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Poll Question: Which is your favorite?
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Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

This has been up for over a month, so I'd like to say thanks to everyone who participated. And our current winner is... The Unforgettable Fire? While many listeners enjoy this album (and it was my very first U2 album), it also has some very outspoken detractors who criticize the production or the "experimental" tracks.
I'm not really all that surprised considering this is the Prog Archives forum, and that critique mainly came from a "rock journalist" point of view.
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1- ATYCLLB
2- Joshua Tree
3- Achtung Baby
4- War 
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I am a fan of U2.

The quality of their records from Boy to Achtung Baby is very high - no fault for 12 years.

Perhaps, they never produced the definitive album, their Sgt Pepper. But in general, at least in Italy, critics consider The Joshua Tree their masterpiece, partly because of the production by Lanois and Eno.

And I agree, I think that's their best album, and a milestone of the 1980s. They were in terrific shape, and it also shows in the film Rattle and Hum, they had managed to have fantastic inspiration and to combine their music with American music. Rattle and Hum as an album is more messy than The Joshua Tree, but it's my favorite, the one I enjoy listening to the most.

From there on U2 tried to renew themselves, to create a different sound, and the experience in Berlin produced another great album even though they basically stayed pretty true to themselves. 

With Zooropa and Pop, on the other hand, they created a much more pop sound, with a production that for me was unbearable and ruined the songs, which were still very inspired (Pop is much better than Zooropa).

After Pop, U2 lost all inspiration and produced inhautentic albums just using the tricks of the trade.

That said, I preferred to vote for October, which is my favorite album of their first phase, in its simplicity, with that still raw sound, with just a few piano touches. 




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^ "Perhaps, they never produced the definitive album, their Sgt Pepper. But in general, at least in Italy, critics consider The Joshua Tree their masterpiece, partly because of the production by Lanois and Eno."

Agree :-)
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^I will never understand why or how anyone feels that an album containing a handful of totally mediocre songs (Fixing a Hole, When I'm Sixty-Four, Good Morning Good Morning...) as an example of something definitive.

-but to me The Joshua Tree is only partly great but flawed as well. So I guess it's an adequate comparison in that sense. I'm also more interested in the Lanois/Eno-production on The Unforgettable Fire.
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