Originally posted by vanquish:I also don't feel the need to enshrine everything U2 has ever recorded, they may be the best band in the world but it doesn't mean that everything they touched turned to gold.
Entirely agree on that, for sure - I love U2, they're without a shadow of a doubt my favourite band, but they're not infallible. I don't love every song they've written, I don't love every album, but I connect with the music in a way I don't with most other music save for a few bands, and I think that's more key than anything else.
Boy, for me, is a cracking album. Lyrically, maybe not as complex as later albums and not as intellectually refined, but musically there's something raw and exciting in the music and a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. For me, October was where they started to progress sonically and moved on a step further. I'm no fan of War, indeed there are only a few tracks on there that I can say I like more than casually (Like A Song, Seconds, Drowning Man - other than that, I'm fairly reserved in my appraisal of it), but TUF was where it started to really take off for me.
Anyway, this is getting off topic, but I just wanted to contribute to that point of discussion.
Worst song? I'm still thinking Grace or Elvis Presley & America.