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dmbfan · Joined: 09 Mar 2006

The album.......The Joshua Tree, is now 20 years old.

What do you guys think is the better album, considering time, state of the band, and the audience.......

Achtung Baby .........................or ....................The Joshua Tree.

I love the Joshua Tree, but I love Achtung Baby even more.

Cheers.

dmbfan

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

I've never really enjoyed U2, as much as their fortune and fame suggests I'm the only one in the world who doesn't. Except for one shining moment when the 'Pride' video came on air, the rest is a bit blurry. It was so different from all the other new wave bands eating most of the replay time on MTV. Here was a rock band.
But, that was about it for me.
My friend had Bono ask him after a concert about where to find nightlife in Auckland. Seemed to think the guy was alright. I'm sure he is. But, as for the music, Zoolander, Million Dollar Zoo, or whatever it was, it was beyond me.

hairy sue · Joined: 18 May 2006 Location: weewee heaven

I'm old..Boy was the best album in my opinion. At that time I was a big Clash fan, but I thought the U2 "clang clang" was better than the crap Boston-Kansas-Journey-Led Zeppelin rotation that kept going on the major stations.
It took a LOOONG time for people to warm up to U2. It wasn't until 1983 that the Irish and Irish-Americans in America started to see them as something to be proud of.

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uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

newsflash-u2 has never been good.

Are they the lemmings · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:47 am Post subject:

Achtung Baby.
Still on regular rotation at my place after 16 years.

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

I'm with shaggy sue on this one, the older U2 are much better than the MTV rock band they became.

Boy, October and War were classics, and they kept the quality all the way until Rattle & Hum. After that they went 'new wave' or some sheet with the cowboy hats, and space suits. I lost interest and never really gave Achtung a chance.

dog_disco · Joined: 25 Apr 2006

..."Joshua Tree" has aged the best (except for "Bullet the Blue Sky"- one of the most horrendously bad tracks ever committed to tape by any band ever). Having said that, "Actung" is one of my favorite records ever. It sounds extremely dated, but that's cool... I enjoyed the 1990's. Also, have to say "Rattle + Hum" is one of their most under-rated records. The rest, minus one or two songs, I can pretty much do without.

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

I love how everybody here is a music expert.

U2 not good? Smile

whatever

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

The Unforgetable Fire is my favorite. However, even though I'm an Irishman, I have to say that they are a wildly overrated band.

Mashimaro · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: location, location

I prefer Achtung. Hearing for the first time it really didn't sound like anything else I'd heard before.

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

Pre-Eno/Lanois was "pure" U2. Youthful energy and something to prove.

Enter 1st Eno/Lanois/Americana, with The Unforgettable fire, The Joshua tree and Rattle and hum. Polishing the diamond.

Next is U2 trying to go it alone, and things quickly fall apart. The band becomes larger than the music. The pop tackiness of a Warhol creation, but lacking the genius.

The return of Eno/Lanois to give U2 one more brief creative thrust, namely All that you can't leave behind.

I predict Bono will become the Pope, The bassist will edit fashion/style magazines, the Edge will become a session musician and Larry Mullen will become a farmer.

dmbfan · Joined: 09 Mar 2006

Yep..............my bad. I accidentally posted this on the job forum.

So, the forum Nazi's can chill out.

cheers.

dmbfan

Mod's...........please move this to the Genreal Discussion, before I am curcified.

dmbfan · Joined: 09 Mar 2006