U2 - Pop
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Free Music Review: U2 - 'Pop' (Island)
Hit: 4 Stars
Review no.338.I don't care about what others might say about this here U2's 'Pop' release.I still like it better than their previous effort 'Zooropa'.I've been a U2 fan since the very beginning,their Popmart tour was obviously the most massive of it's kind.I should know,I saw it from up front of the stage.My two favorite cuts off this CD are "Mofo" and the ass-kicking "Gone".Other stand outs include "Last Night On Earth"(they shot the video for this tune the day after the concert that I saw and it did cause some problems,several business owners didn't like shutting their stores down for one day to accommodate the video crew-it WAS on the news,several times),"Do You Feel Loved","If God Will Send His Angels" and "Miami".To me at least,a true keeper.Free Music Review: Pop: Art-rock at its most rewarding and contradictory
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the most exciting U2 album ever: The album takes countless schizophrenic twists. This complex, intense swarm of guitars is held aloft by a solid, inventive rhythm section and an impressive array of electronica and keyboard textures.
Listening to the record, you wouldn't initially realize that there are so many computerized noises weaving through the songs, but a closer listen reveals a dense, texturally-rich presentation that relies equally on both musical approaches. The disorienting delights of the music and the intense messages presented on the lyrics make you feel an unique experience.
The sense of alienation is palpable. If the unstable, quick-slow existence of pop stardom offers Bono both the free time and the necessary stress and disorientation to think in terms as Mofo, maybe half of us though our sense of inertia and unspecified angst have an idea of what he's talking about.
When the vocals dissolve into a distant storm of rabid, distorted screams, it's not the snortings and foot-stampings of a petulant ingrate, rather a snippet of that same rage that drives us into lousy self-mollification or else off the hinge. A very modern terror, an unreachable itch.
You've got one of the few rock masterpieces of the '90s. This masterpiece won't be surpassed...and you can forget about "easy listening" right now.
Free Music Review: startlingly accomplished set of modern piece of art
Hit: 5 Stars
On POP U2 have stripped away many of the obvious elements of guitar rock, creating music that is subtle and textured, yet still has the feeling of rock & roll.
It's a thoroughly astonishing demonstration of musical virtuosity, and becomes even more impressive with repeated listens, which reveal subtleties like electronica rhythms, eerie keyboards, odd time signatures, and complex syncopations.
This is their most complicated and difficult record, perhaps that the reason why so many people and "critics" didn't understand it. Its entirety means more than any one song. POP make the hairs on your skin spit with electricity.
POP is the album that established U2 as one of the most inventive and rewarding guitar-rock bands of the '90s. The astonishing emotional and compositional complexity of this piece of art will never be matched by any other U2 album. This is their last essential recording.
Free Music Review: A failed experiment...
Hit: 2 Stars
U2 pulled off an amazing feat with 1991's ACHTUNG BABY and 1993's ZOOROPA: both were successful departures from their classic sound and completely redefined the band. With 1997's POP, they tried another direction, but this time it doesn't work. Bono claims they failed because they let their management take control, setting a tour schedule before the album was complete, and as a result, the band were pressured to finish POP on time, but it's doubtful more time would've saved this album.
The songs aren't that good. "If God Will Send His Angels," "Last Night On Earth," "Gone," "If You Wear That Velvet Dress," and "Please" all have something to like about them, but they never take off and aren't that memorable. Only "Mofo" and "Staring At The Sun" really hold-up.
U2 should be commended for trying something new, hiring some excellent DJ's to mix and produce their music, but they don't have a good grasp on contemporary dance trends. "Discotheque" was the big, lead-off single, and it's not a bad track, but it feels too forced and a little awkward. "Mofo" is the only successful dance track, with a muscular production that crushes "Discotheque," and unlike the other dance-oriented tracks, it flows pretty naturally.
Not surprisingly, this album is one of their least popular ones. When they released BEST OF: 1990-2000, they tried remixing a few songs, removing most of the production, but they only made the songs worse, exposing the weaknesses more and removing the very thing that made these songs interesting (not good, maybe, but at least interesting).
If you're a big U2 fan who's still curious, pick this up used: it usually goes for really cheap, usually $1-3. Just to have "Mofo" and "Staring At The Sun," that's a pretty fair deal.
Free Music Review: U2's last piece of incredible work
Hit: 5 Stars
Forget iPod, forget Bono's long hair back, forget Super Bowl, forget Beautiful Day and Vertigo and all that canned corporate radio-friendly s***. THIS IS MUSIC AND ITS HIGHEST LEVEL OF COMPOSITION AND RICHNESS.
Brimming with genuine emotion, beautiful and complex imagery and music, Pop is the most overlooked and the most fascinating U2 album at the same time. I do like the fact that most of brianwashed fans pretend to love hit and miss prefabricated works as ATYCLB and HTDAAB, because this album needs a higher level of taste.
Pop is the finest expression of U2's songwriting. Just read the lyrics and listen to the music. Of course, there aren't clich? lyrics that every high school guy remember at once as Sometimes You Can't Make It, Peace On Earth, Grace, Stuck In A Moment, Miracle Drug, etc. And of course, there are no room for such stupid filler lyrics as Elevation, Vertigo, All Because Of You, etc.
Do yourself a favor, take lessons of poetry and then read the lyrics of Pop. Take lessons of songwriting and then listen to the music of Pop...meanwhile keep pretending that "songs" as Beautiful Day or Vertigo "rocks!".
Remember: This is ART. Can you deal with that, 2000 "fans"?...I don't think so