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TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« on: April 15, 2024, 09:43:52 AM »
After a period of quiet reflection, and due to popular demand, I have decided to reinstate this thread. Whether the powers that be decide to make it sticky - whatever that means - remains to be seen.
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2024, 09:47:56 AM »
Pride (In the Name of Love).  A skippable moment on the album.

But I now understand why the band always play it at their live shows, having once thought it to be a dead spot in any U2 setlist.



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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2024, 10:04:24 AM »
Indeed.

This tub thumping bombastic nonsense has no place on an otherwise perfect record.
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2024, 11:38:26 AM »
Having given this question an extended period of quiet reflection, I selected Pride, the second song on the album.
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2024, 11:53:08 AM »
Quote from: laoghaire on April 15, 2024, 11:38:26 AM
Having given this question an extended period of quiet reflection, I selected Pride, the second song on the album.

Excellent choice, LG.
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2024, 11:56:46 AM »
I’m going MLK
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2024, 12:35:55 PM »
I’ve never met anyone who rates MLK much.

Unlike pride, which everyone, for reasons I cannot fathom apart from its use as a song for yanks to holler along to at the top of their voices while guzzling warm lager from plastic cups in soulless sports arenas, seems to like.

It really does beggar belief.
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2024, 12:56:44 PM »
Looks like pride is losing the battle in the ‘best’ category and winning the award for being overrated in the overrated poll!
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2024, 01:26:18 PM »
This thread's a sticky like when she pours hot wax over my nipples  :-*  Perhaps i should have kept the shirt on....

Love Bucket are you going to do an "Overrated" thread for all albums or just TUF?
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2024, 01:29:28 PM »
Quote from: Amor fati on April 15, 2024, 01:26:18 PM
This thread's a sticky like when she pours hot wax over my nipples  :-*  Perhaps i should have kept the shirt on....

Love Bucket are you going to do an "Overrated" thread for all albums or just TUF?

All the records, dear boy.
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2024, 01:53:27 PM »
Larry, dear boy, please put in a closing date on your polls.

Muchas gracias.
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2024, 02:46:40 PM »
I went with Elvis.

I love it for what it is but I always thought Love Comes Tumbling should have made the cut instead of having the same track used twice.
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2024, 02:52:44 PM »
What's interesting about this album is that it's clearly when their obsession with America started.  All the tracks that are America-centric or inspired, it's half the album:

Pride
The Unforgettable Fire
4th of July
Elvis Presley and America
MLK

TJT is usually tagged with this America nonsense but TUF is where it started.

Larry - given that - do you still feel it's so brilliant?  I know how you feel about America.
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2024, 03:04:36 PM »
I mean the ONLY possible answer is Pride, right? What other track from this album is even known by regular people? Maybe Bad or TUF, maybe, but they get no accolades and make no Greatest-Hits lists.
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Re: TUF / OVERRATED: Best, Worst, Underrated
« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2024, 03:19:27 PM »
To answer your question, Bad is the other contender.

I considered it. Then I said nope.
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