Originally posted by dstankie:Lovetown really was "the End of Something" for U2.
It was also an absolute pinnacle.
For those of us old enough to have lived through all the changes, the reason some of us feel some disappointment with the band these days is what they did back then:
1. The young amazing band building to War/the shows like Red Rocks.
2. The band who suddenly took a breathtaking sideways step with UF and discovered new textures and depths.
3. The band who began to absorb American roots music and produced one of the great albums of the 80s (JT), then owned the world through amazing tours, culminating in the Love Town version with BB King.
4. The most unexpected pivot in modern rock history from strength to even greater strength. Achtung Baby is a masterpiece of the highest order and not a single one of us saw it coming. It was like they discovered yet another country.
5. The band that held its own against the grunge movement to make consistently weird and great music for the 90s. Even if one could argue that the 90s began with Nirvana and ended with Radiohead, U2 owned the 90s, had the best tours, and continued a run of unprecedented greatness by carrying off the Beatlesque trick of being wildly popular AND musically daring and creative.
So that's 20 years of constant evolution and triumph as writers and performers. The last 20 years...well...
Back to the subject at hand, if they had broken up in 1991, they still would have had one of the greatest careers in rock history and those LoveTown concerts would be legendary (as they should be).