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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 |
Product Description
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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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Mettons-nous d'accord : la techno n'est qu'une épice que l'on saupoudre à son goût sur des couches superposées de rock intense et de néopsychédélisme ; le grand public est constamment à la recherche de nouveaux sons soutenus par une base musicale familière. Ainsi, Pop, véritable traité warholien sur la plasticité de la culture pop, associe avec maestria, un mélange de nouvelles textures sonores avec le style inimitable d'un des plus grands groupes rock. "Discotheque" ouvre l'album avec une belle puissance, "Staring At The Sun" est la réponse de U2 à l'opportunisme du tube d'Oasis, "Wonderwall," alors que "If God Will Send His Angels" a les qualités d'un hymne universel. Pop symbolise avec brio un U2 en constante évolution. --Jeff Bateman
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Awesome album
Feb 14 2007
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.
Even when they're "bad", they're good
April 5 2005
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.
Rejected For All The Wrong Reasons
Jun 23 2004
Format:Audio CD
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 new record was decidedly progressive: they would continue to push the envelope as far as they could musically, technologically, and conceptually. Because of technological aspect of it, this was U2's hardest record to produce. It took so long to complete that it went into what was supposed to have been tour rehearsal time(for the new "Popmart Tour", which was to be bigger and more massive than even "ZooTV"). As a result they were not ready when the tour started in Las Vegas. More importantly, the string of critical success that U2 had going back to the late 80s finally came to an end in 1997 when "Pop" was released, as the reviews were very lukewarm, even poor. U2 were disappointed with its sales...and the fact that "Pop" sold 6,000,000 copies should tell you something about their standards.
U2's peak was over, but I will forever hold that this record was unfairly criticized just because it was so different from everything U2 did before it, but that's a staple of U2's career: change. 'Do You Feel Loved', 'If God Will Send His Angels', 'Staring At The Sun', 'Last Night On Earth', 'Gone', 'If You Wear That Velvet Dress', and 'Please' are just great songs. Also standing out is the closer, a song of desperation and despair, 'Wake Up Dead Man'. This album may have seemed about lemons and arches and colors and videos making fun of the village people(the opener, 'Discotheque') and all fun and games on the outside, but in reality the lyrics of this record are the most serious and cynical of U2's career. Not many people realize that 'Staring At The Sun' is a political song, describing how suits and ties can be just as deadly as soldiers with guns. 'Please' is as serious as it gets lyric-wise: "And love is big, bigger than us, but love is not, what you're thinking of".
U2 did a lot to help this record by putting out some great performances of its songs, especially 'Staring At The Sun' and 'Please', including a emotion-high show in Sarajevo, the first rock show their since their war ended. But towards the end of the tour, it became obvious that they had gone as far as they could in the direction started in Berlin in 1990. They felt the need to tone everything down and just be four guys in a band again. This first came to the public's eyes in the form of old songs that hadn't been performed in a long time, showing up in the setlists of the later "Popmart" shows, such as "Sunday Bloody Sunday". The public would soon get a more blatent show of this change of direction, but unfortunately, it would also leave this album in the dust. Vastly underrated and underappreciated, this is still a very good record.
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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
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
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
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.
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
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
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|
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 Michael Kropotkin
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
Actually 3.5 Stars
U2's Pop; it's the album that some fans, including myself, tend to want to forget ever happened when you consider the success that U2 has experienced over the years. Read more
Published on Jan 17 2004 by Darren
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