U2 - Pop
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Free Music Review: U2's last stand???
Hit: 4 Stars
Pop is a great album, it has some great tracks like Discoteque, Mofo, Staring at the sun, and Wake up Deadman!!!
It's also their last decent release!!!!
Free Music Review: Making hope out of the impossible
Hit: 5 Stars
Pop don't leave any middle ground, with their music inspiring intense emotions whatever they may be.
The Whole album recalls the band's shoegazing sensibilities, underpinned by a stunning drifting guitar lines, which picks out the light and shaded tones of Bono's hauting vocals. The third track Mofo, is one of those strange paradoxical songs that make you feel like crying and smiling at the same time.
Do You Feel Loved shows a hypnotic, eclipsing guitar line intro and intense vocal delivery once again, which explodes after 2 minutes into a drum-beat fuelled cry of despair, a minute mid-piece and one of the most tension-filled moments on the album, pending an all out release for the curtain-closing minutes.
The final track on the 'A' side is Staring At The Sun, an obvious highlight for many, and one which will probably quench the thirst of most Acthung Baby fans, and is probably the nearest gets to following any kind of a pattern.
The 'B' side is the darker one. On Gone, the machine drum with the delicate, icy piano beats magnify the ascending emotions and lamenting cathartic crescendos that emerge from.
On Please, an envelope of electronica sadness opens up after a minute of wavering programming and drums, to reveal an escalating melody instrumental gaining speed and movement, thrusting the listener headlong through a catalogue of emotions and back again.
Wake Up Dead Man is a headache of sorrow and a furrowed brow of torment.
Pop is pregnant with obscurity, injected with minor chords and unrestrained electronica. Experimental yet elegant, and heavy but soft. This is the last U2 masterpiece, and most important, the last time U2 created something refreshingly dynamic, the perfect mix of paralysis and fluidity that makes for a remarkable album.
Free Music Review: Their best album.
Hit: 5 Stars
This is U2s 3rd best album, and definitley their best in modern times.
1. War
2. Joshua Tree
3. Pop
4. Actung Baby
5. Zooporopa.
Free Music Review: incomparable achievment in modern music
Hit: 5 Stars
Just one listen to this masterpiece and you will instantly recognise what a leap forward it is from Zooropa it is. Where Zooropa was derivative and bombastic this is a infintely detailed and breathtakingly vast in its myriad textures.
It is a monumental testament to the talents of one of the best bands of the 90's.Dont get me wrong, Zooropa is a very, very good album but it just doesn't strike out for its own territory like this does. Pop is an incomparable achievment in modern music. It is a torturous listen at times and sometimes leaves you feeling a certain chill in the heart of your very existence but this is just another level at which the album works.
It instills a sense of emptiness in you which reverberates the very concept of the album; that of the overbearing dependence of society in technology and computers in turn reducing human contact and communication into automatic and heartless functions.
Everyone has a different standpoint though, and mine is that this is my favourite album of all time. Not what I think is the best of all time, but the album which I hold closest to my heart and soul. This is because I was able to really identify with it, and it was my first taste of really, really good music.
There was a streak of about a couple of months where almost every night I would go to sleep listening to the album on my discman. When I was tired of hearing one song, I'd just go to another and they all equally impressed me once I learned to see the album for what it was worth: a beautiful collection of songs based on alienation of society and personal woes. It is a very personal album, and the lyrics are mysterious and can be applied to many ideas and concepts.
It is depressing, but it is also delicate and lovely. Peaceful, yet chaotic. It's hard to even describe, because it offers something different for everyone. It is a journey through the mountains and valleys of the human soul, that leaves you stunned in the end.
Songs with unusual structures as Please or If You Wear That Velvet Dress, explosive loud numbers as Mofo or Discotheque, euphoric melodies as Gone or Do You Feel Loved, scary moments as Wake Up Dead Man, unexpected sounds as Miami, and brilliant compositions as Staring At The Sun.
I've owned my copy since 1997, and it still amazes me today.
Free Music Review: A desperate search for emotional connection
Hit: 5 Stars
POP is a gifted, beautiful album; its chilling music and sneering soundscapes are the perfect vehicles for its cryptic, elliptical lyrics. Its narrative is dense and convoluted, but the repeated listens it takes to get into the album are worth it.
The music itself is equally inspired, as the band employs tricky time signatures and trademark sonic textures that range from the electronic crackle and haunting piano of Gone to the howling post-electronica of Mofo to Please's gorgeous coda. Wake Up Dead Man has an operatic despair that is terrifying to behold, and If God Will Send His Angels was the first song released in years with a melancholy melody sublime enough to push up tears behind my eyes.
All this would be pretentious in the hands of a lesser band, but is simply assured beauty here. If this sounds like art rock on the scale of King Crimson or the Moody Blues, it is; however, U2's staggering talent and emotional commitment make POP less a lame intellectual exercise than a moving take on existentialism in the post-modern world. It also rocks like a son of a bitch when it needs to.
Please is still their last ever great song: very dramatic, extremely beautiful, great sonority and without being the prototype of the traditional architecture of a track, it is worth the price of the album alone.
U2 were (yes, sadly WERE) the one of the rare artists who not only had a unique vision, but the skill to pull it off. POP is wise enough to address the heart as well as the mind, and is their last finest work to date. Easily one of the best albums of the 90's , and likely their last important in terms of creativity.
Honestly, it is probably the strangest, most diverse U2 album they've ever made, and I immediately fell in love with it.
I would recommend this album to anyone who is really, really sick of mainstream corporate U2 2000 "rock" sounds the same all
the time.
U2 1980-1997.