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Your favorite U2 era
What was your favorite era in the history of U2?
I think Boy was their best album but I liked their other albums as well. <iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JAVWyMnQbZc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/80Q20Zu0eK0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> They lost me during the Achtung/Zooropa/Pop era with the makeup and wearing strange costumes but I was a fan again when they released All That You Leave Behind and now I have a greater appreciation of their music. http://earmusic.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/u2.jpg |
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Joshua Tree is where they (BoBo) really started to become self righteous ****s, but musically up to that point they were "other people's music" to me. Kinda on in the background, other people played them not me. This album really connected with me, sound wise, feel wise, time wise. It made me look into their older stuff, and try to be more politically educated and understand the world i was living in better.
I cannot say it is their best stuff in an unbiased way, but it will always capture that late 80's, moving beyond "just metal" time to me. It represents starting to be more open minded, starting to make myself a better person, starting to move on to adulthood. I say i miss my ex wife the way i miss Joshua Tree era U2, often. It is just shorthand for a time a place a feeling a "something" bigger than what came before. |
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I personally think Actung Baby is the best U2 album of all time. Didn't care for Zooropa or Pop nearly as much.
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Achtung Baby/Zooropa/Pop
That was an easy vote. Achtung Baby is a top 5 all-time matsterpiece. I also really enjoy Zooropa and Pop has a few good songs as well. |
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I always considered UF to be part of the Joshua Tree era.
In any case, my vote is for AB/Zooropa. AB is not only a masterpiece, it's my favorite album from anyone ever. |
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I'd probably vote for Achtung Baby/Zooropa, but I'd prefer to leave Pop out of it. I'd rather end it at Miss Sarajevo and consider Pop to be its own era, or something.
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I love Achtung Baby. Not so big on Zooropa, and even though the band has disowned it, I like Pop a lot. It's not all great the way Achtung Baby is, but I really like stretches of Pop. A lot.
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War/Boy/October early 80's
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I like Boy/October/War the best.
There are a ton of great-sounding boots from that era that are well worth seeking out. |
Re: Your favorite U2 era
Originally Posted by Hollowgen
(Post 10825561)
I always considered UF to be part of the Joshua Tree era.
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Re: Your favorite U2 era
UF/JT/R&H
with AB/ZOO a close 2nd. Pop should be on it's own. (I love Pop, but it is totally a different era than AB) |
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I love Boy, October and War---and Unforgettable Fire is my favorite album by anyone ever. They kind of lost me with Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum. I liked AB, and I've still liked a bunch of songs here and there since then, and I don't think they "sold out" or went in any terrible direction---but I lost the connection I had with them. Seems to me they occasionally got overpowered by their influences in the later 80s and on---and their reinventions seemed a little too thought-out and less organic than their early albums, IMO.
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Tough question for me because Achtung Baby is my favorite U2 CD, but I didn't really care too much for Zooropa or Pop.
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The late 70s/early 80s is all I like by them. The days when you could see them play some small club. I don't even listen to the later stuff ever. They had something really special in the early 80s that they lost when they become huge ego driven rock stars.
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Achtung Baby is the best U2 album, and Zooropa is a really fascinating experiment. Those get my vote. Every other strong U2 album is followed by a weak one (October after Boy, Rattle & Hum after Joshua Tree, Unforgettable Fire after War).
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Best to Worst, IMO
Achtung, Baby (masterpiece) Boy (best reverb-drenched post-punk production ever?) Unforgettable Fire (especially side one, which is probably the best thing they ever did, IMO) War (lots of good songs, but this is when some of the inevitable filler starts creeping in) Pop (underrated and has some cool stuff, also the Passengers album from this era is pretty good) Zooropa (A couple of cool singles and some throw-away stuff but they'd never be more Eno-esque) Joshua Tree (too much chest beating, but you'd have to be a fool to deny "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", that song is epic) October (unfocused and amatuerish, if you ask me) Everything they're released since Pop (to be honest, I haven't really been paying attention as I found the first couple very bland, haven't heard "NLOTH" though) Rattle n' Hum (awful... just awful) |
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Re: Your favorite U2 era
Originally Posted by Hiro11
(Post 10826252)
Rattle n' Hum (awful... just awful)
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Re: Your favorite U2 era
Originally Posted by cungar
(Post 10826338)
Mixing live versions of recently released songs, covers of classic rock and new songs was just a hodgepodge and really tough to get into. I just think it was a badly conceived idea, not really an awful collection of music. Of the new songs Angel of Harlem, Desire, Van Diemen's Land, Silver and Gold and All I want is You would have made a great EP.
But the back to back albums of JT and AB are really their two best B2B albums by far...(One major era to another) |
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The one-two punch of Achtung Baby and Zooropa do it for me, though I do love Joshua Tree.
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Re: Your favorite U2 era
Originally Posted by Chrisedge
(Post 10826447)
I actually like all the studio stuff from that. They should have done a quick album not unlike what they did with Zooropa. Then just release the movie on it's own...
But the back to back albums of JT and AB are really their two best B2B albums by far...(One major era to another) |
Re: Your favorite U2 era
Originally Posted by kd5
(Post 10826289)
October --> War--> Under A Blood Red Sky got me into U2 in the early 80s. Eno ruined the band, IMO, although I'm in the minority on that one... |
Re: Your favorite U2 era
Originally Posted by cungar
(Post 10826338)
Of the new songs Angel of Harlem, Desire, Van Diemen's Land, Silver and Gold and All I want is You would have made a great EP.
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Re: Your favorite U2 era
Originally Posted by Suprmallet
(Post 10826518)
Joshua Tree and Achtung weren't back to back. Rattle and Hum was in between.
