I actually think from a musical. performance (e.g. Bullet the Blue Sky, even Pride, which they've generally played too slowly since the early 90s) and even visual point of view, PopMart was even better than Zoo TV, although Zoo TV's cultural impact couldn't have been bettered, simply because of how much it changed their image, surprised the industry and revived their career. PopMart was the first time I ever went to see a band, 2nd September 1997 (I think), at Murrayfield in Edinburgh.

Wayne Baxter , I was at Murrayfield that tour , and Joshua tree. Celtic Park for Zoo TV, 2 nights at SECC for All That You Can’t Leave Behind, Hydro for Innocence and Experience. I could only hear Adams bass from my Saughton Prison cell in Edinburgh for their Vertigo tour ( gutted ) Still can’t believe they left Scotland out for the 2nd Joshua Tree tour 2018, after all we are their Celtic cousins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💚 🇮🇪

Agreed

ZOO TV was something more for most off us. It was a true experience that never really got boring, even watching the ZOO TV live in Sydney is still a trip. Its more than just watching TV with a lot of people. That just my 2cents though.

The Core!

Except they did air this. I watched it on ABC. It was, however, one of the lowest rated tv shows of the year.