For me, things have not changed much in a while:
1. Unforgettable Fire
2. Achtung, Baby
3. Joshua Tree
4. Zooropa
5. WAR
6. No line on the horizon
7. Boy
8. Songs of Experience
9. October
10. POP
11. Rattle and Hum
12. All that you can't leave behind
13. Songs of Innocence
14. Passengers Original Soundtracks 1
15. How to dismantle an atomic bomb
I always find it interesting when people rank either Zooropa or Pop significantly higher than the other (since they were contiguous and are sonically quite similar). Care to shed some insight on this, Codeguy?
Every song on zooropa is top notch. POP has, for me, some cringe. Discotheque is embarrassing. SATS and Miami are overrated. IGWSHA is mediocre. Playboy mansion introduces us to the lyrically weak Bono of the 21st century. The album has great songs. WUDM, Please and Velvet dress come to mind; and MOFO is absolutely brilliant. I know there are some who just can’t get enough of the lovin dovin stuff but I’m not one.
Also, POP wanted to be a masterpiece. The big tour, the big publicity, it all failed.
Zooropa, by contrast was supposed to be an EP and it turned into an album because it was so brilliant. There are no weak songs and the concept fit really well into the existing Zoo TV tour and - for me - immortalized it.
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