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Pop by U2
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Tracklist
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Discotheque | 4:36 | 56,847 | ||
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Do You Feel Loved | 5:07 | 68,368 | ||
| 3 |
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Mofo | 5:47 | 64,430 | ||
| 4 |
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If God Will Send His Angels | 4:35 | 89,842 | ||
| 5 |
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Staring At The Sun | 5:34 | 110,678 | ||
| 6 |
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Last Night On Earth | 4:45 | 61,620 | ||
| 7 |
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Gone | 4:26 | 69,107 | ||
| 8 |
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Miami | 4:52 | 49,279 | ||
| 9 |
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The Playboy Mansion | 4:41 | 51,321 | ||
| 10 |
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If You Wear That Velvet Dress | 5:14 | 55,533 | ||
| 11 |
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Please | 5:02 | 62,742 | ||
| 12 |
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Wake Up Dead Man | 4:52 | 58,144 |
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About this album
Pop is the ninth studio album by Irish rock band U2, released in March 1997. For some fans it is the “last great U2 album”; the subsequent albums not being as daring or as artistically different than Pop or previous albums and more commercial. It is notable for combining elements of popular techno and electronica influences with traditional alternative rock. On it the band continued their experimental phase and worked with Howie B, a DJ and artist who introduced the band to the underground club scene by going to clubs and gigs and turning them on to new and old electronic music that he felt would be inspirational.
For Pop, U2 continued the sonic experimentation they explored with Achtung Baby and Zooropa. Pop prominently features tape loops, programming, some sequencing and sampling, along with heavy, funky dance rhythms. The album is much more dark and experimental than, as the title would imply, light and mainstream. The band also continued their usual practice of having a few producers working with them on the record so that they could “bounce off each other’s and other people’s ideas.”
The main producer on Pop was Flood who had worked with U2 since The Joshua Tree which he engineered and then Achtung Baby which he engineered and mixed and Zooropa which he co-produced with Brian Eno and The Edge. On Pop most of the engineering was left to Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (known for his work with Massive Attack) and Howie B, who also has production credit along with Steve Osborne on some tracks.
For Pop, U2 continued the sonic experimentation they explored with Achtung Baby and Zooropa. Pop prominently features tape loops, programming, some sequencing and sampling, along with heavy, funky dance rhythms. The album is much more dark and experimental than, as the title would imply, light and mainstream. The band also continued their usual practice of having a few producers working with them on the record so that they could “bounce off each other’s and other people’s ideas.”
The main producer on Pop was Flood who had worked with U2 since The Joshua Tree which he engineered and then Achtung Baby which he engineered and mixed and Zooropa which he co-produced with Brian Eno and The Edge. On Pop most of the engineering was left to Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (known for his work with Massive Attack) and Howie B, who also has production credit along with Steve Osborne on some tracks.
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TheCreatedVoid1 wrote:
@ The whole Pop/Be Here Now thing, I don't think they were comparing the two albums musically, but quality-wise. A lot of people regard Be Here Now as Oasis' worst album, and a lot of people regard Pop as U2's worst album. No big deal.
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pa_llo wrote:
great album.
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hotterthanjuly wrote:
That's because there aren't any similarites. I don't get it either.
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blueribbon_ wrote:
I love Be Here Now, and I love Pop, but I don't really see the similarities....?
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w_1_7 wrote:
I really enjoy this album. Not really a big U2 fan but for some reason I really love the whole album. They made something beautiful.. but it was a problem :/
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thebruteclub wrote:
@Terrasidius Well since they didnt earn as much money as they were supposed to earn on 90s stadium tours - they had to abandon edgier electronic sound and go for US crowd pleasing albums that are more luctrative. Oh well, cant blame them... But strangely enough, there arent many bands today that undergo this journey. Hmmmm... a niche for upcommers. And you heard it here first. :D
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Revlin wrote:
U2's "Be Here Now" [2] Which is a good thing in my book.
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KarmaPolice95 wrote:
The best U2 album. Don't get me wrong, they've done some great stuff since but nothing matches their 90's work, especially this amazing album.
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hotterthanjuly wrote:
If U2 wasn't so self-conscious and insecure...
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hillers wrote:
It's annoying how on the 360 tour, they played songs from every other album except this one (unless you count a 30 second snippet of Discotheque).
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hotterthanjuly wrote:
I think it's pitiful and disgusting the band seems to be so ashamed of this era. Too bad, because they have much to be proud of. Pop is easily one of the U2's finest albums.
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hotterthanjuly wrote:
@LoveisInfinite: Considering that Pop was released before Be Here Now, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense...
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LoveisInfinite wrote:
U2's "Be Here Now"
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Terrasidius wrote:
I found the explicit version of the Phunk Phorce remix of MOFO recently, its ripped from vinyl...if anyone wants it send me a PM. :D
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Terrasidius wrote:
I just want the 1980s / 1990s U2 back, the U2 who just made good music and were totally at ease with themselves and their process...end of rant... :)
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Terrasidius wrote:
...I think that this was the last album they did that was part of a natural evolution that started with their first album and ended with POP. Everything after that (whilst there have been moments of greatness in the noughties) has seemed to be delibarate and targeted at a specific "demographic", the mainstream US market...not that they werent aiming there before, it just seems that after POP they felt they lost a good deal of favour in the States, which has always seemed to be their favourite place, but I think thats all just them being paranoid, they sacraficed their sheer, "do what you want", "just make great music" selfs in favour of a more diluted, targeted approach whilst musically apparently trying to sound like the Joshua Tree era again, as this is what they obviously think the vast majority of americans want.
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Terrasidius wrote:
@hotterthanjuly - totally agree man, some people (maybe people who dont have the "creative spirit"; nothing wrong with that; just...) think that any artist should conform to what they like rather than do what the artists themselves want to do. and yes Zooropa is probably the bands most "experimental" album. Pop was a kind of return to the grand rock album but heavier (musically, and in a good way, like with the rythmn section who own this album), darker and incorporating elements of electronica / techno that was becomeing more popular at the time. I ADORE this album, it was my first U2 album and one of my first albums I bought myself. It really does feel like their last great record. I hope they rediscover that "thing" / way of thinking, that they deliberatly got rid of after this...
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XimenaDoherty wrote:
Totally underrated. [5] and i'd like to say even underrated by the band themselves. They don't play enough songs from this era. [2] Couldn't agree more
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RichXTuta wrote:
I would definetly agree with the statement that this is the “last great U2 album”.
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hotterthanjuly wrote:
@Antonionii: Who the hell are you to say what U2 are and should be? Besides no one, of course.
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