I gotta disagree. I like "Trip Through Your Wires" but think it would've fit in better on Rattle And Hum.
That said, take TTYW off Joshua Tree = perfect 10 song album.

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gave the new cd a listen yesterday...very good, imo...

On a scale of 1 to awesome...the new cd is pretty good all the way thru

I'm one of the biggest U2 fans out there and this album is about a 4.5 to a 5 for me on a scale of 10. As my buddy put it , It's U2 doing Coldplay on this album. Alot of dark, slow tunes and not much energy on it and the critques claimed it to be a rocking album .I don't know what the fuck their smoking unless they threw Unforgettable fire on by accident but this album sounds lazy to me .

It won't stop me from seeing them in September as I've seen every show they have done in Chicago since 84'..Button 48 please.

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Slappy my streak of every U2 show only dates back to 1997 Id like to hear your ranking of all the albums Slapnuts...but I like the new album...the coldplay comment i think woulda been more descriptive of atomic bomb album.

The new album to me sounds like joshua trees songs meet achtung baby production value. Excluding the ladies gap boot commercial...its good overall.

To Ed and RPB,
Are you guys saying you haven't missed any Chicago shows since 84 and 97, respectively?
That's pretty impressive, especially for Ed. That's almost 20 shows or so.


My resume.
4/29/87 Horizon
3/31/92 Horizon
9/18/92 World Music Theatre
6/27/97 Soldier Field
6/29/97 Soldier Field
5/9/01 Bradley Center
5/9/05 United Center

No one asked me for my ranking, but here goes. Favorite U2 Albums.
1. Achtung Baby
2. The Joshua Tree
3. War
4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. Boy
6. No Line On The Horizon
7. Pop
8. How To Dismantle........
9. Zooropa
10. October
11. All That You Can't Leave Behind

Not including R&H, Wide Awake In America, or Under A Blood Red Sky.

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[quote="shirtless driver"]To Ed and RPB,
Are you guys saying you haven't missed any Chicago shows since 84 and 97, respectively?
That's pretty impressive, especially for Ed. That's almost 20 shows or so.


My resume.
4/29/87 Horizon
3/31/92 Horizon
9/18/92 World Music Theatre
6/27/97 Soldier Field
6/29/97 Soldier Field
5/9/01 Bradley Center
5/9/05 United Center


Impressive list of shows but I think I 've seen them only about 8 times or so. From memory here are the shows.

Unforgettable fire tour-Aragon Ball room December of 1984 and again in March 1985 on the second leg of tour at UIC.
Joshua Tree- Rozemizen 1987
Zoo TV- Rosemont March of 92 and second leg at World music in Tinley Park in September of 92.
Pop Mart-Soldier field June of 1997
Elevation-May of 2001 at the United Center
Vertigo- I saw 2 shows May 9th and 10th at the UC.

MY fav albums.

1,Joshua Tree
2. Unforgettable Fire
3.How to dismantle an atomic bomb
4. War
5.All that you can't leave behind
6. Zooropa
7.Actung baby
8.Pop
9. New one

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I've never seen them live...

Since ranking the albums seems to be the cool thing to do, here we go...

1)Achtung Baby
2)All That You Can't Leave Behind
3)How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
4)Zooropa
5)Joshua Tree
6)No Line on the Horizon

As for everything else, I can't honestly rank them, as I've listened maybe once or twice and aside from the recognizable singles, I really don't remember what they were like...well, I do remember this...

Last)Pop

For those of you who saw the '92 show in Tinley, was it the one with BAD & Public Enemy as opening acts?
That still ranks in the top 5 of my favorite shows.

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Yes. And The Pixies opened the 3/31/92 show.
I believe tickets go on sale on 3/30 for the Soldier Field show in September,
but I haven't been able to track down any details.

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After having listened to the CD maybe a dozen times or so, "Get On Your Boots" is actually working for me...I don't know if it's the sequence of the tracks on the album or what, but it doesn't have that same "meh" quality that it did when it first came out...

My favorite track would be "Magnificient"...something about the production of that song is enchanting to me...

As for "Unknown Caller"...

that will do Edge, that will do...

I dont know if I would say enchanting (or buy a hot pink phone) but the production is awesome on "Magnificent"

U2 360º Tour
Soldier Field, Chicago, IL
Sat, Sep 12, 2009 07:00 PM

Order for: shirtless driver
Seat location: section 443, row 6, seats 10-9
Total Charge: US $ 89.93

Yay me.

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$45 per ticket? Thats not bad at all.

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Exactly. $5 less than my Morrissey tickets for tomorrow in Milwaukee.

And they're GOOD seats as far as I can tell. We're gonna be on Edge's side of the stage - good angle.
And the stage is set up for no bad seats.
Might get some more on Monday for the Sunday show. We'll see.

http://360.u2.com/

Edited to Add -These are $30 face value tix. Just thought I'd throw TM an extra $30
out of the goodness of my heart. Doesn't matter. I'm there.

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i'd like to go but I can't see myself driving out to chicago by myself again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72G-_9prRSI


By the way Curious Hair, what exactly is that in your avatar?

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Riddick Bowe being restrained.

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I think I just jizzed in my pants.

http://qik.com/video/2034872

Don't know what happened to the link, but it was U2 playing TUF on opening night of U2 360.
WOW

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLpFwdqY ... annel_page

Sept 12can't come fastenough.

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Actual conversation at work today...

Engineer: so, what's up with that bad board?
Me: oh, I think U2 is bad, so I'm going to replace it.
Engineer: you can't replace U2!
Me: why not?
Engineer: no one can replace U2...they're the greatest band ever.

I love my job.

46 days.........

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Better than Pearl Jam...by far

Which album?

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In general.

I dont care to dispute it. I like Pearl Jam. I like some songs on Pop.

good day sir!!!

Can't believe I missed this thread. I'm one of the biggest U2 fans on the board. No reviews from our show last Sept? Who's coming July 6?

^ as if anybody needed another reason to hate U2

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I went to 14 consecutive shows in Chicago, so ya know, I got that.

It Goes like this for me:

Best Bassist of All Time on THREE : Geddy Lee

1-Achtung Baby
2-War
3-Joshua Tree
4-Pop
5-Live Under a Blood Red Sky/Wide Awake in America. (Not Actual Albums but awesome enough)

Pop is incredibly underrated and the Popmart (saw it at Soldier Field) was really good to as his voice wasn't completely destroyed yet. The current tour was good but Bono's voice just isn't really there anymore, plus they cut the opening to WTSHNN really short and put it at the end of the show which took/takes away a lot of its power. In my mind it is supposed to be the "kick off" to the second half of the show...at least that's what it was for Zoo TV through Vertigo.

The "New" Albums from 2000 and up are Ok mixed with really awesome songs. You could piece together a 11/10 album from the songs on each of them.