Originally posted by podiumboy:I too love 75% of that album. I think GOYB and SUC are among U2’s worst songs. Somehow the material they were working on splinter into NLOTH and SOA. NLOTH was supposed to be the more commercially appealing of the 2, like Achtung Baby to Zooropa. Except it all went belly up when NLOTH turned out to be a dud, and the last thing they wanted to do was release an even less accessible follow up album.
I’d like to hear U2 be interviewed about this time in the band. Throw in Bono’s surgery and the Spider-Man musical, and I’ll be Things we’re not so pleasant at the time.
Originally posted by dylbagz:This thread should be about songs of innocence and then experience by association.
If you're going to force an album to be downloaded onto every ios product in the world, why use an album that has no meaning to anyone but u2 and the people who know their history? None of those songs resonate with the public because of it. They should have forced a real album on people.