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Poll Question: Which is your favorite?
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    Posted: September 13 2024 at 14:11
^I will never understand why or how anyone feels that an album containing a handful of totally mediocre songs (Fixing a Hole, When I'm Sixty-Four, Good Morning Good Morning...) as an example of something definitive.

-but to me The Joshua Tree is only partly great but flawed as well. So I guess it's an adequate comparison in that sense. I'm also more interested in the Lanois/Eno-production on The Unforgettable Fire.
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^ "Perhaps, they never produced the definitive album, their Sgt Pepper. But in general, at least in Italy, critics consider The Joshua Tree their masterpiece, partly because of the production by Lanois and Eno."

Agree :-)
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I am a fan of U2.

The quality of their records from Boy to Achtung Baby is very high - no fault for 12 years.

Perhaps, they never produced the definitive album, their Sgt Pepper. But in general, at least in Italy, critics consider The Joshua Tree their masterpiece, partly because of the production by Lanois and Eno.

And I agree, I think that's their best album, and a milestone of the 1980s. They were in terrific shape, and it also shows in the film Rattle and Hum, they had managed to have fantastic inspiration and to combine their music with American music. Rattle and Hum as an album is more messy than The Joshua Tree, but it's my favorite, the one I enjoy listening to the most.

From there on U2 tried to renew themselves, to create a different sound, and the experience in Berlin produced another great album even though they basically stayed pretty true to themselves. 

With Zooropa and Pop, on the other hand, they created a much more pop sound, with a production that for me was unbearable and ruined the songs, which were still very inspired (Pop is much better than Zooropa).

After Pop, U2 lost all inspiration and produced inhautentic albums just using the tricks of the trade.

That said, I preferred to vote for October, which is my favorite album of their first phase, in its simplicity, with that still raw sound, with just a few piano touches. 




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1- ATYCLLB
2- Joshua Tree
3- Achtung Baby
4- War 
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Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

This has been up for over a month, so I'd like to say thanks to everyone who participated. And our current winner is... The Unforgettable Fire? While many listeners enjoy this album (and it was my very first U2 album), it also has some very outspoken detractors who criticize the production or the "experimental" tracks.
I'm not really all that surprised considering this is the Prog Archives forum, and that critique mainly came from a "rock journalist" point of view.
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This has been up for over a month, so I'd like to say thanks to everyone who participated. And our current winner is... The Unforgettable Fire? Who would have seen this coming?  While many listeners enjoy this album (and it was my very first U2 album), it also has some very outspoken detractors who criticize the production or the "experimental" tracks.

For myself, the "out-of-nowhere" Boy album will always be my favorite, followed closely by October. At one time, The Joshua Tree would have been in the running, but that album was so overplayed that I rarely listen to it anymore. I'll close by agreeing with Cristi that it was very interesting that NONE of the post-Achtung Baby albums received even one vote! 
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Hmm, tricky one. I used to love them but like others, I lost interest with Pop, although Atomic Bomb is quite good. I would probably go for Joshua Tree although I played it to death when it first came out and haven't listened to it for years.
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The fact that none of the post 1991 albums have received any votes says a lot... LOL
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I like all of U2's albums apart from Pop, which is an album I can gladly Leave Behind. Smile

 3 stars 1980: U2 - Boy -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbikeEeJ3IR1JHx2WepaVW_
 4 stars 1982: U2 - Live at Rock Werchter, Belgium - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEa30Z-igO-6Jy1KLwiOkjCo
 4 stars 1983: U2 - Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZC_oALz8Ynsm1wvgZS6rtz
 4 stars 2000: U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEbiiKndK0kAVOUH9n6z_pmT
 5 stars 2001: U2 - Elevation 2001: Live from Boston - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYFpUKmUE_PHbwl2PyQSoQX
 5 stars 2001: U2 - U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZYxkeVO8HDjkL03iLwKrqE
 4 stars 2004: U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEaEwUs1zsWZXpQtn_q23Cnu
 5 stars 2005: U2 - Vertigo Tour: Live from Chicago - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEY5-qJbCvtOFmrqXP7yCH1Z
 5 stars 2015: U2 - Innocence + Experience: Live in Paris - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEYLsGpNtydxYHjCs4tTKbC-
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I can't really get past Bono being such a bell end. I purchased Joshua Tree but the 80's production gave me a headache so I couldn't listen to it. Stuff like New Years Day is okay and felt relevant then. The eighties was a terrible decade for civil unrest in the UK and the IRA were stepping up it's campaign on the British mainland. People were trying to escape from all the tension that was in the air. U2 stuck a chord then. Now they seem like a second or third rate band that just got lucky. IMO.
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Saw them on the 'Boy' tour in a tiny venue in Devon, didnt think it would be my thing but as another spotty, mullet-laden teenager, i went along and was actually quite impressed.. then saw them on the unforgettable fire tour (with the Waterboys) at the Brixton academy.. god ive never known such a sticky floored s***hole.. but they had an amazing quad sound system and i was mesmerised.. since then they've never resonated with me for some reason. So my vote goes with 'the unforgettable fire'.. If you like the cover then check out the book 'in ruins- the once great houses of Ireland' all incredible infrared sensitive B&W film prints. 

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The Unforgettable Fire. I actually think U2 are alright all the way from their debut and up to Zooropa.
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The Joshua Tree with Boy as second.
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Boy
War
The Joshua Tree
Achtung Baby
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All great, voted Achtung Baby, some fantastic deep cuts.
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"War" brings back some good memories of just being married and having no money. I bought it based on New Year's Day that was on the radio and at the same time got Tears For Fears "The Hurting".
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Joshua's tree and gave up after except some outstanding tracks
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definitely, War
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Always had an affinity for War.
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