Strictly studio... |
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I don't care for the OPs breakdown.
UF + Joshua - R&T + Achtung Works for me. |
Re: Your favorite U2 era
Originally Posted by Fist of Doom
(Post 10826480)
The one-two punch of Achtung Baby and Zooropa do it for me, though I do love Joshua Tree.
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Originally Posted by Hiro11
(Post 10826634)
I despise those songs, with the exception of "Van Dieman's Land" which is OK. U2 has no business doing faux soul and blues numbers.
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Am I boggin' ya?
I didna meanta bog ya! |
Re: Your favorite U2 era
Originally Posted by Hokeyboy
(Post 10827029)
Am I boggin' ya?
I didna meanta bog ya! |
Re: Your favorite U2 era
Originally Posted by edstein
(Post 10826911)
I don't care for the OPs breakdown.
UF + Joshua - R&T + Achtung Works for me. |
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While my favorite album is Achtung Baby my favorite era has always been The Unforgettable Fire era (and yes I do consider it an era unto itself = starting with the video for Pride debuting on the MTV Top 20 countdown in late Summer 1984 before the album was released to the Amnesty Concert at Giants Stadium in June 1986). I'm sure part of it is just fondly remembering my teen years during that span (13 to 15) and being nostalgic for that time but that was when I really got into them and I love the concerts on that tour since it was a good mix of all four albums.
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Originally Posted by Dubya
(Post 10827205)
...my favorite era has always been The Unforgettable Fire era (and yes I do consider it an era unto itself = starting with the video for Pride debuting on the MTV Top 20 countdown in late Summer 1984 before the album was released to the Amnesty Concert at Giants Stadium in June 1986). I'm sure part of it is just fondly remembering my teen years during that span (13 to 15) and being nostalgic for that time but that was when I really got into them and I love the concerts on that tour since it was a good mix of all four albums.
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I was 12 and really starting to get into music when WAR came out. It was one of those "change my life" cliche moments. Although hard rock and metal were my first loves, U2 and especially the WAR album was my gateway drug into alternative/"first wave" music. I saved up to buy October and Boy and taped the '83 Red Rocks show on MTV.
Unforgettable Fire, which I counted the days until it was finally released, left me cold. Too polished, too sanded off, too smooth. The band lost much of its (pardon the pun) fire and my interest in the band petered out pretty quickly. I *especially* loathed JOSHUA TREE, mostly because you couldn't fucking escape it in 1987/88. Plus it felt entirely too overproduced and self-important. I actually liked RATTLE & HUM when it came out, because it felt living and breathing to me, rather than the bland sterility of Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree... |
Re: Your favorite U2 era
Originally Posted by Chrisedge
(Post 10826795)
Yea, but I consider R&H as a live record with an ep of new stuff...not any different to me as a fan than, Wide Awake, Blood Red Sky, etc...
Strictly studio... Or, I look at it this way: R&H was the band's response to the overwhelming success of The Joshua Tree. Achtung Baby was the band's response to the tepid reception for R&H. You can't draw a straight line from JT to AB because R&H factors into the kind of music they chose to make. The other live albums had no such effect. |
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Here you go. This settles it. Achtung, Baby and Zooropa are the Zoo TV era. :lol: I will be buying the deluxe set.
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/201...oo-tv-box-set/ Looks like Nirvana’s Nevermind won’t be the only big 20th anniversary reissue coming out this fall: U2 finally is set to release its long-expected reissue of 1991’s Achtung Baby later this year paired, somewhat more unexpectedly, with a re-released edition of the band’s 1993 companion album Zooropa. According to fan site @U2, a report in the new issue of Rolling Stone — which is not yet online, and hasn’t yet arrived at Slicing Up Eyeballs world headquarters — says the two albums are “likely” be reissued separately this fall and combined in a deluxe box set featuring bonus audio and video material from the ZOO TV era. The article quotes U2 manager Paul McGuiness: “There will be multiple formats. If you pile a lot of extra material and packaging and design work into a super-duper box set, there are people who will pay quite a lot for it, so you can budget it at a very high level and pump up the value.” Last September, word emerged that Achtung Baby was being remastered at a Los Angeles studio. And last month while on tour in Winnipeg, Canada, the band reportedly filmed part of an Achtung Baby documentary with “It Might Get Loud” director Davis Guggenheim, although it’s not yet known whether that will be included in the box set. The new Rolling Stone report is the first indication that a Zooropa reissue also is imminent. |
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Should never mix the phrases "It Might Get Loud" and "20th Anniversary Reissue". :(
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Originally Posted by Hokeyboy
(Post 10827403)
I was 12 and really starting to get into music when WAR came out. It was one of those "change my life" cliche moments. Although hard rock and metal were my first loves, U2 and especially the WAR album was my gateway drug into alternative/"first wave" music. I saved up to buy October and Boy and taped the '83 Red Rocks show on MTV.
The video for "New Year's Day" on MTV was probably one my first introductions to alternative. I still prefer the Red Rocks live version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" to the album version. |
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“There will be multiple formats. If you pile a lot of extra material and packaging and design work into a super-duper box set, there are people who will pay quite a lot for it, so you can budget it at a very high level and pump up the value.”
Always nice to hear words from Paul "Downloading is killing the music industry, oh poor me" McGuiness. So is he saying here that they want to make a package that offers a lot of value, or is he saying that it will be easy to rip people off no matter what the package looks like? That said, I'm sure I'll be getting some version of it. |
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Originally Posted by wishbone
(Post 10827566)
I still prefer the Red Rocks live version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" to the album version.
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I will definitely get a box that has Achtung and Zooropa plus bonus material. That's a no brainer.
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