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Is Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1 the greatest U2 album never made?
Posted by Carl Purkins on 31 December 2009 - 3:07pm.
I'vebeen spending a lot of time with this record recently. In fact, i've spent a lot of time on this record since it was released. I think it keeps getting better (I'm currently addicted to 'Slug') and I'm currently of the mind that it is actually the greatest thing U2 have done. It seems that everything they did before kind of led up to it, and everything since has been a massive come down (and not really as good).
I'd be interested to learn what the massive think?
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Good It Is
but as good as Unforgettable Fire it is not
I'm guessing a large proportion of us think that U2 are
crap.
To be honest, I assumed that Carl's post was a spoof :-)
Although maybe it *is* the greatest U2 album; after all they can't ALL be as bad as each other. I suppose one must be better than all the rest in the same way that ocaasionally you have a really satisfying crap as opposed to a run of the mill dump.
Not I Sir
I lost interest a decade or two ago, but Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby and even bits of the much maligned Rattle And Hum are still bloody good records. And actually, now I think about it, Zooropa has some good stuff too, including The Wanderer, one of the best things in Johnny Cash's later period.
Nope
Sorry. Haven`t listened to it since it came out in...wait there till I check the year...1995. I`m looking at it now and thought for about 5 seconds of listening to it again but its an hour of my life I`ll never get back. I might stick it in van and listen to it driving to work after my holidays. Might.
I think it has its moments
... a different kind of Blue and Miss Sarajevo are both stunning. As to whether it's their best... well I've always been an Achtung! Baby kind of man myself - and at the risk of incurring the Massive's wrath, I'll just say that anti-U2ism is easy to do but someone once told us that it's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes guts to be gentle and kind.... and boy, what I'd give to hear U2 cover THAT choon!
It's Eno's album, really
It's Brian's project really isn't it? 'Miss Sarajevo' is pretty good, I don't remember the rest of it being too shoddy...
U2 aren't all that bad, 'unforgettable fire' was mostly good, 'Josh tree' was mostly very good, etc. the recent stuff is a bit poor, but i like that loud punk-ish single from a few years back, maybe the last half-decent thing they did.
I had forgotten about Miss Sarajevo
I remember being a bit of a big deal at the time, no? U2 were still trendy.
I can't forgive U2 their faults (too earnest, too "stadium") but I think in the final analysis they've done enough good stuff to land butter side up.
I remember thinking Zooropa seemed like their most cohesive album, and it felt they were finally getting somewhere. I still love that Johnny Cash song. But I haven't really liked anything they've done since.
Your Blue Room & Miss Sarajevo.....
....are two of the best tracks U2 have released. Both are excellent. Rest of the album I havedn't listened to since the mid 90's. But its worth owning just for those two tracks.
Slug, Always Forever Now,
Slug, Always Forever Now, Beach Sequence, A Different Kind of Blue, Theme from Let's Go Native (Does this feature the drum track from Ultraviolet (Light My Way)?... as well as Miss Sarajevo and Your Blue Room... all great reasons to own this album... and the rest of the album is fine too!
I agree Carl, I like it
especially Always Forever Now....it's a fine album though I consider Pop their best last thing (couple of turkeys on it but that's the norm for U2, Fire and Tree notwithstanding)