Indeed….which to me is what makes "Louder Than Words" redundant, as well as a much lesser song.

Hmmm. So maybe Matt Foley just neglected to mention that he lived with Jewel at the time….

Interesting take. Personally, Blue Sky Mining is undoubtedly their best (and my first album of theirs, as well as one of my first CDs ever)—that album stuns me every time I hear it with how full the melodies are. Though I expect Diesel and Dust to be many folks' favorite.

I was always under the impression that his sax work was rather "workmanlike", and not terribly proficient. It's not him playing sax on that song, anyway.

Overkill is their best song, along with It's A Mistake.

I found it interesting that the Police box set explicitly mentions Men At Work as sort of filling the void while the world waited for the next Police album. I suppose there could be some truth to that, though they had never seemed that similar to me before.

Yeah, it's not to say the Wall is their BEST album…more that it was sort of their ultimate, most focused expression. Or maybe that should say "Waters'" most focused expression….which even he might not disagree with all these years later. His ownership of the album when he left the band suggests as much, and his work…

I've noticed the same thing, although since the Wall was pretty much my starting point with the band (the first thing I ever heard from them which started a very long fandom), it always felt to me like the albums before then were working their way toward the Wall, rather than the Wall deliberately reflecting their…

That's true. I think, though, that Gilmour had the more successful "rock" vocal, which worked for some of their biggest hits (Money in particular, plus Time, Young Lust, etc.). And I think that was a big factor in the success of the post-Waters tours, where he could ably sing even Waters' parts. I still think of his…

Interesting comment about it being the history of the band. I'm not sure it quite holds up, but then it does seem a lot of the songs (What do you want, Poles apart, Wearing the inside out, Lost for words, and especially High hopes) do reflect on their own past.

I might just try that. I like both of those albums, though they both fall short of Floyd material.

Yeah, I always loved any episode with Cheating Death. The "3 side effects" formula was perfect, combined with him barely being able to keep a straight face through it. Someone from the Internet must compile a list of all the side effects, if they haven't already.

I personally prefer the original version of Slow Dancing. The Willie Nelson version seems like Willie did one take, and refused to do any more.

I also wouldn't underestimate the damage that the Discotheque video and single did for them. The first glimpse of the band for Achtung Baby was Bono in leather and shades—a departure for the band at the time, but still adhering to some basic idea of "looking cool" for the masses. Dressing like the Village People, on…

That entire set plays oddly as an apology for the era, rather than a celebration of it. "Hey, sorry, for all that weirdness, everyone. Look, we fixed those songs, and put in some new ballads!" It's one of the oddest "greatest hits" sets I've ever seen by any band.

Miami might be U2's most unfairly maligned track. I dig it. And live (before they dropped it from the setlist) it was even better.

I always considered Passengers to be more of an extension of Zooropa (which was an extension of Achtung Baby) than a prelude to Pop. I understand why Pop is always thrown in with the rest of their 90's output, but sonically it always seemed to stand apart, for me.

I bought my first U2 album (Joshua Tree) based on a commercial I heard in 1989 for a radio contest to see them play, probably on the LoveTown Tour. They played clips of their hits, and I realized I liked all of the songs that were featured. A rabid U2 fan was born.
First concert was Zoo TV in '92, followed by seeing…

I really find myself oddly kind of enjoying the album. The production is fairly ridiculous, and it has a lot of the same issues U2 has had for the past 15 years. That said, while I still find NLOTH mostly unlistenable, there's something endearing about this one. There's nothing approaching the lows of the last…

I hear what you're saying, but I do stand by the Secret Machines tracks on the AtU soundtrack. They did great versions of Flying and Blue Jay Way.