Slow and boring. It's over Mark. Go back to sleep.

Probably my favourite of theirs. After calling themselves pop for the previous decade, they finally decided to write some catchy songs. And came up with 11 of them. Grace is such a beautiful song to end on. Love this album.

Top 5 do u2

Underrated band.

Underrated.

REJOICE IS A PHENOMENAL TRACK

This album is my least favorite album

I have Loved this album since it's release. I believe this short appeared on my feed cause I was working out to Pop this morning

Very accurate. With 20 songs without hits, and including some other b-sides rearranged would have been enough. We've seen them hundreds of times in live acoustic sets. Songs of indigestion at some moments... a bad prelude for bono's solo act while Larry Mullen Jr. was on surgery. Bad decisions one afer another??

I saw them live in Dublin on this tour

One of their best records and If God Will send it's angels it's one of their best songs.

Ahem... To understand U2 is to strive to understand the nature of God, as they have tried to convey that relationship between man and the Creator through sound and sight (sometimes tactile if you made a show in which I made 2, I'm a nerd 🤓.) It is a dark to light relationship, and a lovelorn relationship.

L review

I enjoyed Atum, he's doing a heavy album next. He's always creating and exploring, you can't please everyone all the time and SP are not like AC DC where every album is meant to be the same. (I love AC DC too btw)

My favourite Police album.

All albums are great..as we aged n listened,some very relevant and doesn’t sound dated..

Throw out Utopia

Here's October. 1 second. GREAT

I loved Pop when it came out but I also realize that there was a better album there had they remained focused on the album they set out to make before Bill Grahams death brought everything to a screeching halt and before overbooking a tour cut short the Pop experiment.

I love this album . It was ahead of its time.

"get ya head out of tha mud baby..."

There is an overwhelming sense of self-cannibalism to the Wall of Eyes album, especially in comparison with ALFAA. While there is no overt attempt to copy any of the songs themselves, the atmospherics they create are clearly identical, and Thom Yorke's vocals provide no surprises here as on the previous record ("Television", "Panavision"). It's all gauzy sonic coagulation. And furthermore, if one more person uses the word "jazz" in relation to either this trio, or it's drummer, Tom Skinner they're going to get their arses kicked personally by me. The term/genre simply does not fit. This isn't Blackstar, the swan song release by David Bowie, where we can clearly hear the acid-jazz leanings of Donny McCaslin's quartet permeating Bowie's muse as a kindred collaborator. Frankly, as far as drummers go, Radiohead's Philip Selway is TEN TIMES THE JAZZ DRUMMER SKINNER WILL EVER BE, period. Just hear Selway's contributions to Amnesiac - now THAT'S the work of a jazz-informed drummer. Enough of this fanboy exaltation, please...it's embarrassing.

First two albums i bought in Newcastle 1980, Autoamerican and regatta de blanc. Beds too big was a huge hit in uk at the time. It took me an entire year of going without school dinner to sabe up to by both on cassette. I didn't have a record player but my dad brought a tape recorder to record me and him goofing about and playing flute , bag pipes, mouth organ and piano and singing. When i went to what you guys called junior high and we called middle school i learnt from other kids that tape thing also played music cassettes ans loving walking on the moon SOS and all debby Harry songs , ( i told my careers advisor when she asked what do you want to be when you grow up ? Absolutely honestly wirh no sarcasm and absolutely serious, when i grow up i want to be Debbie harry. Ot was 1980. I was a ten yr old autistic undiagnosed kid. The irher option when she said yes but you cant be Debbie, so i said ok. Princess Diana. My parents especially my mum laughed about it till i was 30. Come on, i guarantee my dad wanted to be elvis or the guy who sang i fell onto a burning ring od fire. Also, i don't know rush but will check them now. And im pretty sure A- is way better than it got in smash hits in uk at the time. I always wondered why they all bleached their hair. The reggae thing in uk sounding like this in 1975 to 1985 was called Ska. It was a. Anti racism movement to stop uk studios and tv channels ignoring reggae and black folks music whatever the genre. Go Google The Beat, The Specials Fun boy 3 Madness and thousands of less successful but equally brilliant ska bands.

Oops you forgot Roxxane not memorable at all 😂

I had no idea this existed! The original is fantastic, so I will have to check it out ASAP! Thanks!

I would add Bastro to the list of another great Louisville bands from that era. He produced/engineered at least one of their records.

Id like to get his opinion on the jab..oops

As a huge Knopfler fan I was a little worried that yet another album at seventy-four years old might disappoint. I was wrong. I love almost the entire album. The softer, Mellow Mark shows up with wisdoms of age yet not a dimes less talent or creativity.

Shellac was one of my go-tos when I would wander around Bardstown road as a teen

Great review of an underrated masterpiece 👏

Your review is so articulate and sums up Mark & his work so accurately. I think his heart is still in the North-East, he grew up close to where I did, and his music reflects that. An honest, passionate down-to-earth man who has a unique way with words - his lyrics describe how I feel about my home town, he describes characters that I grew up with and describes emotions that I am not sufficiently articulate to put into words.

Absolutely is and my real awakening to U2 in 1985 thanks to my friend Rich Mellon 👊

I just watched this concert on KZbin yesterday. Look for the 4k version. This was the best show live that I have seen. I think it was too early for its time and I’ve said for over 30 years that it’s been one of my favorite albums that I own. I hope that they perform this show again like they’ve done the last two albums.

It's powerful, different and the lyrics poetic and profound. "Gone" I can't let it go. Staring at the Sun gets me to some emotions that I can't explain, between sadness and joy. The craziness and extasis of Mofo. Pop is an special place.

There are some places like your ante, but there’s no place like Miami.

Last night on earth music video video was filmed in Kansas City.

I’m almost 50. I LOVE U2 and am old enough to remember vividly the insane (but well-deserved) popularity of Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby. Still, ATYCLB might actually be my favorite U2 album. I regularly put in my AirPods at the gym and play this album from start to finish.

It's a great album some brilliant songs on that album!! Totally underatted album!!!

Last night on earth and Gone are gold!

My thoughts exactly.....

I have it ranked 14th out of 14.

I love R&H

If you skip the radio hits this album is beautiful, genius.

Zooropa is such a killer song. Prob my fav U2 jam

Great video guys, very thoughtful commentary

All time fav. Pretty dark

Angels is awesome.

Pop has aged better than most U2 records. It is criminally underrated.

My mom bought that album the day it came out,I hated it for the first several play throughs. It’s now in my top three favorite U2 albums,though I will say Get on your boots is always skipped because it’s just annoying and doesn’t capture that ‘How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb’ rock sound that inspired it

Miami is my fav song on the album. Some say this album's like a rock opera it tells a whole story