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Track Listings
| 1. Discotheque |
| 2. Do You Feel Loved |
| 3. Mofo |
| 4. If God Will Send His Angels |
| 5. Staring At The Sun |
| 6. Last Night On Earth |
| 7. Gone |
| 8. Miami |
| 9. The Playboy Mansion |
| 10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress |
| 11. Please |
| 12. Wake Up Dead Man |
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Get one thing straight: Techno is merely the fairy dust sprinkled atop another massive, brilliantly conceived slab of dense, drug-like rock & roll from the only band this side of the Smashing Pumpkins who could pull off such a feat. Mainstream audiences are desperate for something fresh yet familiar, and this Warholian treatise on the plasticity of pop culture expertly mixes new sonic colors with the band's signature art-rock genius. "Discotheque" is an exhilarating opener, "Staring at the Sun" is their answer to relative upstarts Oasis's hit "Wonderwall," and "If God Will Send His Angels" has the makings of a crossover anthem. This is U2 in peak unit-shifting form. --Jeff Bateman
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By "zoovox"
Format:Audio CD
Please, my friends, don't heed the hype and don't listen to the band. POP is brilliant, painful, powerful, angry, angsty, and more heartbreakingly human than any U2 album since Boy. They've come down off their pillar of just-short-of-godly genius to roll in the mire with us mere mortals. It hurts, but in a good way.
Format:Audio CD
This album rocks and is highly under appreciated. I am a U2 fan from the 80's and this is just a newer U2 album. They always tried new things, look at Achtung Baby and remember the first time you heard it and then Zooropa and same thing so people remember who you're dealing with, a band that does nothing by the rules. And why does no one ever mention Wake Up Dead Man....awesome tune.
By Laury B.
Format:Audio CD
So there it is. U2's least-acclaimed album, the only stain in the group's otherwise flawless discography. Many critics and fans were appalled and/or disappointed by U2's will to experiment a more synthetic, electronic sound. Why would they do that? How could U2, one of the world's greatest rock bands (keyword here is rock),operate such a change in their music? Some people perceived Pop as a kind of betrayal of U2's rock roots and as a mere attempt to cash in on the popularity of pop-dance music (when they certainly didn't need it). What the band's fundemental motivations were, I don't know. What I do know, is that unlike many fans and critcs, I absolutely love this album. Sure, it might not be their best, but it's a far cry from being any bad. And while too many people labelled Pop as being too electronica-tinged (which makes you wonder if those people have ever listened to any other song on the album than Discothèque), I believe that it's still has its fair share of rock. Staring at the Sun, for example, is classic U2. But the "unpopularity" of the album didn't seem to affect U2's indestructible reputation, given the incredible success of the PopMart tour that followed. Bono et al. have long been forgiven, thanks to one of the world's most loyal fanbase and the release of All That You Can't Leave Behind, which brought back U2's true rock sound. Anyway, even if they tried, they couldn't make a very bad album.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Rejected For All The Wrong Reasons
With the massive "ZooTV" tour and record-combo of "Achtung Baby" and "Zooropa" behind them, the attitude as U2 re-convined in 1995 for a work on a... Read more
Published on Jun 23 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars
Languid, Pulsing, Throbbing, Rock-Tech.
This CD is brilliant. It is powerful, moving, and intense. Let me tell you why.
Crystal Method is a perfect example of what happens when poor musicians attempt to amalgamate... Read more
Published on May 24 2004 by Infinite Catalyst
1.0 out of 5 stars
Lame attempt by U2
U2 tried a new direction with POP, and it failed. I am very strong U2 fan, and this is by far the worst album they ever recorded. Read more
Published on May 6 2004 by David L
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best album since Joshua Tree
This is an album that hit the pop market with a totally new sound and look, as they also did with the Joshua Tree, though the sentiment here is vastly different. Read more
Published on May 4 2004 by K. Hughes
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Album
I give this album 3 stars, plus 2 extra stars just for the song "Miami." I don't understand the reviewer below who panned this track. Read more
Published on April 29 2004 by Sam R.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Unusual U2 album mixes slow stuff with techno
This album was released in March 1997 and marked the four-yearly re-emergence of U2, who are undoubtedly still one of the leading rock bands in the world. Read more
Published on April 20 2004 by Dr Jeremy Buddle
4.0 out of 5 stars
Extremely Strong Album
Though many of U2's fence sitting fans jumped ship for this album, they may want to take another look at U2's artistic stab at the lighter side. Read more
Published on April 19 2004 by Jake
5.0 out of 5 stars
Horibly Underated
Most people write this album off as "U2 trying to be a techno band." This is a stupid statement, and if people saw beyond the marketing image of the album and listened to... Read more
Published on Mar 24 2004 by GN4|V|
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Rich Landscape Of Experimentation.
7-plus years since it's release, "Pop" can now be seen and appreciated as it what is, an experimental album with some intoxicating rhythms and words. Read more
Published on Feb 11 2004 by Mr. Bakunin
3.0 out of 5 stars
Don't know how well it will age, but ...
U2 took a giant leap into the unknown void of techno-electro-pop (at this late date I can think of no better description) and came out with "Pop," not one of their most... Read more
Published on Jan 20 2004 by Daniel A. Marsh
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